Just curious who else is doing it? I started with electronic stuff, but with time moved to experimenting with acoustic and orchestral.
I mainly do orchestral stuff. I love me some farty brass and silky strings!
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I do, but i mix in beats and sound effects for a sound similar to old analog audio cartoons. Some of those had mad sound design. All tapes, lots of pitching. Written orchestral pieces or sampled. Pretty cool stuff.
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I did that once, and I found renoise is quite nice for writing orchestral pieces because the tracker interface make ostinatos and runs so much easier to edit, and it is easier to control the dynamics since the both notes and automations are so tightly packed each other, opposing to the event editor or automation tracks in linear daws that you have to switch back and forth just to make some horns to swell evenly.
I will definitely do it again once I have figured out how to use phrase to map CSS articulations.
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Besides my main genres like Jazz, I like to write minimalistic orchestral music. For virtual instruments and key switches Renoise is superior to use, I know by experience… 17-18 years of FL-Studio before Renoise.
Okay, this thread is way too old to answer but anyway.
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Oops, I missed this thread. Yes, I also regularly use Renoise for orchestral music.
Renoise is a good DAW for this style of music. I think it has gotten a bit of “bad press” in the past, being pigeonholed as a DAW for electronic and experimental music. That was a mistake for me, and maybe that’s why so many people are missing out on this great DAW to use in other styles…
The only problems I’ve encountered are the typical string libraries that are hard to match when playing fast, but this is a problem with the libraries, not Renoise (Renoise offers plenty of resolution to be able to trigger notes very quickly).
I wish Renoise would go the route of being able to be used to sync with images. Being able to create music with Renoise more easily for music videos or even small soundtracks would be ideal. It’s like a tool to be able to sync with video is missing.
But otherwise, I can do anything at an orchestral level. It’s just a matter of organization and using the right libraries and plugins (a whole forest full of options in itself).
I’ve made minimal orchestral music (piano plus strings style) or bombastic music of all kinds with full orchestra and use of synth plugins and ambient sounds, vocals… The possibilities are endless.
Also, Renoise includes a ton of effects options for tracks, groups, and sends that work really well (no need to buy anything else). In fact, you can get really good sounds with instrument plugins by overriding the included effects to make them sound dry and using Renoise’s track effects in detail to get even better results, looking for overall uniformity. I’ve been surprised by this myself. I think there’s a lack of information on the internet about this in particular. Instrument plugin effects are overused, when Renoise can take those dry sounds and unify the effects, all without buying more effects plugins.
Of course, I recommend Renoise for orchestral music of all kinds.
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My main issue with orchestral strings is that there’s no soft midi-cc implementation. If you write the CC1 in the pattern editor, because you make the string-expressions while playing the song, it sounds “clicky”. There needs to be some sort of effect like in the filter-effect.