Ah, renoise. The finest DAW in all the land. So flexible and powerful. Awesome for generative music when you use phrases and capable of some deep and psychedelic native sound design when you know your way around it... So fast, so efficient, keyboard driven... The most fun and creativity inspiring DAW I've ever used. And cheap!
Preach to `em Zen! heh :) Really happy to see more people exploring Renoise and even more so the fact that Dash bringing it to light for his viewer base. btw when he did the first stream on Renoise about a week ago or so I recommended your content in the chat for all the ppl who`s curiosity for our beloved DAW spiked.
Trackers were the perfect instrument for the demo scene because of how tiny the music file could be. You could do so much with just short samples (like using very fast arpeggios to approximate chords) and because it was all in hex it was easy to build a tiny playback tracker into the intro/cracktro/demo. Especially important for competitions with very small file size restrictions. Not to mention the internet didn't really exist. Small files were very important because your mom definitely wasnt going to wait for your downloads to call someone.
The most fun I have with renoise is when the track is playing and I set a loop region with numpad enter, adjust it's length with ctrl + / or * and then disable scrolling. At this point while the loop is playing, I'm free to enter any note or effect in any track, with any instrument in the loop and immediately hear the result. When I'm finished I just hit numpad enter again to continue playing or replay the pattern to see the change within the pattern context. Renoise is a cascade of creativity boxes wrapped around each other, anyone of which you can enter and get out at will. What a fabulous piece of software!
One of my favourite features of trackers is that you can listen to the music line by line.. like step playback :) It's handy for me when trying to find the wrong notes =)
when i first started using daw's i started with the big ones but the ui's never jived with me until I came upon renoise. the tracker style layout allows you to see exactly what you are doing without actually hearing it and the way sampling works here is literally god tier. the documentation is also super good, they really did this software justice when they wrote that. the workflow with the keyboard also rocked my socks, you can switch between bars with f8 to 12 keys which is just amazing to get ur shit down and just try things without turning your jam sesh into a click sesh. its good shit! ty
my first DAW was fl studio, my muscal evolution take me to renoise, I have been using renoise about ten years an now I could say renoise is just the perfect enviroment for music production, also i have to say , the renoise instrument and redux are the amazing instruments
Great to see some love for Renoise - I started out with FastTracker in the late 90s, so getting back to Renoise after a long hiatus was super easy. Brilliant workflow and very logical and looks like Excel - what's not to love? :D
Using Fast Tracker II, it was interesting to create a delay effect by copying the channel several times, shifting it in time each time and making each copy quieter.
For meRenoise worth each cent I paid for it. It was a bit unusual for me i the beginning since I didn`t used trackers before, but it`s worth it. After fiddling around with various hardware, I realized that while using Renoise with shortcuts I get almost the same "hands on" feeleng as when using hardware but without limitations in polyphony, tracks, etc.
Definitely! Trackers were of course designed with computers, screens, and qwerty keyboards in mind, so it feels much more natural than 'conventional' DAWs, which doesn't have an ergonomic or intuitive workflow because they are trying to replicate a recording studio but inside a computer
I am pretty new to Tracker music workflows and I feel visually the format makes so much more sense to my brain wave patterns... Great Overview... A bitwig user who has just picked up Renoise I look forward to any videos you do covering both...
I completely spaced out trying to figure out what's going on. I know chiptune musicians use trackers but it always looked like a blur to my eyes. Cool to see there's a DAW for those familiar with this workflow, nice to see something unique.
I made music more than 15 years with trackers. For me very fast and creative workflow. For arps, visual notes positioning, very high bpm music, very precise details, etc. Now i’m using more fl studio because i’m with more analogue and slow sound. I hope some day a daw comes with pianoroll and also tracker patern to chose in each track.
"Does that make sense?" No, not really, but it was a really fun video anyway - thank you! I used to create music using Buzz in the late 90s, so this was a real nostalgia trip.
Impulse Tracker in the 90s was my first real music software. Having access to VSTs in addition to samples totally changes everything. Thanks for featuring this!
Yeah me too and a child making music with fasttracker and digitracker..always balancing memory with memmaker hahah! Impulse tracker has a recreation by the way Schism tracker! Memories :)
@@zookeeper2103 It's a full replica of IT tracker. If you go to Settings Menu> System Configuration and select classic mode, it turns into Impulse Tracker, with memory e.d. like the old days!
Wow this is weird and strange all in one! When I started with Bitwig after years using Cubase SX people thought I was using mad software, but this takes the cake..interestingly weird and strange rolled into one.
The demo is worth a try if you haven't used it! Seeing how you like Bitwig I think you'll like Renoise too even though they don't have much in common, I say that because if you look at the comments there's loads of us where Bitwig + Renoise are our two favourite DAWs!
numbering things starting at 0 and counting in hexadecimal is very familiar if you're a coder/programmer! just a note, at 8:12, 16 ticks would be '10'. '20' would be 32 ticks. if you relate it to decimal, where we have a 1's place, a 10's place, a 100's place and so on.., hexadecimal has a 1's place, a 16's place, a 256's place, and so on... e.g. in decimal, 16 = 1 in the 10's place and 6 in the 1's place, so it's 1 * 10 + 6 * 1 = 16 in hexadecimal, 10 = 1 in the 16's place and 0 in the 1's place, so it's 1 * 16 + 0 * 1 = 16 any way I've never heard of trackers somehow -- this is super interesting!
wanted to say this. Also, it's worth emphasizing that 0 to F gives us sixteen possible values (zero being the first value) and if an effect is to be applied for a number of ticks /after/ the tick which triggers it, then decimal 15 (hex F) is presumably sufficient to apply that effect across the remainder of the ticks in the 16 tick phrase.
I use renoise to make UK Grime and Drill. I first discovered it when I seen Waveracer use it. No other DAW comes close to what Renoise can do. I sold my FL and Abelton license. I use cubase for everything else.
worth to learn it because the knowledge can be used with Redux Renoise (the phrase-based sampler of Renoise) too which can be used in any DAW, for ex. Bitwig-Redux is nice a combo
btw. one of my problem was the working with the only triggerable LFOs in it but able to solve it "Autoseeked LFOs, concept of proof" in "Tips & Tricks" forum of Renoise
Just wait until you get into the world of LUA scripting, piles up with .XNRI's, Doofers, OSC Server.... and this is just hitting the topsoil, the pay dirt really kicks in through ;) I have been proudly Renoise for a LONG time. In fact I remember its launch but took my time.. and to think I have only paid once or twice for my licence - which touches another soft spot among the likely common interests the kinda people that naturally take to this community might be passionate about too... I am still having tons of fun with it INCLUSIVE of the euro addiction... Excited for ya bud! And welcome to the community!🤘 Glad to have you! niNja_pWn3d
Renoise is definitely the fastest to work with when it comes to programming your beats. You can get so much done fast without touching your mouse. One crucial feature for me was also the fact that it was super light on system resources and the tracks were self contained if I didn't use any vst's. The biggest reason why I have stopped using it, is because Bitwig won me over with their modular features. It's amazing for sound design though I still struggle with creating drum sequences on a traditional DAW and I should look at Redux, because I need both worlds. Anyway - if your music makes use of breakbeats, Renoise is the best tool out there for chopping and rearranging that beat.
To me trackers ARE the traditional DAW haha. My first DAW was Fast Tracker, then Mad Tracker before I eventually moved on to Cubase SX 2 in 2003, which then felt like a very untraditional DAW. Good times.
Loading ancient .xm stuff feels so good because of ability to add that modern VST/effects touch to it. If only the similar stuff existed for Buzz (which is another ancient tracker, but married with some native soft-synths and effects), I would be so glad to find it... Seems that such stuff doesn't exist (yet), and it hardly will...
I've been using Renoise for 19 years now and somehow I didn't know about that using Shift to stay on the same line when editing commands. Who knows how many hours I could have saved myself by reading the frigging manual? Shameful.
Thanks for the excellent overview! I've been toying with Renoise as a possible introduction to maybe picking up a Dirtywave M8 some day, but nothing is really clicking with me. I think you've convinced me this workflow is probably not for me. Don't get me wrong, your examples and explanations are really great, I just don't think I can stick with it.
@@DashGlitch welllll maaaaaaybe... Do you think the M8 is any more approachable? The app that's really doing it for me right now is Drambo on ios, as a self contained system with other AUV3 instruments and effects and with external modular gear and hardware mixers and effects. I'd also consider myself an "advanced" Ableton user. The M8 formfactor is just so appealing ...
just watched your video quickly but seems you haven't mentioned the phrases which is the biggest advantage of Renoise, clips (phrases) can be assigned to intruments and can be triggered (with any speed from any position, even with reverse, can be resampled etc) from the main sequencer, I've created a video about it couple of year ago 'Renoise phrase demo xbitz' into the search field
i started trying renoise after i saw your livestream the other day and i kind of like it. it has a more immediate approach to entering writing things, than regular daws. it feels a bit like programming. i certainly will watch more tutorials on it, if you produce them. one thing i was wondering since i first played around with renoise: is there any way of defining repetitions of patterns in the pattern editor? eg pattern 1 two times, then the next one 3 times followed by a single variation before getting to the next part... you get the idea. this would seem logical to me as basically everything else is defined by entering values too.
maybe i didn‘t express myself correctly, i was actually talking about the pattern matrix. say i created a pattern for my verse and another one for my chorus, both one bar long. so instead of cloning the verse eg. 8 times to make it 8 bars long, i would like to tell it to loop 8 times, before jumping to my next pattern. so i quickly could build up a song structure out of a few patterns, by setting loop repetitions. for example: intro, then verse twice, chorus once, verse once, chorus twice, solo over one verse and chorus twice again. this would be very easy and flexible, if you could define the loop repetitions. (it might be done by triggering phrases instead, but that would be a different workflow.) i might be a little obsessed with this, but that’s because first i thought the numbers on the pattern sequencer stood for the repetitions, which seemed obvious to me, only to realize, that it was the pattern number instead...
Hello i Do have a question, and if soneone can answer it, Its you. I am searching something analog as hardware that can be used for Fullon bassline and kick (can be Different) becourse i want to have analog outboard that dies what my BassIsm can do. And what i can get to have as bassline synthesizer. My First choice would be the moog subsequent Series. But the problem is i cannot get access to it for testing. I do have enough Digital plugins. I had some xoxbox 10years ago But IT was a total Different time. And i am asking myself what about those little Roland clones? I did have a xbase09 and had Hard trouble with the recording becourse it had Phase issures becourse of damaged ciruit. Was a used stuff. So i know that is always the Same questions.. But i did Not find an Thing that Was close to the BassIsm. 808 and 909 are Different in Profile and Charakter. And i truly like that stupid easy funktionality of that plugin. That makes it so dope. The only problem ive got is i would love to have those two Things in Hardware including a good analog limiter for catching the Fast Peaks.. That was a Hard time to catch those powefull Peaks on the xbase09. And the problem was always the noise Profile too. When ever i did some compression the noise floor become very nasty :-( so what Do you think about it? What Hardware would you grab?
Hey Dash! I don't know if you still take requests for videos but I would be very grateful if you could cover a particular bass style used by Krapul and a lot of forest artists. I don't understand what is the trick. Sounds like the amp envelope is tight but filter is bleeding a lot more but I can't seem to make it right. It's either a tight bass or a shit bass lol
aphex twin research brought me here - this DAW looks insane, lol i am not sure if i could make the transition directly from logic to this interface, but was curious if anyone here knows of a VST that provides the same versatility that a tracker like Renoise or player pro (what i have read aphex twin used for the creation of many of the songs of his album Drukqs) possesses or if this is just a weird fever dream i am seeking to obtain in cyberpunk times lol, but i am genuinely curious if someone has some sort of VST with similar functionality to an OG tracker interface software like the DAW in this video 🙏
Renoise actually have a VST version but it doesn't offer the full sequencer, it's basically a really complex sample player with the ability to do basic sequencing in the arp section. Still superb if you want the best of both worlds.
One of the things that keep me from renoise - beside the need to pay - is that the command set is different from what is the standard for mod and xm formats and have to relearn everything
@@simonebernacchia 4gb of RAM will be more than enough. I used to run it on my crappy laptop that had way less RAM like a decade ago. Renoise hardly uses any CPU
Fun! I did lots of tracking back in Amiga times, then coded my own for PC in x86 asm. A few years later moved to Jeskola Buzz that is quite advanced too.
You need to mess with it yourself to really get a good grip. I recommend checking out SunVox as a first tracker, it is a bit more streamlined and self-contained than Renoise.
@DashGlitch literally yes, early break beat music was all made on Amigas in Octamed, almost all chiptune music is to this day made on trackers. These have been around for decades are are still heavily used in certain genres. Just because the scene you come from uses Cubase like sequencers doesn't mean everyone does. Even today in some scenes an certain hardware sequencer like an mpc or step sequencing or a tracker mite still be the standard or used heavily by at least 20%+ of the community. If you grew up in the UK and had any association with the many break beat related genres, trackers are not weird, they literally are the standard and are heavily used to this day (as are the Akai S Series samplers).
@DashGlitch To put it in perspective, my 54 year old neighbour downstairs uses Otamed on his Amiga to make Jungle. Another guy who hangs out at the library 10 doors away uses OpenMPT on his laptop to make Jungle, I go see him 3 or 4 times a week there and my childhood friend who I used to do graffiti with uses Schism Tracker to a mixer to add reverb and compression to make drum and bass. I only know 1 dude who uses a traditional DAW and I'm going to stop talking to him because he makes awful sounding drill and he's clearly around scammer and gang members + his music is awful. So yeah, different world mate, different scene, it's different but definitely not weird. I live in the UK, you have other communities of heavy tracker users in Russia and other places, don't nake assumptions ok.
не могу сказать что этот парень плохо обучает, в любом случае спасибо за видео, но таланта объяснять сложные вещи точно нет, поэтому это больше обзорное видео а не обучающее потому что абсолютно не понятно что делает автор с этими r04 c00 и т.д. .
Ah, renoise. The finest DAW in all the land. So flexible and powerful. Awesome for generative music when you use phrases and capable of some deep and psychedelic native sound design when you know your way around it... So fast, so efficient, keyboard driven... The most fun and creativity inspiring DAW I've ever used. And cheap!
Preach to `em Zen! heh :) Really happy to see more people exploring Renoise and even more so the fact that Dash bringing it to light for his viewer base. btw when he did the first stream on Renoise about a week ago or so I recommended your content in the chat for all the ppl who`s curiosity for our beloved DAW spiked.
@@isellcrack3537 awesome. Thanks for the up! 🤘👽
not for me cus i use pkr and one dollar equals 285 PAKISTANI RUPEES
so i had to crack it
@@velocitygamer-wvuyeh! Mera tracker Bhai!
Best DAW I've ever used and would never look back, I use it to create Hardstyle music. It's worth every single penny!
Trackers were the perfect instrument for the demo scene because of how tiny the music file could be. You could do so much with just short samples (like using very fast arpeggios to approximate chords) and because it was all in hex it was easy to build a tiny playback tracker into the intro/cracktro/demo. Especially important for competitions with very small file size restrictions. Not to mention the internet didn't really exist. Small files were very important because your mom definitely wasnt going to wait for your downloads to call someone.
True lol I love that
Thanks for bringing Renoise and Trackers to the spotlight once again!
Renoise is the ultimate composition tool. Rock solid.
The most fun I have with renoise is when the track is playing and I set a loop region with numpad enter, adjust it's length with ctrl + / or * and then disable scrolling. At this point while the loop is playing, I'm free to enter any note or effect in any track, with any instrument in the loop and immediately hear the result. When I'm finished I just hit numpad enter again to continue playing or replay the pattern to see the change within the pattern context. Renoise is a cascade of creativity boxes wrapped around each other, anyone of which you can enter and get out at will. What a fabulous piece of software!
One of my favourite features of trackers is that you can listen to the music line by line.. like step playback :) It's handy for me when trying to find the wrong notes =)
when i first started using daw's i started with the big ones but the ui's never jived with me until I came upon renoise. the tracker style layout allows you to see exactly what you are doing without actually hearing it and the way sampling works here is literally god tier. the documentation is also super good, they really did this software justice when they wrote that.
the workflow with the keyboard also rocked my socks, you can switch between bars with f8 to 12 keys which is just amazing to get ur shit down and just try things without turning your jam sesh into a click sesh. its good shit! ty
my first DAW was fl studio, my muscal evolution take me to renoise, I have been using renoise about ten years an now I could say renoise is just the perfect enviroment for music production, also i have to say , the renoise instrument and redux are the amazing instruments
Renoise was my first tracker and my first DAW! Started in 2007 and its still my favorite.
Me, too!
Great to see some love for Renoise - I started out with FastTracker in the late 90s, so getting back to Renoise after a long hiatus was super easy. Brilliant workflow and very logical and looks like Excel - what's not to love? :D
Renoise user here! excellent video! best expxlanation of Hexadcimal :)
Using Fast Tracker II, it was interesting to create a delay effect by copying the channel several times, shifting it in time each time and making each copy quieter.
That is the only way that you could create delay back then :)
I still program delays that way a lot of the time because of learning the ropes of music production using trackers
i hope to see more renoise videos in the future! this daw/tracker is just amazing.
For meRenoise worth each cent I paid for it. It was a bit unusual for me i the beginning since I didn`t used trackers before, but it`s worth it. After fiddling around with various hardware, I realized that while using Renoise with shortcuts I get almost the same "hands on" feeleng as when using hardware but without limitations in polyphony, tracks, etc.
Definitely! Trackers were of course designed with computers, screens, and qwerty keyboards in mind, so it feels much more natural than 'conventional' DAWs, which doesn't have an ergonomic or intuitive workflow because they are trying to replicate a recording studio but inside a computer
I am pretty new to Tracker music workflows and I feel visually the format makes so much more sense to my brain wave patterns... Great Overview... A bitwig user who has just picked up Renoise I look forward to any videos you do covering both...
Congrats man, Bitwig and Renoise are the 2 best DAWs 😎
Back in the '90 started out with Screamtracker, impulse tracker and fasttracker on PC. Still use Renoise from time to time. Good stuff.
Been using Renoise since 2012 not having any tracker experience it's a wonderful DAW for those who want a change in pace
I completely spaced out trying to figure out what's going on. I know chiptune musicians use trackers but it always looked like a blur to my eyes. Cool to see there's a DAW for those familiar with this workflow, nice to see something unique.
Put time in the demo and figured it out. Whadya know lmao. Think i'd rather just get Redux and use that in Bitwig though.
I made music more than 15 years with trackers. For me very fast and creative workflow. For arps, visual notes positioning, very high bpm music, very precise details, etc. Now i’m using more fl studio because i’m with more analogue and slow sound. I hope some day a daw comes with pianoroll and also tracker patern to chose in each track.
"Does that make sense?" No, not really, but it was a really fun video anyway - thank you! I used to create music using Buzz in the late 90s, so this was a real nostalgia trip.
Renosie is the only Daw you need to make amazing music
Sold all my gear to pay bills and got Renoise. I am going "less is more" way. So yeah I would love more Renoise videos.
Impulse Tracker in the 90s was my first real music software. Having access to VSTs in addition to samples totally changes everything. Thanks for featuring this!
Yeah, I used impulse too, ReNoise after Fast tracker II was wonderful :)
Yeah me too and a child making music with fasttracker and digitracker..always balancing memory with memmaker hahah! Impulse tracker has a recreation by the way Schism tracker! Memories :)
@@ignite137 yeah I found schism tracker to replay my .IT files. It's more accurate than winamp. 👍
@@zookeeper2103 It's a full replica of IT tracker. If you go to Settings Menu> System Configuration and select classic mode, it turns into Impulse Tracker, with memory e.d. like the old days!
Wow this is weird and strange all in one! When I started with Bitwig after years using Cubase SX people thought I was using mad software, but this takes the cake..interestingly weird and strange rolled into one.
The demo is worth a try if you haven't used it! Seeing how you like Bitwig I think you'll like Renoise too even though they don't have much in common, I say that because if you look at the comments there's loads of us where Bitwig + Renoise are our two favourite DAWs!
now you're in my world, been using trackers, starting with Fasttracker II in 1998.
My first DAW was soundtracker. When i see this one it takes me back. It is certainly not wierd. More a part of me today.
numbering things starting at 0 and counting in hexadecimal is very familiar if you're a coder/programmer! just a note, at 8:12, 16 ticks would be '10'. '20' would be 32 ticks.
if you relate it to decimal, where we have a 1's place, a 10's place, a 100's place and so on.., hexadecimal has a 1's place, a 16's place, a 256's place, and so on...
e.g. in decimal, 16 = 1 in the 10's place and 6 in the 1's place, so it's 1 * 10 + 6 * 1 = 16
in hexadecimal, 10 = 1 in the 16's place and 0 in the 1's place, so it's 1 * 16 + 0 * 1 = 16
any way I've never heard of trackers somehow -- this is super interesting!
wanted to say this. Also, it's worth emphasizing that 0 to F gives us sixteen possible values (zero being the first value) and if an effect is to be applied for a number of ticks /after/ the tick which triggers it, then decimal 15 (hex F) is presumably sufficient to apply that effect across the remainder of the ticks in the 16 tick phrase.
all that matters is that the note in each track, the rest can be learned in time.
I use renoise to make UK Grime and Drill. I first discovered it when I seen Waveracer use it. No other DAW comes close to what Renoise can do. I sold my FL and Abelton license. I use cubase for everything else.
worth to learn it because the knowledge can be used with Redux Renoise (the phrase-based sampler of Renoise) too which can be used in any DAW, for ex. Bitwig-Redux is nice a combo
btw. one of my problem was the working with the only triggerable LFOs in it but able to solve it "Autoseeked LFOs, concept of proof" in "Tips & Tricks" forum of Renoise
I'm using Bitwig + Redux as well 😎
Just wait until you get into the world of LUA scripting, piles up with .XNRI's, Doofers, OSC Server.... and this is just hitting the topsoil, the pay dirt really kicks in through ;) I have been proudly Renoise for a LONG time. In fact I remember its launch but took my time.. and to think I have only paid once or twice for my licence - which touches another soft spot among the likely common interests the kinda people that naturally take to this community might be passionate about too... I am still having tons of fun with it INCLUSIVE of the euro addiction... Excited for ya bud! And welcome to the community!🤘 Glad to have you!
niNja_pWn3d
I have been using Renoise from day one! I even used its older brother Noistrekker.
Renoise is definitely the fastest to work with when it comes to programming your beats. You can get so much done fast without touching your mouse. One crucial feature for me was also the fact that it was super light on system resources and the tracks were self contained if I didn't use any vst's. The biggest reason why I have stopped using it, is because Bitwig won me over with their modular features. It's amazing for sound design though I still struggle with creating drum sequences on a traditional DAW and I should look at Redux, because I need both worlds.
Anyway - if your music makes use of breakbeats, Renoise is the best tool out there for chopping and rearranging that beat.
I'm using Redux within Bitwig, it's a great combo!
To me trackers ARE the traditional DAW haha. My first DAW was Fast Tracker, then Mad Tracker before I eventually moved on to Cubase SX 2 in 2003, which then felt like a very untraditional DAW. Good times.
Good point! I Guess a better word would be the "more popular", thanks for watching!
I own it. But I've never dived into it, it felt confusing...time to try again. Thanks.
Loading ancient .xm stuff feels so good because of ability to add that modern VST/effects touch to it. If only the similar stuff existed for Buzz (which is another ancient tracker, but married with some native soft-synths and effects), I would be so glad to find it... Seems that such stuff doesn't exist (yet), and it hardly will...
Finally! Some attention for my favorite DAW!
The DAW of most breakcore artists ( I would presume).
Aphex twin uses tracker (not renoise tho)
@@DashGlitch Nowadays? Which one does he use?
@@xphorm nobody knows, but it wouldn't surprise me if he used Renoise
I've been using Renoise for 19 years now and somehow I didn't know about that using Shift to stay on the same line when editing commands. Who knows how many hours I could have saved myself by reading the frigging manual? Shameful.
Thanks for the excellent overview! I've been toying with Renoise as a possible introduction to maybe picking up a Dirtywave M8 some day, but nothing is really clicking with me. I think you've convinced me this workflow is probably not for me. Don't get me wrong, your examples and explanations are really great, I just don't think I can stick with it.
Glad I could help but as a Dirtywave M8 fanatic this makes me a little sad, but I get it! All the best :)
@@DashGlitch welllll maaaaaaybe... Do you think the M8 is any more approachable? The app that's really doing it for me right now is Drambo on ios, as a self contained system with other AUV3 instruments and effects and with external modular gear and hardware mixers and effects. I'd also consider myself an "advanced" Ableton user. The M8 formfactor is just so appealing ...
the sampler in Renoise is very cool
Please make more videos featuring Renoise or trackers in general!
Have you tried phrases yet, or the instrument editors modulation & effects tab? So much to play with :)
ReNoise nothing but fun :D
Moar Renoise pleas! :D
What is the name of the daw the digital audio workstation you're talking about?
Renoise
just watched your video quickly but seems you haven't mentioned the phrases which is the biggest advantage of Renoise, clips (phrases) can be assigned to intruments and can be triggered (with any speed from any position, even with reverse, can be resampled etc) from the main sequencer, I've created a video about it couple of year ago 'Renoise phrase demo xbitz' into the search field
I used Fast Tracker 2 for speedcore records i produced, have yet to do renoise.
Fast tracker II mode, all organic beats
I’ve used Renoise for a while, I still think the Hexidecimal system is just a total pain. It’s 2023, we can go to decimal systems now.
Renoise is the best of the best in tracker land. Trackers origin from the C64.
i started trying renoise after i saw your livestream the other day and i kind of like it. it has a more immediate approach to entering writing things, than regular daws. it feels a bit like programming. i certainly will watch more tutorials on it, if you produce them.
one thing i was wondering since i first played around with renoise: is there any way of defining repetitions of patterns in the pattern editor? eg pattern 1 two times, then the next one 3 times followed by a single variation before getting to the next part... you get the idea. this would seem logical to me as basically everything else is defined by entering values too.
Yes, each slot has a phrase editor which is like an arp but you get a pattern editor to write patterns for it ;)
You should check out the pattern matrix. It lets you clone complete patterns by tracks and make arrangements from them.
maybe i didn‘t express myself correctly, i was actually talking about the pattern matrix. say i created a pattern for my verse and another one for my chorus, both one bar long. so instead of cloning the verse eg. 8 times to make it 8 bars long, i would like to tell it to loop 8 times, before jumping to my next pattern. so i quickly could build up a song structure out of a few patterns, by setting loop repetitions.
for example: intro, then verse twice, chorus once, verse once, chorus twice, solo over one verse and chorus twice again.
this would be very easy and flexible, if you could define the loop repetitions.
(it might be done by triggering phrases instead, but that would be a different workflow.)
i might be a little obsessed with this, but that’s because first i thought the numbers on the pattern sequencer stood for the repetitions, which seemed obvious to me, only to realize, that it was the pattern number instead...
Combined with Bitwig. Where's your God now?
nice video dude this shit is so cool
Looks like using Excel to draw a picture
Just kidding, thanks for covering trackers, I´m looking at their hardware version for Eurorack (Nerdseq) ;)
hahaha! well played xD Damn yea that NerdSeq looks incredible, I've been having dreams about it recently
Hello i Do have a question, and if soneone can answer it, Its you. I am searching something analog as hardware that can be used for Fullon bassline and kick (can be Different) becourse i want to have analog outboard that dies what my BassIsm can do. And what i can get to have as bassline synthesizer. My First choice would be the moog subsequent Series. But the problem is i cannot get access to it for testing. I do have enough Digital plugins. I had some xoxbox 10years ago But IT was a total Different time. And i am asking myself what about those little Roland clones? I did have a xbase09 and had Hard trouble with the recording becourse it had Phase issures becourse of damaged ciruit. Was a used stuff. So i know that is always the Same questions.. But i did Not find an Thing that Was close to the BassIsm. 808 and 909 are Different in Profile and Charakter. And i truly like that stupid easy funktionality of that plugin. That makes it so dope. The only problem ive got is i would love to have those two Things in Hardware including a good analog limiter for catching the Fast Peaks.. That was a Hard time to catch those powefull Peaks on the xbase09. And the problem was always the noise Profile too. When ever i did some compression the noise floor become very nasty :-( so what Do you think about it? What Hardware would you grab?
You won’t get solid kick or bass with true analog, unless you resample/edit
more tracker stuff, renoise or whatever doesnt matter ;)
Renoise? im already Bouncing Noise, and if not, I keep trying :D😅😄
"re" is short for render which = bounce xD gottem
@@DashGlitch thx :)
it's funny how working with a different style of sequencer automaticly warps the style of music you write with it
hahah in the end 80s i produce on amiga 500 with this shit.. beautyful. i think the name was octagon or octatrack?
Octamed
Hey Dash! I don't know if you still take requests for videos but I would be very grateful if you could cover a particular bass style used by Krapul and a lot of forest artists.
I don't understand what is the trick.
Sounds like the amp envelope is tight but filter is bleeding a lot more but I can't seem to make it right. It's either a tight bass or a shit bass lol
Started with Renoise in 2007 and then got bitwig 3 years ago. Lobe em both, so now i use redux
Nice, yeah I'm using Redux within Bitwig as well 🙂
yes more
aphex twin research brought me here - this DAW looks insane, lol i am not sure if i could make the transition directly from logic to this interface, but was curious if anyone here knows of a VST that provides the same versatility that a tracker like Renoise or player pro (what i have read aphex twin used for the creation of many of the songs of his album Drukqs) possesses or if this is just a weird fever dream i am seeking to obtain in cyberpunk times lol, but i am genuinely curious if someone has some sort of VST with similar functionality to an OG tracker interface software like the DAW in this video 🙏
Renoise actually have a VST version but it doesn't offer the full sequencer, it's basically a really complex sample player with the ability to do basic sequencing in the arp section. Still superb if you want the best of both worlds.
@@DashGlitch haha I caved and went ahead and got the renoise DAW, lol this makes using logic look like logic was designed for babies 🤣
One of the things that keep me from renoise - beside the need to pay - is that the command set is different from what is the standard for mod and xm formats and have to relearn everything
Come on, it's absolute bargain compared to other DAWs :)
@@xphorm does it work good with only 4 gigs of ram?
@@simonebernacchia Never tried it but I guess it does, wouldn't say it takes a lot of memory..
@@xphorm am a tracker musician myself, albeit more in mod/xm making, so is not for the unfamiliarity
@@simonebernacchia 4gb of RAM will be more than enough. I used to run it on my crappy laptop that had way less RAM like a decade ago. Renoise hardly uses any CPU
Subbed! Sir, you should check out the M8 Tracker by Dirtywave if you haven't already. It's a game changer!
Yea I’m trying desperately to get one 😂 it’s incredible
And its rocket science again...haha
This DAW is NORMAL!
Yes it'a tracker.
Why? The tracker interface was way before sequencer (horizontal scrolling) daws
Did I say it wasn't or something?
That's actually not true, the horizontal scrolling sequencing can be found on the Fairlight CMI which goes as far back as 1979.
I am so lost
Fun! I did lots of tracking back in Amiga times, then coded my own for PC in x86 asm. A few years later moved to Jeskola Buzz that is quite advanced too.
You need to mess with it yourself to really get a good grip. I recommend checking out SunVox as a first tracker, it is a bit more streamlined and self-contained than Renoise.
nope it is not daw it is tracker and I have found out trackers in 90´s
perhaps, although it is a workstation for creating digital audio things, one would beg the question :)
Not a workstation or daw. A tracker is born from demoscene. 😀@@DashGlitch
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This makes my head hurt
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Nothing weird about it.
Yes, hexidecimal and vertical timelines are normal in DAWs right
@DashGlitch literally yes, early break beat music was all made on Amigas in Octamed, almost all chiptune music is to this day made on trackers. These have been around for decades are are still heavily used in certain genres. Just because the scene you come from uses Cubase like sequencers doesn't mean everyone does. Even today in some scenes an certain hardware sequencer like an mpc or step sequencing or a tracker mite still be the standard or used heavily by at least 20%+ of the community. If you grew up in the UK and had any association with the many break beat related genres, trackers are not weird, they literally are the standard and are heavily used to this day (as are the Akai S Series samplers).
@DashGlitch To put it in perspective, my 54 year old neighbour downstairs uses Otamed on his Amiga to make Jungle. Another guy who hangs out at the library 10 doors away uses OpenMPT on his laptop to make Jungle, I go see him 3 or 4 times a week there and my childhood friend who I used to do graffiti with uses Schism Tracker to a mixer to add reverb and compression to make drum and bass. I only know 1 dude who uses a traditional DAW and I'm going to stop talking to him because he makes awful sounding drill and he's clearly around scammer and gang members + his music is awful. So yeah, different world mate, different scene, it's different but definitely not weird. I live in the UK, you have other communities of heavy tracker users in Russia and other places, don't nake assumptions ok.
LPB 4 is for noobs !
Indeed, the time signature / line resolution one works in is what separates the quality of producer, great take (heavy sarcasm)
не могу сказать что этот парень плохо обучает, в любом случае спасибо за видео, но таланта объяснять сложные вещи точно нет, поэтому это больше обзорное видео а не обучающее потому что абсолютно не понятно что делает автор с этими r04 c00 и т.д. .