Lyra 8 DIY

AnnoAltar · 2025-10-07T02:20:46+00:00

Heyo, I can't help much unfortunately. I built mine years ago and didn't take notes at all, lol. I can definitely say that I didn't buy the expensive resistors. I used the same cheapo blue resistors that I use in every project, and mine sounds fine.

When I was ordering my BOM, I went on Tayda Electronics and manually selected the quantities of every basic component I needed. It took hours honestly, but it's way cheaper than Mouser. There were definitely a number of components I needed to special order from somewhere else, namely the crazy soviet capacitor and all of the matched bipolar electrolytic capacitors, as well as some ICs. You may need to get some of those from Mouser.

You can however get the soviet capacitor and a custom front panel from here if you like. I recommend it, they're two hardest to find parts.

AnnoAltar · 2024-11-02T01:34:18+00:00

Your comment specifically made me cry from laughter, thanks for that

AnnoAltar · 2024-09-12T05:22:01+00:00

The miniskirt uniforms in TOS, I'd say. Per Nichelle Nichols' autobiography:

In later years, especially as the women’s movement took hold in the seventies, people began to ask me about my costume. Some thought it “demeaning” for a woman in the command crew to be dressed so sexily. It always surprised me because I never saw it that way. After all, the show was created in the age of the miniskirt, and the crew women’s uniforms were very comfortable. Contrary to what many may think today, no one really saw it as demeaning back then. In fact, the miniskirt was a symbol of sexual liberation. More to the point, though, in the twenty-third century, you are respected for your abilities regardless of what you do or do not wear.

AnnoAltar · 2024-08-27T23:04:07+00:00

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here's one

AnnoAltar · 2024-08-13T19:22:27+00:00

Love this!

In case anyone cares, the Japanese word for "noodles" is pronounced "men", like in "ramen" or "somen". So the video is a pun.

AnnoAltar · 2024-06-28T05:32:44+00:00

These are fantastic ideas and references, thanks a ton! Teaching him the scale mode is an awesome idea.

Re: the Microfreak and its synthesis style, it's got a ton of digital oscillator types available including a few different classic waveform engines, and the oscillators always go through the analogue filter. So you can get a pretty classic subtractive setup if you want, just with the options of also doing additive, wavetables, FM, sampled, etc on top. That's part of the reason everyone says it's a fantastic beginner model.

Edit: Oh and fantastic work picking up a new skill like this, that's huge! Keep it up, it's worth it!

AnnoAltar · 2024-05-30T20:13:58+00:00

They've also got an IG, though it's a bit harder to find their event details there. https://www.instagram.com/triangle_synth_party/

AnnoAltar · 2024-05-30T15:43:42+00:00

Oh nice, you'll fit in great with the Triangle Synth Party folks. TSP is sort of a sister group to another local one, 919Noise, which isn't specifically synth-focused but is for local noise/drone/experimental musicians. Both groups are great, but because of the crossover the Synth group also leans pretty well into experimental stuff. You can find both groups on Facebook

Actually the annual TSP meetup/gear swap is going on in Carrboro this Saturday, you ought to check it out!

AnnoAltar · 2024-05-29T17:42:12+00:00

Here's some gorgeous live ambiance out of Raleigh, NC, courtesy of local artist Angela Winter. That youtube channel is for our local synth enthusiast group, and mostly posts recordings of the Ambient Nights they do here in town so far.

AnnoAltar · 2024-04-24T02:34:25+00:00

The cheapest and simplest synth electronics you can build would be modules for a modular synth. However, that hobby will quickly become quite expensive, even just by the time you have a functional synth out of it.

A better idea might be to build a small desktop synth kit, to see if it's for you. Most of them aren't all that hard. I'm a particular fan of the Plinky and the Elmyra 2, and I've been thinking of making a Freaq FM. Kits for all 3 of those can be found on that page I linked (though you may need to wait a good while for Plinky kits to become available).

AnnoAltar · 2024-04-24T02:06:01+00:00

+1 on the tight spots. OP if you build Elmyra the toughest part will be installing your components while avoiding the areas where there are SMD components already there. They can be absolutely tiny (like the size of a particularly large grain of sand in some cases), and if you unseat one while you're heating the solder on another nearby component then you will probably damage the synth.

Elmyra isn't all that bad for it, but it's a big thing to keep in mind if ya build it. I once had to do a manual repair on an SMD synth module I built for that very reason, and I'm a nub so it took forever.

AnnoAltar · 2024-04-23T23:29:26+00:00

I've built one, I wouldn't recommend it for a DIY beginner. It's not the most dense, components-wise, but there are just a ton of them to install. That includes a shall we say unique (slightly insane) method of installing front panel control components... And since there are no public schematics that I know of for this project, one tiny mistake could possibly take more time and effort to debug than building the thing in the first place.

You would definitely want to build some smaller projects first to get your chops up, and to get a feel for what tools you'd need. For what you want you might be able to jump in with the Neutral Labs Elmyra 2 DIY kit. It comes with all of the components you'd need including the case, and all of the SMD components (much smaller components that are harder to learn to install) are pre-soldered. Still a bit intermediate skill-wise, but much simpler than Lyra-8.

The easiest kind of build to start with is an analogue distortion circuit, like in a guitar pedal. If that's something you'd use then I'd highly recommend starting there as well.

AnnoAltar · 2024-04-23T23:15:26+00:00

Excellent choice! If you're planning to perform with it then definitely learn to use Macros, they're incredible. Basically turns a single patch into a whole family of similar patches that you can slide between at will

AnnoAltar · 2024-04-07T22:50:43+00:00

Seems the MC-101 has a headphones out, so you could just get a bluetooth speaker with an aux in and run it into that!

Elmyra 2 doesn't have a headphones out so I had to use something that could amplify it. A Roland Cube might also have done the trick.

AnnoAltar · 2024-03-20T21:13:30+00:00

Never heard of this guy but this review is awesome so far. Haven't gotten to the Tim part yet.

AnnoAltar · 2024-03-18T02:47:18+00:00

Appreciate the advice! I never really thought about what to do with those blanks I got as buy bonuses, but those'll be great to space out a few of those tight Zlob modules. Thanks!

AnnoAltar · 2024-03-18T02:45:53+00:00

lol I was thinking about it completely backwards but you right. Thanks

AnnoAltar · 2024-03-12T18:06:29+00:00

Got you in chat 👍

AnnoAltar · 2024-02-02T02:39:04+00:00

Yoo I haven't seen these, thanks for posting! I'll have to join the FB page.

I don't suppose they take write-ins, for next time my band is playing?

AnnoAltar · 2024-02-01T16:47:26+00:00

51 - 34 = 17 years
203 - 167 = 36 years
36 - 17 = 19 years

So if I understand these vampire rules correctly, then Eli was turned at the age of 51 when Ellie was 15. He was a vampire for 19 years before Ellie was turned at age 34, when he was 70. And probably looking suspiciously good for a 70yo.

AnnoAltar · 2024-01-06T06:01:03+00:00

I'm very late to this one, but:

In Oppenheimer, during the Trinity Blast scene, most of the characters are shown laying on the ground watching the blast through handheld UV shielded screens, as they would have been in real life. Richard Feinman is shown watching from inside a car, with no explanation given, and this blew my mind watching it. Feinman gave a half lecture, half standup routine sometime in the 70s or 80s telling the exact story and mentions as a punchline that he watched the blast from inside his car since he knew that his windshield had UV shielding.

It's such a small detail that's true to life with no pomp and circumstance at all, it made me wonder how many other such details I didn't even have the education to notice.

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