Using Renoise In A 'live' Context

General Discussion
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Hello everyone

I have recently discovered Renoise and am really enjoying the experience so far.

I have looked through the forums but can’t see any topics relating to people using Renoise for live performance. I just wondered if anyone does do this and how you go about it?

Once I’ve got a bit more into Renoise I’m sure I’ll come up with some ideas for using it at gigs. But I was curious to see if anyone else is doing this already.

I am new to trackers generally - indeed, Renoise is the only one I’ve used - and I would like to find an alternative to using something like Ableton Live.

Many thanks

Leon

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/me points to the search button

There’s at least a good 20 or more threads on the subject… and even a few youtube videos.

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Ok, thanks. I did search earlier but couldn’t find anything. Will look again.

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Hi Crow, good choice of soft! You ask for experience with Renoise for live performances? Well, I’ve played with Renoise on a number of occasions, and it definitely has its benefits and downsides.

Compared to Ableton, Renoise is much more snappy in terms of switching channels, patterns etc. You can really f*** things up in a good way! Biggest thing you can for yourself is to learn as many of the keyboard shortcuts by heart as possible (especially the “global” ones). Go to the preferences > keys and hit the “print” button. Read the paper every night before going to sleep for a month, and you’re good to go B)

Downside is, you’ll find it hard to “add” anything new to an existing track, while performing (I’m not speaking about effects or plugins here, more in a tonal/note-wise context). For this reason, my feature suggestions are, for the most part, directed towards the live performance aspect, because I feel it’s almost there. So here’s a little lowdown on the ones I’m personally most interested in (it will also give you a pretty good idea about the present limits to live Renoise usage according to /me):
#1: Toggle Follow In Sequence Editor
#2: Keyboard Shortcuts Mapped To Midi
#3: Crossfading Send Device
#4: Target Instruments With Midi

Oh, and then there’s the general points always worth noting about live performance / improvisation:

1: anything is possible.
2: any electronic musician will have to be extremely well-prepared, to be able to improvise.
3: (but that’s my personal opinion): people don’t care if it’s live or not if the guy looks funny, jumps up and down and waves to the crowd. Well, I dont do any of those things.

Track on :yeah:

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The + modifier helps a LOT ;)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8M_kvK5Q3I

:panic:

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Most are just “can’t be done, use Ableton instead” type replies. Makes me sad…

But then I found this one, it deserves to be sticky:
The Renoise Based Liveset

I’ll share my setup there as well, and stop spamming feature suggestions for now :slight_smile:

Hehe johann, point taken. It’s wicked stuff - and hard to do. But not impossible, just like I pointed out - ;)

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Thanks everyone for your help. I am still new to the programme so have a lot to learn, but was just curious how far you could take Renoise. But I am feeling right at home already. Even after just a few days playing around I have been so much more productive than with ANY other software. Can’t believe I have never tried tracking before!