going to back RENOISE

General Discussion
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I started with Renoise in 2014 for 8 months and created 7 tracks. I switched to Logic Prox in early 2015 as i use a MAC.

I realize i’m more productive and much more creative on RENOISE. In fact, i’m just happier with the tunes i made using RENOISE.

AFter I mix my two tunes I created with LOGIC, I’m back to RENOISE for good.

Why?

  1. Arranging makes much more sense to me

  2. I’m more creative

  3. Sequencing workflow

  4. I love sampling in RENOISE.

  5. Chopping is easy

  6. It sounds good

I just feel I have a different vibe with Renoise.

i’m sure there’s more.

I’m excited again … now with 3.1 out i’m very very excited.

anyone left Renoise to find out they are more productive with RENOISE?

Keep evolving RENOISE. I love it.

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I’d guessprobably every user here in these forums feel they’re more productive in Renoise than in other DAWs, so you’re in pretty good company…

It’s certainly a great music production tool in so many ways, no doubt about that.Theonly negative thing about Renoise IMO is that it hurts towitness such a great project not lift off andattractmore users.Also the complete radio silence from the developers isquitea pain to endure for 1-2 years, as we don’t even get to know if there is any further active development of Renoise going on at all.

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Also the complete radio silence from the developers isquitea pain to endure for 1-2 years, as we don’t even get to know if there is any further active development of Renoise going on at all.

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… Theonly negative thing about Renoise IMO is that it hurts towitness such a great project not lift off andattractmore users. …

But hey, why not start Renoise-club at Your town, like I am doing here. More users coming every day !!! : D

I also teached Renoise alongside “Lets make computer games”-club to 10 year old kids. Kids grab the tracker concept very fast.

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I was using trackers at 90’s and after that I had many years break from computer music. Then I find Renoise around 2008 and BANG tracking again I was. I have tried Fruity Loops and also Logic when visiting DJ frends. But for me those programs just feels like they are hiding something fundamental from me. So I just can’t escape tracking.

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I enjoy and use Renoise because it’s more immediate than other DAWs. To me, it feels more like an actual instrument with a more direct connection between brain and machine. It sort of “sucks me into the zone” more than other music software does. It also diminishes the visual aspect (or distraction), which in turn emphasizes listening to the sound instead of looking at it.

I do think that DAWs like Logic and FL Studio are more accessible and will seem more familiar to people who grew up with graphical UIs (I didn’t: Amstrad 6128, and only a couple years later the first GUI-based system, an Atari ST). I want to say that it’s easier to make a basic track with these heavily graphical DAWs, but that actually wasn’t my experience. I had a Renoise pattern going (and expanding) much faster than I had clicked-in/painted notes and figured out what I need to do in those multi-windows interfaces where I always feel I need five monitors to actually work comfortably.

While I believe that the curve between raw beginner and intermediate e-musician is steeper with Renoise than with more graphical DAWs, I feel that it will eventually be off-set by higher (faster, less click-y, less brain-overhead-y) productivity.