Renoise is the only sequencer (that I’ve seen) to have both speed and bpm side by side, what is the relationship between the two?
All I know is that if you reduce the speed count the general tempo gets faster.
Renoise is the only sequencer (that I’ve seen) to have both speed and bpm side by side, what is the relationship between the two?
All I know is that if you reduce the speed count the general tempo gets faster.
the time unit for all trackers (not only ReNoise, then) is the tick.
A tick represents the amount of time which passes from an audio processing to another.
The speed parameter represents the number of ticks which form a row.
So, if you set the speed to 2, each row will be formed by 2 ticks, while setting it to 6 (default) the row will be formed by 6 ticks, meaning that Renoise will process the audio 6 times during a single row.
In every tracker, BPM basically represents at which rate 24 ticks will be played.
Why 24? Because, being 6 the default speed, each beat related to BPM will be 4 rows long, which can be considered default in music (4/4 tempo).
All transforming effects (volume ramp, glide to note, and so on) have different weight on the sound, according to the speed parameter: the higher the speed (e.g.: speed 06 is higher than 03), the more a single command will have effect on the audio, because it will processed more time (e.g: processed 6 times rather than 3).
Maybe such answer should be added to Renoise manualReNoise manual; if you developers need a longer explanation for the newbies section, feel free to ask me.
… don’t think all trackers is correct though.
And anyway, this (a little bit confusing) speed parameter will
be replaced with something else in a later version.
See one of the pinned threads in “ideas and suggestions”
for a discussion about that.
The resulting effect is that the BPM setting only represents the correct value when speed is set to 6. Is that correct?
Cause i believe when i set speed to 2 (what i do mostly, in order to have a higher pattern resolution) renoise won’t be in sync with external devices (synth or fx-unit) that are set to the same BPM. Please correct me if am wrong
Loolarge
when you set speed to 02, referring to a 4/4 tempo, each beat will last for 12 rows instead of 4.
If you interpret a beat as four lines, yes. If you interpret it as a number of ticks (24 to be accurate), then read It-Aliens post.
Sorry, i did not read It-Aliens first statement entirely. It allready does answer my question. When i set speed to 2, each beat will be 12 rows. So i’ll rather set it to 3, that way a beat is 8 rows. This way the BPM should be in sync with my other devices, right? (always using 4/4 tempo)
Thanks,
Loolarge