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Retrigger Velocity

Sunday February 25th 2024

I noticed something interesting about the velocity of retriggered notes – Rxy – when the x value is something other than 0 or 8. They transmit different versions depending on whether there’s an accompanying note or not.

Repeater Notation – Renoise Tool

Thursday February 15th 2024

The Repeater captures a chunk of sound from what’s playing, but odd timings make it impossible to write music to match it. But what if you could, for example, have the kick drum follow exactly what the Repeater is doing? This tool inserts notes into the Pattern Editor that match Repeater timings. It can be done manually or by linking to a Repeater and using its effect commands to track the changes made.

Keyword: A Spider’s Thread – Nailing A Concept & Misplaced Focus

Sunday January 21st 2024

Keyword: A Spider’s Thread is a puzzle/investigation game that brings together a set of ideas in a very satisfying way. But a disproportionate amount of work put into one aspect of the game prevents it from reaching the heights of its peers.

Sampler: Note-Off Layer

Tuesday January 16th 2024

Triggering samples in the Note-Off layer has some restrictions that you need to deal with, and getting the most out of it requires creatively incorporating some more advanced features. So in this video we’ll work through a few examples to hopefully inspire you to create your own techniques.

Random Sample Start Timing – Part 3: Delay Phrasing++

Friday January 5th 2024

Improving on the method created in Part 1, this version has a few advantages. Due to some extra considerations though, accurately setting up the LFO is a little trickier. The song created in the video is available for download.

Movie Recommendations – 5 Underappreciated Favourites

Thursday December 21st 2023

The holidays are coming up, you’ve already rewatched your favourites and nothing new looks any good. So here’s five lesser known movies all completely different from each other, covering a wide variety of genres, and hopefully you’ll find something that sparks your interest. If time investment is an issue don’t worry cos, unlike a lot of films these days, they’re all only 90 mins long.

Backrooms: The Complex – A Sense Of (No) Place

Saturday December 16th 2023

The Backrooms taps into a definite, though hard to describe intuition about liminal spaces, creating an unnerving feeling. The Complex: Found Footage is a short free game that puts you into those spaces and also reminds me of something specific in real life.

Random Sample Start Timing – Part 2

Wednesday December 13th 2023

Normally you’re stuck using the start timing of a sample that’s imposed by the waveform itself. This video looks at another method of making the timing both random and automatic. The song created in the video is available for download.

Sample One Shot

Tuesday December 12th 2023

Being able to play certain sounds as a ‘One Shot’ is an old solution to an old problem: sometimes samples, usually drums, need to ignore Note-Off events and simply play through the entire waveform. While having such an option is useful when playing or recording live using the computer keyboard, it is crucial for hardware controllers that are designed only to be struck briefly.

Random Sample Start Timing – Part 1

Wednesday December 6th 2023

Normally you’re stuck using the start timing of a sample that’s imposed by the waveform itself. However, this video looks at one method of making the timing both random and automatic. The song created in the video is available for download.