Public Album Update 9 – First Sample Up! – Renoise Registration – Thoughts

JS — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:09:37 +0000

Renoise Has Been Registered!

As you can see from the above image, I’ve finally registered Renoise. This will allow me to export my tracks to WAV format, which I can convert to MP3 and post up for you to hear.

First Official Sample of ‘Public Album’ is Here

Alright, the wait has been long enough. Posted below is the very first sample of the ‘Public Album’ project. The player you see below is how all the samples for this project will be posted. Give it a listen and then I’ll explain more about how things are going below.

001

How Writing Will Work

So, let me explain things. The above track sample is called “001″ because this is the first track I have written for this project. If I work on this track more, it will still be called “001″ and when I create the next new track, it will be called “002″. I will be adding tags to each post where I work on each track. So if you want to hear the development of “001″, for example, you can click on the tag “001″ and start from the beginning.

What you’re hearing is a few bass lines I wrote, recorded, and added to the tracker on top of some simple drum tracks. Until further notice, this is how I will be creating my tracks: writing bass lines and putting them to drum parts. While I am writing this way over the coming weeks, I have a very big project ahead of me – organize and go through all of the thousands of instrument samples I have installed. Once I go through and organize all the samples, I will be able to start fleshing the tracks out with more instrumentation. Thus, the songs will (and this project), will grow.

~ JS

Tools and Equipment Part 2 – Tracking Software – Public Album Update

JS — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:47:04 +0000

Renoise 2.0 - My new music creation toolkit.

In my last post I talked about the different equipment I am using to create Public Album with. Specifically, I referred to my history with (and affinity for) tracking software.

Between the time I discovered and used ScreamTracker for DOS and now, I migrated to a Windows based tracker called MadTracker. MadTracker is an incredibly rich and amazing tracker that I had much success with over the years. However, in the last couple years, I’ve noticed a considerable drop off in updates and news for this tracker.

I was planning on using my registered version of MadTracker, despite the lack of updates, for Public Album until I recently discovered another tracking program that has come to prominence in the modern tracking scene: Renoise.

I had not heard about this tracker until just about a month ago. Within 15 minutes of first discovering it, reading about it, and seeing videos of it in action I completely fell in love with it.

While I was never a tracker “expert” during my ScreamTracker and MadTracker years, I developed quite a proficiency with the basic ins and outs of creating music in a tracking environment.

Modern trackers (like Renoise) have become so incredibly feature rich, that I could see myself using this tracker almost entirely for my project and beyond. So many of the little quirks and problems of trackers from the past have been solved through the years of tracker development. The environment inside of a tracker is approaching a complete audio solution.

I am so excited about the prospect of utilizing Renoise, it’s very difficult to to put this into words. I haven’t been this amazed and inspired by a piece of software in a long, long time.

The full demo can be downloaded for free, with the only major feature missing being that of exporting the sound files to WAV. I will need this feature when I start posting my music snippets on JSOhlander.com, so I have decided to register the program. I am completely confident that not only will this be my main tool for music creation and production, but the authors and programmers of this software are dedicated to continued updates and support.

I’m going to jumpstart this project by using my current sample bank on my system to learn Renoise. Learning by doing is my motto for this project. I’m going to learn the ins and outs of Renoise while creating. I’ve already gone through the basic Renoise tutorials and my old tracking skills are easily coming back.

When I do register the program, I will be posting my snippets right here in my blog posts using a flash-based player. I’ll be recording separate bass parts and using the player to post those as well.

Because this album is “public”, I won’t be posting every little snippet I work on. I’m planning on posting audio only when something a little more significant is put together.

I’ll be as suprised at how this project unfolds as you will.

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