Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category

Monitoring For Gold: Triangulation For Final Mix Translation

Posted at Monday, June 7th, 2010 by mr_mark_dollin

Sick of the sonic sludge? Tweaking those mixes to no avail? Might be time to better understand the wonderful world of monitors. This article deals with how to use speakers to get a great final mix for your song. And you may be surprised to see just how low budget you can pull this off with. Read on…

Avoid clipping in your final mix

Posted at Friday, April 2nd, 2010 by mr_mark_dollin

So you’ve created an absolutely banging tune and it is time to give it a final polish making it ready for mastering. But, the little clipping indicator has been lighting up while your song plays, perhaps so much so the sound of your mix sounds rough and undesirably ugly. No good in having an amazing song if the final mix sounds like a fudged up mess!

MMD returns to writing for In:Depth, and in this article he will help you aim for a final mix that is nice and clean so it avoids clipping. You may learn a thing or two about Renoise too in the process.

Renoise Video: Beginner’s Tutorial

Posted at Sunday, November 29th, 2009 by Conner_Bw

With the help of Achenar (i.e. Earthen Records), we’ve produced a new video for beginners. Check out the Renoise Homepage to watch it. Me personally? I’m a fan of the thick Scottish accent. There’s even a Japanese (日本語) version on YouTube (click the triangular button in the bottom right corner, and turn ON the captions). Pass it on.

Getting started with Renoise

Posted at Sunday, October 4th, 2009 by Conner_Bw

I cooked up a little Renoise tutorial for beginners using the “How to make a jerkin’ beat step-by-step tutorial” at Indamixx.com. Count the amount of times I say “alright” and win a prize.

Speaking of Indamixx, we are running a challenging music contest. We are giving away one of their Netbooks for the best low-power Renoise song. Go to CreateDigitalMusic for the details. You need to send in your music before 15 October.

Applying song-independent groove pattern to a (sub)track

Posted at Sunday, July 13th, 2008 by vV

In the manual you will find instructions on how to access the song-settings page where the groove settings are described.
The groove settings feature is great, but only applies to the complete song.
Also, the alternative methods of  speed and tempo tricks,  explained on the same page, affect the whole pattern for the rows used.  So, how [...]

Groovy bassline in less than 5 minutes

Posted at Monday, May 26th, 2008 by Bantai

This tutorial covers the 2nd half of the Renoise Workflow video. We will continue where we left off, about 5 minutes in the video.

Fat beat in less than 10 minutes

Posted at Thursday, April 24th, 2008 by Bantai

Neil from the bigbeat collective Shaper shows you how he produces a track in Renoise.

Maybe you have trouble to keep up with the video, because Neil works blazingly fast. I have included a walkthrough to help you out:

Learn to create a fat beat in less than 10 minutes

Using Reaper to play large media (audio/video) files synchronized to Renoise

Posted at Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 by vV

Using Renoise to master Reaper and enable the power of playing large audiofiles or videofiles(!!) along the song. Here are the basic instructions how to get this done.

Semi automated beatslicing in Renoise

Posted at Thursday, December 6th, 2007 by vV

Here is a video tutorial that demonstrates semi-automated beatslicing in Renoise 1.9.

ADC Processing Delay Compensation For Audio Recording

Posted at Friday, October 5th, 2007 by mr_mark_dollin

The secret delay problem that your soundcard’s company does not want to be too public about. Let us dig deeper to solve the problem. The reward: recordings that sit perfectly in your mix.

Cut-out from ADC delay table