I would like to hear your music made with Renoise or other Daws

Here’s a song from my newest album of my game, Breakneck: Emergence! I really like the dubstep / trap feelings it has.

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The story is this Tiger gets harmed by the protagonist, continues to fight beyond his red line, and then gets abducted by the bird boss so they can survive the alien tournament.

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Finally, here’s another track for the Tiger, building up his grind fire powers from his stripes.

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Nice work on this album! Plain of various parts and breaks, you make a big work on the sounds.
Also I like the rough artworks, quite strong.

I love everything about it, but your treble stings a bit – I think you could sand down some of the very high frequencies to round it out. But I love the bass, guitar, overall groove – it’s all there!

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Thanks for the advice Ted Curran, I agree with you on this one !
I often have issues with eq and work on that lately to improve the general balance of my tunes… Since my ears are fooling me, I should look for a more scientific method :wink:

Here is a song I made only using Helm VST, but not sure if I should continue. Sounds a bit trashy:

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Pretty good, and I like the trashy sound. Reminds me a bit on Detroit Techno stuff (e.g. Cybotron). The drums are also HELM?

Yes, I made it for KVR OSC (using a single synth only), but never finished it.

Crazy that you get such kicks out of HELM. I guess there’s a lot of processing afterwards.

Yes, multiple compression and eqing. I think it’s more the sound of the neat Renoise compressors.

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I don’t really hear much differences between compressors and most of the time I have problems to find the optimum of the settings in general. What’s your listening environment btw (speakers, treated room, etc?). I have some acoustic treatment and the ringing times are quite ok, but the frequency response below 150 Hz still sucks. To get this right I would need much more bass traps (already have 8).

I switched back to very small speakers, actually cheap ones too, seems to work best for me. I have no idea about room treatment. I have a carpet on the floor and pillows behind the speakers :laughing:

5 inch speaker? Actually I have Presonus Eris 5 which only go down only to 60 Hz. They are quite good for the price. And then I just bought a pair of iLoud MTM last week, which give me much more bass, but I’m not yet convinced that this helps. Maybe I will send them back.

I am no expert in mixing, so I think I cannot give you any good advice. I am using an used pair of ESI near 05. Doing the low bass on headphones. I think the ear can compensate for missing low bass, as long as there is a bit at least. I think the smaller the speaker, the better the mix has to be. I do not have a proper explanation for this. Maybe because big speakers can’t react as quickly due lag. Or if your transient sounds great on big speakers, it might sound shit on small speakers. Then you would pull all transients down, so the depth relation in between the instruments still matches or so. Yeah, maybe small speakers can react faster on transients.

I want to sell my Presonus Eris 08, everything sounds good on it :laughing:

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Yes, small woofers have a quicker response and the problem with big woofers is lag (verdeckte Mitten) of mid-range.

I really like using the Digital Filter’s Chebyshev 8n setting to create a very wide bandpass filter that just slightly rolls off the very highest and very lowest frequencies. You can apply it on the master, or on individual tracks as you see fit. You can play with the cutoff, Q, and ripple settings to allow the frequencies you want to pass through.

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It’s a quick way to add that “lo-fi” sound to any mix, and to get boomy bass and brittle treble under control. To my ears, it replicates the frequency band we’re used to hearing in analog tape recordings. I just try to get the sweet spot so its not neutering the bass or muffling the high end.

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Helm has a lot of potential, but I find the best sounds I get are the ones I make, not the presets. A lot of the presets are too trebly and “trashy” sounding, but I’ve had good results using it as a jumping-off point and then processing to taste.

Hm, I think Helm lacks of precise control, the reverb is not very good either. The filter sounds mediocre, or at least for some types of sounds. I didn’t use any preset. The noise generator is very basic. Ok, but such critic is unfair for a completely free synth. But I like those drums, even if it doesn’t sound stable. I won’t use Helm again though. But curious for their upcoming wavetable synth.

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yeah the new synth Vital seems cool lets hope he implements an accessible modulation system like the one in serum

Made this loop in Renoise from a bunch of glitch sounds I’d created a while back. Put a nice abstract gif alongside it to compliment the audio.

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