Recording live sessions in Renoise 2.5+ the easy way

This tutorial shows you how to effectively make use of the pattern matrix and doing live recording sessions based on track-clips rather than focussing on making modifications to the pattern editor.The only thing you need in this matter is a reasonable tight hand which i obviously don't have. Fortunately, there is always the Quantize option ;)
Well, the outcome is crap, but you see what i'm getting at and that is the purpose of this tutorial.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Renoise
• 2.5
• pattern matrix
• live recording

[erpeeferr]

To be honest, i just watched this and i'm not any more clever than before.

[vvoois]

@erpeeferr It depends on what you need.

But every program has its lacks. Renoise ain't perfect for everyone either, but that is just a simple fact of life that counts for everything.

[simonwellander]

Is there any way to quantize the notes?

[vvoois]

@simonwellander :

You can turn on Quantize mode and tell it to quantize the notes to a minimum amount of lines (Notice the big white "Q" button on the lower right of the video and next to it the figure). If you experiment on pattern leven which LPB/BPM rate matches your best input using Quantize mode set to 1, you can then go back on the track the above video explains.

[WARDISWARD]

32 lpb ..why ?

You can get a perfect resolution with 8lpb and pattern delay function on .

[vvoois]

@WARDISWARD

Yes you can, but if you don't want to correct mistakes with note-delay values (meaning:you don't want to touch the pattern editor at all), 32lpb is a safe way.

The example was directed towards using only the matrix to work with stuff.

[vvoois]

@tykkefar It depends what you desire exactly.

Renoise 2.5 also comes with a lot more midi mapping options which makes it easier to control by external gear. And cross-track routing of dsp effects and a signal follower allowing you to create better side-chain configurations.

[tykkefar]

No reason to upgrade my old version yet i guess :(

[fanihelvete]

Thanks for this tutorial. I'm just getting into Renoise, having gotten sick of trying to run Buzz on Linux. I've always preferred to work with trackers, but one problem (not necessarily, but for me) with them is their tendency to make your music very cyclical and repetitive. You spend so much time and effort on one pattern that you kind of forget the rest of the song. I would like to make more linear music, and this idea is very helpful.

[vvoois]

Yes you are right regarding real tracking. There are more limitations here with this method like the the required craftmanswork on the automation and currently the Matrix does not support Continues paste yet which makes this workflow even more limited. Perhaps during the extension of the Scripting API, it allows us to add such thing as well for the matrix.

But if you are a beginner musician and simply want to jam in some stuff, this is definately an easy start to quickly get something recorded.