How To Use the Sonicware Liven Lofi-12 Sampler - Full Tutorial

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"0:00 Intro

0:44 What is a Groove-box sampler?

2:00 Lofi-12 Layout

3:33 Getting Started
Powering up
Playing patterns
Shift & Func
Muting the speaker
Headphone gain
Shift lock
Loading patterns with PTN
Pattern and Global BPM
Page buttons
Pattern chaining
Knob latch

10:01 Tracks & Patterns
Pattern and track contents
Selecting tracks
Muting tracks
Clearing track

12:03 Selecting Sounds & Step Recording
Clearing a pattern
Picking a sample
Keyboard and octave buttons
Adding notes to the steps
Velocity
Clearing notes
Release & Gate
Attack
Step recording
Auto Step
Tied notes
Realtime recording
Metronome
Pre-Count
Transpose
Track length
Note length
Track level
Track pan
Laid-back
Saving a pattern

22:18 Quick Sampling a Synth
Line in settings
Sampling settings
12khz vs 24khz sampling
Reverb amount
Line in to reverb
Reverb type

26:20 Realtime Record, Voice Mode, Pitch and FX
Pitch setting
LFO to pitch
LFO shapes
LFO delay
Sweep up and down
Sweep speed and range
Sweep curve
Voice modes
Realtime recording a melody
Per track reverb send
Per track FX section
Adding delay

33:21 Working With Dum Breaks
Quick sampling a drum break
Pattern level
Distortion and compression
Matching pattern tempo to loops
12 bit mode
Sample start setting
Start setting differences between looped and non looped samples

38:13 Filter Types & Filter Envelopes
Filter envelope types
Cutoff & resonance
Filter envelope depth & time
Filter types
LFO to filter
Filter and EQ in FX

42:11 Parameter Locks, Dice, Swing & Laid-back
Recording parameter locks
Parameter lock on & off
Clear parameter locks
Programming parameter locks per step
Sound locking
Adding a snare and hi-hats to our kick drum pattern
Adding swing
Laid-back per step
Dice setting
Programming dice per step

47:13 Performance Modes & Misc Menus
Random step
Random playback
Stutter mode
Copy & Paste
Clock menu
Midi channel menu
Midi settings menu
Data menu
System menu

51:15 Sample Editing Overlay
Using the overlay
Edit and select indicators
Selecting banks and samples
Playing samples
Select mode
Entering edit mode
Sample recording
24khz button
Line in level
Auto record threshold
Editing sample start and end
Fine adjust with value knob
Change pitch
Change level
Enable and tweaking a loop
Reverse
Attack and release preview
Velocity preview
Rename a sample
Fade the sample
Save a sample
Copying in a sample into another slot
Exporting and importing a sample via midi
Initialising a sample
Rename a bank
Exporting and importing a bank via midi
Exiting back to pattern edit mode

58:25 Accessibility
A list of all the functions of the knobs and buttons in order by name"