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frodog wrote:

friendship wrote:yassss

what else do you wanna put in that rack?

Well, I found this handy site https://yamahablackboxes.com/#effects-racks so basically anything in that rack section? For instance the GC2020 comp/limiter and a GEP50 or SPX 50D/90/90 II.

I was thinking initially just a 3-unit Yamaha rack, but I might go even further than that. I also kinda want things like a Furman power conditioner, rack mixer and a decent mic pre/8-input USB audio interface eventually.

That sounds like a really fun outboard kit! That's a handy site too, thanks for sharing it.

I just passed up a Yamaha RM50 (a rackmount RY30) for $100 on eBay. The unit looks stuuuuupid powerful for the money, but then I thought maybe I would be getting in over my head. I feel like my imagination about ideas is much stronger than my actual cognitive ability to implement them haha

So the JV-880 I impulse-bought came but actually it's a Yamaha TG500 for some reason (???)

So uhhh after watching every YouTube video of the Lyra 8 and Pulsar 23 I decided to sell most of my gear and dedicate myself to the Soma life. Wish me luck!

luck - those two sound great

le lambin wrote:So uhhh after watching every YouTube video of the Lyra 8 and Pulsar 23 I decided to sell most of my gear and dedicate myself to the Soma life. Wish me luck!

go on...


...I too, have dreams of Lyra 8. One day I'll get one...or at least get to try one.

Paul_C wrote:I'm currently trying to put off another purchase until my birthday in September - what is tempting me is a Noventa JM in red (3 P90s).

I've talked myself out of the Noventa JM (for now, at least) and also a Mastro Valvola Lem, but I'm sorely tempted to get myself a Yamaha NTX1, a nylon acoustic with a slim body and a near 24" radius fingerboard - half the price of the JM and a different sound, so much more justifiable

Enjoy ! The Pulsar 23 is so fun. I have never played a Lyra yet.

cosmicevan wrote:
go on...


...I too, have dreams of Lyra 8. One day I'll get one...or at least get to try one.

I struggle with traditional synthesizer/drum machine interfaces- it’s the programming, I think. Even after spending time learning how to build a sound on a Moog or the sequencer on an Elektron device or whatever, there is always this distance between a sound I want to make and actually producing that sound through the instrument. For some people it seems like they get used to it and the process ends up coloring their original intention in wonderful ways. For me, it colors it in not so flattering ways. I don’t know how to explain this well- it’s like I am thinking about how the patch is structured, how the sequence is built, etc. on a technical level and by the time I’m done, I don’t even remember what the feeling was behind the original intention to make the sound. Consequently, it ends up sounding really formulaic. Even dull or generic, like a demo of the device and not actual music.

I often contrast this with playing guitar, where there is no programming most of the time, I’m just playing it. This is a lot more fun for me.

And so I come across a video for the Pulsar 23 where Vlad is live looping these little patterns and it’s immediate and playful, and the sound is lively and elastic, and you can just stick little alligator clips wherever you want to do whatever you want and unclip them if you don’t like it!

So then I watch another video, and another, and then pretty much anything Soma related, which is how I learn of the Lyra 8, and it’s another very intuitive, expressive, lively instrument that isn’t a guitar.

Then I read the manuals and went to the Soma site and read Vlads philosophy behind all this stuff and decided, okay, you know what, fuck it. I can either spend the next few years feeling awkward interfacing with my current gear or just go head first into this new Soma weirdness.

So that’s what I’m going to do- I’m going to dedicate my time exclusively to learning these two instruments together and see what happens.

Deltaphoenix wrote:Enjoy ! The Pulsar 23 is so fun. I have never played a Lyra yet.

I’m glad to hear it! What do you like about it personally? How do you use it? On its own or with other gear?

le lambin wrote:

Deltaphoenix wrote:Enjoy ! The Pulsar 23 is so fun. I have never played a Lyra yet.

I’m glad to hear it! What do you like about it personally? How do you use it? On its own or with other gear?

Disclaimer - I have a ridiculous amount of banana jack modular stuffs - Serge, BugBrand and 3rd Party stuff in those formats. Ultimately, I did not hang onto the Pulsar 23 but it’s really due to my commitment to the banana jack format.

I would call it an Industrial Ciat-Lonbarde Plumbutter or something like that. It is totally capable of creating full tracks, it is a co-creator in some ways but you can make it go where you want - within its sonic capabilities, after time with it. I reached out to Soma asking for a banana version revision or some kind of add on patchbay. Apparently, I am not the only person to want that but it’s not happening.

I recently picked up a Knas Ekdahl Polygamist and it would be an awesome partner to the P-23 sonically so IDK. I might grab one again down the road.

Damn the Polygamist looks crazy- I had no idea they made a synth!

cosmicevan wrote:

Blood_mountain wrote:

cosmicevan wrote:I love this thread. I'm currently drinking so that I can pull the trigger on snagging something I saw earlier that is a bit more than I wanted to spend

I don’t want to offend, but that maybe doesn’t sound the healthiest. Are you doing ok?

oh yeah. Very much appreciate the thought though. That post was a bit tounge in cheek...I recently got a nice bonus at work and was planning to spend some $$$ on gear non-sense. That night was the last night of the sale I took advantage of. I went a little silly, but don't worry, the family will be fed and the mortgage will be paid. But yeah...I should probably not drink at all since alcohol will kill ya...but don't worry, I'm not burying any problems (at least not consciously) with alcohol and my GAS issues. Cheers everyone!

Keep watching Aen's vids...maybe some day he'll get back into making these amazing boxes

Ok, good to hear!

cosmicevan wrote:don't worry, I'm not burying any problems (at least not consciously) with alcohol and my GAS issues.

wow brag much?

friendship wrote:

cosmicevan wrote:don't worry, I'm not burying any problems (at least not consciously) with alcohol and my GAS issues.

wow brag much?

listen man...I can stop anytime...I just...er...don't want to right now. That's it... I'm waiting for the right moment. I mean someone has to keep the postal service in business amirite?

Well I lost my god damn fuckin mind with this tax return and got the following:

Death By Audio Fuzz War & Total Sonic Annihilation 2

TKOG Mini Glitch

Bananana Mandala

EQD Humming Bird

Digitech Ricochet

and I have a DL4 mkII on back order.

Still think I need some filtery swooshiness, and I was looking at the Mr Black Tunnelworm. Anyone have any experience with one?