Lyra Melody Maker

Lyra takes your chords and writes the melody over them — in key, in time, and shaped like a melody rather than a sequence. Record your progression into the chord lane and it leads into each change instead of reacting after it. 56 voices, from plain anchors to granular chaos. Four cells you can mute, resize and re-roll independently. 16 CV inputs. And it’s deterministic: the take you liked is the take you get back.

Activate the new V2 button for more control than ever, and more importantly better melodies.

Lyra Melody Maker is a Player device that turns chords into topline melodies. Hold a progression and Lyra writes the lead over it — in key, on (or off) the grid, and phrased in a wide variety of meolodies. Lyra works to a set of internal rules: it caps how far a line can leap, resolves tension on the beats you actually hear it on, leaves space to breathe between phrases, and ends a phrase on a note that sounds like an ending. What comes out is a line you can keep, not a sequence you have to fix.

Record your progression into the chord lane — up to 16 bars — and Lyra sees your whole progression at once, allowing the melody to walk to the next chord, or anchor it in the progression’s home. Underneath that is a 4-cell engine: four independent quadrants you can mute, re-roll, and resize from a quarter bar to four bars, for loops up to 16 bars long. 56 algorithmic voices run from plain anchors through pop hooks to granular chaos, and five controls — Resolve, Theme, Phrase, Color and Contour — move any of them between predictable and unpredictable without leaving the key. Add nine scale modes, seven rhythm algorithms, swing, velocity and ghost notes, and 16 CV inputs, and none of it is a lottery: the same settings give you the same melody every time, so a take you like is a take you can keep.