8 Mar
2010
8 Mar
'10
2:34 p.m.
Atte André Jensen wrote:
rosea grammostola wrote:
:)
It was better if I started a new thread about it, obviously [offtopic]
marks wheren't enough to make it really offtopic. On the other side,
it's not really offtopic, cause you use Renoise.
But let me state clearly that I really appreciate your music, I listen
to it and let others do so ;)
[offtopic]
One thing is popping up in my head, after listening quit a bit to music
made with Renoise, posted on this list and other places at the internet.
The music made on Renoise sounds good most of the time, but I get the
feeling that there might also be a negative aspect of the tool. I'm not
sure if I'm right about this and not sure about what it is exactly but I
think that 1) you can hear that people use the same tool, e.g. they have
similarities in sounds/rhythms/musical tricks... 2) the mixing is always
sounding 'smooth' in my ear, a bit too smooth maybe. The first music I
heard made in Renoise sounded really good in my ear, but I feel I'm
getting a bit bored about it sometimes.... not sure what it is...
Hmmm. Since this implies you're getting a bit bored with my music I have
to answer :-)
I don't think the program sounds in any particular
way, and I can't
think of any "renoise tricks". But two things might make renoisers
sounds similar:
1) The simple fact that people with similar musical goals are attracted
to the program. Makes sense for a not-so-general-daw as renoise (I
wouldn't record my jazz quintet with it, for instance).
It could be that it is time for me to listen to some Miles Davis records
again ;)
The non-electronic ones...
2) The community is sharing their music, much like we
do here, and
although there's a lot I don't care so much for, there's some that
really inspires me. It might work the same way for others.
Mmh yeah interesting how this might work.
An example of something that changed for me it master
compression. When
doing the first album I swore I wouldn't take part of the loudness war,
and no master compression was used. Now I realize that on most tracks on
the new album, the sound I hear in my head involves quite heavy (for my
standards at least) master compression. My involvement in the renoise
comunity, might play a role in that. But it's not really renoises (or
the communitys) fault, just something I picked up and decided had to be
a part of my music.
I often hear that 'American records' are mixed heavily and
'smoothly',
while in Europe they tend to let the sound a bit more as it is. Maybe a
lot of Americans use Renoise then ;)
This might also be a discussion about Linux modular stuff compared to
Renoise. It could be that it can be hard to let a recording/ mix made
with Linux tools, sounds very smooth. In Renoise this isn't a problem at
all obviously, but then the question is what you like best...
I wish you many times of 'flow' Atte ;)
\r