rhowaldt
January 9, 2011, 12:23am
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this may be a fantastic tip to some and an insanely lame-ass one to others.
sometimes when i’m making music (in Renoise), i add an EQ 10, set my mind on how the sound should be, and start from there with gradually adjusting the EQ envelope. in this process, my über-creative mind often discovers nice line-shapes, which can be ‘redrawn’ by a couple of sliders, thus having a quite fluid and easy control over the line. when my mind gets to this point of view i am already only half-listening to the sound, and feel as if the shape of the envelope might actually prove a good choice for the sound. i’d like to give you three example-drawings i’ve made this way.
Renoise_EQArt_example.jpg
the 1st one is a mountain with a steep incline. the 2nd one is just your regular mountainpeaks. the 3rd one may at first glance seem like another mountain, however, you are wrong. this is a drawing of a little boy growing out of the ground with a white sheet over his head pointing up at the sky.
try it! it’s fun.
elfh
January 9, 2011, 1:16am
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cool drawings, like it a lot
rhowaldt
March 19, 2011, 2:06am
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@td6d : fucking genius.
now, to resurrect this thread, which was supposed to be about EQ Envelope Artwork, and discusses a reversed approach to soundsculpting, namely envelope-sculpting (read the original post).
the new dots on the envelope can become eyes, holes, moons, stars, or maybe even basketballs.
instead of the sliders, you can now draw you envelope artwork by using the dots. pretty cool, very alternative. but personally i’d rather use the sliders/numbers (of which the latter, by the way, should be made automatable. you could maybe even do animation then. how sick would that be, creating an animation of the EQ Envelope over a bunch of patterns, making insane moving drawings and then suddenly listening to the sound again and realizing it is genius - damn we need this)
the new Phasemeter (the potential colors of which is covered in this thread ) makes instant psychedelic animations, in sync with your music. so try and make a entheogenic pulse on your Phasemeter and suddenly realize the music that infuses this pulse is just as goddamn brilliant as your Phasemeter hallucinations.
i sure hope more people will join me in my philosophy, i might even start a church, a proper church, with required payment and brainwashing machines and paranoia goonsquads and little boys sucking old dudes’ Johnsons.
rhowaldt
April 9, 2011, 12:14am
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update: a new sidebranch has sprung up from this movement, built around phasemeter animations and/or artwork. check it out here: https://forum.renoise.com/t/that-new-audio-vis-window-what-is-the-name/32005
rhowaldt
May 27, 2011, 5:24pm
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check out the renoise screenshot i created because sharevari asked for it (download it for the right colors, it shows up fucking in my browser): https://forum.renoise.com/t/hot-renoise-screenshots-wanted/32246
rhowaldt
June 11, 2011, 12:58am
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was playing around with LFOs, Hydras and EQ5/10s tonight, and found out you can also make animations with the described technique. sadly, i have no screen casting software, so i hope this works:
copy-paste the below code into your DSP chain area. (select, copy, Renoise, right-click dsp area > paste device chain)
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<value>-1</value><br>
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<visualization>Device only</visualization><br>
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<value>0.0</value><br>
<visualization>Device only</visualization><br>
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</filterdevicechainclipboard>
you should see a bat flying in the EQ5. adjust the 506hz Q-value down to around 48, and the bat has turned into a vulture.
td6d
June 11, 2011, 12:29pm
9
EAGLEEE!!!
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