has anyone heard of renoise being actively promoted by proffesional musicians ?
as in ;
mentions in interviews / live performance / mentions on sleeves of releases etc. . . .
as is the trend with lots of hardware (guitars synths drums etc)
and has also become popular with software in recent years. . .
for example :
native instruments using electronic musicians (richard devine etc) to promote their products. . .
i saw the thread about venitian snares using renoise live (video proof etc) and as he is one of the more popular of the IDM (horrible name) artists. . . i wondered if he had been approached by the renoise team for marketing and involvement in developing ideas. . . . ?
“Native Instruments using” already sounds nasty in my ears, they probably “hire” instead of use.
But it’s an old trick in the book, give away your product for free to a celebrity in the hope they will advertise with it.
They do this on Broadway and Hollywood for quite some decades.
So if you want free stuff, become a celebrity.
But giving products away sort of sounds like materialised prank spamming to me…
The fact that Renoise is being demonstrated in magazines or tv-shows already tells enough about the good mouth-to-mouth advertising.
If it becomes bigger over time it’s not that bad but becoming enormously popular within a very short time would probably have a very stressfull effect on the main programmer:You can’t answer questions and mails from thousands of happy or less happy users.