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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2024
- When I was a kid my family got a Sega Genesis (Megadrive) at Christmas.
I’ve been cursed by a love for FM synths since…
I’m so dang nostalgic for the sounds and music of that era that when this little groovebox was announced I ordered right away!
Liven Mega Synthesis…
M-Sega S-Genesis… ?
I got the flu right when it arrived so I hadn’t spent as much time with it as I planned.
I got better!
It’s battery powered so I take it with me sometimes to play on work lunch breaks, or chilling on the sofa with family.
Here are a handful of patterns I’ve been playing on it. You may recognize couple from games!
Not only do I love the gritty crunchy sounds of this thing, I like how the sequencer works; especially its stutter and random modes. They’re great for fills on drums and grooves on bass.
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For great justice.
Brilliant set of jams - real creative stuff! I could believe that any of these were for actual games back on the Megadrive :D
Thank you very much! Most all of my music is very influenced by that era of games. Time and place kind of thing.
@@RobbekenSynthMusic Oh, I definitely know what you mean - same reason I'd ordered one of these for myself. I'm still waiting on a delayed shipment, but these tunes provide enough good listening to tide me over :D
You've been busy 😁 These are excellent
Same goes for yourself! Thank you very much for giving me listen. I’ve learned a lot from what you’ve shown on this machine.
I’ve tried a few of the Liven synthesizers, but this one really gets me to the sounds I’ve been after easy.
@@RobbekenSynthMusic Yes it feels pretty slick to use to me too, mostly because of the decision to remove the Shift knob. I would usually dive in and make new sounds every time I write something too but there's so many good presets by the other sound designers that I haven't felt the need since it launched
@ChrisLodyMusic yeah, maybe getting rid of that shift knob made the workflow even faster. It felt like having a func AND shift was redundant before, but maybe couldn’t really be helped with the amount of functions on some the other Livens.
Either way, I think this one is a big improvement and is particularly nostalgic for me!
This was great! I hear many familiar games in there. 👌😎
Megadrive played the big part of the sound of my childhood. I think this might be 'must have' box at some point. 🙌
Same! I’m still in love with these old FM sounds. Thank you for listening!
@@RobbekenSynthMusic Yeah, FM is great! I have Volca FM and I'm trying to figure our how or where could I find iconic Megadrive sounds for that.
But enjoy the Mega Synthesis! Looking forward to hear more of these. 🎶✨🙂
At 3.33. And 6.15 minute it sounds so good i love it.
: )
Those are one’s I’m particularly proud of. Thank you!
All your base are belong to us!
This was a really good jam session, great work! 😎
WHAT YOU SAY!!
Thanks! All for fun. Have a nice day!
Fantastic!
Thanks! I had fun making these.
1:44 is my favourite. Closely followed by 3:33 and 6:40. Good work all round.
Thanks a bunch!
I really liked making that polymeter at 3:33 too. It’s pretty easy to set different pattern lengths and scales per part on this.
I loved 0:56 which reminded me of the Unreal ost, because of the sliding lead. 6:40 also was confirmation that this thing can handle some heavy 16-bit metal really well. I'm excited to get my hands on this. Great job!!!
@@GeorgeL909that with the distortion effect can get heavy heavy.
waiting to get mine on the march batch
Nice!
I hope you like it a lot!
@@RobbekenSynthMusic you got me excited great jams you did
The music at 6:40 sounds brilliant! Is that from a game?
Yep!
It’s from a shoot ‘em up by Toaplan that had a 1991 Megadrive release in the west. The introduction became infamous for the text’s poor English translation and so did the music; which like much Megadrive music rips, thankfully.
I noticed it has a midi out... how does this work with a DAW?
If you wanted to use it with a DAW you would need a way to send MIDI data to your PC with a USB/MIDI cable, a USB MIDI hub, or an audio interface that has a MIDI port.
For example, I have an Elektron Syntakt.
If I were to use a DAW, I could send MIDI over USB into the Syntakt then over a standard 5-pin MIDI cable into the Liven.
All depends on your setup!
Whatever you do, you’d need a cable or something between the Liven and your DAW for them to communicate.
@@RobbekenSynthMusic noice... i have an mpc one that should do it!
this thing sounds terrible
FM, Baby!
Thanks for listening.
Thats the point, dmomlover
lol you should see the graphics that would accompany these sounds, young zoomer