Re: Noise and Flow States
I'm enjoying this
A lot, actually. I didn't think I'd care to make a tracker-style environment my primary DAW, but it's doing wonders for my brain to just see numbers and letters scrolling vertically to make sounds. Renoise really is proving to be the perfect software for me.
Flow State, Changing State
Its been a good weekend full of experimentation. I've been through lots of sessions getting used to Renoise, but I noticed that I wasn't able to reach a proper flow state like I could with Bitwig when I was running Windows. Even in Bitwig, if I entered a flow state I'd be taken out of it most of the time.
It's because of the same problem every producer runs into at some point: my drums sounded like complete trash, and unfortunately this was the case most of the time.
I made sure I took the time to come up with a good solution for this. The stipulations were:
- I have to use my Hydrasynth or Mother-32 (they're both always plugged in and available)
- The drums have to be quick to make
- Most importantly, they have to actually sound good.
I spent the first two nights thinking I'd just make my sounds on the Hydra, save a few template patches, then come back to them and change things around as needed. I don't think I saved the session from the first night, but the second night sounded like this:
which was worse than how it sounded before I switched to this method.
I woke up Sunday morning at 5am and just kept thinking I needed a drum toolkit, whatever that means. I went to go develop it immediately. It's basically just a sample library that consists of basic shapes, different noise, and complex FM tails. My snare drum looks just like this:
That's how we got here, which I can be a million times happier with:
Off to keep experimenting.