Sonicware LIVEN Bass & Beats at a glance

Sonicware's LIVEN Bass & Beats focuses on the tasks of a drum machine and shines with a live programmable sequencer, which contains a great selection of ready-made drum sounds, as well as a monophonic bass synthesizer, covering numerous genres. Whether it's electro, trap, dubstep, house, techno, or drum'n'bass, LIVEN B&B has something for everyone! The built-in speaker along with the alternative battery operation (6x AA batteries) is ideal for anyone who wants to make music anywhere. For connection with other equipment, there are MIDI inputs and outputs, as well as analog sync input and output, to sync the Groovebox with Korg Volca or Teenage Pocket Operators.

Sound generation
The rhythm section is fully polyphonic and has access to over 350 Drum sounds, as well as over 100 special sounds. With this alone, you can program danceable grooves on the fly. The Bass synthesizer builds its monophonic sounds with two wavetable oscillators with 64 wavetables, a versatile sub-oscillator, and a noise generator with 16 variations. The shaped sound flows into a resonant multimode digital filter, which offers lowpass, Bandpass, and Highpass along with a downsampler distortion. Life is breathed in through an LFO and an ADSR envelope. The finishing touches on the LIVEN Bass & Beats sounds are provided by the sidechain compressor and a reverb effect.

Sequencer

The sequencer is live or step programmable on the TR grid and has a memory capacity of 128 patterns, each of which can have up to 64 steps. Parameterlock recording brings life and variety to the patterns. Real-time transposition is possible, as well as setting slide commands and accents. With the Shuffle (Swing) parameter, more groove is achieved in the rhythms and basslines. Various live effects in the sequencer add variations to the current pattern with just the press of a button without having to reprogram anything.