Hi there guys,
well, first of all: Sorry if my English isn’t perfect; it’s not my mother’s tongue.
I am VERY new to the renoise forums, just signed up, mainly because I have some questions that bothered me for some time now. Maybe you guys can help me out
I fooled around for quite a while now with renoise (love it :D), but well…as I said I just kinda fooled around with it, and never really finished anything.(Btw: talking about breakcore here).
About a week ago I started a new Track, and from the beginning on I had a feeling that I’m going to like it.
I kept on and on working on it, and now it’s about 2:10 long.
It took me some time, but I realized that a lot of the stuff that sounds good in my opinion just came up randomly… I don’t really have a work flow I can stick to…Mainly I look for samples I want to use, and fool around with them, so the finished product is actually pretty random in the way it sounds…nothing is really clear when I start producing something.
In many interviews and on some Wikipedia pages I read that Aaron Funk (Venetian Snares) uses a lot of odd time signatures, 7/4 being his favorite. So I started wondering how you actually make beats in a desired signature, since my beats are random most of the time.
Now, I know how to count a 7/4 beat for example (-ONE-, two, three, -ONE-, two, three, four), but how does that apply to some of the tracks he made?
Let’s take the song “Find Candace” for example…
at around 0:39 the beat comes in, and according to the Wikipedia Page it’s supposed to be in 7/4…but where would you start counting that? Is it the kicks? The snares? I have no
idea what actually make a time signature in percussion with that complexity…
How do you count odd time signatures in songs that complex, and what tells you that, for example, it’s in 7/4?
Is it the repetition of like…the kick or something like that?
How do you set renoise up to get a wanted time signature? (Lines per beat, Pattern Length, etc.)
Because the metronome seems to keep counting a 4/4 beat, no matter how many lines you add to a beat.
Do you guys have any -simple- example-xrns.files that show how to apply some time signatures to your percussion?
Hopefully you guys can help me out a bit with that problem^^
Kind regards,
ENAR
P.S. if anyone wants to check out the track I started working on a week ago, I just uploaded it to soundcloud: