SONICWARE Liven Bass&Beats Tutorial Part 2: Bass Programming, Patch Creation, Wavetable Import 

Thanks Matt, glad you like it 😁

Oh nice one. Happy new year to you too 🥳

No worries Sadly no you can add your own drum samples. This was Sonicware's first steps towards a sample based Liven but they crammed too much in I think to allow user samples for the drums. Yes the synth is monophonic. There is no way to play chords but you can program sounds that use the assignable knobs to alter the pitch of one of the oscillators which I used in one of the presets

I'm not sure to be honest, I've never used an MC909 but from reading the spec they are very different machines with the 909 using samples and being able to play polyphonically, then the Bass & Beats using wavetables and playing monophonically. It's difficult to compare them

Sonicware made a couple of videos showing the preset patterns and a quick demo of the workflow. They are here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9Yd4U3XaMV0.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X0amvFsCzko.html

Yeah that's one of my patterns too 😄

Keep an eye out for my ELZ_1 play quick start video that will be uploaded on Wednesday, that has a super oscillator section and a unison function that will do exactly what you need. It's a multi engine synth with a looper. You might also enjoy the XFM, it's pretty deep so is capable of lots of different things. There is a super saw example in this video I made ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9AFJE0L1nDs.htmlsi=MbrR0xXqBxCka7Yf

Another option is the Lofi-12 which is a sampler but I made some synth sample banks for it including a detuned saw ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mz40jgBzahg.htmlsi=iIxGefS9AM25vs3c

They are still on the list yes. So sorry it's been such a long time but I've had a massive amount of work to do over the last few months that I've not had much time for making videos

Yeah that's a great feature. The dubstep style pattern Bruh uses it loads. Great for making really complex patterns. The XFM can do that too on all 4 tracks

Yeah there's some real power in these boxes. I've not had a lot of time to make tutorials recently but I'll get something made about the Bass&Beats eventually, promise

@@ChrisLodyMusic thanx Chris.. Im back to school with this one comming from the Roland workflow. Bass&Beatz will sound great with the MV-1.. 🤙

Only by hand and then only by cycling through them. That would have been pretty cool as a modulation target thinking about it

@@ChrisLodyMusic a little update!

Well I imagine there is a reason it hasn't been done. Switching engine interrupts the sound so it probably isn't possible to do it seamlessly

Glad to help. There's a lot to learn on the Bass&Beats so I hope you have fun 😁

@@ChrisLodyMusicSo you were able to have multiple Bass tracks with different settings? That part wasn’t clear.

@@Myexpectationsarerealistic Not multiple bass parts simultaneously, it's one monophonic bass track per pattern. The settings for the tracks are saved in the pattern

@@ChrisLodyMusic Thanks, that’s unfortunate. I really like their stuff though.

Awesome 😁

@@ChrisLodyMusic you should build à sampler one in the same format with à Huge place of samples! that will be à great combo ! 🤩

Yes hopefully Sonicware will do that 😁

@@ChrisLodyMusic will be so cool!