Renoise 3.3: Making A Jungle Tune Really Fast To Show How Fast You Can Write Music In Renoise

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[@Aksuloid]

"But I like geckos, so it's probably good". This is the absolutely rock solid logic I look for in a composer. Good stuff.

[@guynamederik]

I've been using fl studio for 20 years... My inspiration died some time ago. Renoise has awakened my creativity. It's a pain to learn but worth the creative flow. Nice work!

[@mindexpansionpuzzles]

Tried making jungle tunes with FL and that shit took forever.

[@ekids.bassment]

@@mindexpansionpuzzles You should have a look at Sonic Pi. Here is a example of someone creating a jungle track live, under 7 minutes. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYHEn2edh7iqkNU

[@JayJay-ki4mi]

I sold my Ableton Suite 10 after many years of use. I purchased Fruity Loops because I needed something different and fresh. I just couldn't get the hang of it. I dusted off my renoise license from 2017 and finally started getting productive. It takes some time, but the creative possibilities are endless. I'm also a programmer so I prefer to be "mouseless". Renoise 2022 crew bois!

[@mindexpansionpuzzles]

@@ekids.bassment This is nice, wish I knew code like that.

[@digitalbeat666]

I have been using trackers over 20 years. Fruity Loops really killed my creativity

[@JacobPadlock]

The fact that I've been using renoise for 12 years and still learned new keyboard shortcuts from this vid...

[@XyNoST]

Well they changed all the command letters on everything since 2.8 so not surprised that you still learn new shortcuts today

[@SafariAtari]

Started tutorial thinking about downloading Renoise today. Ended it with just wanting to listen to a ton of Jungle.

[@maranathashalom9402]

Got any new jungle in man?

[@deeeksidesound2368]

This could turn Harekrishna into a badboy!

[@mackenlyparmelee5440]

Just started getting into trackers yesterday with LSDJ. Holy shit, sound design while composing. I don't remember the last time I had so much fun making music. I might have to learn renoise.

[@YoupiMatos2]

Holy shit I did exactly the same. I recommend learning Renoise if you had fun with lsdj

[@superactivitylad]

i appreciate the videos. its great that more people are talking about Renoise again.

[@intelligenceservices]

tried learning renoise a few times, like really digging in to learn all the things, but since i'm more experienced with side scroller daws, i usually go back to them because they're easier. but there's something about renoise that i like and whenever i re-visit, i realize i forgot everything and need to re-learn from complete scratch. i'm interested again which is why i'm at this video which is pretty great, but i was looking for a video on "how to draw a note" in renoise hehe.

[@ultrajayme]

i remember the first FL version. that dates me to when i was 18. i used it until around version 5. then i had to move on because it hadn't bothered catching up with its sound engine so igot into Reason and Ableton. Then took a break from production and found Bitwig and Renoise. 24 years later it's bitwhg and renoise. thanks for the video. (you should have seen what FL1 was like lmao)

[@BlueCardinal33]

This is the definitive Renoise demo. Thank you.

[@croay]

Video was really helpful and the track was actually quite cool. Thanks for the effort, mate, not so many people talking about Renoise.

[@NickLewis]

My first ever tracker was probably OctaMed, so it's nice to see these apps again. I purchased Renoise last year and want to dust it off again for some more sound adventures!

[@infesticon]

Wonder if the polyend tracker has got people talking about Renoise again. Also I cheered when he said "amiga style"

[@thordy9526]

I just got my Polyend Tracker a couple of days ago and I'm having a lot of fun with it. I'm getting more used to the workflow and I've surprised myself with how quickly you can get musical ideas out of it. I've heard a lot of people talk about Renoise as a cool tracker DAW alternative so now I'm tempted to check that out, too.

[@aneveningwithebola2727]

I mean, that's how I found out about it.

[@robjoyner1167]

I just found out about Renoise watching a Polyend vid

[@NickLewis]

I reckon it has yeah

[@benitobanana3943]

I knew renoise before polyend existed but i never used one , so yeah, kinda polyend who brought me here

[@untilde]

Noice to see more beginner tutorials on KZbin. I wish we had more when I started

[@prototype9000]

Glad its not one of those videos where someone sits there for 3 hours and only ends up with 30seconds of music that ends up kindof being bad

[@ghal3on]

super helpful man thx. Just starting with renoise as my first DAW - using it with an Akai S1000. I'd love to know more about the special commands youre using, never thought of doing it that way.

[@HChun-wd6mz]

super helpful, wish you can make it into a full song! cheers from california, dude! :)

[@Farvadude]

keep making these videos because they're getting better and i think you'll drive a lot of traffic to your channel over time since renoise is so niche and there's not much for decent tutorials on it (hence why i never used it and always wondered why you liked it so much. i'm actually kinda surprised you're still using it as your main DAW)

[@2free2snakes]

Renoise is exquisite.

[@boiYuChillin]

what a don! i'm going to try renoise - seems perfectly tailor made for classic jungle breaks

[@JayJay-ki4mi]

Amazing video. I've seen people make dope jungle on milky tracker, and FT. Crazy.

[@KimStennabbCaesar]

Trackers are the way when it comes to jungle.

[@summerlaverdure]

hella based man, thanks for the breaks

[@ASgfjyhgyi]

Cool!!! Let's do it again!

[@tabletdejuan90]

This video was a nice discovery!

[@MrLIVE150]

Dude that was nice DOIN"T Trip !

[@mephisto212]

Heck yes. Make it work! My man!

[@brainrottedindividual]

cool vid, thinking about getting renoise rn. kinda dig the workflow.

[@djevile6508]

New to renoise I’ve been using ableton and slicing up amens for the last few years and it takes a long time I’m hoping this will make it so much quicker and easier

[@xisotopex]

good track!

[@FernandoGomez-uq4rl]

Man when i hear your voice ( it has to be the mic) i feel like im hearing the radio when i drive a car hahahaha . thnx for your work

[@kalibration]

Funny thing about that is I actually used to do talk radio 😛

[@bostich1]

Amazing!

[@VK2FVAX]

I enjoyed that song snippet. I wish you'd finish it and release as an mp3. Would buy it.

[@J-Hz]

Very fast workflow!

[@neonvoid]

trackers are made for jungle/dnb. great work! (besides of chiptune)

[@iwannabeawitch]

i wish i can be like you one day

[@azvka]

Tyvm for this

[@zeenagual1962]

Yeah man , I listened to your advice . I'm writing this while downloading my paid (got demo ) ⚡️RENOISE ⚡️!... I have Polyend Tracker , its great with headphones in bed to make and break some beats , before sleep , to prepare for the day ahead haha , make sure I got some nice strong beats at my disposal to counterbalance the brunt of Matrix . Renoise looks so much deeper . I will have a wild ride !

[@xavierhill5085]

I use Renoise 2 to make gabber I really appreciate your tutorials now I'm interested in jungle. Can you make some liquid drum and bass

[@cookiescleared]

you got my hopes up clicking the folder right above the devil daggers samples....

[@kalibration]

My bad

[@reph_]

i'm not sure of everything that's going on, but this is the sickest shit ever

[@davidbundgaard]

Hi, amazing how fast you turned that into something good, as a newly tracker, where did you get your sound library? Can you recommend websites, shops, etc? Keep it up, really nice and inspiring.

[@chudstation6913]

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[@nikvalinsky]

Is that an Alberto Balsalm quote in Fred Durst's Revenge? It's definitely an Aphex Twin-esque melody

[@nikvalinsky]

Oh yeah cool tutorials btw

[@mezzs]

hey man, sorry if this has been asked before. i just recently got into renoise and i got synth1 but mine doesn't really have anything aside from the default sound. do you know where i can get more like the ones you use?

[@b.l.h.d1300]

how is that amenbeat sliced set?

[@shyimon]

Does the Up/Glide command actually work on VSTs? I always assumed it only worked on samples

[@kalibration]

unfortunately only on samples I'm pretty sure, you have to make an Instrument MIDI Control effect and then enable+automate the pitchbend for VSTs (or set the glide/portamento settings in the VST, or automate what youre trying to do inside the VST, or a million other things...)

[@XyNoST]

Surely but not with the traditional 0UXX and 0DXX. If you can MIDI control your VST, just check what is the #CC of what you want to control and check for the command for editing MIDI CC (cant help you on this one, it is really rare I use midi instruments and VSTs so I don't remember this command)

[@GrueneVanilleWaffel]

how much does renoise cost? what do you think of sunvox? or dirtywave m8 (teensy, headless m8)? thanks :))

[@jamirajamira7303]

I subconsciously pressed CTRL.

[@lalolanda2239]

when i write the different notes they are just pitch shifted and it looks in your video that different notes mean different start point in the sample... what am i doing wrong ?

[@rorz999]

When you add slices, it behaves differently, i.e. you're no longer entering the same sample at different pitches, rather each not corresponds to a different slice

[@ecselGaming]

Mate this was too fat, can't believe you made this, this quick! Big up 🤜🤛

[@gingataff]

1:37 how did you do that? what are you pressing?

[@kalibration]

do you mean just playing the song? i hit the space bar for that, if you mean punching in the drums I did that on the top row of the keyboard, if its something else let me know

[@gingataff]

@@kalibration I meant punching in the drums. I guess it comes form experience but knowing which beats to play each sample on.

[@kalibration]

@@gingataff ah yeah I am working on a tutorial that goes into specific about that now, should hopefully be done and uploaded before the end of the year

[@gingataff]

@@kalibration looking forward to it!

[@Claudiocauchy]

What microphone are you using?

[@kalibration]

For this video I used either a $5 3.5mm karaoke mic from a yard sale or some kind of cheapo USB headset my friend was going to throw away, can't remember which

[@Claudiocauchy]

@@kalibrationThanks. I think it sounds pretty cool. Reminds of the Terran SCV voicelines from starcraft 2 and gives the video quite an otherworldly feel.

[@SirBoycie]

I really hope you can help. I downloaded your sample pack (thanks!), made sure Renoise was displaying exacly the same as yours (same settings etc.). used the same sample, and randomly keyed in Amen slices in the pattenn editor. As usual it just sounded like a stuttering mess. So I made sure I copied your pattern exactly as in this video. Again on playback it was disjointed and stuttering. What am I missing? I've seen a bunch of Renoise videos where people effortlessly put together random Amen patterns that sound excellent, but I just don't know what I am missing here. Thanks!

[@kalibration]

you might be having an issue with your audio buffer being too small, under edit->preferences->audio you should see an option for "latency" or "buffer size", try increasing that and hopefully it should be resolved once it's high enough. if that doesn't do the trick, upload a .xrns project file where it's doing that somewhere and send it to me so I can take a look and see what's going on

[@SirBoycie]

@@kalibration Hey man. Thanks for the advice. I took another look at this. It was not a latency issue. It was my timing of the triggers that sucked lol. I should have paid more attention to the steps. Also I was using the wrong Amen Version 1 sample so that didn't help! I'll get there in the end :)

[@Brandonvilches0721]

How do I enable bar skipping

[@kalibration]

It should be enabled by default? if youre using the default keyboard bindings on a US qwerty keyboard, you just use ctrl + any number on the top row (not numpad) of the keyboard. if youre not, or thats not working, you can go to edit>preferences>keys, go to Phrase Editor in the dropdown menu there and look under "Edit Step" to see what the deal with your bar skip shortcuts is

[@ivanmassimo4769]

i dont know why but today my renoise started to behave badly.. if i keep a note pressed or the delete button while renoise is still the cursor wont go to the next step as it used to do... do anyone know what's wrong with that?

[@kalibration]

is the note-skip/edit-step set to a number above 0? on a QWERTY keyboard you can hit Ctrl-1 (using 1 from the top row of numbers, not the numpad) to set it back to 1, and it should work again. you can also use the edit-step dialog at the bottom of the pattern editor, its the 3 squares with an arrow pointing from the top one to the lowest one, if the number in that dialog box is set to 0 then change it to the edit step youd like. if neither of those works, let me know and I can look into it more

[@ivanmassimo4769]

@@kalibration thanks for that .. later when i get back home ill try that...

[@ivanmassimo4769]

@@kalibration thanks man.. it was as you said.. i was getting mad and i thought i had checked all the possible options but i wasnt even aware of that little arrow... greetings

[@kalibration]

@@ivanmassimo4769 glad I could help!

[@ivanmassimo4769]

@@kalibration do you think renoise will be discontinued ? it's a shame they aint updating it...any longer it still lacks important features ..sidechaining or midi in and out within renoise itself..

[@Xerin]

how do you get fat bass like that? I can do bascially everything on renoise but bass is just so annoying and hard

[@kalibration]

To recreate the kind of bass sample i was using from scratch, you can either take a sample of an 808 kick with a long tail, or make your own out of a sine wave using volume+pitch modulation, then put some distortion (set to Shape mode, the sweet spot for Amount is 25-40% imo) and maybe an Exciter on it (the Extreme preset works fine)

[@Xerin]

@@kalibration thanks man!

[@HChun-wd6mz]

I 2nd what Kali said, few days back I was able to make a real sick bass by using the tail of an 808 kick, looping it and adding distortion, compression and such. You'd be amazed at the results :)!

[@dutchdykefinger]

in renoise tool browser is also a tool called "custom wave generator/synth", which is pretty nice it lets you make sine/saw/tangents/squares from the right click in the sample editor menu just choose C-0 on the 2nd row (so the 1st one goes to C-0 and it makes but 1 sample), put cycles on 1. now you have a single sample with a single pulse at C-0, just like them old chiptunes, and since it's C-0, it wil always upsample, turn on forward looping on the sample, and bob's your uncle, it will already be mapped on the keyboard properly. don't forget to put the instrument volume to like -6db or -9 if you don't wanna die, finally add a lowpass filter on the track (or instrument fx) to to take off the dirty edges now you can chase a kickdrum with a tonal wave, and control the attack curve adn decay times with the ADSR envelope in the instrument modulation, you can map those to instrument automation too if you want to put an lfo or automation on it orso later, to add some variations to the envelope lengths and spice things up a bit for extra razzmatazz you can put a signal follower on the kick and have it trigger a gainer on the track for the bass "synth", only opening up as long as the kick is there sometimes i use a track on the left that has signal followers and trackers and hydras to control the rest, post mixer all the way down on the track itself, so the input still gets processed, which turns it into a dedicated "transport" channel with sophisticated control over triggering all the key tracking and signal following goodness you need (formula device is the bomb too, for inverting logic and stuff)

[@Xerin]

@@dutchdykefinger huh that’s cool, I didn’t know that was a thing. Thanks

[@AT-eh2eo]

Mannnnnnnn if only they had a player in reason that sequenced via tracker!!!

[@guynamederik]

Download renoise redux.... It's a vst

[@AT-eh2eo]

@@guynamederik ive thought about it, but i dont think it sends midi out. id want to control the parameters of other stuff as well

[@aephyxen8437]

damn, I'm tired of ableton. I'm going to give this a shot, it looks fucking sick

[@partlysimpson5154]

is that true that you can get away with old cpu while using renoise?

[@kalibration]

if you use just the built-in effects and sampler then yes, VSTs can take up a lot of CPU though

[@aayt02]

im still too stoned and mentally incapable of following this tutorial, can you make renoise for dummies 😂

[@djlinux64]

this is the for dummies version

[@proptosis2682]

How do you use step skip ?

[@kalibration]

The default keyboard shortcut is ctrl + numbers (top row not numpad) if that doesn't work check Preferences>Keys for what your "Set EditStep" keys are

[@proptosis2682]

@@kalibration thx u a real one

[@Sirvateriano]

1:17 where is the "step skip" button?

[@kalibration]

bottom of the edit tab, the 3 blocks with an arrow. it's to the right of the big Q and to the left of the vol/pan/dly/fx buttons. alternatively you can set your skip amount by pressing ctrl+(number) using the number keys at the top of your keyboard (not the numpad)

[@Sirvateriano]

@@kalibration omg thank you i've been waiting for a respond, tyvm

[@deeemess]

Great video but it's at 420 likes and I won't be responsible for sullying that

[@kalibration]

thank you for doing the right thing

[@deeemess]

@@kalibration it's ok, someone else ruined it

[@VNDM-MUSIC]

Synth1? Talk about ancient... nice tune tho!

[@digitalbeat666]

its not fast Fast Tracker 2 is. I never have used copy whole parts like in 5:36 as I am stuck using the same commands I have learned and used over 20 years of tracking

[@JimmyHandtrixx]

Any tutorial to learn the commands?

[@trevor_mounts_music]

Synth1 is the GOAT. Undisputed. If you can't get it done with that, dexed, or vital you can gtfo!

[@RosssRoyce]

You should lower your voice a bit, you sound too humble, not self important 😝 Nice vid!

[@partlysimpson5154]

This jungle is cool, but its very generic

[@Shlankyman545]

Video title says it all.

[@martijnonlinedotcom]

I tend to get lost in all the filters, but you don't even use any.... I should look into that