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Thank you! I think it's a good choice of first synth! Is there a specific aspect of the MIDI you're wondering about? What are you wanting to do with it? (I'm asking because MIDI encompasses a very wide range of things!)

@SonicCartography I was thinking of pairing it with the arturia keystep yet don't know if I should buy it to use as a midi controller for the liven 8bit and other gear I may use to add.

@@user-fk5nb4vo7j ah, I see. I'll see if I can make a video on things like that at some point. I have a Keystep myself (the most basic model). To be honest, I've only used it with the Warps and other Sonicware Livens a couple of times. The Keystep seems more useful if you have a synth without a sequencer or arpeggiator, but the Livens have both already. I guess the main advantage is just having a more "proper" keyboard to play on, if that's important to you (personally it's not to me)-that and having a chord mode, which the Livens don't have.

@@SonicCartography ah ok thanks👍

Thank you! 🙂

Good question! I don't know why they aren't showing for this video. I'm going to look into it. Thanks for letting me know, and thanks for the support!

Well, I changed some setting that seems to have added automatically generated captions to at least a couple of videos that didn't have them, but there's still one that doesn't have it, which I don't seem to be able to do anything about. Apparently the system just gives up on trying to transcribe some videos for a variety of factors, like audio quality, background noise, etc.

Thank you!

Thanks! Do you mean coud I share a .syx file of the drum loop I used in the video?

@@SonicCartography yes

I'm hoping to put out a video in a few days on how to import presets and samples, and I'll try to include that one with some files I share with it!

@@SonicCartography GREAT!

@ Top!

I wouldn't say the reverbs on the SmplTrek are on the same level as a standalone, premium reverb pedal like those. They're more utilitarian, comparable to the more basic reverbs on something like the Zoom Multistomp, I'd say.

@@SonicCartography Thank you for your reply :) !

@@Mahenounet you're welcome!

Yeah, the screen is small. Nintendo used to make a big magnifying glass accessory for the Game Boy. Somebody should make one for the SmplTrek.

You’re welcome and thanks for watching them! This answer always feels like a cop-out, but it feels unavoidable in this case: it depends… Specifically, it depends on how much and how often and in how many layers you’re wanting to switch things up manually (I mean through live playing of the keys). The more you do, the harder it becomes to accomplish, because the more you have to switch back and forth between layers to do it. Conversely, the less you do, the more doable it becomes, thanks to the hold function and arpeggiator (which can be combined with the hold function). I may cover some aspects of this in one of the upcoming videos I’m planning for my channel.

@@SonicCartography Thank you so much for your reply and your work in general <3

Thank you-I hope it helped!

Thank you-I was pretty surprised by how many places the sample ended up myself! And yes, it was very beautiful-one of my favorite trips of the recent past!

Unfortunately, to regain the samples, you will need to import them from your computer via sysx files, which can be downloaded from here: sonicware.jp/pages/downloads

@@SonicCartography Unfortunately there is no sysex file for the texturelab on that page. Any suggestion?

Can you export them and send the sisex file to me. I can pay.

​@@SonicCartography Please consider that I need to restore the factory sounds from bank 2 to 8 not the factory samples. Is there a sysex file? How should I proceed? Thanks in advance. If you need a payment for your help let me know....

Sorry, I’m not sure I understand… To make sure we are on the same page: There are 32 sample slots, accessed via the SRC knob on the far left. Then there are the patterns, accessed via the PTN button and value knob. You save samples to the sample slots, not the patterns, and the two things and their respective memories are independent of each other. The patterns are just sequences of notes and/or parameter data. They aren’t sounds per se; they are things you do *with* the sounds, which come from the sample slots. One of the pieces of parameter data in a given pattern is the sample slot it uses. Pattern X could be set to sample slot 1, for example. However, if you replace sample 1 with another sample, the pattern will now apply all its parameter and note data to that new sample and use it as its sound, since all it “knows” is that it’s using sample slot 1, whatever that happens to be. The underlying sound isn’t saved in the pattern; it’s saved in the sample slot. And so if the sound has changed, it sounds like you’ve replaced the samples, not the patterns, unless I’m completely misunderstanding you, in which case I apologize and need more clarification.

Thank you! That's a nice image! There is something very visual to this kind of music. Sometimes I wish I could draw accompanying images, but I don't have visual art skills...

@@SonicCartography But you've got musical talent. That's great.

@@davidneau8830 Thank you! I suppose I should be grateful for what I've got!

@@SonicCartography I think you work a lot to play music. Be gretaful to your will and your work. Thanks for all that you share with us.:^)

@@davidneau8830 Thank you for the nice words!

Thank you for the kind words! Yes, I wrote them. I've always had two main things I want to accomplish someday in life: write a book and record an album. Year after year goes by, and I don't do either, but this thing felt like the biggest step I've been able to take in that direction, so I appreciate you saying that! As for not feeling able to accomplish something similar, just make stuff and keep at it-I didn't really know anything about synths until a couple of year ago!

Thank you-I can see the winter scene as well!

You can mess with sound samples via the two LFOs and modulator on the noise layer of the Ambient, and I'm sure there are sorts of weird things you can do with them (I haven't tried that much stuff outside the box with it yet), but a lot of the stuff in this video is Texture Lab/granular-specific. Re: electric guitar pedal, sorry, I'm not sure I understand-are you asking if you can use the Ambient as a guitar pedal?

@ - Thanks; I meant to use the Ambient as an electric guitar effects box, like the pedal distortions produce 😊

@@gilessmedley619 Yes, you can plug a guitar into the Ambient via the line-in and apply the reverb, shimmer, and/or master effect (all three at once or any combination of the three). However, none of the other parameters apply to the line-in sound, so the possibilities are more limited than they are with the Texture Lab. I may include a demo of this in an upcoming video I'm going to do on channel about using effects with the Ambient.

@@SonicCartography - Thanks so much for the guitar information and I look forward to the video 😊🎸

Thank you-and yes, I really love the way the piano sounds on the Texture Lab!

Thank you for stopping by and leaving the nice words!

Anything with a line out you can plug into the Texture Lab's line in. I haven't done it with a real amp, but I've done it with an amp sim pedal and various other pedals.

Thanks for watching! And yes, this is one of my favorite things to do with the Texture Lab, especially with acoustic instrument samples, like the piano that I used in another part of this series.

Oh, I thought it was out already!

@SonicCartography not around my area it's not

@@Matthew-pq3us Hmm, I have one, I've had it for a few months. I ordered it from them directly.

That is an artisanal, hand-crafted, heirloom desk made of 100% genuine laminated particle-board, procured from a boutique local furniture store called Amazon.

@@SonicCartography Hahaha well that explains it.

Thank you!

You're welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful!

I do like having the screen and the velocity sensitive pads on the SmplTrk, though!

Thanks for the nice words! 😊

Nice!

Thank you! Maybe I’ll do that one of these days!

@@SonicCartography pleaseeee

Thank you-that’s nice to hear! I hope you’re able to use it soon!

Same here. Got mine a couple days ago, watching the tutorials. The pieces on this video, very inspirational! Thank you!

Thank you, rats! I really appreciate you saying that!

Yes, I just recorded it directly to an audio recorder and didn’t do anything in post. Almost all of the songs make use of both the internal reverb and master FX (mostly delay). The underlying samples on the noise layer are all factory presets.

Thank you and great work!

@@spielor0815 Thank you!

Hope you’re able to use it soon!

Thank you! I have done a few videos for their channel on a freelance basis: youtube.com/@SONICWARE/search?query=Daniel%20rose

Thank you-that’s nice to hear!

Thank you for taking the time to listen!

Thank you so much! And nice, I have to try doing that more (playing guitar alongside the Ambient)

Yes, I remember being pretty surprised by it as well! It felt like a whole universe had opened up from the initial sample!

Thank you for watching, as always! And yes, it is a useful trick!

Thank you! 😊

They're hard to compare because other than lending themselves to ambient being Livens, they're very different-the Texture Lab being a monotimbral granular sampler/synth with one sequencer track that you'd usually want to use in conjunction with other gear and the other being a multitimbral synth with four sequencer tracks that you can use as a standalone groove box.

@ yeah I have most the other ones but these 2 based off this response I’d probably go for the ambient 0 myself ty

It's probably the safer and more broadly useful pick-the Texture Lab is more niche!

I feel like the Texture lab is aimed to be more of an Effects unit as well. But I'm sure the ambient 0 does great at that too, especially if you can add the shimmer reverb to external sources

@ I love a shimmer is on this one ☝️

Thank you!

Hope you enjoy it!