This is the latest of my current ambient drones, created with Soma Lyra-8, Elektron Digitakt and Strymon Big Sky. I wanted to make a track that sounds different than the usual Lyra tracks and not nessecarily like a drone. I felt like I need something more in my liveset and here we go - Digitakt adds a simple pad sound to the rhythmic pattern of the Lyra.

"Crackles" is another Lyra-8 drone. I am currently shaping a live set I gonna play only with the Lyra-8 and its sibling, the Cosmos. I realised its almost impossible to make a "setlist" or some similar starting configs as I almost end up with something completely different than I thought I would go to. I use the concept of "idea" instead of "tracks" on this setting and this track is a good example for this concept: "Crackles" has a quite good "Preset" that I noted on a piece of paper. I can easily repeat this and get similar results - it's of course not a replicate but It comes close to the idea and goes somewhere else then.

Hello my friends, Hope you guys survived Jamuary :D I had to let go after the first weeks because I am fully focused working on my new performance which will premiere on February 22 at the Synth Club. The gig will have some deep ambient tracks but also melodic parts like this. I hooked up a hybrid setup which works really well, I used it before but this time I also inserted the Lyra-8 (which I don’t use in this Jam) and the Perfourmer MKII which are both routed into the Cosmos Looper - together with some spiced sounds coming out of the computer (in this track it´s the Reese-Bass and some texture samples). I really love these tracks! Do you think it would make a good opener for the set?

I thought it was time to make another sweet and ethereal Perfourmer track. This one is titled „Hope“ and I think I will include some of these sort of tracks in my next liveset. The sequence of the performer is played by a plugin called „Ryhtmizer Fusion“. It creates an arpeggio based on a chord progression in the clip, but it adds random and tons of variations, based on knobs and buttons. The track is supported by some single notes coming from the Lyra-8 (it also adds some distortion to the Perfourmer sound).

I performed this drone jam as part of Jamuary 2025 - it's also an exercise for my upcoming performance on February 22 which will be Ambient only. I am running a sequencer called "Rhytmizer Ultra" on my Macbook, playing a random sequence on the Vermona Perfourmer. It's output is routed into the Lyra-8 so I can put heavy distortion and the delay effects on it. All audio goes then into the magic Cosmos and where it creates a beautiful background for the Perfourmer Sounds.

Another Jam. Lyra-8 only, focussing on some roars deep down.

'Darkness' is a jam I performed for Jamuary 2025. The Lyra-8 demonstrates its sheer brutality and spreads a pure post-apocalyptic atmosphere. Such a beast!

This track is made for Jamuary 08 - Prompt: What happens if your sound enters unknown space? Well when you play the Lyra, this is a constant question that answers itself while tuning the knobs. But when I read the black hole thing, I instantly had the Eventide Reverb on my mind and that let me use a 50 sec tail on my Big Sky :D

This is part one of a longer jam session with the Lyra-8 from Soma Labs. It is basically a constant rhythm playing, constantly modulated by the Lyra effects and LFOs. Parts of the sequence are conserved and looped on the Soma Cosmos, giving the entire performance another layer of depth.

This Jam combines the analog beauty of the Vermona Perfourmer (sequenced by Ableton Live). the Soma Cosmos and the Soma Lyra-8 into a lush ambient dronescape that reminded me of a blooming flower. The Perfourmer output is hooked up to the Lyra-8 input (thus its mono only to add its filters and delay effects. Gear: Soma Cosmos Soma Lyra-8 Vermona Perfourmer MKII Strymon Big Sky