Hey, here a happy user of the Kyra. I really worked with the sounds, designing some new patches and toying with multis, and behaves quite better than the Virus. Thanks to its polyphony I can do live sets like this: Shoeg / Keroxen 2020 - YouTube
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Did u have a Virus?
I do actually have one.
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Do u care to make one day a side by side sound comparison? Thanks!
Oof. Too lazy for that. I can say that usual perception is Kyra sounds with less punch/character (yes, the filters, lfos and some effects are a point here), and I can agree with that. But if you ignore the Kyra presets, you can achieve very interesting sounds. And I can’t recommend Virus for live sets: it has a bug when loading multis that sometimes don’t load a layer, the CPU is limited and because of that, polyphony too. And does very weird things. Once it crashed and started playing a very high pitch, and it almost ruined one of my sets. And also in favour of Kyra I must say transitions between presets are cleaner.
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Kyra responds to MIDI Tuning Standard real time sysex, giving you constant availability of all octaves of any microtuning. As far as I know, that’s unique in hardware, but even if there’s some other synth that accepts MTS realtime—please post if so—Kyra’s special enough that I just bought one. I have a sudden need for a hardware multitimbral, and though its sound palette doesn’t add any character that I really need any more of, it’s fine, plus I get the killer feature of full monty microtuning withhout being restricted to modular.
Anyone happy with Kyra at the moment?
Pretty happy with mine.
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Did you own a Virus before?
Can it do great sounds besides trancey supersaws?
Thanks!
This paired with a hw sequencer could be a very good drum machine if i think about it.
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The Virus makes for a fantastic drum machine. Fat kicks, snappy snares, all manner of noisey hats, and 16 part miltitimbrality so it functions like an actual drum machine.
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I think the big thing with Kyra is the voice count, and just raw power as a system. It’s not going to have more character than many other synths. It seems like a pretty pristine, clinical execution of this type of synthesis. However, voice count, is big, waveform count is higher than the Hydra (though it doesn’t morph as people have stated).
IMO, you’d use this for something like film scoring maybe? Something where having those voices and parts might make things easier. It sounds GOOD, just not distinctive IMO. It might also be good for trance styles as it seems to make those types of sounds effortlessly.
I haven’t heard too many squishy squelchy filter sounds out of it, or anything with real character so far. But then, I’ve only heard a handful of things over the last several months.
It would probably make an excellent part of a larger setup.
Like, this, techically sounds quite good, just kind of sterile. Kinda EDM, trancey, etc. Needs a big squishy analog mixed in IMO.
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Don t care about drum machine on synths, as I have dedicated ones.
U right, but maybe nobody did other sounds with it and again maybe it is capable.
About character… it’s the same with most vsts… still people like some of them.
But yes… very very few demos… maybe just isn t in fashion right now … :)))
Or maybe it doesn t have enough people paid to brag about it…
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Very cheap ones on reverb right now from reputable sellers ($800-$1100ish).
I laid hands on one (and M, and Iridium KB) at Modularsquare in Paris last month. I did appreciate how the knobs had a little more of a soft rubber feel than the others, IIRC.
I actually like the way it sounds. It’s very high fidelity. It kind of screams Deadmouse to me 
It’s not the sort of sounds that I use personally, but I don’t think you can describe it as bad with any credibility.
I also think you’re correct. I’d love to hear someone do some bubbly stuff, maybe something bit crushed if it has it, and see if it can also do gritty.
That said, when you hear something like the Modal 002, the Iridium, M, Q, Hydra, P-12, Super 6 or an analog, poly (Sequential etc.) you immediately take notice.
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I did some more research.
He does a nice psy tune with it. (I corrected my post, it has an AUX envelope, which could be routed to pitch.)
Is it not possible to send the aux envelope to OSC pitch? 
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I read the manual right now, it can be routed to osc tune, so that should be similar to pitch mod, envelope 3 is freely routable. Not sure how steppy that is. Or how flexible the envelopes are.
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He did that soundset, maybe i misunderstood him.
hmm, i did misunderstood him, he said the first samples are faded in, so the click is missing, not that the envelope isn’t working. (Still bad for drum synthesis) But pair it with an a4, and have some digital voices is still appealing - besides him flaming the kyra.
There is no perfect gear, i just played my p12, and i really liked it - it has only 2 layers (ok but 12 voices) - so the idea having 8 layers is very appealing - 1 kick, 1 hat, 1 snare, 1 bass + 2 lead + 2 pad layers is close to a one stop shop.
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