Been writing a lot of new songs recently (you can find the already released tracks at www.planetdamage.com/music ) and I’m planning to take this to the stage. Thinking about using Renoise as a DAW/performance core and adding some sort of a live hardware to work with. Have you guys used Maschine JAM/Studio/Mikro with Renoise? If so, is that a valid and working piece of setup? If not, what other gear would you recommend or have good experience with?
(Especially interested in the synergy of Renoise and Maschine JAM but at this point anything goes, really.)
I use my hardwaresynth, a Roland SH-201, not just as a synthesizer, i also can use it as a MIDI controller. All the knobs and fader’s can send/receive MIDI signals to/from the DAW. Works like a charm. Here’s a pic of that Synth:
Normally it is a pure synth. But all its knobs and fader can send MIDI CC to inside the DAW via USB. So i can also use the knobs and faders to control all kind of things inside a DAW like with external MIDI controllers. I mainly map it to macro controls inside Renoise. But it’s not very portable because of it’s size.
If you look for some gear, which is also well portable, then i can recommend these two little boys:
So yeah the basics works, the controller editor is also really good so I can imagine you can do pretty much anything with it, one neat thing to note is that you change matrix page so you can map a insanely huge amount of stuff if you want.,ss there anything you want me to try out?
This guy seems to have his entire setup built around Renoise and looks like a fully live setup, he answers questions in the comments too about this setup…maybe worth a try.
Basically just like a launchpad with 2 launchkontrol.
I’d like to see a sweet setup using 2 joysticks…people go nuts for that ish ( they can understand how the sound is changing in relation to something they can see ).
I’d also like to see a setup with 2 expression pedals on the feet and a 16XPads or keyboard ontop.
I’ve also got a fondness for alternate mode pankat and want to see it in use more often.
All the alternate mode stuff in a band along with a zendrummer, and a linnstrument player, all using renoise!
I hear a lot of people still rate the Korg padkontrol more highly than any other pad controller.
Ableton Push2, Mashine MK3 and MPCX all have some nice pads too.
Its slightly more budget but for the price I’m really happy with AKAI MPD218 pad sensitivity ( it still doesnt register the lightest possible hits, but it is nice, you can still play softly…you dont have to smack the pads hard like MPC1000 and MPC500 ).
Maybe the Korg padkontrol sensitivity is better though. I’d like to try it out.
I hear a lot of people still rate the Korg padkontrol more highly than any other pad controller.
Ableton Push2, Mashine MK3 and MPCX all have some nice pads too.
Its slightly more budget but for the price I’m really happy with AKAI MPD218 pad sensitivity ( it still doesnt register the lightest possible hits, but it is nice, you can still play softly…you dont have to smack the pads hard like MPC1000 and MPC500 ).
Maybe the Korg padkontrol sensitivity is better though. I’d like to try it out.
The reason people still like those pads, is because they are built different:
“…they also have a very firm comfortable feel, and a great response which is even over their entire surface, including the very edges. They’re definitely a cut above the usual squidginess you get with a lot of pads on drum machines.” -https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/korg-pad-kontrol
So being ultra sensitive anyways, you also dont have to hit/touch the middle, like with lotz of others around…very accurate feel!
I’ve been playing around with the LK controller app for my Android tablet – using that to control Renoise. It can be a matrix, a chorder, a keyboard, a mixer. At this point it seems like a good way to get a lot of the tactile functionality of a hardware controller for a fraction of the cost.