How to Make an Ambient Soundscape in 7 Steps / 7 Minutes w/ Sonicware Liven Texture Lab | Tutorial
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- 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 three notes). I was keeping things simple for demonstration purposes.
Step 4 - A I would recommend not making the melody too fast or the notes too short, as you want to be able to linger on notes later on.
Step 5 - Other options (besides 4 bars at 160 BPM) are 3 bars at 120 BPM, 2 bars at 80 BPM, etc. (hopefully you can do the math, and hopefully I’m doing it right).
Step 6 - You could also use the sequencer for playing the sample and/or make use of the attack and release to bring in different pitches of it more gradually and smoothly than I did here.
Step 7 - I would recommend making the parameter changes much more slowly and gradually for smoothness. I was moving quick here to try to keep the video short. Also, remember that you can use the sequencer for modulating as well, which can make things more interesting and which I cover over here: • How to Use the Sonicwa...
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This is just a fantastic video. SonicWare needs to be sponsoring you or these videos great ideas👍
Thank you! That would be nice-although maybe I shouldn't have recorded just about everything I have to say about this device before seeking something like that, haha! Oh, and I did get a little commission to make the guitar video I made for them a little while back (czcams.com/video/-qvz51MYjfk/video.htmlsi=mp1f7jQENzQajCwl)
I concur. This man is the Texturevangelist.
At the end its sound very cool and musical. Nice tutorial, thank u
I'm glad you thought so! Thanks for watching!
Beautiful......so well done 🍀
Thank you! Glad you thought so!
love this tutorial - my Sonicware Texture lab is on its way to me - can't wait to try this out
Thank you! And nice-I hope you like it!
It’s incredible what you can tease out of this inexpensive little machine.
The only real oversight I can think of is the possibility of a live looper + effects.
A looper + effects would be nice. If I were to make one purchasing recommendation to anyone who plays music (with this or anything), a looper for live looping and a Zoom MS-70CDR for effects would be at the top of my list.
The Zoom is another wundermaschine. Particularly since you can side load the algorithms of all the other pedals in the family. Very interested in what the V2 announced at NAMM will offer. @@SonicCartography
Man... that's too good! Thank you 🙌🏼
Thank you for watching!
Wow what a great tip!
Thank you! I'm glad you thought so!
Dude you the man!
Haha thank you!
Great -thanks for the tutorial!
Thank you for the nice feedback!
Super helpful - thanks
Thank you for watching and leaving the nice comment!
Great content love you energy... very helpful now i need one . Cheers you got my sub. 🙂
Thank you! That's very nice to hear!
Wicked video! 🎉
Thank you!
Your commentary on music theory coupled with the texture lab tutorial is really helpful.
Thank you, that's great to hear, especially as applied/practical music theory is a direction I'm thinking of taking the channel in more, as I start to think about what I can do beyond the Texture Lab (I feel like I can only make so many videos on it before I start running out of material and others lose interest)
Agreed. Practical applications on music theory and how to apply it to music making can be daunting and unapproachable for a lot of people. Give it a go!
Beautiful! That’s this evenings project with a less clean initial sample. Great video & love the shorter tip.
Thank you! I'm glad to hear that, and I hope your project goes well!
Fantastic job! Can’t wait to use this idea as a pad under my guitar
Thank you! And yeah, that could be great!
Nice nice nice!
Thanks thanks thanks!
Which is better, Lemondrop or Texture Lab??
I don’t have the Lemondrop, so I can only compare it with the Texture Lab based on what I’ve read and seen in videos. The Lemondrop is more powerful and featured as a granular synthesizer in a number of respects (e.g., two granular engines instead of one, 30 seconds of sample time instead of 6 seconds, etc.), and it has a screen that shows you the waveform among other useful things, and it is very small, but it lacks knobs, a keyboard, and battery power, and it’s more expensive.
So, I don’t think there’s a single, objective answer to your question: the answer depends on which of those things are the most important to you and which tradeoffs you’d prefer to make. Personally, I value having the knobs and the portability of an internal keyboard and battery power to such a degree that it outweighs the advantages of the Lemondrop, but that’s just me, and others might not care as much about them and value the more powerful features of the Lemondrop more.
Hey man. Love your videos. Just wondering, is there any way to easily re-pitch my samples/sources? I love them but pitch wise they're all over the place and I don't want to rely on notes to know how to repitch them every time. Cheers
Thank you! I think the easiest thing to do would be to re-pitch your sample to C (or whatever you want to use as the standard) and then resample the sample and save it to the same sample slot, thus writing over it and, in effect, re-pitching it permanently. It would be nice if there were a built-in way to do that, though, and I could add it to a list of firmware update requests I'm thinking about putting together and sharing in the Sonicware Liven Facebook group.
@@SonicCartography Ah excellent. Thanks man, really appreciate it
@@ChrisSheridan295 no problem!
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 🫡
A like for the knobs joke 😂
By the way, can you record into Logic?
Haha I'm glad someone appreciated it... You mean just record the output from the Texture Lab into Logic? I haven't done it myself, but I don't see why not, as long as you have an audio interface of some sort.
@@SonicCartography ok cool. I think I may invest in this. As much as I like Logics Alchemy I find it more inspiring just to have one simple piece of hardware to get creative with.
@@Goat.Herder nice, I hope you like it if you do! And yeah, I haven't gone DAW-less, but I definitely prefer starting with hardware and physical knobs and stepping away from the computer screen while I'm being creative and just using the DAW for recording and post-production.
Stole his whole flow bar for bar Niceone map studying nerd 👍
You're welcome?
I love your videos! Can I do something like this on 8bit warps? At least some ambient. Thanks.🙏
Thank you! Well, the stuff I'm doing at the end is granular-specific, but what you could try doing is this: build up chord pattern and a melody in the same way that I do in steps 1-4 (although you could make the pattern length longer and also use more notes per step, as the Warps has 6-note polyphony, whereas the Lab only has 4-note).
Then, set the BPM as low as it can go, and reduce the note value to something low as well, like maybe 1/4 notes instead of the default 1/6 notes. Increase the release and sustain so the notes ring out for a long time, increase the attack so that new notes come in gradually, increase the reverb, play the sequence, and you'll get something sort of similar sounding that you can then mess around with using the other knobs. You won't be able to layer octaves and fifths in the same way as I show with the Texture Lab, but if you put less than 6 notes in per step, you could always add and remove additional tones by playing them on the keyboard and/or using the "ok" button to hold them. I hope that makes sense?