How to monitor the wet signal while recording the dry input with Renoise’s External Audio Recording and its Line-in Device.

Using Renoise’s native effects to make your echoing sounds reach outer-space.

If you have ever watched a horror movie, you know how sound effects can make you jump you out of your seat. Those sound effects would make for a nice article. Ghost Notes however, are an entirely different subject.

For about a year, I was limited to using Renoise on a measly Fujitsu Lifebook Series B circa 2000. In other words, a notebook designed for pure business use (think Microsoft Office only); an 8MB video card, 256MB of RAM under Windows 2000 powered by a 700Mhz Pentium III processor. If you look at the [...]

Using Renoise’s Filter2 effect to make the slickest of mixes.

How to use lossy compression to make your song shrink from 35 MB to 2 MB, without degrading sound quality too much.

What filters are and how they can be used to improve your mix.

… and why it’s just not like pitch sliding samples with 1xx or 2xx.

People have often asked me: “BYTE, how do you get such aggressive mixes on just a crappy laptop?” … to which I respond: “What the heck are you talking about? These mixes are awful! They’re wimpy as hell!”
Seriously though, nobody ever asks me that. And yes, I know my sense of humor is dry [...]