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Warm to the touch

By laguna on December 15, 2024 11:05 pm


It is somewhat sad to think there's just 2 weeks of WB left. I'll miss that family of strangers I've never met but who are an integral part of my routine wink

Just a simple song for this week, made on an obsolete Mac Mini Intel Core 2 Duo from early 2009, running Snow Leopard.

Renoise version 3.1.1 (the last one supporting the OS). 6 tracks, 2 fx sends. One drum kit made using some forgotten samples from a Korg microSampler kit by DenkiTribe. One base made of 2 sinewave cycles and some multitap delay, basically.

I managed to mantain the CPU usage under 20% all time.

Slight mastering in Ableton Live 10 with Drum Buss on the kick/snare/hihats and an extra instance of Echo on the percussion sound AND on the fx send dumped from the Renoise module. Soft EQ on the snare and little panning adjustments as an afterthought.

So eight audio tracks total. Finished in two evenings and on time!

Maybe this one needs some vocal snippets of found sounds but I think it's quite clean as it is. Maybe too boring? Let me know

Just 2 weeks left. Please let me know you are there... and be happy for another seven days, people smile

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December 18, 2024 4:47 am

ineff

Love the lo-fi low-key funkiness of the groove at 1:02.  Long Live Renoise, and life after WB!

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December 18, 2024 1:55 pm

laguna

ineff wrote:

Love the lo-fi low-key funkiness of the groove at 1:02.  Long Live Renoise, and life after WB!

Thanks, ineff !!! The "bridge" was build using direct resampling of the main beat, downsampled 6 and 7 semitones, depending of the slice. Basically I triggered the kicks and the snares in place and all the "wonky" hihats appeared as bonus, because of the slowdown. I removed some brightness with an aggressive low pass filter (hats were harsh when pitched down) and added some reverb.

Yeah, Renoise would survive, no doubt. I wanted to give Renoise 2.8 a try on a 2005 PowerPC Mac Mini, to check if I could manage a complete track.

Thanks again for listening and droppin' by smile

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December 18, 2024 2:51 pm

ineff

laguna wrote:

Thanks, ineff !!! The "bridge" was build using direct resampling of the main beat, downsampled 6 and 7 semitones, depending of the slice. Basically I triggered the kicks and the snares in place and all the "wonky" hihats appeared as bonus, because of the slowdown. I removed some brightness with an aggressive low pass filter (hats were harsh when pitched down) and added some reverb.

That's awesome—I love how resampling and down/up sampling can lead to serendipitous effects like that. 

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December 21, 2024 4:22 pm

jwh

super clean mix w tasty distortion baked in! the bridge and return to main groove... excellent.
not boring in the least!

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December 22, 2024 2:55 pm

colorful grey

i think it's super groovy. the 1 and 2 of the first bar are like a hypnotic theme, and the sound is very crunchy. not at all obsolete.

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