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

[@NoMusicTheory]

finally someone made music and not just drones. I cant wait to make some ambient synth tunes on mine.

[@SonicCartography]

To be honest, I started making songs on this just because those are more familiar and easier to do for me. I am still figuring out how to make more traditional ambient music that I like

[@ShakyG]

Awesome work!

[@akamikeb]

Masterful work. I was curious if this device was capable of doing exactly this, but no one else was using it as such. Thank you for demonstrating 🙏🏽

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you! And yeah, it's a more versatile synth than I thought it might be before I got it

[@chuckstephens254]

I was on the fence with this until I saw this video. I like ambient elements but I also like actual song elements. That last track had that in spades. Great vid!

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you!

[@ChrisLodyMusic]

Excellent work, nice to see the Ambient 0 flexing some muscle and doing something a bit different to the presets 😁

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you, sir! Although I should try to make some actual ambient music on this thing lol…

[@synthebo]

Impressive. The best I've heard with this synthesizer. Congratulations!! 👏👏👏

[@SonicCartography]

Oh wow, thank you so much for saying that!

[@midiwhale]

WHOA FANTASTIC demo, showing the versatility of the Liven Ambient to do Dystopian Punk! Naturally the guy who intellectualised making ambient on the Liven granular, shows us how to use the Liven Ambient as a performance cinematic synth and punk beat machine. Imagine if it allowed sample importing... Well Done!

[@SonicCartography]

Oh wow, thank you! I appreciate the nice words! And by the way, you can import samples of up to 8 seconds to the noise layer, via the line in or MIDI SysEx

[@ammodrammus]

I love the combination of sequenced and live playing! So good!

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you! I feel way, way less confident playing keys live than string instruments, so that’s nice to hear!

[@Metamerist625]

Oh and I LOVED the little scenes you wrote, I hope one day you can pair up with an animator and make them come to life. You have some neat ideas and they fit the mood of the music so well.

[@SonicCartography]

Thanks a lot for letting me know that! I didn't feel sure anyone would like those either, so that's also nice to here! And yeah, that would be great! Eventually I'd like to learn how to use Blender so I can at least do some sort of 3D animations. Ben Levin has a course on it for musicians that looks pretty cool: benlevinmusicschool.com/p/blender-for-musicians

[@symeonwebb]

Really good. Very inspirig. I havnt even got close to this. Awesome work! Weldone!

[@SonicCartography]

@@symeonwebb thank you kindly! Just keep going with it!

[@CJM333]

Good stuff brotha as a Synth player myself I enjoyed it

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you, it's nice to hear that!

[@jaixiviii]

Been following a lot of these cause I’m looking to get one. This is far out the best demonstration. Thank you! ❤

[@SonicCartography]

Oh wow, thanks for the nice comment!

[@dreamdealer]

great video, love the music and images. I just got my Ambient 0 and I feel it can do much much more than just ambient, it is a deep machine with many exploratory possibilities.

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you! And yes, it's more versatile than I thought it might be!

[@Footbags]

Rad! Great concept and use of this machine

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you!

[@techlab7]

Wow, very nicely done.

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you!

[@SurfaceDweller]

Wonderful!

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you!

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

You are talented! Beautiful music.

[@SonicCartography]

Aw thank you! I appreciate you saying that!

[@kafkawilde4604]

super sounds-if it makes chrislodymusic smile then we shall all die happy

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you!

[@wholeheartedsongs]

Damn you took that device far. Nice

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you!

[@dinogoldie9716]

Nice work. Please keep em coming. I'm having a lot more fun sound designing than sequencing on the Ambient 0. Not sure why it is but while the sounds I create are quite diverse, the patterns I end up making kinda all sound the same. Early days though.

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you! Not sure what kind of music you've been making, so this may or may not be relevant, but I think it's hard (not impossible, but hard) to avoid having soundscapes sound kind of samey after a while. I guess that's why I started gravitating toward creating more structured, melodic songs, since that makes it easier to make them sound different. But I'd like to take another crack at making more traditional soundscapes now that I've started to get my head around this synth.

[@ShamazMusic]

Nice drop out to the solo! Living what your doing with the 0

[@SonicCartography]

@@ShamazMusic thank you!

[@enochroot9438]

superb work

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you!

[@TheScreamingFrog916]

So! This was an impressive display of how good this synth can sound, in the right hands ❤

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you, that is very nice to hear, especially coming from a fellow frog! (On Instagram, I'm WeirdFrogMusic, Weird Frog being my one man band name.)

[@njm8443]

really nice!

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you!

[@davidbock201]

Found myself in the desert with this opening... Awesome with headphones for sure!

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you! And yeah, the first two songs especially sound a lot better with headphones

[@DylanFerno]

amazing work start to finish 👏

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you! Would love to hear what you come with on this thing if/when you get it! Always dug your XFM stuff

[@DylanFerno]

@SonicCartography That means a lot thank you!

[@Curious_Skeptic]

Wish this was in stock! Guess i will pre-order. I HATE pre-ordering anything. :( This is truly a wonderful little beast though. Exactly what I've always sought after and never could find. SIMPLE, relaxing music interaction. I see videos like this and kick myself in the butt for wasting thousands and thousands and thousands over 30 years always chasing some dream of the most creative setup. Turns out, it's going to end up being little $200 synth units. LOL. Now what to do with all this MPC gear and synths. I guess box them up and maybe they will be worth something after I'm dead.

[@SonicCartography]

I'm sure there's plenty stuff you can do with the other gear that you can't do with this thing!

[@brentparker9681]

These scenes and music fit perfectly for rimworld.

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you - I was unfamiliar with that, but it looks like a cool game!

[@edwardaverilliii1658]

Beautiful - two of those would replace my DAW.. where's my paycheck? :-)

[@SonicCartography]

Haha, thank you-hardware synths are a money hole, and DAWs are incredibly powerful. I used to make all of my music on them until I got too tired of being on the computer because of work, but I'd be in a lot better off financially if that hadn't happened...

[@MisterMunkki]

Cool stuff 👍

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you!

[@keithjones6659]

Nice work…

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you!

[@ondraJams]

Bravo 👏

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you!

[@SonicCartography]

Also, nice modular setup! Check out this guy's channel, anyone reading this!

[@CarlFranke]

Beautiful work! Nice to see poetic narrative combined with the sounds. Have you or anyone here ever synced Ambient 0 with a Liven Lofi 12 or anything else with drums. I like Boards Of Canada style music simple beat holds it together.

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you! Glad to see someone like/comment on the narrative aspect of it! I haven't tried that much yet, and I don't know about others trying it with the Lofi 12 or making specifically Boards of Canada-style music with this synth, but this person paired it with an OP-1 playing a rhythmic part (but in a more skittering sort of style): kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmLapaGfdsiAarM. And there's also this one with the Teenage Engineering medieval thingy: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2abfXWabs2epaM Definitely something I'd like to explore more going forward!

[@CarlFranke]

@@SonicCartography thanks for the links!

[@Stellar_Soundscape]

Finally! Liven Ambient video that we’ve been waiting for! Thank you for this! So inspiring ❤ I really like song 11, is it using glide? Are those sounds samples using factory presets?

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you! Glad to hear that! Yes, the melody line on song 11 makes heavy use of glide, in legato mode. All of the noise layer sounds are factory ones except the radio-like noise in song 8, which I made with atmos 2 on the Ambient, recorded onto something else, and then sampled back onto the Ambient.

[@Stellar_Soundscape]

@@SonicCartography whoaaaa really nice! Would that noise also in the tutorial on next video? 😍😍😍 I’m excited I’m sure we’re all here

[@SonicCartography]

@@Stellar_Soundscape I don't have anything planned in detail yet, but yeah, I could try to cover that!

[@catunah]

Ursula Le Guin likes this and me too

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you! 😊

[@dinogoldie9716]

11:01 How'd you achieve that Radio-tuning bleepy sound? was it a sample or the Atmos2 structure and all the LFOs?

[@SonicCartography]

@@dinogoldie9716 both! I recorded Atmos 2 with a bunch of LFOs/modulation on it, sampled it as a noise layer, and then put some more modulation on that.

[@luismp8548]

so I need a Sonicware Ambient Ø....

[@SonicCartography]

Eh, depends on what you want to do and already have! I talked about doing a video on trying to replicate some aspects of the Ambient Ø on other gear, and I still want to do that at some point

[@blueberry2a]

Very impressive👌 Did you import your own samples into the gear😐👍

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you! All of the samples are the factory presets except the one that sounds like a radio on track 8, which is just a sound I generated using Atmos2 on the Ambient and then recorded as a sample for the noise layer. If some of the other noises don't sound familiar, it's because there's a lot of modulation and/or sequencing applied to them on the Ambient!

[@blueberry2a]

@@SonicCartography just incredible. Hope you can give us some tuto on that gear.

[@SonicCartography]

@@blueberry2a I will be making some!

[@blueberry2a]

I bought it to get easy ambiance on background with my other gear. But I didn’t expect the way you use and play with it ❤

[@SonicCartography]

@@blueberry2a It definitely lends itself to that kind of use, and I'd like to try using it more that way in the future!

[@Metamerist625]

Nice collection, I particularly liked "Groundskeeping" very John Carpenter esque

[@SonicCartography]

Thank you! That song is much darker/creepier than the music I usually make, and I didn't feel sure about it, so I'm glad to hear that!