SOMA Lyra-8 Black Beast

Welcome to the world of LYRA-8 sound, the unique organic analog synthesizer designed by Vlad Kreimer. “Organismic” means that LYRA uses some principles that are found at the foundation of living organisms. The way LYRA’s modules interact with each other and the behavior of the instrument resemble a live conversation. LYRA-8 is based on eight generators, which will be referred to as voices. Its design is not like a traditional subtractive synthesis VCO. Instead of having a linear or logarithmic dependence on control voltage, they resemble the tone generators of vintage electric organs. Hence the use of the term “voices” instead of “VCOs.” Lyra makes extensive use of nonlinearity, and the voices are built in such a way that allows nonlinearity to express itself.