How to Make Generative Music on the Sonicware Texture Lab

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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A link to my video on making pad, drone, etc. sounds on the Texture Lab:    • How to Make Ambient Drones, Pads, Textures...  

A link to the pattern I mention in the video (128 empty steps with probabilities mapped onto all of them) — https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4rrgru... — 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 SONICWARE Liven Series  . 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: https://www.sonicware.co.jp/DL/LIVEN_...

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