What Do You Do With Your Controllers And Renoise Live

Ideas & suggestions
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Hi

I’m wondering what controllers people have and how they use them to control renoise live.

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Personally, I assign a slider to a hydra device and a couple of gainers to crossfade tracks. Then I put various effects on a send channel and assign sliders, knobs and buttons to various params.

I mean…that’s really it, in a nutshell…I’m sure there are better ways to do things…

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Ok, thanks, sounds reasonable. Two questions:

  1. When playing more than one song live, how do you remember which effects/params are assigned to which knob for each song?

  2. How about song structure? Are you running the same pattern for the whole duration of the song, fading things in/out? This is actually one of the things I can’t really find a good way through. I’d like to have some kind of workflow/setup that would allow more jam-the-structure kinda performance.

NB: I realize it depends alot on the kind of music we’re talking about. But although I never tried Ableton Live, it seems to me that although a renoise+controller setup could be more flexible, stuff like this (what should my controller control, esp with song structure) is “taken care of” by the way Ableton Live organizes musical ideas.

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You could make a system that all your songs fall under so that your controllers always control the same parameters per song. That seems to be the most reasonable way of doing it.