Liven MEGA SYNTHESIS - Tutorial Part 1 - Pattern Editing Deep Dive

video upload by ChrisLody

"Full Disclosure: I occasionally take on freelance work at Sonicware on an hourly rate producing synth & sample sound design, beta testing, checking English text and videos like this. Any other shorter videos on my channel containing Sonicware products are not paid content.

More about the Sonicware Liven MEGA Synthesis:
Sonicware's Website: https://sonicware.jp/pages/liven-mega...
Trailer & Yuzo Koshiro's Patterns: [posted here]
My quick overview video: [2nd video here]

So as promised here is my Sonicware Liven MEGA Synthesis deep dive video. This video will look at pattern editing including everything that's available to make your own music. The next video will focus on the FM sound editing overlay so will cover how to make your own sounds

Sonicware and I have both noted how many customers have bought the Liven MEGA Synthesis who have never bought an instrument before, so I've done my best to make this video as beginner friendly as possible which is why this video is quite long. If you're more experienced please use the chapter markers so skip through to relevant sections.

*0:00 Teaser Bit*

*0:17 Intro*
General layout & overview
Powering up
Playing a pattern
Function button
Muting the speaker
Knob latch feature

*3:33 Loading Patterns*
Queuing patterns
Pattern chaining

*4:57 Pattern Pages Buttons*

*6:09 Pattern and Track Contents*

*6:59 Track Types*
FM tracks
PSG tracks
PCM tracks
Track polyphony
Muting tracks
Mute modes

*9:01 Creating a Pattern From Scratch*
Loading an empty pattern
Selecting FM sounds
FM sound banks
Playing the keys
Attack
Release & Gate
Voice modes
Arpeggio types
Mono glide
Legato glide

*13:12 Directly Entering Notes*
Clearing tracks
Octave knob
Clearing notes
Velocity

*14:40 Track 1 - FM Pad*
Live recording
Tied notes
Metronome settings
Track length
Saving a pattern
Transposing the pattern
Clearing a pattern

*17:28 Track 2 - FM Lead*
Sweep controls - LFO mode
Sweep curve -LFO shapes
Sweep controls - Envelope mode
Step recording
Removing individual notes
Entering long notes
Entering sweeping notes
Auto step
Per step note length
Adding swing

*22:22 Adding FX*
FX send knob
FX types and settings
Send FX vs. insert FX

*24:00 Track 3 - FM Bass*
FM legacy modes
Realtime recording bass

*25:08 Track 4 - Square Wave Layer*
PSG sound options - Bank knob
Attack and release differences
PSG adjustment options - Sound knob

*27:20 Track 6 - Sampled drums*
Loading a drum kit
PCM 4 bit mode
Programming some kicks
Lengthen and duplicate track
Adding more drums
Changing kits

*30:20 PCM Voices Modes*
Slicing a sample with Drum mode Voice adjust
Shot mode

*31:02 Recording Samples*
Recording options
Auto level threshold
Sampling quality
Connecting an external sample source
Load an empty sample
Entering sampling mode
Checking the level
Recording a sample
Saving a sample

*33:35 Parameter Locking*
Realtime recording
Clearing parameter locks
Manually entering

*35:19 Track 5 - Background Pulse & Square*
Sound locking
Recording a pulse sound
Recording a square sound on the same track

*36:40 Note Trigger Probability*
Lowering playback probability

*37:47 Playback Modes*
Random sequence mode
Random step length
Stutter sequence mode

*39:27 Misc Settings*
FM edit mode
Copy & Paste
BPM mode
Clock menu
Midi channel menu
Midi menu
PCM data menu
Pattern data menu
System menu
Line in menu"