How to Make Generative Music on the Sonicware Texture Lab
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- On one level, this is a tutorial on two techniques for making generative music on the Sonicware Texture Lab, covering both slower, more ambient music and faster, more melodic music. On another level, this is sort of a video essay on the nature of certain aspects of music in general and approaching the making of those aspects of music in a logical, analytical, procedural way. Or something like that...
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Support me and my channel: www.buymeacoff...
A link to my video on making pad, drone, etc. sounds on the Texture Lab: • How to Make Ambient Dr...
A link to the pattern I mention in the video (128 empty steps with probabilities mapped onto all of them) - www.dropbox.co... - but please note that I do not know if it exported correctly and works properly. My USB-MIDI interface is working badly and I can't get it to successfully export anything to my Texture Lab now (even things I know worked in the past), so I can't test it myself. If anyone tries it out, please let me know if it works or doesn't work for you - I'd appreciate it! And if it doesn't work, I'll see if I can fix it. (I might end just getting a new interface.) I'll update this text if any news comes in.
Alternatively, you can just build the pattern yourself in the way I describe in the video, and although it's tedious, you can try to do what I did and view it as some sort of Zen mediative exercise 😂
A link to @ChrisLodyMusic's video on sending data to Sonicware Livens: • How to Update the SONI... . The video is focused on firmware updates, but the same basic procedure applies to importing samples and patterns. I'd also recommend referring to the manual. It has a whole section on importing and exporting samples and patterns: www.sonicware....
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Thanks. Love your videos! Best source for learning the Sonicware Texture Lab for sure🙏
I'm glad you like them! Thank you for the kind words
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@@torma1985 thank you!
Thank you. Really helpful ideas
Thanks for watching! Glad to hear you found them helpful!
This is very cool, thank you
Thank you for watching!
Dude you rock the new year🎉
Thank you! Happy new year!
Great video! Thanks for posting
Thanks for watching and leaving a nice comment!
I think you've just sold me a Sonicware Texture with this one!😮
It seems fun isn't it?!
Subscribed for more! 👍
Not knowing your current financial situation or GAS status, I don't know whether to say "you're welcome" or "I'm sorry" to that, but I'm glad it was persuasive! Anyway, thanks for the sub! I'll be doing more, but in the meantime, there's already a pretty extensive tutorial playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PL_PpW7ZS8KCI-QSj_AFR5DBRhy5G2S7-u.html
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Are you saying you wouldn't recommend it?
I’d recommend it; I was just making a bad joke about how gear demo and tutorial videos can exacerbate GAS-something I’ve been on the other side of many times…
Just a wonderful tutorial.
Thank you for doing this.
Question for you does this apply to the other SonicWare Liven devices if it does you need to retitle the video to reach a larger audience.
Once again thank you so much and looking forward to more of your tutorials in the new year.
Thank you for watching leaving your comment and suggestion! To answer your question, the only other Liven I have is the 8bit Warps, so that's the only one I have direct knowledge of. My understanding of the others is just based on things I've seen in videos. Anyway, that being said, here's a rundown of what I know and don't know...
The Warps doesn't have per-step probability, but it does have the other randomization features of the Texture Lab, so a lot, but not all, of the video is applicable to it. The XFM does have the same features (and I vaguely remember maybe an additional one that's relevant here - something about being able to randomly pick one out of multiple notes recorded to a step), and then it also has multiple tracks that would open up a lot of other possibilities with composition. It looks like the upcoming Mega has the same features as well. And then I don't know anything about the randomization or probability of the other Livens, which I'm not as familiar with, even second-hand.
But yeah, it's an ongoing dilemma for me about whether to make the videos themselves and/or the descriptions of them Texture Lab-focused or explicitly broader in scope/application.
I’m really really thinking of biting the bullet and getting one. I have the ambient 0 but I might replace it. 🤔
Is there something you're not liking about the Ambient 0?
Put in the arpeggiator Wagner's Tristan chord 🙂
I'll give it a try
Hey man you make great texture lab content! I have a question… I just got my hands on a texture lab and a Roland j-6 chord synth and I love it! I would like to know how to sync my op-1 field to the lab and the Roland j-6….any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Thank you! Funnily enough, I have an original OP-1, a Roland E-4 (the Aira for vocals), and obviously the Texture Lab, so I should be a good person to ask, but I've actually never connected all of them. For connecting the E-4 (and I assume any Aira, including the J-6) with the Lab... well, it depends on what you mean by sync. Just BPM sync? Then just a normal TRS cable from the sync in and out ports on the two devices, and then you'd have to fiddle around with the clock settings a bit. For the OP-1, I guess you'd need a TRS to USB cable, although I'm not sure, as I've never done it and don't have one.
But if you mean fully connect them via MIDI (so you can use the J-6 to produce chords on the other two, for example), then for the E-4 (and I assume the J-6), you need the Boss MIDI/TRS cable (this guy: www.boss.info/mx/products/bmidi-5-35/). You could use that to connect the Roland to the Lab, and then I guess a MIDI/USB chord from the Lab to the OP-1 (again, I don't have one and have done this, unfortunately, so I can't say for sure). Hope that helps. If you have more questions, feel free to ask.
Thank you for the reply! what im trying to do is use the op-1 field as the master clock to control the lab and then the lab controls the Roland j-6 I do think I have the right TRS cables im just totally confused on how to set everything up so they go in sync using the TRS sync in/ sync out method. Its driving me nuts trying to figure this out LOL!@@SonicCartography
@@opusunum I just messed around with my original OP-1 a little and got it to clock sync with the Lab using a normal TRS to TRS cable going from the line out of the OP-1 to either the line in or sync in ports on the Lab. On the OP-1, I set the MIDI out to PO sync by pressing the metronome button and then turning the green knob (the one second-to-the-left - I have no idea if any of this is still the same on the Field), and then setting the Lab's MIDI source to sync in or line in (depending on which one I was doing) by going function + CLOCK (the middle G key) -> SRC and then turning the value knob to select the right option.
That's great! Are you getting audio out from both devices? I'm going to try this when I get home. I'll keep you posted. Thanks man!@@SonicCartography
@@opusunum No problem. I was getting audio out from both of them via the Lab's line out. It did make the headphone jack unusable, though, because that one was giving me the audio on one side/channel and the MIDI clock click on the other. Anyway, the obvious downside of this is that it makes it so you can't route the OP-1 sound separately, if that's what you want do (in which I'd be really surprised if there isn't a way of doing this via the OP-1's USB). Anyway, let me know if it works on the Field.
interesting
Thank you!
Is that you Zev??? 😮 From the hand gestures to the speech pauses and voice inflections, you almost got your imitation of *_Loopop_* down completely perfect. Plagiarism much? Or just laughable mockery? 😂
It's just the way I talk 🤷♂
Sounds nothing like Loopop, and the demo style is like thousands on YT.