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Bought a qy20 about 20 years ago in a thrift store because Tricky had said he wrote all his music in a qy10 (the even more rudimentary one in the series) and that's how i first learned to sequence music.

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I've been a huge of the qy series for years. Renoise is best for working with shorter samples (or with synths or other VSTs or generating its own music).

So if you want to do something like record a live band's jam session or something you'll probably want to use something else. The other thing I've heard that at least in older versions of Renoise (not sure how it is in the newest versions) it wasn't great for recording really long samples. Here's a video on doing some advanced reverb processing with it:

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In my own experience, however, using the usual tracker workflow is not that great for manual exploration, however Renoise has lots of free third-party Lua scripts that can help with that, and it's also great for manipulating and sequencing samples. My impression is that most people use Renoise for making electronic music (which is how I use it too), for which it's very well suited. I use it in conjunction with a lot of VST plugins that I run through Wine and some native Linux plugins from u-he, which also work great. it's as good as any other commercial audio application that I've used, but it's very different from anything that's not a tracker. It works flawlessly and is highly polished. I paid $75 for Renoise about 6 years ago and it's been great using it on Linux via Jack. Renoise, on the other hand, is a DAW with a tracker interface. I haven't used Reaper, but from what I can tell it's a traditional DAW with a piano-roll interface (with the closest free/open-source alternative probably being Ardour). Worst case, I isolate the problem notes and bounce them to samples(which is easy). I occasionally encounter glitches with it - particularly one longstanding one where it renders stuck notes - but not enough to dissuade me. Renoise does have a tool to snap note entry to a scale of your choosing(with plenty of options for scale type) which smooths out the entry process tremendously, and if you're using a lot of block chords, they can be macro-ified as well to reduce the visual noise. Melodic lines and harmonies can be more frustrating if you are used to reading the piano roll to establish pitch visually.

In general, step sequencing is faster here than in any piano-roll based system, with the knock-on effect of it being extremely easy to build complex percussive sequences with a lot of timbral variation. It has built-in effects, you can record automation curves and if you have something very specific in mind, there is Lua-based scripting and a little community of third-party scripts.

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It has the gamut of typical sampler features and built-in effects, plus you have multiple ways to sequence everything(besides high-level pattern reuse across the song, you can abstract a lot of stuff into key-triggered sub-sequences or macro knobs). Most trackers, Renoise among them, could be characterized as a standalone sequencer instrument with some DAW features.

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The compelling thing was that these files were small, because they contained a few audio samples and the data on how and when to play them, so you could fit a tune that was multiple minutes in 1 megabyte or less.įor an example of what tracker software looks like: Said magazine had came with a CD that contained multiple different tracker programs and a collection of music files in different formats (MOD, XM, etc). I first discovered trackers in a French gaming magazine around 1997 or 1998, but they had already been around much longer. Most people didn't have the internet at home before the mid-late 90s, and even when people started to have the internet at home, it wasn't like today, the music making community was smaller. Trackers were strange kinds of sequencers that were very focused on using samples to make music, and they were created at a time when memory was expensive, so you'd typically have fairly low resolution samples (8-bit 22KHz?), and people tried to use those samples creatively because you might not have many of them, both because of memory and hard drive space, but also because they weren't as easy to get as they are today. Also pitch-shifting samples so you can play them at different notes. I think they mean tricks things like reversing samples, or having a segment of an audio sample keep looping after starting playback so you could 'stretch' it longer.

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