Ambient Ø Beginner's Guide [#1 Basic Operations & Playing Techniques (without using the sequencer)]

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Ambient Ø Beginner's Guide posts

"SONICWARE LIVEN Ambient Ø | Soundscape Synthesizer
https://sonicware.jp/pages/liven-ambient

We are creating the Ambient Ø Beginner’s Guide series with the collaboration of Daniel Beck Rose, also known as ‪@SonicCartography‬ . This is the first video, titled 'Basic Operations & Playing Techniques', which compiles essential information for playing Ambient Ø without using the sequencer.

The second video, Sound Design, will explore deeper aspects of sound creation.

Daniel is one of the world's top experts in using Texture Lab, and his series of Tips & Tricks videos are incredibly helpful, so we highly recommend checking them out. [playlist below]

Ambient Ø Beginner's Guide : #1 Basic Operations & Playing Techniques
00:00: Introduction
00:31: Selecting Pattern Palettes
00:47: Four Layers Overview
01:46: Octave Settings
03:03: Secondary Functions with the func button
03:45: Filter Settings
06:34: Secondary Parameters with the shift button
07:20: Amp Envelope Settings
09:15: Level & Pan Settings
09:58: Send Amount to Reverb & Shimmer
11:40: Reverb Settings
14:15: Effects Settings
16:16: About Playing Techniques
16:52: Notes Hold Operations
18:19: Voice Mode Settings
19:01: Arpeggiator Settings
20:46: Various Techniques for the Arpeggiator
23:20: Demo without using the sequencer"

Sonicware Liven Texture Lab Tutorials by Sonic Cartography

How to Make String Sounds on the Sonicware Ambient 0 | Tutorial + Patches

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"Patch download link & table of contents below. I’ve been really enjoying these string sounds on the Sonicware Liven Ambient Ø lately and I thought I’d share them. By the way, I’m looking for new ideas for videos, so if you have requests, questions, topics, etc. you think I could cover, please let me know in the comments! I can't guarantee I'll cover all of them because I've making videos at a snail's pace lately, but it would really help me to know what people are actually interested in!

0:00 - Preview of sounds
0:52 - Setting up the core sound
4:58 - Fine tuning it in various ways
10:13 - Adding another finishing touch to the sound
12:19 - Making it more orchestral
16:53 - Making it a little more synthetic sounding
19:14 - Other voice mode options
24:24 - Micro-looping

Patches (one pattern file, with different variations of the sound on each of the three synth layers): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ad38ls..."

Sonicware Ambient Ø | 12 Short Songs | Imaginary Soundtrack or Something Like That...

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"I’ve had the Sonicware Ambient Ø for a couple of weeks now. At first, I made some ambient soundscapes, but then I started gravitating more toward short songs. The music felt like it had a futuristic, post-apocalyptic, cinematic vibe to it, and I started picturing things and inventing stories as I made it, and then the images and stories inspired more music, and a whole world began to materialize. If I had any skill at visual art, I’d have made some images to accompany the music, but since I don’t, I wrote some stuff instead. So, this is sort of like a soundtrack to an imaginary film—or something like that. In any case, it’s my first set of songs on this synth."

1. New Dawn | 0:00
2. Days of Dreaming | 2:05
3. Last Battle | 3:53
4. Gone | 5:21
5. Aftermath | 6:21
6. Desolation | 7:36
7. Groundskeeping | 8:39
8. Dead City Alive | 9:49
9. Machine Age | 11:22
10. Slow Dance | 12:25
11. Celebration | 13:27
12. Endings | 14:50

More Than Ambient | 10 Non-Ambient Songs for the Sonicware Liven Ambient Ø

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"In this set of song, I explore rhythmic sounds and various non-ambient music styles on the ‪@SONICWARE‬ Liven Ambient Ø.

Track list:
1. 0:00 - Ride Into the Sunset
2. 2:24 - Lurking in the Shadows
3. 4:25 - Suspended
4. 5:21 - Jungle City
5. 7:28 - Bubbling to the Surface
6. 8:53 - Winter, 1986
7. 10:27 - Rock On
8. 11:56 - Watching the Apocalypse From the Beach
9. 13:47 - Cue the Strings
10. 15:13 - Remembering Orion "

Sonicware Liven Evoke | Oscillator Controls | Part 2 of In-Depth Guide Series

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"An in-depth guide to the Sonicware Liven Evoke’s oscillator section, covering all the parameters, settings, and controls in detail, how they interact with each other, and some tips and tricks for using them effectively. Along the way, we also look at the almighty latch function and the difference between easy and normal mode. The next video looks at sound design on the Evoke, focusing especially on its complex LFOs. This video is already available for early access at my new Patreon, / soniccartography .

Table of Contents:
0:00 - intro
0:22 - quick review of INST, WAVE, BLEND, etc. (w/ some new information and tips)
2:40 - latch function
3:50 - backtide modulation range (amount/depth) and rate parameters
8:20 - backtide modulation attack rate
10:43 - backtide modulation attack curve + interactions between the four backtide parameters
13:32 - harmonic parameter modulation of WAVE
18:07 - pitch parameter
20:20 - easy mode versus normal mode"

Part 1 here

Dream Machine | Sonicware Liven Ambient Ø | New Set of 36 Songs

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"I haven’t had time to make videos for my channel for a while because I’ve been making Ambient Ø tutorials for the ‪@SONICWARE‬ channel’s Beginner’s Guide series. In the meantime, I’ve been accumulating lots of songs and song ideas on the synth. This is a set of most of them (some in abbreviated form), which I’m releasing all at once to sort of “clear the vault” and feel like I can start afresh with making new music. Unlike the previous collection I did, this one contains some actual ambient music—particularly the middle section. I'm not totally happy with how some of these turned out, but I'm trying to learn how to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good (enough), so I'm just going to publish this anyway... "

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How to Make Percussion Sounds on the Sonicware Liven Ambient Ø | Percussion Synthesis Tutorial

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"In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to make percussion sounds on the Sonicware Liven Ambient Ø. With its combination of wavetable, ring modulation and FM synthesis, the synthesizer is surpassingly capable in this regard. It can also be a good starting point for learning about percussion synthesis (or at least it was for me). The video covers a variety of percussive sounds, including drums, high hats, and other melodic percussion sounds, reminiscent of bells, xylophones, marimbas, toy pianos etc."

Table of contents:
0:00 - Intro / Preview
1:07 - Percussion Basics + Using Any Structure for This
19:30 - Using Atmos 1 for More Complex Sounds
28:36 - Using Atmos 2 for Even More Complex Sounds
36:28 - Using Atmos 2 for Even More Complexererer Sounds
47:08 - Sequencing Percussion Sounds

New Song + Arpeggiator Tips, Tricks & Overview for Sonicware Liven Ambient Ø

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"Both an overview of the Sonicware Liven Ambient Ø's arpeggiator (including some clarifications of some common points of confusion) and some tips and tricks for using it by itself or in conjunction with the sequencer to generate song ideas."

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

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"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)"

Mood Machine | Sonicware Liven Evoke | New Set of 14 Songs

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"Track list and lots of notes below:

0:00 - 1. Dream Machine - With the Sonicware Liven Evoke, I’ve often been playing songs live, without using the sequencer, which I used for almost all of my songs with the Liven Ambient Ø (the two sequencers are very similar). With this song, I use the hold feature to hold some notes of textural sound in a couple of layers, while playing the piano layer live. The piano sound morphs between an acoustic and electronic sound a little bit after I play each note. Around the halfway point, with the chromatic pitch shifting, everything starts to turn into a granular storm (there are no granular effects prior to this), which is helped by the fact that you can cut the dry signal of each track and have a 100% wet mix of the reverb and/or granular sound. Oh, also, I want to give a thank you/shoutout to this video by @BenLevin because I started messing around with the chords that led to this song after watching it: • The secret to EMOTIONAL chords . His channel is one of my favorite music education channels on YouTube, so do check it out!

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Sonicware Liven Evoke as Reverb & Granular Effects Processor | w/ Ambient Ø + Violin | Demo

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"A live performance/demo of me using the Sonicware Liven Evoke as a reverb and granular effects processor with the Ambient Ø, my violin, and a little bit of my voice. I wrote lots of on-screen notes, so I won't say much more here. If anyone doesn't understand English and wants me to write them out here so they can auto-translate them, let me know!"

Dave Young (aka henderson) - Radius Music, Generative Audiovisual Device 2010

YouTube via MediaArtTube | September 20, 2010

"Two devices are situated in the room, documenting sonically and visually the dynamic real-time readings taken from the rotation ultrasonic distance sensors. As people walk in and out of the room that these devices will be placed in, they will alter the readings of distance, and therefore, the sounds too.
Radius Music combines ideas of cartography and graphic scores as a means to produce sound. The device itself is an autonomous revolving machine that reads a distance value in real-time between itself and another object. As the machine slowly rotates and scans the room, it takes this radial distance and outputs it as a relative sonic frequency and a corresponding visual score.
The synthesis techniques used to generate the audio include Frequency Modulation and Additive Synthesis, with phasing effects providing a procedural rhythmic element. The circular rotation of the piece evokes an idea of early sample culture - each device plays a loop of sound approximately 3 seconds long, sampling the position of people and objects in the space.
Built using Arduino, PureData, and Processing.
More info: http://hendersonsix.com/#212455/Radiu..."