My latest track made with Renoise. This is mostly driven by Surge VST and, even more importantly, the Virus TI emulator by the Usual Suspects. No hardware this time, I think.
Renoise-wise, I mostly used some favourite sequencing tricks that I’ve been using since 1998 on Fast Tracker2… well, we didn’t have convolvers back then, nor fx chains… eh forget I ever said anything
I like that you’ve managed a 10 minute song, in which you’re obviously talking about our near future, to not being boring. I just think that you could improve the balance. The hats are too loud and the synths and basses are too soft in comparison with the drums (through speakers). And personally I would have used a delay device slightly on the vocals (to echo the last syllables of the words - for example the “ness” of the word “darkness”). Besides the pitch shifting it still sounds pretty dry imho. Nevertheless nice work!
Well, I think it got somewhat brighter in the master, I always mix all my highs about 2db lower than it comes out after the (automated) mastering.
Playing with vocal samples like that (repetitive, more trance-y) is a bit of a challenge for me, I can’t e.g. pull of many pitchshifts I had in mind.
Delays I like (in Renoise) include Delayorama, but that’s a wild beast that can explode a song:) So I played it safe here. Mostly Calf reberb.
thanks again, cheers!