The phrases could be tiny micro-performances, or they could be larger chunks of composition. Then, you can use the tracker part to assemble phrases in a very free-form way. It is extremely fast to build complex modulation schemes. You can add effects such as compression, EQ, and most other common processes to each sample individually or to groups, which can be nested in various ways. But once your samples are mapped, it is very easy to adjust their parameters. No, it doesn't do root detection and auto-zoning (if you are assembling a more-or-less traditional VI, that part will take a some time). You can drag a soundfile into it from the finder (unfortunately, I couldn't record directly into it from DP 8.07 the "sidechain" input didn't show up in DP, so that part wasn't so quick), and if you like, it will auto-split the sounds and map them each to a different key (use the "Drum Kit" button in the Keyzones tab). It certainly has limits.īut it makes it extremely easy to record some sounds, get them mapped quickly to keys, alter them in traditional ways, add modulation and effects, and start to explore permutations in a short time. I am pretty sure it could never replace those VI's, and there are surely many things that they can do that Redux won't be able to do (I don't see direct from disk streaming, for instance). It is extremely different than Kontakt, MachFive, UVI Workstation and other more traditional software samplers. I am just getting to know it, and I don't really have any idea yet how far one could go with it (though Renoise has a scripting language, I don't know if that is part of Redux or not at this point). The reason I'm posting it here is because Redux is a rather different, fast, and (at least to me) surprisingly powerful sampler. But in this case, you aren't you can sequence as you normally would in your DAW and practically ignore the tracker part of Redux if you like (though you'd miss some quirky possibilities that way). To me, tracker-sequencer part of Renoise/Redux would be unacceptably limiting if you were stuck using it for all of your sequencing needs (editing rhythmically free and complex polyphony in a tracker would be a tedious exercise in frustration, for example). The tracker part of it is a bit strange to me, but I can already see that the different paradigm will spur some new creative ideas and directions. There aren't really tracks with instruments assigned to them tracks and instruments aren't the conceptual paradigm here. There aren't really "tics" between the steps (though individual events can be offset from the step). As for the sequencer-ish part of it (tracker "Phrases"), time flows vertically, in steps, and events are placed in columns instead of tracks, with all events in the same row happening at the same time/step. Yes, Renoise is a "tracker," which is a rather foreign entity to most of us piano-roll, notation, and/or step sequencer users. I would welcome input from anyone who knows it better. I just got it, so the following are just some first impressions, not a review. Redux is an AU/VST that runs inside your host sequencer, bringing lots of the features and workflow from Renoise into your DAW.
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