Comments on: Renoise 1.9 Music App Begins Beta; Why You Shouldn’t Overlook This Tracker

By: Create Digital Music » Your Top 10 Music Tech CDM Stories of 2007

Create Digital Music » Your Top 10 Music Tech CDM Stories of 2007 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:34:19 +0000

[...] #10: Renoise 1.9 Music App Begins Beta; Why You Shouldn’t Overlook This Tracker [...]

By: armstrong

armstrong — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:19:58 +0000

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By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:52:44 +0000

Im used to soundtracker on the amiga so renoise is simply an amazing piece of software. loving it.

By: John

John — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:55:01 +0000

Renoise is cool. I’m still waiting for AU support on the Mac. I used to be a heavy Tracker user long ago and was happy to discover Renoise at v1.281. It keeps getting better. It might not be for everyone. But it’s a great sounding app and if you get proficient in some of the effects you can do stuff that is really difficult to do in other apps and can make your stuff maybe a little different. But there’s a million ways to mash-up and tweak sound these days. If you just pull some good samples off your sample CDs, you can be up and running in renoise so much faster than the time it takes to setup an environment in other apps like Cubase. I recommend everyone give the demo a shot at least. I like it more than most other host apps out there, but it does have it’s limitations.

By: conner_bw

conner_bw — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:59:41 +0000

If you use OS X, you don’t really need Rewire. The IAC driver (midi) and the open source soundflower app pretty much fill the gap, at least for me.

By: Derek C. F. Pegritz

Derek C. F. Pegritz — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:27:33 +0000

I write almost ALL of the synth parts, drum tracks, etc. in my music in ReNoise–and have for the past three or four years, since I first discovered it by accident. It has to be the easiest, most intuitive, and most powerful tracker/sequencer I have ever used. Period.

Honestly, I hate MIDI. Everytime I try to do something like sequence a bassline with Sonar, I have to doublecheck 8,000K settings and I/O options before I can even so much as make the damn program utter a blip. All I have to do with ReNoise is load a bass sample and start sequencing.

By: Wallace Winfrey

Wallace Winfrey — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:07:01 +0000

Anyone who wants a tracker inside of Live (or any VSTi host) should check out reViSiT, which is basically Impulse Tracker II inside a VST plugin. Windows-only, but there you go: http://www.nashnet.co.uk/english/revisit/

My only issue with it is that it’s not Renoise.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:59:08 +0000

Re: working with Ableton –

I’d say any app that has a plug-in mode or ReWire support is potentially a companion to Ableton Live. I don’t imagine Ableton will ever add tracker capabilities to the app; Live has its own approach for the same tasks, and that’s what the program is. But while for some readers here an either/or formula is best, that still wouldn’t stop you from using these tools side by side. (In fact, even without ReWire/plug-ins, you could stream audio and MIDI easily between apps on Mac, for instance.)

By: atarix

atarix — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:54:47 +0000

I used a lot sequencing apps but now its renoise & protools.
The best solution ever for me.

p.s. In the past it was FT2, SKALE & Nuendo.

By: Eroc

Eroc — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:09:34 +0000

it’d be nice if some piano roll DAW software such as Live had an integrated tracker. Like you could create a “tracker” track on the arrangement view and start tracking away…. but only for a track or two in the mix, not for the entire song — like let the piano roll handle everything else, as trackers are only “good” at some things like percussion and otherwise creative/intricate sampling. Having come from tracking into the world of MIDI and softsynths, I still miss that aspect.

You might wanna http://www.skale.org/. Its a VSTi tracker that works great. I sometimes drop it into my cubase projects. It looks like their main web site is down for right now but you can still get to the download links.