I'm both excited—and kind of scared—to announce the launch of my new 'In-Depth Guide to the Sonicware Liven Evoke' series.
Why scared?
Because I'm launching it in conjunction with a brand new Patreon, where members can get early access to the next videos in the series and also bonus goodies like presets for the Evoke and other Livens (more info in the video description). This is the first time I've tried to do something like this, and I feel nervous about it, to say the least.
Why am I doing it?
Because I want to make the channel more sustainable for myself and get back to doing videos more often. I don't know how it seems from the outside, but synth tutorial videos take a huge amount of time to complete, between mastering the synth, reading through the manual, scripting out an idea, filming it, and then editing a bazillion takes into something that feels (hopefully) like one more or less seamless and coherent video.
I know that's true for me—and I know it's true for other synth education YouTubers as well. I reached out to some of the biggest channels, as well as some smaller ones—including some people I know anyone who watches my synth videos are familiar with—and they told me it can take them anywhere from 1-2 weeks to an entire month to make just a single 30 to 60 minute tutorial, from start to finish.
It's a lot of work—but it's also something I really enjoy doing and want to be able to continue doing (hopefully more often and better). I remember when I was just starting out with synthesizers and feeling really lost watching tutorials full of unexplained technical jargon and assumptions about what was obvious and went without saying. I started my channel to try to provide an alternative to that. I really want to help people to get into synths and making music—a quintessentially human* thing to do that I think should be accessible to everyone.
(*No disrespect to birds, whales, etc.—I appreciate their musical abilities too and don't mean to say music is something only we do! In fact, I think I think that's another nice thing about music; it's something we share in common with many living beings and is part of what makes us alive.)
Anyway, I also just feel kind of weird doing this because I'm not very commercially minded, to put it mildly, so I felt like I should explain where I'm coming from. Please let me know if you have any questions or thoughts (if anyone even sees this; my posts don't seem to have much visibility anymore). And for anyone who chooses to support the channel, please know that your support is deeply, genuinely appreciated and that I hope to repay it with my future videos, presets, and whatever else comes of this.
1. Four of my presets are part of the new firmware update for the Sonicware Liven Ambient Ø and available for download via the new Sonicware preset transfer app as well (listed under my name, Daniel).
2. I made a tutorial for Sonicware on the firmware update.
3. I just released a new video of me using the Ambient Ø as a live multi-effects processor, with the help of some of the new firmware features.
My new beginner's guide to sound design on the Ambient Ø has been released over on the @SONICWARE channel! I'm especially excited about this entry in the series I'm doing for them because I tried to make it the video I wish someone had made for me back when I first started learning about this stuff (not just sound design on the Ambient Ø, but synthesis in general) and felt mystified by a lot of things. I'd try to look up explanations of them, but they tended to be full of unexplained jargon or assume a level of knowledge I didn't yet have, or they were too abstract and didn't draw connections to practical applications of the concepts. This was my attempt to avoid all that.
Anyway, because of making videos for Sonicware and having some health issues, I haven't had the time or energy to put out another video on my own channel in a while, but I hope to get back to it soon.
My channel finally reached 1,000 subscribers! That means I can now start earning some of the ad revenue from it. And that means I am on my way to earning potentially… tens of euros per month from it, lol.
Anyway, I’m not sure anyone even still sees my posts anymore, and I’m not sure what the future of the channel is, since not many people are viewing the new videos and I don’t know what to do with it post-Texture Lab videos, but still, it’s nice to have reached the milestone and I want to say thanks for the support!
For anyone interested in the micro-looping stuff I covered in my last video, here's me combining some micro-looping with... uh, macro-looping, let's call it?... over on my other channel!
Sonic Cartography will be back soon, but in the meantime, please check out my new channel for my new music project / one-man band, Weird Frog, over at @WeirdFrogMusic. Any engagement would be super supportive of and appreciated by me as I try to get the new channel off the ground! I'm also on Instagram now with the same handle (WeirdFrogMusic). Here is my first video on YouTube.I also posted a video featuring the SmplTrek on the Instagram page: www.instagram.com/reel/C7hWE-rtx4-/
This is the first in a possible longer-term series of videos that I'm thinking about making on "applied practical music theory," where I take some music theory concepts and teach them kind of indirectly through a (hopefully) fun, interesting, and practical thing you can actually do with those concepts to make some music right away. I would love it if any of you who follow my channel let me know what you think about this idea (either here or in the video comments, which would be maybe better for visibility), as I'm currently mulling over different directions I could take the channel now that I think it's time I start moving beyond mostly just doing Texture Lab videos....
🥳 My channel got upgraded to YouTube partner status today 🥳! Once I get to 1,000 subscribers (currently at 711) and 4,000 watch hours (currently at 3,017), I'll be able to start earning some of the ad revenue that YouTube makes from my videos. This current status upgrade doesn't really change much for me, besides giving people the ability to give me "super likes"/"thanks" (i.e., money), which I don't expect to get, but still, it feels like a nice milestone for a channel I started a little over half a year ago, and I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has supported the channel so far! So, thank you everyone!
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I'm both excited—and kind of scared—to announce the launch of my new 'In-Depth Guide to the Sonicware Liven Evoke' series.
Why scared?
Because I'm launching it in conjunction with a brand new Patreon, where members can get early access to the next videos in the series and also bonus goodies like presets for the Evoke and other Livens (more info in the video description). This is the first time I've tried to do something like this, and I feel nervous about it, to say the least.
Why am I doing it?
Because I want to make the channel more sustainable for myself and get back to doing videos more often. I don't know how it seems from the outside, but synth tutorial videos take a huge amount of time to complete, between mastering the synth, reading through the manual, scripting out an idea, filming it, and then editing a bazillion takes into something that feels (hopefully) like one more or less seamless and coherent video.
I know that's true for me—and I know it's true for other synth education YouTubers as well. I reached out to some of the biggest channels, as well as some smaller ones—including some people I know anyone who watches my synth videos are familiar with—and they told me it can take them anywhere from 1-2 weeks to an entire month to make just a single 30 to 60 minute tutorial, from start to finish.
It's a lot of work—but it's also something I really enjoy doing and want to be able to continue doing (hopefully more often and better). I remember when I was just starting out with synthesizers and feeling really lost watching tutorials full of unexplained technical jargon and assumptions about what was obvious and went without saying. I started my channel to try to provide an alternative to that. I really want to help people to get into synths and making music—a quintessentially human* thing to do that I think should be accessible to everyone.
(*No disrespect to birds, whales, etc.—I appreciate their musical abilities too and don't mean to say music is something only we do! In fact, I think I think that's another nice thing about music; it's something we share in common with many living beings and is part of what makes us alive.)
Anyway, I also just feel kind of weird doing this because I'm not very commercially minded, to put it mildly, so I felt like I should explain where I'm coming from. Please let me know if you have any questions or thoughts (if anyone even sees this; my posts don't seem to have much visibility anymore). And for anyone who chooses to support the channel, please know that your support is deeply, genuinely appreciated and that I hope to repay it with my future videos, presets, and whatever else comes of this.
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I got to contribute some preset patterns/songs to the new @SONICWARELiven Evoke! Here is a performance of two of them!
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Three announcements!
1. Four of my presets are part of the new firmware update for the Sonicware Liven Ambient Ø and available for download via the new Sonicware preset transfer app as well (listed under my name, Daniel).
2. I made a tutorial for Sonicware on the firmware update.
3. I just released a new video of me using the Ambient Ø as a live multi-effects processor, with the help of some of the new firmware features.
Firmware update: www.sonicware.co.jp/exe/LIVEN_Series_Firmware_Upda…
Preset transfer app: www.sonicware.co.jp/exe/Preset_Pattern_Data_Transf…
Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4rLT...
Multi-effect demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHB-Q...
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My new beginner's guide to sound design on the Ambient Ø has been released over on the @SONICWARE channel! I'm especially excited about this entry in the series I'm doing for them because I tried to make it the video I wish someone had made for me back when I first started learning about this stuff (not just sound design on the Ambient Ø, but synthesis in general) and felt mystified by a lot of things. I'd try to look up explanations of them, but they tended to be full of unexplained jargon or assume a level of knowledge I didn't yet have, or they were too abstract and didn't draw connections to practical applications of the concepts. This was my attempt to avoid all that.
Anyway, because of making videos for Sonicware and having some health issues, I haven't had the time or energy to put out another video on my own channel in a while, but I hope to get back to it soon.
9 months ago | [YT] | 5
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My channel finally reached 1,000 subscribers! That means I can now start earning some of the ad revenue from it. And that means I am on my way to earning potentially… tens of euros per month from it, lol.
Anyway, I’m not sure anyone even still sees my posts anymore, and I’m not sure what the future of the channel is, since not many people are viewing the new videos and I don’t know what to do with it post-Texture Lab videos, but still, it’s nice to have reached the milestone and I want to say thanks for the support!
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For anyone interested in the micro-looping stuff I covered in my last video, here's me combining some micro-looping with... uh, macro-looping, let's call it?... over on my other channel!
1 year ago | [YT] | 1
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Sonic Cartography will be back soon, but in the meantime, please check out my new channel for my new music project / one-man band, Weird Frog, over at @WeirdFrogMusic. Any engagement would be super supportive of and appreciated by me as I try to get the new channel off the ground! I'm also on Instagram now with the same handle (WeirdFrogMusic). Here is my first video on YouTube.I also posted a video featuring the SmplTrek on the Instagram page: www.instagram.com/reel/C7hWE-rtx4-/
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This is the first in a possible longer-term series of videos that I'm thinking about making on "applied practical music theory," where I take some music theory concepts and teach them kind of indirectly through a (hopefully) fun, interesting, and practical thing you can actually do with those concepts to make some music right away. I would love it if any of you who follow my channel let me know what you think about this idea (either here or in the video comments, which would be maybe better for visibility), as I'm currently mulling over different directions I could take the channel now that I think it's time I start moving beyond mostly just doing Texture Lab videos....
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🥳 My channel got upgraded to YouTube partner status today 🥳! Once I get to 1,000 subscribers (currently at 711) and 4,000 watch hours (currently at 3,017), I'll be able to start earning some of the ad revenue that YouTube makes from my videos. This current status upgrade doesn't really change much for me, besides giving people the ability to give me "super likes"/"thanks" (i.e., money), which I don't expect to get, but still, it feels like a nice milestone for a channel I started a little over half a year ago, and I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has supported the channel so far! So, thank you everyone!
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I made a video for Sonicware of me playing electric guitar with the Texture Lab! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qvz5...
It begins with one of the patches from the video I released a few weeks ago, and then takes it in some other directions.
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