I'm a nerd, that's why! Fruity Loops is the only program that
knows how to interface with the Buzz Machines and the Buzz Machine
library is HUGE!! After years of using them I feel slightly attached.
But renoise....
It is a very genuine tracker interface. 10 years ago I started
writing music on the computer. Being poor I had no access to
hardware besides the computer. I found trackers and, true, it took
me a while to get used to but I think at that age anything would
have taken me a while to get used to. I enjoy the interface.
Every time I open a new music app the first thing I look for is the
sequencer and if it only has a piano roll I shut it down. My brain
just doesn't enjoy them. The tracker grid is just more accessible
to me mind. I look at the screen and see note names and when you
program the pattern your keyboard has two octaves of musical
keyboard (the octaves adjusted by a keystroke).
I've been mostly a chip musician for about a year now writing tunes
for the NES using Famitracker. But before JSR started developing
that tracker there was only MCK/MLL - a macro language music
constructor YAY TEXTPAD!! \o/
I'm not afraid to use a mouse -- I like having my multiple windows.
I am sure there is a way to do slight pitch bends and simple
effects like tremolo/vibrato, things like that in those fancy
modern apps but I really like the control and expressions you can
get when you know how to use them. Maybe if I had started with the
new school I wouldn't find IT unintuitive.
Here is one of my latest tracks available on the Badlands
compilation at http://iimusic.net --
http://b-knox.com/iimusic/Drunken%20Chamber.mp3
hahahhaa -- I joined this list because I thought it was gonna be
chipmusic related. Microsound and Micromsusic sound so close! But
it's the practice of rhetoric that keeps me reading. =D
-Langel
Graham Miller wrote:
then why use buzz at all?
what's the advantage? why do you like it?
On 16-Nov-07, at 1:39 PM, aleks vasic wrote:
Its great for people who can think musically, i.e. they compose
songs on paper without instruments. I saw o9(who is out of the
music game now i believe) compose via Buzz on the fly. He would
compose 4-5 bars at a time and then assign different instruments
and effects searching for different sounds. It was fast, brutal,
and impressive. Something i will never be able to do, but then
again my parents weren't an opera singer and composer like his
were. He was classically trained in music theory from
childhood. For some one like this a tracker is a great tool to
explore ideas quickly.
I use Buzz, but only the instruments and effects which i load
into other programs as vst plug ins. I need a visual type
tracker to aid me. I have a hard time in the old school
trackers. Like you said, for me its not intuitive, and not
creative. At least thats how i justify it!
aLEKs
On Nov 16, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Graham Miller wrote:
curious what kind of creative advantage/perspective this kind of
sequencer might give over more modern sequencers, like ableton
live or logic?
is their any reason to go down this route aside from an interest
in its historical/gaming context? i know people like autechre
and whatnot claim to use them... i think maybe venetian snares
too... but i just don't see the advantage... it seems so archaic
and unintuitive to me...
thoughts?
g.
On 16-Nov-07, at 11:58 AM, Kim Cascone wrote:
sorry if this has been brought up before but I remembered
someone in a workshop being very pleased with this:
http://www.renoise.com/
anyone have any experience using this tracker?
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