A simple question, just for the interest of how people use Renoise.
If your default value differs from the one you usually set, you may answer the latter Feel free to explain why you choose your setting and we might learn something, if you want to.
My pattern length is usually 64, just because I’m used to it. I started with Protracker (and in Milkytracker, it fits nicely in one screen without scrolling).
128 with 8 LPB for me as well, at least for 4/4. That carries over from my IT days when more rows per beat meant smoother pattern effects. And 32nd note drum fills without using Qxy.
It just works best for my kind of music.
If I use 128 @ 8 lpb I find myself making less intresting music, as in not enough progression or too much chaos.
That’s why I switched to 256 recently.
There’s something about working at high LPB keeps my brain focused and moving. I suspect it’s a combination of seeing structure at a high level of detail and having to keep track of the higher order structure in memory. The latter forces me to think and hear music rather than look at it. Also a lot of the renoise tracks I’m most impressed by seems to have been written at ridiculously high bpm.
My default is 0x50 (80), since I like to compose in 5/8. It’s also easy to mix 4 against the 5, just divide every 10 lines. LPB 8 but I’m thinking of switching to 16 for that super fine grained control.
48, I was using 96 for the same reasons as other users. I have started usings 1 bar length patterns so I could do this:
Basic overview of entire sequence (each block represents 16 bars)
Where I am in the sequence
The entire sequence comes to 256 bars (would be 128 with patterns 2 bars long and this doesn’t give as good an overview) which is about 5mins 50secs @175bpm which is good for me.
I have this as part of my default template if anybody wants to try it?
Its really helped me get tracks finished knowing exactly where I am in the song with the added bonus of not having to label anything in the sequencer.
Feels fast and lethal like this, and I don’t have to sit through acres of scrolling when I am testing things out in a pattern, which may have the part I want to listen to at the end of the pattern.