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W40 - Twins (Renoise test 2)

By ENC_ on October 6, 2024 10:19 am

Planned marriage dates and day of rings. Played new Zelda. Ren faire costumes. Behind on exercise but trying to include time. Back pain early in the week. Received new eurorack case supplies. Created noise patches while binge watching show with partner. Warm week. very little time outside. Costco run with AL's parents. Signed up. Finished book. Taking a break from scifi books to work through non fiction book pile. Worked on cleaning practice space with D.

Consumed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6,7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, The Bear, DS9, Ubik by Philip K. Dick, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders, Teens In Trouble - What's mine, Joe Smooth - Mad On Acid Vol.1 - Promisee Land, Mr. Fingers - Mr. Fingers, Rolando Simmons - Terrestrial Ultra - Doula, Richard Pinhas - Reverse, Stazma - Shape Shifter, Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2 (Expanded Edition),


Software Used:
Renoise
Ableton
ALM Quaidra Verb
Inphonik RX950
Tal Pha
Tal Uno - 60- LX
izotope Ozone 10
Cherry Audio surrealistic MG-1 Plus
Full Bucket Music Fury-800


Made by bouncing between Ableton and Renoise. Used Renoise to make the actual song. Ableton used for sound design and mastering. Started by making glitched sample in ableton. Originally intended to explore sample splicing workflow in renoise. Was not working out how I intended. kept it as loop and created sub sound in ableton and processed 505. Sampled it over. Splice did work for 505. sequenced and added layers of VST synths in renoise. kept it simple as a proof of concept and exploration of renoise. Only second time really spending time with it. Discovered FX chanins. Velocity not working properly for samples. Modulation fades for easy envelopes. looping modes found. Still no command exploration.


Called twins because of the dual files in different programs.

File Names: "W40 - sort" Ableton, "W40 - Bouncer" Renoise,

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Sounds a little anxious, like a busy week!! Congrats though!

fetalface wrote:

Sounds a little anxious, like a busy week!! Congrats though!

this does sounds like the perfect soundtrack to your week, ENC!

congrats on the renoise work, sounding good. i really like the bass, it feels like it is being hit hard. nice track!

fetalface wrote:

Sounds a little anxious, like a busy week!! Congrats though!


This is a spot on description, it's exactly what I heard as well when listening to it. Nicely done and congrats!

A speed run through your week sounds like. Renoise was on my list to conquer this year, but that snappy pitch envelope on that bass/tom sound.

In W40 I also used Renoise, but I made the effort to not jump to Live for mastering this time. I personally don't love bouncing between Live and Renoise since it's like the worst of both worlds. But I see this was the least of your worries this week big_smile

Those vangelis-esque higher notes work so well against the dry drums and acid. Mood has been achieved. No notes. Five stars!

really enjoyed this!

fetalface wrote:

Sounds a little anxious, like a busy week!! Congrats though!

jwh wrote:

this does sounds like the perfect soundtrack to your week, ENC!

Nik Novo wrote:


This is a spot on description, it's exactly what I heard as well when listening to it. Nicely done and congrats!

Haha actually the week didn't feel too to anxious. Mostly just busy. Thank you!

It was one of those weeks where down for a minute but you look up and wonder where the time went.


nedsferatu wrote:

congrats on the renoise work, sounding good. i really like the bass, it feels like it is being hit hard. nice track!

Renoise has been great to get into this year. I am in the fun learning stages of feeling out what is possible and how to rewire my thinking to work with the platform. Bass is the Juno VST. I always liked the roland filter In my Juno 6 and whish I had midi responsive monophonic version (basically like a SH-101). The VST with some setting tweeks did the trick I think. Better then the hardware in this case.


emily wrote:

haha Aww.


mzunguko wrote:

A speed run through your week sounds like. Renoise was on my list to conquer this year, but that snappy pitch envelope on that bass/tom sound.

It's worth getting into! Fun enough for me to pay for at this point (still using the demo version) tongue It's a nice shake up from my Dirtywave M8 and Ableton workflows that have dominated this year.

Still have yet to nail my a sound design workflow in Renoise so the pitched up and down Bass kick was actually made with Ableton's operator and exported as a single long hit. I shaped sample back in renoise and sequenced it there.

The problem I am running into is that I typically synthesize everything but renoise doesn't have a native sound engine base to synthesize from without VSTs (at least that I know of). I end up just synthesizing and making samples on the fly in other programs and that fills in that gap. Probably not a problem for people with sound libraries or better working knowledge of Renoise.


rplktr wrote:

In W40 I also used Renoise, but I made the effort to not jump to Live for mastering this time. I personally don't love bouncing between Live and Renoise since it's like the worst of both worlds. But I see this was the least of your worries this week big_smile

Those vangelis-esque higher notes work so well against the dry drums and acid. Mood has been achieved. No notes. Five stars!

Renoise is a good time. I've really enjoyed learning it for a couple of WB songs. I hear ya on bouncing between apps. I can be hectic. Believe it or not I actually really love it. I have always been heavy into mixing work flows.

I think it stems from my early years bootleging demos and half working beta software in the early 2000's on a 56k modem. There were always locked features or things that would make the different software crash. I had to learn how to navigate those limitations, get what I wanted, and then finally compile it all together In a program that gave me 5 minutes to try out the software before shutting down. It was always janky but you could get intersting things with a bit of patience. I didn't know enough to even question if there was a better way to do things.

In a lot of ways I still work like that. Brute force and patience tongue

Thank you for the kind words. I'll swing by and check out your track too smile I love to hear how other people use the same tools.


chr15m wrote:

really enjoyed this!

Hey! Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for checking it out.

Hell yeah, a proper tracker workout! Cool stuff!

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