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Mapping out some sounds
How to Make Ambient Noise & Ultra Lofi Synth Sounds on the Sonicware Texture Lab
After seeing some of the Sonicware Ambient Ø demo videos, I got interested in making white noise layers on the Texture Lab. In the next video, I will look at combining these with pads, drones, and atmospheric/melodic layers.
0:00 - intro
0:17 - speed manipulation
1:11 - harmonic overtones
1:35 - adding electronic distortion
2:08 - adding reverb
2:25 - density and size manipulation
3:32 - gnarly tones
4:00 - triangulating density, size, and speed
4:29 - adding and modulating filter
5:06 - modulating speed
6:00 - square shape modulation
6:31 - step modulation
6:51 - sequencer modulation
7:30 - the point of all of this
7:52 - more white noise
8:14 - white noise sound example
9:08 - length manipulation
9:20 - rhythmic sound
9:56 - fundamental tones
10:28 - detuned toy synth-like sound
10:48 - making it more in tune
10:44 - noisy very lofi toy synth sound
12:19 - rhythmic noisy very toy lofi synth sound
12:44 - a few minutes of increasingly weird and noisy sounds…
16:48 - …and then bringing some lofi bleepy bloopy notes back into it
21:43 - very gritty, kind of nostalgic lofi synth sound (my favorite thing from all of this)
22:14 - follow-up video
0:00 - intro
0:17 - speed manipulation
1:11 - harmonic overtones
1:35 - adding electronic distortion
2:08 - adding reverb
2:25 - density and size manipulation
3:32 - gnarly tones
4:00 - triangulating density, size, and speed
4:29 - adding and modulating filter
5:06 - modulating speed
6:00 - square shape modulation
6:31 - step modulation
6:51 - sequencer modulation
7:30 - the point of all of this
7:52 - more white noise
8:14 - white noise sound example
9:08 - length manipulation
9:20 - rhythmic sound
9:56 - fundamental tones
10:28 - detuned toy synth-like sound
10:48 - making it more in tune
10:44 - noisy very lofi toy synth sound
12:19 - rhythmic noisy very toy lofi synth sound
12:44 - a few minutes of increasingly weird and noisy sounds…
16:48 - …and then bringing some lofi bleepy bloopy notes back into it
21:43 - very gritty, kind of nostalgic lofi synth sound (my favorite thing from all of this)
22:14 - follow-up video
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10 Tricks for Sonicware SmplTrek | “Tape Loop“, “Synth“ and More!
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10 tips and tricks for the Sonicware SmplTrek, mostly revolving around delay effects. You can support me at buymeacoffee.com/soniccartography or by subscribing to my other channel/account, @weirdfrogmusic on here on or Instagram. 00:02 | Micro Tape Loop 01:50 | Tape Effects 02:42 | Micro Micro Tape Loop 04:16 | Record Life Effect Changes 05:07 | Digital Delay Effects 06:35 | Drone 09:12 | Song ...
A Better Way to Use Delay & Reverb Effects for Synth & Guitar | Smpltrek, Texture Lab, Zoom MS-70CDR
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Some advice on how to get better results from delay and reverb effects and how to avoid a big mistake when using them. My new YT channel for my music project / one-man band: @WeirdFrogMusic Also on IG: weirdfrogmusic And I don't plug it much, but you can buy me a "coffee" over here: buymeacoffee.com/soniccartography Gear used: Sonicware SmplTrek, Sonicware Texture Lab, Zoom Multi...
How to Make Music Almost Automatically | Featuring Sonicware Texture Lab, SmplTrek, 8bit Warps, OP-1
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Demonstrated with the Sonicware Texture Lab, SmplTrek, 8bit Warps, Teenage Engineering OP-1, and featuring a brief cameo from my electric guitar, this trick can be applied to just about anything that can make music, including other synths, groove boxes, DAWs, and acoustic/electric instruments recorded onto loopers or other recording devices capable of layering. This is the first in a possible l...
Hologram Chroma Console + Microcosm + Aeros Loop Studio + BeatBuddy
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The maiden voyage of my new pedalboard, centered around the Hologram Chroma Console and Microcosm, plus the Aeros Loop Studio and BeatBuddy, and also featuring the Universal Audio Dream 65, Jackson Audio Bloom, Walrus Audio Canvas Tuner, Roland EV-5, and Hotone Ampero Control. I'm still learning how to do all of the tap dancing required to control everything. To my subscribers, don't worry - I'...
How to Make an Ambient Soundscape in 7 Steps / 7 Minutes w/ Sonicware Liven Texture Lab | Tutorial
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Tutorial Notes: Step 1 - Remember that you can also turn a sample involving multiple notes/tones into a single note/tone by shortening the sample length and isolating one of them. Step 2 - You don’t have to use this pattern length. There are other options too-I’ll list them below. Step 3 - You could, of course, put in more or less chords, plus more adventurous chords (as long as they are only t...
Looping With Sonicware SmplTrek + Liven Texture Lab + Violin
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Some improvised loops using the Sonicware Smpltrek and Sonicware Liven Texture Lab as a live granular effects processor (see my tutorial on that over here: czcams.com/video/mZOPrWSPNuo/video.html). I recorded each loop in separate takes, stopping and restarting the Smpltrek between them, so I would call this "semi-live" looping. Also, I added a bit of EQing and crossfading of the loops in post-...
Advanced Tricks for the Sonicware Liven Texture Lab | Tutorial
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A few advanced tricks for the Sonicware Liven Texture Lab ("advanced" in the sense of requiring multiple steps to set up and doing some stuff that might not be obvious - not "advanced" in the sense of being like PhD in musicology synthmaster advanced). Note that I made a mistake in describing how pitching up and down by fourths and fifths work. See the values below for an accurate description. ...
How to Make Generative Music on the Sonicware Texture Lab
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On one level, this is a tutorial on two techniques for making generative music on the Sonicware Texture Lab, covering both slower, more ambient music and faster, more melodic music. On another level, this is sort of a video essay on the nature of certain aspects of music in general and approaching the making of those aspects of music in a logical, analytical, procedural way. Or something like t...
How to Use the Sonicware Texture Lab as a Live Granular Effects Processor
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Timestamps / Table of Contents below! Support my channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/soniccartography Section 1: basic principles Part 1: the non-granular side of the blend 1:35 - intro 1:57 - first synth sound and default effects mode sound 2:32 - notes on blend, reverb, and filter 5:56 - tip #1 Part 2: the granular side of the blend 6:44 - intro 7:51 - notes on playback direction (❗important❗) Part...
Texture Lab as Live Granular Effects Processor | Electric Guitar | Ambient Post-Rock | Demo
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My guitar is plugged in directly to the Sonicware Liven Texture Lab, and the output is being directly recorded to a Zoom H4N Pro. There is no pre- or post-processing of the sound, for better or worse - all of it is coming from the guitar and the Texture Lab, and you're hearing it just as I'm hearing it in my headphones as I play. The patches mess around with various parameters like pitch, grain...
How to Make Ambient Drones, Pads, Textures & Soundscapes With Granular Synthesis | Sonicware Texture
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I've made lots of tutorials on the Sonicware Liven Texture Lab and granular synthesis, but I recently realized that I went straight into sharing things that were very specific or experimental, without covering some of the more basic ambient sounds, like drones, pads, textures, and soundscapes, that you can make and that are some of the main reasons why you'd want to use this device or do granul...
12 Tricks for Vocal Samples on the Sonicware Liven Texture Lab
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12 things to do with vocal samples on the Sonicware Liven Texture Lab. For anyone wondering about the follow-up to my previous video, I've been sick, and I didn't have the energy to rerecord the video it mentioned, so it'll have to wait another week or two... A link to the video I mention: czcams.com/video/pYdLr6IvRBc/video.html Support my channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/soniccartography #sonicwa...
On Music, Mistakes, & Embracing the Process | Short Video Essay + Sonicware SmplTrek 3.0 Demo / Jam
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A demo / jam / short video essay, featuring the Sonicware SmplTrek 3.0 Firmware update that just got released. Closed captions are available for those who can't read the on-screen text. Some of the instrument samples I used were put together and shared by @rm on the unofficial Sonicware Discord, which you can join here: discord.gg/JnJqy47asK. You can find a link to the samples in the samples ch...
Sonicware Liven Hack 4.0 for Texture Lab & 8bit Warps | Drum Edition
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This is the fourth in a series of "hack" videos that revolve around exploiting certain features of the Sonicware Liven Texture Lab and 8bit Warps. Each video taps into similar features, but applies them in a different direction. The rest of the series is over here: czcams.com/play/PL_PpW7ZS8KCL8rVowsaoRFxQ1I1BWr2bZ.html&si=oCxfdQwxWIqvs5Es Support my channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/soniccartograp...
Sonicware Liven Hack 3.0 - Texture Lab + 8bit Warps
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Sonicware Liven Hack 3.0 - Texture Lab 8bit Warps
Sonicware Liven Texture Lab Hack 2.0 - a Method of Creating, Exploring and Saving Sounds
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3 Tricks for Sonicware Liven 8bit Warps Songwriting w/ New Firmware Update
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3 Tricks for Sonicware Liven 8bit Warps Songwriting w/ New Firmware Update
Sonicware Liven 8bit Warps Song With Accompanying Tutorial (New Firmware Demo)
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Sonicware Liven 8bit Warps Song With Accompanying Tutorial (New Firmware Demo)
How to Turn Samples into Ambient Music w/ Sonicware Texture Lab Granular Synth (+ OP-1 & MS-70CDR)
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How to Turn Samples into Ambient Music w/ Sonicware Texture Lab Granular Synth ( OP-1 & MS-70CDR)
How to Get Big Sounds on the Sonicware Liven Texture Lab (Granular Synthesis Tutorial)
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How to Get Big Sounds on the Sonicware Liven Texture Lab (Granular Synthesis Tutorial)
Rainy Day Beach Music | Sonicware Liven 8Bit Warps & SmplTrek Jam
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Rainy Day Beach Music | Sonicware Liven 8Bit Warps & SmplTrek Jam
"Underwater" Granular Synthesis - Sonicware Liven Texture Lab as Effects Processor + SmplTrek
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"Underwater" Granular Synthesis - Sonicware Liven Texture Lab as Effects Processor SmplTrek
Cascading Notes Technique | Sonicware Liven Texture Lab Tutorial | Part 1 of 3
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Cascading Notes Technique | Sonicware Liven Texture Lab Tutorial | Part 1 of 3
How to Get a Beautiful Sound on the Sonicware Texture Lab - Cascading Notes Tutorial - Part 2 of 3
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How to Get a Beautiful Sound on the Sonicware Texture Lab - Cascading Notes Tutorial - Part 2 of 3
Modulating the Granular Blend - Sonicware Texture Lab Tutorial - Part 3 of 3
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Modulating the Granular Blend - Sonicware Texture Lab Tutorial - Part 3 of 3
Granular Synthesis of Ukulele w/ Sonicware Texture Lab Demo
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Granular Synthesis of Ukulele w/ Sonicware Texture Lab Demo
Loop & Explore - Sonicware Texture Lab - Melodic Sample Granular Synthesis Tutorial: Part 1 of 4
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Loop & Explore - Sonicware Texture Lab - Melodic Sample Granular Synthesis Tutorial: Part 1 of 4
Great trick!
Thanks!
At the end its sound very cool and musical. Nice tutorial, thank u
I'm glad you thought so! Thanks for watching!
Interesting and inspiring…thanks!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
I’m really really thinking of biting the bullet and getting one. I have the ambient 0 but I might replace it. 🤔
Is there something you're not liking about the Ambient 0?
put me to sleep in the best way possible
Haha, glad it wasn't in the bad way!
I like the moment when you're turning from a broken radio into wild boar territory at around 15.00 and after 😉
Haha, thanks, that's a good way of describing it!
I was at that stream two days before you- you stole my sound. I want it back. That is my stream sound. Give it back. 😀 Another very good and interesting vid from you. I use one of these and feel this is such an under-the-radar piece of lovely technology. Like truly nothing else.
lol sorry, but I think the stream is public domain... Anyway, thank you!
@@SonicCartography Totally kidding, of course. I'd like to hear some major piano chords put thru the paces into this synth.
@@ejb5659 I know, I know! I've done some stuff with a sampled piano in the past, but it was arpeggiated notes played in octaves and fifths so that I could play it chromatically on the keyboard: czcams.com/video/LEVZ9PavnQU/video.html
Very interesting as always! I love the machine like noises you get from this sample at around 13 mins onward, you'd never be able to guess the source from that. It's pretty endlessly explorable this machine tbh 😁👌
Thank you, sir! And yeah, it's pretty wild what you can come up with on this thing!
Incredible content. You got my sub!
Thank you! I appreciate it!
admire your dedication to this machine
Thank you! I'm up to 20 tutorial videos now, which feels a but excessive at this point haha... Btw, the almighty algorithm hasn't been showing your stuff in my feed for a while, but I see you've posted quite a bit since the last time I saw anything, so I'm going to go check some of it out!
@@SonicCartographywow that is amazing. You have mastered it clearly. That is weird about the algorithm.
@@wholeheartedsongs I guess it's probably because 90% of what I've been watching the past 6+ months has been guitar-related videos, so it's just shoveling those at me now...
Just when you finally got out they drag you back in again 🤣
Somebody asked for it, so here is the water sample if anyone is interested! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/cqp7mwqhi0c543rgcvtp0/Water.syx?rlkey=9lunlfi5gd6gldo9crxtutkbh&dl=0 It's a .syx file. The Texture Lab instruction manual has some info on how to import samples on pages 35 and 71: www.sonicware.co.jp/DL/LIVEN_TextureLab/DOC/TextureLab_manual_en_r2.pdf
Is it possible for you to post your sample somewhere?
Hey, sure, here it is! Let me know if it works for you: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/cqp7mwqhi0c543rgcvtp0/Water.syx?rlkey=9lunlfi5gd6gldo9crxtutkbh&dl=0
But will you get the Ambient 0 ?
I’ve also been wondering the cross over between the texture and the ambient 0
I'm not sure. Normally, it would be an obvious thing for me to get, but I'm pretty broke at the moment, so I shouldn't... which doesn't necessarily mean I won't lol
@@SonicCartography literally the same. Hoping it helps pays it self off eventually 🤷🏾♂️
@@ShamazWorldBass My channel recently passed the 1k subscriber monetization threshold, and I'm now making $0.50-$1.00 per day in ad revenue, so I guess the channel could pay it off in like a year or two 😂
@@SonicCartography ayyyye that sounds like a tax right off to me 👍🏽👍🏽
Incredible sounds, thank you!
You're welcome / thank you! Glad you liked them!
Thanks for not doing any intro! Straight to the point is the way forward imo.
I'm really getting the feeling I need every toy Sonicware makes! LOL.
I'd like a couple more of them myself!
Seems like an amazing in the field sampler as opposed to a studio tool which can be really handy
I use it primarily as a song sketchpad, and I think it's good for recording demos-I imagine especially if you're traveling (but I don't much of that, so I can only imagine...)
Sweet! Definitely do another video. You're smart. As an 8 bit warp user i greatly respect and appreciate this!
Thank you! Glad you liked it! And I do have another 8bit Warps-related video planned!
I love your playing! gorgeous stuff!
Thank you for the kind words, and thanks for watching!
The very best overview and boundary-pushing exploration on this device. I’m very close to buying one. In the mean time…I’d be interested to know what’s the closest equivalent (if any) iOS app for realtime granular? Thanks!
Thank you! The only granular app I've used myself is Tardigrain, but that doesn't do realtime. I've seen Fluss and Silo get recommended, and I'm pretty sure both of them do realtime; I can't vouch for them personally, but they might be worth checking out!
Do you have other synthesizers that do the same thing as this one or the ambient 0 but a little cheaper?
As far as hardware granular synths go, the Texture Lab is the cheapest one I'm aware of, but there are many low cost or free granular snyth apps and plug-ins available, like tardigrain (the only I've used). As far as the Ambient 0 goes, I think you can create similar sounds with any basic synth and effects pedal pairing. I'm planning on making a video about this soon, so stay tuned.
@SonicCartography thank you and see you soon then 🫡
Absolute stunning tutorial. Thank you for your work. ❤🎉
Thank you for the kind words!
Stole his whole flow bar for bar Niceone map studying nerd 👍
You're welcome?
Texture lab is a beast
Indeed!
Isn't it like a bad automation curve with only one way to go. So we could try to make some dub steppy shit if it?
I’m not sure what you mean 🤔
Beautiful......so well done 🍀
Thank you! Glad you thought so!
Better check out a Norwegian artist named Biosphere……
Why's that?
Your tuto is quite a bit quick for me!❤
Do you mean I'm talking too quickly for you or going through the information/ideas too quickly for you?
Thanks for the guide. What do you think of the upcoming Ambient 0 ?
@@enochroot9438 you’re welcome. It looks cool and I wish I could get one (can’t afford it at the moment), although I wonder how versatile it is or if it’s kind of a one trick pony (although there’s nothing necessarily wrong with that if it does that one trick really well)
Smpltrek is my fav piece of gear, super underrated.
Sorry, live commenting, those looping tricks are awesome
@@dylangamezcitron1495 thank you! And yeah, it was one of my favorites too. Unfortunately, shortly after I recorded this video, I dropped it, and now the inputs are broken 😢
Very cool
Is the hiss from the Texture Lab or the original sample?
The sample. I think I had the gain too high when recording it.
✌️ta ta , the 1000th grateful follower, nice to find this tutorial
Haha, oh wow, were you the actual number 1,000? I feel like I owe you a prize or something!
@@SonicCartography 😉 yes, and finding all i have to know about the texture lab in one channel is a bit of a price already.
🍀Nice and it sounds quite ok for a cellphone.
Thank you! This was one of my first videos! I’ve come a long way with the production values since then!
@@SonicCartography nevertheless it was a part of my decision to buy that little friend 👍
@@SonicCartography…and no to forget, the violin is really beautiful.
@@Automatenzoo Thank you! 😊If you're interested, I did another Texture Lab video with the violin over here: czcams.com/video/ekiSkqINO8M/video.html. And then I have a lot more violin on my other channel, @WeirdFrogMusic
Fascinating and really a lot of knowledge and experience in this video. Very good, and happy about it. One small remark for improvement: With an instructional video of this length, you could improve a lot by creating chaptes in it. Which is done by putting a list of chapter start marks (i.e. the time stamp), followed by a chapter title into your video's description. CZcams will then do the rest for you!
Thank you! And yeah, sorry, you’re right. I’ve done chapters/timestamps for some of my other long videos, but I’ve been inconsistent about it.
What is sample recording like? Easy or painful?
Hm... I mean, it only takes a few button presses to do, and it's fairly straightforward, and it gives you the essential options, like being able to set a threshold for automatically starting recording... but it's not quite as painless as sampling on, say, an OP-1, and you can't do it on the fly in the middle of a song the way you can with an OP-1. You have to do it in advance.
An absolutely great demo/tutorial! Thank you!:)
@@kubaswiercz thank you for watching and leaving the nice comment! I appreciate it!
The fade-out-delay-trick is really cool. Thanks for supporting the smpltrek
Glad you thought so! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for this! It is really a great device. Love the frippertronics tip, all interesting. If they would implment midi mute from the mixer screen it could be my performance brain, still love it as is, but looking forward to the next update. For drones I tweak the attack/release and sometimes duplicate the track and shrink it slightly for best overlap.
Thank you! Yeah, the midi mute thing seems like it would be easy to implement, and I’ve seen others ask for it, so hopefully it will happen. And great idea with the overlapping drone duplication trick!
😃 genius! tape loop trick is awesome
Glad you thought so!
This is great stuff. Evening Star No Pussyfooting two albums worth checking out by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno
Thank you! And yes, they made some really cool, innovative, pioneering music!
My son once jokingly told me "You're too old to like music this cool." But there was also cool music back when I was young, like Fripp and Eno's.
@@RobG1729 eh, I'm not sure music has gotten any cooler since the late 60s and early to mid 70s. If anything, the opposite. Those were peak years in my book, especially in rock.
My son went with his parents to see Gotan Project one night and Talvin Singh the next night. That's what prompted his remark. However, I agree there was more cool music decades ago.
Great tricks! Very inspiring! Will try them out!
Thank you! Glad to hear that!
Great tips. Glad to see someone still supporting the Smpltrek. I love mine.
Thank you! And I'm glad to hear that; I was worried that maybe no one would care about it anymore, especially now that the Lofi-12 XT is out and getting most of the attention from people interested in Sonicware stuff.
ok you convinced me to get this it will work perfect with what I do
I hope it does!
Question for the worlds leading expert on the texture lab (that’s you). You can release a held note (hold+key) by pressing that same key again. On my unit it will then also release all other held notes that are exactly an octave up or down from the to be released note. Is that your experience as well? If so, I’ll ask sonicware to fix that in a firmware update.
I don't know if I can claim to be an expert now, because I hadn't noticed that before! But yeah, the same thing happens to me if I hold two of the same note in different octaves. However, if I hold three or four of the same notes, all but one of them will be released. I can't figure out which one continues to get held; sometimes it seems to be the one last entered; other times, the one with the lowest octave. Weird... Anyway, good catch!