Introducing myself

General Discussion
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Maybe it is time for little introduction

I am Renoise live musician and 3D hobbyist located at Turku Finland. Been using Renoise since 2.1. My first touch to trackers was around 1999 at Elevator party at northern Finland. I saw Fast Tracker 2 in use at the party place, strange lines of text running vertically and >BANG< I was captured for the rest of my life. Then I tried Impulse tracker, Scream tracker, but mainly used FT2. We made lots of music with friends just for fun. I remember that most interesting back then was that if you saw somebody elses tune in xm format, it was very educating.

Around eight years ago I lost totally my faith in modern society and tried to move living in forest at countryside, trying to live self-sufficiently. I was without computers couple of years. Then I started wondering what the problem is, was it the society or just me, so I came back to live in cities. I Bought a laptop and got strange calling to start doing tracker music again, found my old xm files from old hard-drive, used FT2 again through Dosbox. And then I was googling around and found Renoise, and I could not believe my eyes. I thought that tracker scene was kinda old-fashioned, but no, it was ever-evolving. Then I began to dream that maybe I would become electronic musician after all.

Then I started making music under name “Rægæ System” and I try to make my tunes danceable. At gigs I try to rearrange my tunes on the fly and I am very interested to have real instruments involved, somehow routed through line-in device.

Very recently I got the feeling that I need to start publishing/sharing/performing more instead of just dreaming and filling up my hard drive with unfinished songs : D

I have also started to move towards Linux world, now having Ubuntu alongside Windows.

Sometime ago I was googling about what really are the advantages of this tracker phenomenon. Not really found the answer but (surprise) ended up to Renoise forum to this thread -> The Tracker Advantage , found It-Alien saying: “…even after many years this program will still surprise you.”
So true, still surprised

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Ha, kinda went through the same thing, started tracking with Modplug and Psycle, liked the method but I moved on to a more “modern” DAW. I still always liked watching old tracker songs in Modplug but it was just an antique to me until I found Renoise like 6 or 7 years later, never expected to find a tracker that had continued it’s development so far

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Nice to see that there’s other Finns also trying to make some music. I started to use that program when had a movie project Sanelmi Murakami - Suomalainen Mies, it was 2012 or something. There was a good demo song that we used in the movie

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Welcome Raegae! I am more of a recent renoise convert, having tried many things till finding renoise, what I find to be the thing I had been searching for so many years.

On a side note, I very much enjoy the sound of the Kantele, in particular when performed by a band called Nest and I am also a big fan of Tenhi. Finland is a very beautiful country, one I hope to see for myself one day.

I also encourage you to publish anything you create, i find sharing what we create by any means to be a gift that is beyond words.

You are also in good company here. :slight_smile:

Edit : Just noticed this post is from 2 years ago. Think I need to work on being a little more observant. :smashed:

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No worries Abissus :walkman: You are so right “… i find sharing what we create by any means to be a gift that is beyond words.”

Juhaharsila: can you see or get that “Sanelmi Murakami - Suomalainen Mies” movie from somewhere ?