Comments on: You, Too Can Learn Renoise: Video Tutorial from Dac Makes you a Tracker

By: Human Plague

Human Plague — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:39:09 +0000

Ears aren’t visual?

By: wi_ngo

wi_ngo — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:17:11 +0000

I’ve never done the tracker thing, but have always been curious. This still seems a little confusing to me. I mean, I get the concept, but the workflow throws me off a little.

Probably because I’ve been doing the horizontal (or spacial, as Simon so eloquently put it) sequencing thing since the days of Opcode Vision… I guess I’m just set in my ways at this point.

By: Simon Lacelle

Simon Lacelle — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:17:35 +0000

@Bantai I think the reason for that is that the now “mainstream” MIDI sequencers are quite visual while trackers are just a grid of numbers. This might work for some people, but many others, including me, are more at ease in a spatial environment. (I spent my entire childhood with Legos)

By: shamburglar

shamburglar — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:57:51 +0000

@beatniks3, thank you… there are a couple posts there that represent all i need to know right now.

By: mallyone

mallyone — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:15:05 +0000

Is it just me, or are the renoise web servers under a bit of strain? I’ve been checking back and first the blog went, now I can’t get to the main site. I want to have a flashback to my shitty appartment of yesteryear where I first came in contact with an 8-bit tracker.

m1…

By: beatniks3

beatniks3 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:13:00 +0000

shamburglar, check out this renoise beginners thread: http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php?showtopic=21940&hl= it talks about HEX including why its used.

By: shamburglar

shamburglar — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:46:59 +0000

I’ve been using Renoise for quite some time now… but I watched this video and it demystified one very important part of Renoise that I have been having trouble figuring out through the docs… The pattern arranger window… can’t believe its that easy to use. I’ve been working on one pattern at a time and have had very little idea how to select and work with different patterns, I’d been just changing the pattern number of the current one until I watched this. Now I see you can actually edit one pattern while another is playing, awesome! Thanks DAC.

Now if somebody could point us all in a direction that makes HEX easier to understand it would be appreciated. I keep a chart next to me at all times b/c I just can’t seem to wrap my brain around a non base 10 system. I always kind of wished Renoise would integrate a dumbed down number system that maybe has less resolution than HEX but is workable. This has been a problem for me back in the Fast Tracker 2 days, just had to fumble my way through it.

By: Bantai

Bantai — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:51:51 +0000

@rohka Yes, that’s what I mean! Trackers used to be easy to learn and horizontal sequencers were much harder to dig through.

But now it’s like the world is upside-down. Trackers are said to have a steep learning curve, compared to for example Cubase. We’ll conveniently forget the “Fast Guide to Cubase SX” has 469 pages.

By: rohka

rohka — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:32:25 +0000

I really still can’t understand why anyone would want to use something like a piano roll to make music. The tracker interface has always felt more intuitive to me. But, as always, to each his own.

By: Jimmy Jams

Jimmy Jams — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:31:35 +0000

Next question…what’s this about new Macbooks etc with “significant audio improvements”?