Hey! I’ve really wanted to take the time to learn renoise properly and make a few solid tracks with it. Partially for the hipster “look i use a tracker and not ableton like everyone else” and partially because it’s the only DAW that I legally own. However, there’s a few things that I can’t figure out right away: triplets and adding more subdivisions.
By default, everything is broken into 16th notes. This is fine for most of the time, but if I wanted to add say, a really gritty hi hat at 32nd note divisions, how would I do so without taking the entire track and basically making it half time? Surely there’s an easier way. Similarly with triplets, although it’s theoretically possible to create a triplet-y feel with 16th notes over a 1/4 beat, it’s not the same as true triplets. Is there something I’m overlooking?
Thanks!
Easy way to make triplets is to change the LPB or Lines Per Beat to 12 and the pattern length to 48. That gives you 4 beats of 12 lines, 12 beats of 4 lines (triplets) and 16 beats of 3 lines.
Another way is to use the phrases on an instrument to make it play at 3 LPB, even if your song uses 4 LPB. There are a couple of triplet presets in the phrases section.
The classic way would be to set the delay on the second and third triplet note in a 4 LPB pattern to 55 and AA. Suva says it well in this post:http://forum.renoise.com/index.php/topic/8796-triplets-in-renoise/#entry138180
You basically do this:
A-500…–
C-500…55
E-500…AA
…
A-500…–
C-500…55
E-500…AA
…
A-500…–
C-500…55
E-500…AA
…
There’s a handy tool for quickly laying down a bunch of fractional notes, triplets, fifths or whatever:https://forum.renoise.com/t/new-tool-2-7-2-8-fractional-notes/34603 Works in 3.0.1. Right click in the pattern editor/track/fractional notes.