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…
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.
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.
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.
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 [...]
This tutorial covers the 2nd half of the Renoise Workflow video. We will continue where we left off, about 5 minutes in the video.
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:
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.
Here is a video tutorial that demonstrates semi-automated beatslicing in Renoise 1.9.
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.
