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EXW_WB_Y24W02.WAV

By nedsferatu on January 13, 2024 8:42 pm

I came back for week two! I was very sick this week with very clogged ears so submitting anything is a win for me. I feel less inspired by this track and more like i'm "punching the clock" with this one. I did try out some new things and learned from it so happy about that.

No cover image for this one since I don't think it will be going to soundcloud.

I enjoyed reading about other people's gear and process so thought I'd share a little of that too. I just started using renoise for programming, and I use the behringer neutron for pretty much every other sound. Learning renoise is a goal for this year, and last week was my first song using it. I am somewhat familiar with trackers since I had used the Polyend Tracker in the past, but I am really enjoying renoise so far.

If anyone has good advice or resources for Renoise beginners, please let me know!

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This is good stuff! Keep it up!

Subtle creepy bass is killer on this one... nice work

Sorry to hear that. I hope my music wasn’t the reason for your clogged ears. Good recovery.
I am not familiar with such devices you are looking for. I am using old oldschool stuff. I like the drone and the punchy junglebeat of yours.

Nice work showing up on a tough week.
Those are the weeks where I think it builds and shows the character of someone looking to progress with their art. And I think weekly beats is a great thing to train that. Not a bad little one for a skip week and learned something too. Nice job!

short and sweet...good contrasts, I like.

Wouldn’t have guessed that you were just “punching the clock”. Cool stuff!

love those glitchy FX in the background and the pads are nice

Drum Bender wrote:

reporting for duty, captain!

Ihmelaama wrote:

This is good stuff! Keep it up!

thank you!

DataJanitor wrote:

Subtle creepy bass is killer on this one... nice work

Thanks! i struggled with the bass a bit so glad to hear you enjoyed it.

Q-Rosh wrote:

Sorry to hear that. I hope my music wasn’t the reason for your clogged ears. Good recovery.
I am not familiar with such devices you are looking for. I am using old oldschool stuff. I like the drone and the punchy junglebeat of yours.

Thanks! music is hopefully helping the ears and not hurting them :-) Thanks for listening, I really appreciate it.

myfirstpunksong wrote:

Nice work showing up on a tough week.
Those are the weeks where I think it builds and shows the character of someone looking to progress with their art. And I think weekly beats is a great thing to train that. Not a bad little one for a skip week and learned something too. Nice job!

Thanks! I really appreciate the support.

Ashen Simian wrote:

short and sweet...good contrasts, I like.

Thank you!

Suhpos wrote:

Wouldn’t have guessed that you were just “punching the clock”. Cool stuff!

That's really nice to hear, thank you

ddmm64 wrote:

love those glitchy FX in the background and the pads are nice

thanks, i really like those parts so glad to hear it

epic vibes to this one. like the momentum

I liked whoooooahhhhhhhaooooooh synth. Coupled with the beat it reminded me of some of the great bgm from half-life 2.

mnapoleon wrote:

epic vibes to this one. like the momentum

thank you!

slatodotnet wrote:

I liked whoooooahhhhhhhaooooooh synth. Coupled with the beat it reminded me of some of the great bgm from half-life 2.

Thank you!

Digging the harmony on those resonant synths against the FM madness!

Welcome back for week 2, congrats! Love the synths here, nice.

I'm going to be sitting on my rocking chair as an old man and this song pops up on a nice sunny gorgeous day and say..

"What a wonderful day.. you know what it needs? CHAOS!"

And I just belt out into an elderly rampage. But the energy coming off of this infectious!

Dank Receptor wrote:

Digging the harmony on those resonant synths against the FM madness!

Thank you! I appreciate the listen and the comment.

miraclemiles wrote:

Welcome back for week 2, congrats! Love the synths here, nice.

Thank you, always good when you come back for more haha. Thanks for the listen and the comment, i appreciate it.

s0nlxaftrsh0ck wrote:

I'm going to be sitting on my rocking chair as an old man and this song pops up on a nice sunny gorgeous day and say..

"What a wonderful day.. you know what it needs? CHAOS!"

And I just belt out into an elderly rampage. But the energy coming off of this infectious!

haha, amazing, i can totally picture it. Thank you for that!

Well you've definitely done better than me at Renoise thus far.  I've had a quick shot recently and also in the past but I have next to no tracker experience and it doesn't seem to gel well quickly with my workflow.  I'd love to as I love some artists from way back who did mad beats with trackers.  I think I just have to spend a lot of time learning them but I think that's the problem also. Choose your poison as they say.

rdomain wrote:

Well you've definitely done better than me at Renoise thus far.  I've had a quick shot recently and also in the past but I have next to no tracker experience and it doesn't seem to gel well quickly with my workflow.  I'd love to as I love some artists from way back who did mad beats with trackers.  I think I just have to spend a lot of time learning them but I think that's the problem also. Choose your poison as they say.

thanks for the comment. yeah i think it's just a personal choice. when i was originally looking at hardware and daws, i really couldn't understand how they worked until i saw a tracker. then it all clicked. But even within trackers they all work a little different from what i can tell.

I had used ableton a little at first and it actually led me down this dawless path because i was so dissatisfied with it. Now i'm happy with renoise and happy in a daw again. I'm really just feeling my way through this whole thing haha. I think my north star is the ability to get into a flow state while making music. If there are things that are pulling me out of that it gets frustrating.

nedsferatu wrote:
rdomain wrote:

Well you've definitely done better than me at Renoise thus far.  I've had a quick shot recently and also in the past but I have next to no tracker experience and it doesn't seem to gel well quickly with my workflow.  I'd love to as I love some artists from way back who did mad beats with trackers.  I think I just have to spend a lot of time learning them but I think that's the problem also. Choose your poison as they say.

thanks for the comment. yeah i think it's just a personal choice. when i was originally looking at hardware and daws, i really couldn't understand how they worked until i saw a tracker. then it all clicked. But even within trackers they all work a little different from what i can tell.

I had used ableton a little at first and it actually led me down this dawless path because i was so dissatisfied with it. Now i'm happy with renoise and happy in a daw again. I'm really just feeling my way through this whole thing haha. I think my north star is the ability to get into a flow state while making music. If there are things that are pulling me out of that it gets frustrating.

Yep, love the flow state when creating.  I get that big time on the modular in particular.  I'm a long time Ableton user so it can happen there also but it's not AS fun because there's something about that physical interaction too.  I think I may admit defeat on the trackers as there's so many amazing workflows available these days.  I'm a heavy Octatrack user too so I can get some similar tracker styles there (beat chopping/mangling).

Flow state is king for sure!

Very nice tune. I liked it. You could see some things happening for it.

One of the reasons I retired was I wouldn’t have to drive to work on subzero two single digit days. Be careful and good luck.

This is really sweet! Love the contrast of background and foreground. Lots of interesting things going on.

OleJazzer wrote:

Very nice tune. I liked it. You could see some things happening for it.

One of the reasons I retired was I wouldn’t have to drive to work on subzero two single digit days. Be careful and good luck.

Thanks for the listen! Yes it's a tricky time of year and need to always be careful.

pineapple_dan wrote:

This is really sweet! Love the contrast of background and foreground. Lots of interesting things going on.

Thank you, Pineapple Dan! I appreciate the comment

Lots of tasty modulation in this track heart

Welcome to Renoise! i'm no expert, so i shouldn't give advice(i learned mostly from the docs tho, they are great and it's fun to explore them as you find the need), but do enjoy ALL the included plugins(my absolute fav is 'Convolver'... i use short-duration files of one-shot bells(careful of loudness), soft-reverberated whispers, or just the tail-ends of reverberated synths, and it's got such beautifully diverse power given all the params there)

RajaTheResidentAlien wrote:

Lots of tasty modulation in this track heart

Welcome to Renoise! i'm no expert, so i shouldn't give advice(i learned mostly from the docs tho, they are great and it's fun to explore them as you find the need), but do enjoy ALL the included plugins(my absolute fav is 'Convolver'... i use short-duration files of one-shot bells(careful of loudness), soft-reverberated whispers, or just the tail-ends of reverberated synths, and it's got such beautifully diverse power given all the params there)

Thanks for the comment and the convolver recommendation! I am also finding the docs and their short videos helpful as needed. Nice to know I'm on a well trodden path.

I need to learn renoise as well. Good chopping here, wild synth timbres too! I'm excited to see how learning Renoise influences your tracks to come!

scottux wrote:

I need to learn renoise as well. Good chopping here, wild synth timbres too! I'm excited to see how learning Renoise influences your tracks to come!

Thanks scottux, I really appreciate the comment

cool track, love the moody chords against the synth gurgles and squeals

and yeah i feel your pain i always get clogged ears when i'm sick too, it's the worst. hope you recover well

Renoise users unite! I have been using Renoise for a long time, hmu on the discord if you have any questions!
(and tag your tracks with 'Renoise'!)

hhuwoa wrote:

cool track, love the moody chords against the synth gurgles and squeals

and yeah i feel your pain i always get clogged ears when i'm sick too, it's the worst. hope you recover well

Thank you thank you!!


XC3N wrote:

Renoise users unite! I have been using Renoise for a long time, hmu on the discord if you have any questions!
(and tag your tracks with 'Renoise'!)

Thanks, i will definitely take you up on that. good point on the tag, i need to do that.

Very squeaky
- Ebrit

at least you punched the clock!

this is chill and frenetic at the same time, equal parts of both

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