How to Turn Samples into Ambient Music w/ Sonicware Texture Lab Granular Synth (+ OP-1 & MS-70CDR)
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I'm really getting the feeling I need every toy Sonicware makes! LOL.
I'd like a couple more of them myself!
I appreciate ChrisLody’s in-depth tutorials, but this is the best hands-on/live demonstration of what this little machine is capable of. I love the fact the sound never stops while you explain what you are doing.
Thank you. Please do more 😆
Oh wow, thank you so much - very appreciated! And I will do more!
An absolutely great demo/tutorial! Thank you!:)
@@kubaswiercz thank you for watching and leaving the nice comment! I appreciate it!
The Kalimba sounds absolutely heavenly! I have one of those so it's something i must try. Its like instant Silent Hill soundtrack vibes 😁👌
Thank you! And yeah, haha, you know, it's funny - I have like a semi-decent used car's worth of musical instruments and equipment at this point, and yet my favorite thing to sample is this kalimba I bought off Amazon for like 17 euros... It's going to be front and center in the next video I'll release tomorrow as well.
@@SonicCartography Ha yes I know the feeling! I have some pretty expensive synths in the studio but just created one of the most characterful acid patches I can by sampling a Yamaha PSS380, one of the most basic and dirty 2op FM home keyboards\mini synths Yamaha ever made. I love it 😄
@@ChrisLodyMusic haha, nice, I just looked up the PSS380, and man, that is a thing of beauty!
Yeah, thanks for taking the time to make these videos.
Thanks for taking the time to watch them!
Thank you so much for doing these texture lab tutorials. I have this liven and it is the most fascinating but also the most daunting. I appreciate your pace and sharing all that you are doing to achieve your incredible results !!
You're welcome, and thank you for the kind feedback! I really appreciate it, and I hope the videos are of some help in unlocking the texture lab!
@@SonicCartography absolutely!!
Tim Hecker in a box! Wow thank you for these videos man. Really great. Has me very excited to get mine
You’re welcome and thank you for watching them! I hope you enjoy it when it arrives!
DUDE. Exactly what I was thinking!!! Nice.
This is sick, can't wait for mine to arrive 😁
Thanks! Hope you get it soon!
Your channel is great, it's helpful and the tutorials on the texture lab are great
Thank You
You're welcome, and thank you for the very nice feedback! I appreciate it! I'm glad you find the channel helpful!
These are great tutorials
Thank you for making them.
You're welcome, and thank you for the nice feedback!
Pure gold. Seen it half a dozen times.
As informative as it is inspiring!
Same for your entire Texture Lab series, though I'm especially loving this one!
I'm on the fence about one thing though (considering purchase), maybe you/someone can help me:
As much as I like, and much of the time prefer lofi, what if I occasionally want a more "clean" (or clear) sound from the unit?
Is it as simple as applying correct EQ ?
If so, which frequency ranges are a good starting point (both cutting and boosting) when looking to add clarity to a patch?
Or are there other, better suited tools or processes to accomplish this instead of (or in combination with) EQ?
THNX!
Thank you! I appreciate the nice feedback, and I'm glad you found it to be those things!
To answer your question, I guess it depends on what you mean by clarity. When I'm using the Texture Lab, it's usually with my own samples, which I've usually recorded myself with a microphone. I don't have high-end equipment, and I'm far from a professional at recording, so they're not of the highest quality. They often have background noise, white noise, humming, etc. Depending on the frequency of the noise, it can sometimes be reduced. For example, one of the samples I use in a lot of the videos (the sound of my violin being plucked) has a lot of low-end hum, so when I put on a high-pass filter, the hum gets reduced and cleaned up in that sense.
But the device does have inherent limits when it comes to sound quality, and ultimately there's no escaping the fact that it's on the more lofi end of the spectrum. If what you have in mind with "clear" is something more like high-quality/clarity, then something like the Lemondrop might be a better bet for you in this specific regard (although there are many other... uh, regards, to keep in mind, and there are always trade offs, of course; for example, with the Lemondrop, you gain quality and power-e.g., two granular engines, instead of one, and a longer sample time-but lose knobs, which are one of the things I like the most about the Texture Lab).
To get a better idea of what the devices are capable of in terms of sound-quality, I'd recommend comparing and contrasts videos of the Lemondrop (or whatever else you're considering) with those of the Texture Lab using the preset samples, which are going to be of higher sound quality than mine and presumably as good as the Texture Lab can sound.
Let me know if that answers your question or if you have others!
@@SonicCartography Yo! Appreciate your reply.
I guess I meant both.
I feel you manage some quality sound out of the TL in the vids.
I was just curious how far it could be pushed - say, with further processing.
Your advice about comparing presets is genius.💡
Shoulda been done that!
Definitely agree w/ you about the tactility (?) of knobs/keys.
I'm pretty much sold on TL, just trying to gain a full enough picture of it's capabilities beforehand, to determine how good a fit it would really be.
It''s mainly due the results I've seen you achieve that I'm so impressed with the unit.
For real bro, thanks!
Hey, for some reason, your reply got sent to the potential spam / “don’t show comment unless you approve it” box, and I didn’t see it until now! Anyway thanks for the reply, and I hope you were able to figure things out!
Just discovered you. I’m a new sub and look forward to learning from you.
I’m glad to hear that! Thanks for subscribing!
Very informative! Thank you!
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Brilliant as usual! Thanks
You’re welcome and thank *you*!
Should have said I sampled a piano across several octaves with a fifth based on advice from a previous video and have now been sat here for an hour just layering granular stylee,awesome! @@SonicCartography
@@Nick-zq6txhaha, nice! Yeah, it’s kind of addictive, isn’t it? Anyway, glad it sparked some inspiration for you!
Perfect tutorial
Oh wow, thank you! It felt far from perfect when I was editing it, so it's nice to hear that!
Another informative video. I'm pretty much copying your techniques as I learn my way around the Texture.
Thank you! Glad they're helping you out!
Sorry it might be a dumb question but are you able to chop up the samples you put onto it so that you can have individual hits per each “note” of the keyboard something like a mpc
It's a good question, because you can't do it directly, but there is a workaround where you can essentially chop a sample up on the sequencer and then play the sequencer buttons as if they were keys. I cover this in a couple of videos, which I'll link to below.
czcams.com/video/Y-8WY-W2If4/video.html and czcams.com/video/pYdLr6IvRBc/video.html
@@SonicCartography thank you fam 🙏
Apart from sample playback, does texture lab , granular process live input signals
Yes, I plan to do a tutorial/overview of this soon, but you can hear me using it as a live effects processor with my guitar/voice in this video (czcams.com/video/-t4XskheA-Q/video.html) and with my violin/looper in this video (czcams.com/video/fK2fFMoJXXU/video.html)
@@SonicCartography nice one, much thanks 🙏🏾
@@pongtrometer No problem!
Nice tutorial - when are they coming out with an iOS AUV3 plugin? so I can use it on my iPad?
Thank you! I doubt they will release one given their focus on hardware, but I’ve used Tardigrain a bit and have heard good things about iDensity, so check those out if you haven’t already
Could you please make a pack of mandolin/kalimba/guitar/ukulele samples for use with this machine? I'd gladly pay (especially if they're preformatted for use with the LTL). And that's also a general request to anybody out there with access to a bunch of acoustic instruments (be they sitar, flute, trumpet or whatever).
Hey, that's a great idea, and I'd like to give it a shot! What sort of samples were you thinking? Single note? Melodic? A mixture of both?
@@SonicCartography I was thinking simple melodic samples (comprising mostly 4ths and 5ths to make them easier to stack and fold in on themselves).
That makes sense (and would be in keeping with the stuff I’ve shown on the channel). Well, I’ll see what I can do!
its really cool , but with my ipads and pedals and stuff i just dont need texture lab , i felt the 8 bit warp and the bass and beats would be best for me
I understand - you can replicate just about everything it can do with various pedals and apps. I just like having a single thing to put in my lap and focus on this stuff. And I don't have the bass and beats, but I love the Warps and have made a couple of videos on it!
maybe like head phones out ---> to the guitar pedal and back into the line in .. and control the volume for a feedbackloop effect ?
@@JSprayaEntertainment You mean for processing sound from something like the Warps?
Can you tell me how to delete a sample?
Or do you just write over one?
You can just write over it. But if you really hate a sample and don’t have one to replace it with at the moment, I suppose you could just record six seconds of silence over it!
Thank you! I guess I didn’t think just recording silence
@@erictorres2368 no problem!
nice i want one i have the lofi 12 and 6 both are great
Wish I could get the 6! It’s so pretty
@@SonicCartography it sounds as good as it looks lol
Save up think they still in stock
Ah, haha nice! The problem is I live in Europe, and you can only get them from Perfect Circuit in the US, and the shipping plus custom fee makes it like $400+ 😭
o yeah that's a bummer sorry @@SonicCartography
The op 1 is offensive to my sensibilities. 🧐
Alright, sorry, I will destroy it with a hammer
Kind of distracting how your speaking mannerisms, cadence, etc, are so similar to Loopop, but with an American accent.
I’ll do my impression of Cleatus from the Simpsons next time
@@SonicCartography we'll be awaiting your Cletus Spuckler czcams.com/video/alkOU_hXfPM/video.html