Thanks Jackson. I think so too! - spread the word! 🙏

I couldn't agree more. It's so important to push through a track when you get stuck in the mud a bit. It's just as much about developing techniques to get yourself through those situations, as reinforcing your brain not to give up when things get frustrating or challenging. Even if someone can write an amazing track in an hour on guitar, we often forget the years and years of daily practice and discipline it too to develop that ability. ✌

Apprciate that mate! They were a lot of fun to make 2 :) ✌️🥷

Thanks Big Nasty, felt good to summerize all of the Drum Breaks techniques i've been working on recently. Glad you enjoyed the vid!✌️

Thanks so much Infinite! Really appreciate the comment mate. I'm glad you've been getting so much out of the vids! :) It's actually also been so beneficial for me to work on these projects. Especially with the music production, always having a theme and purpose for the tracks (as well as a deadline!) has really helped me to develop and finish projects. ✌

Cheers brother. Was fun to make this one! Got a lot of my best techniques in here ✌️🥷

Thanks for the comment Stephen! I'm so happy I've inspired you to pick up Renoise. I also came over from Logic X but am obsessed now i've got into Renoise. For drums especially its really incredible. All those hit replacement tricks and Sample Commands make working with breaks super fun. Its also amazingly creative. Such a great tool to use on its own or even combine with the DAWs you already know really well. :)✌️🥷

Thanks man, they do take me a while to make (100+ hours) so i'm definitly going for quality over quantity at the moment! ✌️

Thanks for the comment Jake! I'm just trying to do something a little different, make learning about music more interesting than following someone clicking around in a DAW! I also really enjoy getting creative with the themes! 🧭

Thanks bro, Glad you enjoyed it! :)

Cheers Skidex, Thanks for all the comments mate. Another fun one!✌️

Thanks Will! Was a fun one to make! Glad you enjoyed it so much. :)

Cheers friend! :)

Haha, glad you enjoy them mate! They make me laugh when I'm making them 2.😀

Pleasure my friend. Glad you got so much out of the vids! Keep well✌️

Not gunna lie, was quite proud of the animations in this one! 🙂

All good friend. Thanks for all the comments, glad you've been enjoying the vids. Loads more to come this year! :)

Thanks bro, It's a fun one. I might have gone a little overboard with the animatons but I quite enjoy giving the giving the videos a bit of a theme! I'm trying to veer away as far away as possible from someone simply clicking around in a DAW whilst screen recording!✌️

@@groovining quite like the animations actually. breaks up the vid nicely. As usual you've given me some great ideas to implement in the hardware samplers ;) thx!!!

Big ups to you too mate. Renoise crew!! ✌️

Thanks my man! Was nice to wrap up all the Drum Break tricks I've been working with lately. Have so many cool ideas coming up, can't wait to get it all out there! Keep well mate 😀

Pleasure my man, thanks for the comment. Glad you got so much out the video! ✌️

Thanks so much for the comment! I actually did something quite similar and started on Logic before eventually finding my way to trackers. I think in some ways it helps to be able to visualise things in a timeline based DAW like FL before you step into Renoise. All these techniques can of course be applied in other DAWs but there's something about the tracker workflow that makes them so fun and easy to apply here. Merry Christmas mate :) 🎄

Thanks for the comment hintergarden! glad you enjoyed the vid! :)

So many great techniques were discovered in that era! Lot's of them have gotten a little lost over time so i'm constantly looking back, trying to find cool things for the channel. The gated technique is great. Oboviously you can use a transient shaper but it's never as good as using decay like that. Yes, that's what I love about Renoise, eveything is possible there even if its not obovious at first. ✌️

Thanks Larson, Lots of good info here! The Phrase editor can be a little intimidating when you first start using Renoise but there are actually some really cool things you can do with it! I also love the time-stretching FX technique I went over in a vid a while back. The keymap stuff is super cool, especially as you can save it all away and use it in redux like you said! ✌

@@grooviningI hadn't seen the video from last year on phrases, so sorry about teaching you to suck eggs and that. Keep doing the vids :)

Cheers Keith! Nice to see hear from you again. Was a fun one to make!✌️

Thanks mate. Lots of fun to be had with break swapping in Renoise! I largely agree about phrases but I do find cool ways to use them every now and again. You can actually send program messages to Renoise to change the current phrase. This can lead to loads more phrase swapping techniques. I also love using them to create FXs. Even still. I work almost entirely in the pattern editor. Mainly because the tools work in there and you can also step automate plugins. Happy New Years!

Hey MrZenshphere, nice to hear from you mate. Yea that technique is a lot of fun. You can get amazing results for other genres as well pitching down Hip-Hop breaks etc. So much potential I'm sure you'll dive right into! Adding FXs per slice in the instruments tab can get super crazy. This technique actually works amazingly for chopping records as well. J Dilla used to do this a bit. If you chop directly on the kick and snares of a 4x4 beat, you can start to pitch around the slices but as the kick/snare are always at the start of the chops, they stay in time with your own drums!✌

@@groovining yes, definitely getting some good mileage already using this technique! I'm heavy into resampling, so rendering slices to phrase opens up a LOT of possibilities. Will likely share some interesting results in a future video. Long live renoise! 🤘

@@MrZensphere Nice man, I liked your track on the Renoise forums! very cool stuff :) I'm obsessed with resampling as well. Once you get your head around it, it opens up so many doors and possibilities. Look forwards to the vid. Renoise is life!✌

@@groovining yeah, buddy! I'm always impressed at the power of destructive workflows, and renoise is a great tool in this regard. Thanks for the listen, and glad if you found something to enjoy in it 🤘👽✨

Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it! I actually have barely touched Ableton so as much as i'd love to, i'm probably not the right person for the job. There are definitly some similarities with how Drum Racks work in Ableton and the sampler/modulations tab in Renoise. I think if you understand Ableton, you'd have no problem switching over to Renoise. :)

I’ve used both a fair bit by now. Any particular questions? They’re fairly different in sequencing (tracker vs. clips) but there’s plenty of similarities too. One thing that Ableton does really well is allowing a user to group anything and everything, then process groups separately.

Haha, I did go a bit over the top on this one! 😂

Ah, didn't have the delay column open, so the timings were not copied.

Yes open the delay column you should be all good :)✌@@MultiMeschi

@@groovining Thanks for the quick answer. At 2:58 you show how to do the trick with slices to phrase. I use this on a loop that is repitched with beatsync, but when I slice the sample to the phrase the slices play at the original speed. To fix this I had to click the "T" to copy the beatsync options to the transpose, then it works, but only by pitching the sample. It's important to do this before placing the slices. Is there a way to "freeze" or resample on the fly inside renoise? Is it possible to assign the pitch macro to a "Repitch" algorithm? With your technique it changes the speed of the samples, too right? Pitching it really high makes more compressed samples pretty choppy and the decay macro is not coupled to the pitch, which influences the playback length. I found mapping pitch from -1 to 1 and decay from 304ms to 64ms at the same time worked pretty good to mitigate this problem on my break that I pitched to 140BPM. Thanks very much for your channel, it's been a really great resource for me :)

If you've already sliced the break and then hit beatsync only the top reference file is transposed. What you need to do is hit 'T' and then turn off beatsync. Then copy the transpose and finetune values to all of the slices of the break. To resample on the fly in Renoise right-click in the pattern editor - Track - Render to sample. I've mapped this to a hotkey. The Gate To Tempo technique we're talking about here is actually really cool as you don't need to repitch the break to get it to warp to your tempo. It cuts off the ends of the hits to make them fit. What's even cooler is you can assign a macro to pitch and decay and play with them both live. You can pitch the break +/- or change your BPM and the break will still fit perfectly. This allows you to choose whether you want your break at its original pitch or sped up without having to time-stretch it. You correct that when you pitch up samples they also speed up. This in turn pushes their frequencies higher and makes them more snappy in the case of drums. The choppiness does not actually come from compression. It's due to the decay of the samples not being long enough. The hits have been sped up so much that there is now silence in between the hits. :) Glad you're enjoying the channel! 😊✌ @@MultiMeschi

Haha, yea I really went for it on this vid I remember :)

Haha, I know Ableton is great and it has a massive audience but I started on Logic. I think about it but its such a waste of time for me to switch things up now and Logic X is pretty great for SFX, Sound Design. I'd be better off getting an Octatrack and spend a year mastering that! 👀 :)

@@groovining Very good point and a lot of these techniques should be translatable to other DAWs anyway... top notch vids mate... really inspired me to fire up Renoise more often :)

These vids are up here for free no?

@@groovining yes, and I really appreciate it. It just caught me off guard I guess. In retrospect I have no Business to yap about a self-plug after hours of free Info 😅

@@Nezzrac haha thanks mate. It’s all good I get it for sure. I try my best to be as tasteful as possible with the promo stuff. Glad you’ve been enjoying Renoise anyways, got some more cool techniques coming soon in my new vid. Cheers 😊

It would be amazing to get an album out. I actually agree with you, I still don't love my tracks. I put a huge amount of my free time into the KZfaq vids so I only get to work on actual music every few weeks or so. Finding the balance is hard but I've learnt a huge amount myself from the Photek, Paradox & Source Direct series that I can't wait to put into practise. Cheers mate ✌️🥷