SONICWARE Liven Bass&Beats Tutorial Part 1: Quick start, Drum Programming, Kit Editing

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Intro Bass & Beats pattern by Eliana D'Angelo Music
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This video is intended to supplement the PDF manual that you can find on the Sonicware website:
https://sonicware.jp/pages/download

A work in progress accessibility document can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dv9o1y...

This is part one of the Bass&Beats tutorial giving a quick start guide and covering drums in detail. Part 2 is available to watch here:    • SONICWARE Liven Bass&Beats Tutorial Part 2...  

I'll also be adding an accessibility guide video here too once part 2 of the main tutorial is complete

00:00 Intro

00:52 Overview of the Liven XFM
A description of the physical construction and connectors

02:35 Getting Started
Powering up the device
Playing patterns
Shift and func buttons, muting the speaker
Pattern level, shift lock function
Volume, tempo
Headphone gain
Pattern, bank and step buttons to load patterns, pattern chaining
Mixer knobs
Bass and drum tracks
Pattern page buttons
Drum mute function
Random playback mode
A quick look at bass track

9:42 What's in a Pattern
A description of what is saved in a pattern
Saving a pattern

10:48 Programming Drums - Pad Mode
How to use drum pad mode
Loading and previewing a drum kit
Metronome, Pre-count
Real-time recording
Velocity
Step buttons
Auto step
Deleting steps in pad mode

16:22 Programming Drums - Select Mode
How to use drum select mode
Entering rhythms per step
Clearing the drum track
Drum pattern settings, sequence length, note value, swing
Pattern page buttons
Stutter playback mode (only in Select mode)
Previewing sounds in select mode
Velocity
Deleting steps in select mode

22:12 Edit knobs in drum mode
Changing levels
Changing time setting for drum length
Changing the pitch

24:14 Using parameter lock automation
Entering automation per step
Real-time recording automation
Clearing parameters lock
Making melodies within the drum track

26:54 Using effects
Turning on FX
Selecting FX type
FX send level
FX amount knob (FX parameter)

28:37 Misc settings
Copying and pasting tracks or notes
Undo and Redo
Clock settings
Midi channels
Midi settings
Data menu, naming a pattern, pattern export
System menu, knob latch, global/pattern BPM, pattern chain looping, mono line-in, split mode, tuning, battery type, auto power off.

33:06 Drum kit editing mode using the overlay
Entering kit edit mode
Choosing a kit to edit
Global EQ
Pattern preview playback
Cancelling a edit to a kit
Selecting a sound to edit, picking a category, picking a new sample
Per drum settings: tuning, time, slope, FX send, pan, level, reverse
Hat-link
Kit level
Velocity preview
Mute function
Initialize, kit export, copy kit
Preview FX, total FX level, FX enable/disable, FX type, FX amount (FX parameter)
Adding melodic sounds to kits
Saving a kit, entering name and exiting

40:36 Outro

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