Sonicware Liven BASS&BEATS [Wavetable Bass Synthesizer and Drum Machine] Groove Box

This is the first non-Korg Volca hardware I've purchased in recent years and I'm absolutely blown away at the versatility of this little unit. The sounds are much more complex than you'd expect out of a $240 portable drum machine/bass synth unit. It does MIDI, it'll sync with a volca, or 'audio sync'. I can't stress how much the portability factors into why I love this thing. You find yourself carrying it around the house just making beats or planning arrangements. I was so impressed with the B&B that I went ahead and ordered the XFM and Lofi-12 as well. The built in speaker does a sufficient job for its size. Not overly tinny. Solid keys, and while hollow feeling, it feels sturdy where it counts. And on that note... Attention circuit benders/modders: The keyboard PCB and logic/interface boards are in a stack barely 22mm thick. Everything but the battery box is on the one panel. The case is a 'bathtub' style. Aside from the 110x50x20mm 6x AA battery box, the rest of the 300x175x35mm case is empty. You could add a USB-C charging port and lipo cell that could power the thing for days. You could add a 20W amp and better speaker. Make a patch bay on the back for circuit behind maybe? You could probably 3D print a thinner/different color bathtub case too... TL;DR - There's plenty of room for activities. If you're into that sort of thing. It's a blast to use and has a mostly straight forward workflow. 'I'm LIVEN it'... lol, had to.

Totally love this

This is by far the most convoluted and senselessly designed thing I have ever purchased. The sounds and patterns on it are ok and I could see myself using it if it weren't so poorly designed. The manual is practically useless. It's in English and still seems to speak its own language. This seems like it would take 3 months to learn and get used to. Who has time or patience for that. It actually takes effort to design something so frustrating to use. Why someone would design a product this way and then say "hey great, let's sell it" I will never know. But I would not recommend this to anyone unless I wanted to torture them.

Many sounds available

Unfortunately this rhythm/bass machine looked great on paper and I was really looking forward to putting it in my music production arsenal. Long story short, it was one of the most overly complicated, confusing and frustrating pieces of gear I have EVER purchased! Sorry… Why these design engineers made it so user unfriendly I can’t imagine. I’m sorry to say I had to return it.

This machine is the most convoluted, disorganized, difficult to play drum machine I’ve ever come across. Don’t bother with the online only instruction manual it’s useless in providing any sort of guidance on how to operate the 9 billion settings and parameters. It’s literally going to take me a couple of months to figure out how to create a beat on this thing, not to mention the build of this machine feels like a fisher-price toy and upon turning it on and touching the confusing buttons I’ve already noticed the paint coming off the rubber buttons. I’ve had it two days! If you want a rubick’s cube of a fisher-price level beat machine this is right up your alley, if not stick to the pros like Roland, Moog, or Korg.

Once you get an idea of what you’re doing with this device. You’ll spend many enjoyable hours just fiddling with all the features, capabilities and sounds. The sound quality is amazing. As with any liven you have a good amount of space for tracks and sequences. So it is super easy to just take this and make a whole track without touching another device.

WAVETABLE GROOVEBOX,ハードウェアでWAVETABLE音源というのが最高,RANDOM機能もかなり良いです。リミックスがすぐ出来る。

Thank you this machine is very good and I love it 😀

Sehr guter und umfangreiches Gerät zum fairen Preis, für Einsteiger eine nette Spielerei!

Davvero bella e comoda!!

Sent back not for me got to no about music.