Electric Rock And Roll :)

[Erik_Sjostrand (CLeRIK)]

Hi! I just finished my first Renoise track, made in Renoise 2.5. It is a demo for a song in my band. The effects and sounds (except 2 cymbals) are all from Renoise’s original library (plus the bonus pack that registered users get). The vocals are recorded in Reaper.

Please share your thoughts

Also, can you integrate the player from SoundCloud in posts?

• EDIT: I recorded the lyrics, sounds pretty bad at some points though

[cAMEL]

arrrr, ahoy matey.
welcome to ship of renoise.
i see pirates sailing and drinking grog…

hilarious track, i like it!
nice shot for first one, keep on going!!!

cAMEL

[Erik_Sjostrand (CLeRIK)]

Does the track remind you of pirates?
It is meant to be played in my band, we’ll probably only do the drums and perhaps the synths in Renoise. I still like to write the whole arrangement to get a sense of the whole track. I finished writing the lyrics today, so perhaps I’ll record them and post a new version

[maes]

gulligt! (=

[Erik_Sjostrand (CLeRIK)]

@Lili357

Ok, it’s your first so…

Well done, it’s constructed. But to my ears, the overall sounds like “muffled”.

At the end, when things are mixed, together, it doesn’t sounds bad but my major critic is about the high parts of the track.

The guitar diserve to rock and to take the lead of the others instruments; at least, in the first part.

Boost the beat a little too…

Cool

Yeah, I get you… I could probably play a lot more attention to the melodic instruments (guitars, bass, synth), but they will be recorded in the final version. This is just a demo really (and a good way for me to experiment and play around with Renoise). Only the drums (probably) will be used in the final version. I agree that the beat should be boosted, I should probably replace some of the samples and play around with some EQ, width and panning. Maybe some more ghost hits wouldn’t hurt either.

[Erik_Sjostrand (CLeRIK)]

@Lili357

Well, if it’s just like “to organize your mind” and polish it after, seems you know what you want exactly so it was just a tiny critic.

Lyrics will be on which language ?

I very much welcome the critic! I am new to making music this way, and hope to gain more information on “electric” music in the future, since were inspired by these sounds, using them in more of a rock/pop-setting. I think it is hard to program cool sounding drums. A lot of people seem to be using loops, and applying effects and extra beat samples on top of the loop, so maybe I’ll try that

The lyrics are in English. I have actually uploaded a new version where I sing the lyrics too: Stream Breakdance by Erik Sjöstrand | Listen online for free on SoundCloud
The vocals are a bit off at many times, its just a demo recording after all. I’m not the lead singer in the band either (I play electric octave mandolin, and do some programming)