From Renoise’s point of view, it’d be logical to point out physical releases made with Renoise. As if to say: listen to this, it’s awesome and it relies solely on teh hex! Ofcourse there’s tons of awesome music not being physically released, but I’m also thinking it’s the artist’s responsibility to promote his/her music. If Renoise wishes to promote the tracks not being pumped into the planet by mass media, I guess it needs to be more active and extravert on various community sites, forums and perhaps also the ‘real world’.
Maybe a Renoise CD? It costs only a few thousand euros…
I’m a tad confused about this topic… This is not a question of how to get good music noticed, but a question how to get good Renoise music noticed? At the same expense one could ask how to get good FL Studio or MPT music noticed. I don’t see the point. Or do we just want to get Renoise noticed in general?
Somehow it seems a bit funny to underline the software when talking about good music.
Good music gets noticed when promoted properly, preferably through a label/company that has contacts and the desire to shoot your music up the sky. Or if you’ve got yourself contacts already, use them. And if you want to point out that it was all made with Renoise, do so. But “good Renoise music”… It’s starting to sound a bit elitistic in some manners to me.
“Look how good music you can make with Renoise!” “Oh yeah? Well look at this FL Studio track, how good is that!”
And to make things sure: no offense whatsoever. I love Renoise and I hope more people would take the time to try and buy it but I don’t want to categorize the music as Renoise music.
This just in: Timbaland uses Renoise to make beats!
Oh, and if you want the Renoise format to be noticed then it’s a whole another thing and can’t give any pointers in that. Too bad my filesizes are enormous and the desire to use VST is everlasting.
How about Renoise Weekly Top 5 Tracks picked by various Admin.
And as time rolls on, an entire section of archived favourites including
“ALL TIME BEST”
This could already exist with the information on the song forum,
“most downloaded” and the ratings…etc
No, I’d say Suva’s Remixta podcasts are a great example of what this is about. A much better listening experience than having a playlist of individual tracks (or even xrns files for that matter).
Foo?, you’re right to point out that, since this forum often sees many
great music come and go, we (the Renoise USERS perhaps, rather than
the renoise DEVELOPERS) need to think about ways to promote that.
What we have in common is our love for that music, and the software
we use and thus (perhaps?) our approach to producing.
Although I think artists are responsible for their own promotion, there is
no hurt at all in helping eachother with that. One of the options could be
to use what we have in common as a ‘means’ of promoting eachother.
So I DO mind What we could be discussing here is HOW we can help
eachother ‘network’.
In my opinion, the services you provide Foo?, is a great example already:
mastering sessions INSIDE Renoise, how killa! Same goes for Suva’s Remixta,
like many already pointed out.
It’s not about promoting the software here then, I think, but its products. Just
because WE made it, WE believe in it and we just happen to have the Way of
the Hex in common. So! Our own Netlabel, Podcast, Facebook Group, Soundcloud,
Myspace, Whatnot, except instead of constantly referring to Renoise, we’d refer
to what it’s about: the music we love.
The counter got stuck on 303 views…
There is a hint-remark that says it gets so many views the counter is not being updated anymore and i should check again in a few hours…
That was a few days ago that i saw that remark for the first time…
Perhaps i don’t want to know the real figure that it should represent at current…
Or YouTube folks turned it off so they don’t have to pay too much royalties which is actually fraud with figures, which is my suspicion.
Should i write Sony Music?
I don’t understand what makes “Renoise songs” special. I know we’re all proud of the software we use, but honestly this is like going out there trying to sell “Guitar songs”. It’s an instrument, what comes out of it is sort of irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
Also, it strikes me as a little bit desperate. I know we want to sell how rad our chosen platform is, but you don’t see “Ableton songs” or whatever. It’s just music.
What would be nice however would be if established artists granted Renoise.com some quotes/recommendations for them to slap in a box on the front page. Perhaps even some interviews for in-depth.
Because, y’know, i’m assuming we want to sell more Renoise copies, not our own songs. We already have plenty channels for that
Wow, finally a sane voice! I don’t get it either. Good music is good music. I don’t care if it’s made in Renoise, Abletron, Soundfridge or whatever: it’s just a tool. One better promotes Renoise, not “its” music whatever that may be.
i would also say that this has nothing to do with rns- songs, but a true issue can be found over at kvr-forum.
in the “largo is a flop?!” thread there are a few ppl who try to discuss a few downfalls.
and renoise is mentioned there…
i dont think mark was talking about renoise specific songs… more about the music that’s made by people that go around these parts. there is a difference in there you know…
what wrong with trying to discuss to get our music out there ? you silly people.
edit
ok yeah i can see the topic title might have given that impression … n/m
I agree with the sentiment “who cares what tools you use” but Foo? is talking about the Renoise community and trying to brainstorm on how to create a social network that benefits us because, well, we exist.
There is no “Reason” or “Ableton” community so to speak.
There is a Renoise community though. Much less to do about the tool itself, more to do about the camaraderie of people who seem drawn to tracker interfaces.
All tracks end up as sound waves in the end-- regardless of the tools used to make them. It seems like everybody is trying too hard to justify their preferred method of audio production, and in doing so they belittle their medium. No painter is trying to justify that good paintings can be produced with Reeves or X brand of paint. I prefer the “Check out this track I made…” method-- and if somebody asks then I will tell them… And, if not, well that’s perfectly OK because not everybody who likes music particularly cares about how it was produced.
I’d love to see a cd/dvd filled with renoise source files. Just as you used to be able to buy cd’s filled to the rim with mod/s3m/xm files. Last one I bought was in '97 or so.
That would exclude the use of vst’s though imo. Or just dupe every person that doesn’t have that specific vst.
Anyway it would fit in the tracker nostalgia and Renoise would be the only tracking program that deserves such a cd with it’s accomplishments over the past couple of years.
Well, for me it’s more the other way around — it’s a way to promote Renoise/Demoscene? Those still don’t get anything close to the mainstream attention they woud deserve. So yeah, make good music and then link to Renoise… instead of asking what Renoise can do for you!
