Why Granular Synthesis is Great! - Sonicware Liven Texture Lab

[@ChrisLodyMusic]

I am an English chap yes 😄 Thanks for the shout-out, glad you found the tutorial useful. I'm based in Lincolnshire so not near Guildford but I'd love to pop over and say hi at some point for sure

[@zurlocker1]

Would be cool to see Jack + Chris Lody exploring the Sonicware Liven Lo-Fi 12 also!

[@Farold_Haltermeyer]

+1 with the new Mega Liven!!

[@RedMeansRecording]

mfw the shimmer reverb came in

[@SONICWARE]

Thank you so much for the great demo! 🥰

[@g3cd]

Apart from pushing everything into a granular drone smear, you can also do little bleeps and blops popping randomly into existence (and out of it) if you reduce the number of grains and chance to play them, so that gives you all of a sudden rhythmic beeps instead of that huge soundcloud. No idea how to do that on the Liven though, I use the Tasty Chips GR-1 which is like 4x the price 😢

[@dinogoldie9716]

I'm still figuring out Granular in general and the Texture Lab in particular. Nevertheless, here's how (I think) you achieve the blippy sound you're after on it: 1) Row1, knob 1. set both shifted and unshifted to low (to reduce grain size and sharpen the edges of those grains). 2) row 1, knob 2: turn to one of the triplet sync rates then shift+r1k2 to set the amount of "jitter" (rhythmic offset). 3) set density and diffusion (stereo spread) to taste (row1, knobs 3 and 4) This should produce the original sample plus blippy bleepy grains.

[@taosophymusic]

I'm sold! Awesome demo!!

[@Rookieathome]

Nice Vid, Jack. And very cool little instrument

[@returnofthegoth2220]

This was a fantastic demo, really showing off the basics of what this unit can do. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@michaelherndon9573]

This was very helpful

[@specialk1287]

I have the microgranny and micro freak. And I guess those do granular synthesis? Have any opinions on those?

[@kensen9546]

Is it possible to resample a patch? is it possible to assign an lfo on parameters or an automation of modulation ? thanks for this video very clever sample choice :)

[@DefconUnicorn]

What happend to the line in at @2:50

[@henrytheworst]

Please show how to use this thing as a sampler without an OP1 or some other gadget - there are exactly zero videos showing how to do it.

[@TheIllynow]

Line in, dude? Same way he does

[@mattcero1]

Does this have a USB port?

[@thepglenn]

Nice

[@rayquazapasta6272]

Nice, reminds me of bon Iver

[@gianfrancobianchi1835]

The Chipmunks😁

[@dallas-cole]

Moist

[@Rookieathome]

Nice Vid, Jack. And very cool little instrument

[@annother3350]

Shame about that 4-digit screen.

[@dinogoldie9716]

Why? How many characters does the display on a violin have?

[@annother3350]

@@dinogoldie9716 How many sub-menus does your violin have?

[@dinogoldie9716]

​@@annother3350 The Texture Lab doesn't have "sub menus" either.

[@annother3350]

@@dinogoldie9716 You wont win me over -- 4-digit screens suck in an age where good quality small screens are dirt cheap. They can't even display all letters of the alphabet well!!!

[@dinogoldie9716]

​@@annother3350 Neither can a trumpet. The old skool LED clock display is sufficient to indicate vital information such as tempo or knob value. The knobs/buttons themselves are clearly labelled as to their two roles/variables.