In-Depth Guide to Sonicware Liven Evoke | Part 1 | Overview & Quick Start

video upload by Sonic Cartography

"A big picture overview of the main features of the Sonicware Liven Evoke (table of contents below), as well some tips for quickly getting started with making some interesting sounds and playing music on it, without getting bogged down in the technical details of all the synth's bells and whistles, which will be covered in the next videos in the series. You can get early access to the next video right now (plus bonus goodies, like presets), over at the new Patreon that I am launching in conjunction with this series: / soniccartography .

Next Episodes:
Part 2: Oscillator / Sound Engine Parameters (early access available now on Patreon: / soniccartography )
Part 3: Sound Design (focusing on LFOs).
Part 4: Granular Effects and Reverb
Part 5: Voice Modes & Arpeggiator
Part 6: Chord Mode
Part 7: Sequencer
Part 8(?) - will depend on feedback and questions I receive. Please leave comments! My goal is to help people do whatever I can to be able to use this synth to make their own ambient, cinematic, post-classical, and other kind of electronic (or should I say acoustronic?) music.

The other videos will be shorter than this one. For example, the second one is only 25 minutes. They are focused on specific topics of limited scope, whereas this one is a broad overview. The idea is to start making more bite-size videos than the long-form ones I've tended to make in the past. And the reason for this is to same as the reason for starting the Patreon: to make this channel more sustainable for me and to be able to get back to making videos on a more regular basis.

Table of Contents:
0:00 - intro
0:42 - basic play & performance features (palettes, tracks, octaves, hold, arpeggiator, chord mode, and voice modes)
7:00 - sequencer overview
10:10 - previewing and selecting other palettes
12:55 - opening a blank palette
13:49 - acoustronic flux oscillator / sound engine basics (instrument, wave, and blend)
15:43 - demo of all acoustic instrument sounds
16:51 - secondary parameters and shift holds (very important to know)
18:43 - demo of all electronic wave sounds
20:48 - backtide modulation
23:34 - how to get early access to next episodes in series
24:23 - sound design basics (filter, amp envelope, LFOs, panning, level, & reverb + granular send parameters)
27:53 - adjusting the reverb / secondary functions (also important to know)
31:31 - the cool thing you can do with the Evoke
33:41 - signal chain / sound architecture of the Evoke
34:56 - granular effects + grain patches (including demo of all patches)
39:54 - brief recap + how to quickly start making some music without sequencing
43:27 - saving, renaming, and resetting pattern palettes
46:19 - outro (w/ info about next videos)"