"I created a definition file for the digital synthesizer 'PRA32-U' by ISGK Instruments for the Renoise scripting tool Guru.
All sound parameters of this synth can be controlled by MIDI Control Change (CC) messages, so the mapping was very smooth. By simply associating each parameter according to the CC number, you can intuitively create sounds in real time in Guru.
This allows you to use the PRA32-U in Renoise just like a software synth, making the fusion of trackers and hardware synths even more comfortable.
It looks like it will be useful for live performances and improvisational sound design."
"PlantsSystem latest work, 'Hirajoshi Modulator' is a refined experimental piece built using Renoise phrase scripting engine. In a composition inspired by the classical chord scale 'Hirajoshi' the abstract tones produced by the SEQUENTIAL Prophet-5 continue to transform with meticulously controlled patterns. The series of sounds woven by the machine and the senses go back and forth between tranquility and tension, penetrating deeply into the listener's consciousness. It is systematic, yet somehow poetic. It is a work that vividly depicts the artist's pursuit of the possibilities of sound."
"PlantsSystem 'AfterAPlans' is memories of the sound that are inserted fragmentarily between songs. Fragments of YMO are inserted like illusions into the beats that were meticulously constructed with Renoise. They are not direct quotes, but rather vague reverberations that are like distant, hazy memories. They pass in an instant, but are burned into your mind as vivid flashbacks. It's as if the future of the 80s is being reconstructed with current technology.
The beat is minimal yet meticulously calculated, and while it has the structure of club music, it has a poetic and introspective sound. The sonic story that depicts what happens after 'Plan' quietly accumulates inside the listener.
#renoise"
"PlantsSystem presents ShatterProof, a meticulously crafted piece produced entirely using the tracker software Renoise. Built with an acute attention to structure and texture, the track subtly nods to YMO while reinterpreting that legacy through a distinctly contemporary lens.
From its quiet opening to an increasingly intricate development, the composition draws the listener inward, inviting close attention to the placement and movement of each sound. Beneath the precision of its programming lies a refined sense of aesthetic and tension—hallmarks of PlantsSystem’s quietly compelling sonic identity.
#renoise #ymo"
"'AD-X' by PlantsSystem is a sonic work that weaves together analog pulse tones from the Prophet-5 and meticulously arranged noise through the tracker-based DAW Renoise. Eschewing a traditional beat, the piece constructs a weightless soundscape where pulsing electronics and finely textured noise engage in subtle dialogue. It's a quiet yet tense composition that rewards close listening, revealing delicate, experimental layers of sound.
#prophet5 #renoise'
"NightSignal by PlantsSystem is a poetic electro track that combines the precise programming of Renoise with the warm analog sound of the Prophet-5. The precise rhythm and floating synths create a tranquil atmosphere reminiscent of a city at night.
The minimalist yet deep sound image is suitable for both listening. The sophisticated composition and unique aesthetics make this a typical PlantsSystem track."
"The device is implicitly designed for hosting Renoise, but as shown can be used for many other ARM64 based programs. Even the well loved headless M8 tracker. I wanted to make something that was just as fun and musically useful as some of the other retail offerings but following the tenants of open source hardware and software so anyone can roll their own. The demo is of the v1 t prototype, and there is still much to be done, but at present, I'm up to prototype v3. The focus presently is completion of the design for the main board which will serve as a carrier for Raspberry Pi compute modules, or offerings from other companies that use the compute module form factor. This carrier board ideally could be used for other purposes than the trkr_Trm, that require audio i/o, and modular connections to peripheral devices.
The goal is to have everything, including build guides, hardware, and software repositories live upon completion of a crowd funding campaign. Pre-built units for those who just want to 'get to cookin' will be available if all goes to plan during and post funding."
"In this video, I briefly walk through Renoise running on Raspberry PI. Renoise is a tracker-style DAW which enables you to quickly create sample groups, tracks, and incorporate VST plugins. This video shows how to install Renoise, configure Linux for best audio performance, and how to create a song. Also answering some viewer questions, e.g. how to "ReWire" Renoise into Reaper so you can use Renoise like a plugin. Table of contents:
00:00 hello
00:14 hardware needed
00:31 download, installation and system setup
02:06 UI overview
02:44 creating a simple drum track
04:03 adding a bass track / using VST plugins
05:07 adding more tracks, sidechain compression
06:02 more effects plugins
06:11 assigning samples to the keyboard (multisamples)
06:31 arranging sequences into a song
06:50 "ReWire" Renoise to REAPER
08:23 script extensions
08:57 verdict
09.31 important things to consider!
09:54 demo track (8 tracks using multiple plugins and samples instruments)
11:50 bye-bye
"I spent a few days tinkering in ORCA until I felt I had perfected the shift register with help from Echophon. This is an ambient piece using four eight channel shift-registers. Each shift register stack is controlling a value: NOTE, OCTAVE, VELOCITY, and GATE LENGTH.
From Hundredrabbits:
Orca is an esoteric programming language designed to quickly create procedural sequencers, in which every letter of the alphabet is an operation, where lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate each frame.
This application is not a synthesizer, but a flexible livecoding environment capable of sending MIDI, OSC & UDP to your audio/visual interfaces, like Ableton, Renoise, VCV Rack or SuperCollider.
"I've tried getting used to the ReNoise workflow for what feels like forever.. I couldn't do it! it was the weirdest DAW to me. But for whatever reason using the Polyend Tracker to make music fully standalone doesn't really feel like a DAW even though thats exactly what it is.. I think its just having my Tracker shortcuts right on the face of the unit vs hidden behind the QWERTY keyboard made all the difference for me."
"In this video I will show you how to use ORCA livecoding software. We will cover everything from connecting your midi device to creating several different types of sequencers. Grab you favorite groovebox and lets make some music!
From Hundredrabbits:
Orca is an esoteric programming language designed to quickly create procedural sequencers, in which every letter of the alphabet is an operation, where lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate each frame.
This application is not a synthesizer, but a flexible livecoding environment capable of sending MIDI, OSC & UDP to your audio/visual interfaces, like Ableton, Renoise, VCV Rack or SuperCollider.
Heya! I'm still working on my doubleknot+mosstone vid, but I wanted to make a quick informal video on this cool software in the meantime - it's pretty impromptu and not the best audio quality but I hope you still enjoy it!
Let me know what you think in the comments and maybe I can do a series of videos exploring ORCA a little bit further and making some complete songs :)
By the way, I didn't mention it in this video, but the couple who developed this software live in a studio on a sailboat, where they develop cool open source tools for artist! How rad is that?? :0
Correction, by the way: ORCA uses Base 36 numbers, not 36-Bit, and l was thinking of UDP, not OSC (though it also has OSC capabilities)."
"Orca is not a synth, but a livecoding environment to write procedural sequencers. In other words, Orca is meant to control other applications such as a DAW (Ableton, Renoise, VCV Rack, etc.), or an audio server such as SuperCollider.
Each letter of the alphabet is an operation, lowercase letters operate on bang(*), uppercase letters operate each frame. Bangs can be generated by various operations, such as E colliding with a 0, see the bang.orca example.
Operators
A add: Outputs the sum of inputs.
B bool: Bangs if input is not empty, or 0.
C clock: Outputs a constant value based on the runtime frame.
D delay: Bangs on a fraction of the runtime frame.
E east: Moves eastward, or bangs.
F if: Bangs if both inputs are equal.
G generator: Writes distant operators with offset.
H halt: Stops southward operators from operating.
I increment: Increments southward operator.
J jumper: Outputs the northward operator.
K konkat: Outputs multiple variables.
L loop: Loops a number of eastward operators.
M modulo: Outputs the modulo of input.
N north: Moves Northward, or bangs.
O offset: Reads a distant operator with offset.
P push: Writes an eastward operator with offset.
Q query: Reads distant operators with offset.
R random: Outputs a random value.
S south: Moves southward, or bangs.
T track: Reads an eastward operator with offset.
U uturn: Reverses movement of inputs.
V variable: Reads and write globally available variables.
W west: Moves westward, or bangs.
X teleport: Writes a distant operator with offset.
Y jymper: Outputs the westward operator.
Z zoom: Moves eastwardly, respawns west on collision.
* bang: Bangs neighboring operators.
# comment: Comments a line, or characters until the next hash.
: midi: Sends a MIDI note.
^ cc: Sends a MIDI CC value.
; udp: Sends a UDP message.
= osc: Sends a OSC message."
"Fragment is an online collaborative additive / spectral / granular / subtractive / PM synthesizer and live-coding web. platform, the spectrum is created by a live GPU script, the generated visual is then converted to audio by an additive/granular/spectral/subtractive/PM process, Fragment is basically a programmable noise-of-all-kinds software.
This is a video of a live jam session featuring all types of synthesis (in order : subtractive / physical modelling / additive-fm / granular) supported by Fragment and the improved subtractive synthesis algorithm (Poly BLEP) which allow fast and anti-aliased subtractive synthesis, this is still WIP (problems with filter resonance) but quite usable as demonstrated with several acid-like patterns!
Renoise DAW is used in the background to output audio + MIDI out and add reverb / delay (Fragment is also used for delay effects).
4 instances of the sound server are used on an Intel i7 7700, 14Gb of RAM and a gtx 970 GPU.
Videos used in this session :
KYKLOP by MFX : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjxZQ...
The butterfly effect - Andromeda Software Development (ASD) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF-eV...
Shader used & modified : https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XtsBDf
You can try the Fragment synthesizer now at : https://www.fsynth.com
"Been a while, but here's a nice live version of Ominform that I've been practising for an upcoming live gig.
I'm using Renoise as a sequencer and sampler here with a microKorg, Volca Keys and Bass sequenced through a midi thru box. The Nano Kontrol is used to tweak sounds and trigger patterns. Out of shot is an Alesis MultiMix 16 firewire recording the audio and a Zoom 1201 providing the reverb."
"Now it's off to the early 2010s with a pumping trance techno track. Another sequenced jam with the DSI Rev2 and Renoise. (Drums from various sources.) Awesome 'open source' visuals by Beeple:
https://vimeo.com/beeple
Featuring Prophet Rev2 patches:
- F2 P116: Swelling Pad
- F2 P42: Bip Bass
- F1 P17: Pizz C Ato
- F2 P43: Ensembull
- F2 P108: Toy Mallet
- F1 P55: Dull Vox Stereo (... badass btw)
- F2 P55: Trancetta
- F3 P50: Flooty
- F1 P114: Muted Pluck
- F1 P46: Sync Bass
- F4 P82: Chorus Copter
- F2 P125: Tinny 80's
This track is also 'open source'. Get the Renoise project on: http://www.ani-web.com"
"Fragment is an online collaborative additive / spectral / granular / subtractive / PM live-coding web. platform, the spectrum is created by a live GPU script, the generated visual is then converted to audio by an additive/granular/spectral/subtractive/PM process.
Fragment is a programmable noise-of-all-kinds software.
This video is full of granular noises coming from 21 samples forming some granular noisescapes, some videos are played and mixed with some effects, the visual interact with the audio through pixels brightness, Renoise is used to sequence and send MIDI events to the synthesizer."
You can try the Fragment synthesizer now at : https://www.fsynth.com
"I have been obsessed with Waldorf lately and their character of a sound. I have been focused on making tracks solely using the Blofeld synthesizer, utilizing its 25 voices and 16 multi-part midi channels. The video I am sharing with you today shows the midi data being fed into the synth. All sounds programmed on the synth and sequenced via Renoise. It was recorded in real time, so everything you hear comes out of the main output. I figured I would share this with MatrixSynth to show what the synth is capable with, especially completely immersing into it like a full track. The track has been mastered.
Track Title: Blofeld
Artist: Five Step Path
Album: Auxilia
Label: Defunkt Records
Mastered: Robin Harwood
Release: Jan 19 2018
1. Otto Von Schirach - Bermuda Triangle Rescue Squad (Houston Edit)
2. Subjex - Cryptofunk
3. Datach'i - Behind Squares
4. Takeshi Muto & Hearts of Darknesses - Positive K
5. Terminal 11 - Deeper to Sleep
6. Daed - Acerbus
7. Hitori Tori - Sacksmiths Are Plenty
8. Gareth Clarke - Zamboni (Simple Plaque)
9. Cygnus - ne0-ge0
10. Five Step Path - Refeld
11. Milo Tech - Hunchord
12. Acid Jeep - Sample and Hold
13. Yakul - What The Problem Is
14. The Flashbulb - Patch 36
Auxilia (LATIN) - help; assist; heal
Defunkt Records is proud to present Auxilia - a collection of electronic music featuring local and international artists united to raise funds for hurricane relief in Houston, TX.
All proceeds from this compilation are donated to the Greater Houston Community Relief Foundation - ghcf.org
Thanks to the artists who contributed to this release and to the community for the support!
____________________________
Defunkt Records is an electronic music and visual arts collective based in Houston, Texas focused on techno, electro, braindance, breakcore, digital hardcore, acid house & jungle music.
Since 2015, Defunkt Records has hosted audio/visual showcases and is internationally renowned for featuring live hardware performances by some of the most innovative artists in the electronic underground."
"Fragment is an online collaborative additive / spectral / granular live-coding web. platform, the spectrum is created by a live GPU script, the generated visual is then converted to audio by an additive/granular/spectral process.
Fragment is a programmable noise-of-all-kinds software and excel at sound design by combining two of the most powerful synthesis process with a live coding aspect, Fragment also excel at visuals.
This is a video of a live additive + granular ambient soundscapes session which demonstrate pixels-based delay and the soon to be released update of the improved granular synthesis/sound engine.
The video also demonstrate some kind of "vector based synthesis" by using a XY widget in Open Stage Control (through OSC) with the 4 channels volume mapped onto the widget axis resulting in cross-fading of the 4 channels.
The sound in this video is produced by 4 audio server instances (distributed synthesis) on a single i7 6700 machine, the overall CPU load can be seen on the top left corner along with number of partials for each channels, the load generally sit around 5% with peak at ~30% @28:00.
Most of the sounds heard in this video has a delay applied with a simple pixels-based delay (4 lines) which mean that the delay come from Fragment, not from the DAW, this delay can be heard on several sections and can be differentiated by its parameters being tweaked, notably around @22:00.
The granular synthesis engine was battle-tested and improved, many bugs were fixed resulting in big improvement on the sound quality, moreover pitch shifting is now implemented with linear resampling.
The audio server was also improved and is now able to drop frames meaning that if the client is too late sending its pixels frames, the audio server compensate by retaining its last state, this improve the audio quality greatly when few frames are dropped, which is to be expected with browser reflow or high load, frames drop can be heard extensively in videos previously released, there is now near zero audio issues due to frames drop.
The update should be released this month.
9 samples are loaded and used in this video, all of them are single sounds of real or virtual instruments.
Mother-32 playing MIDI sequences with some beats from Renoise. Sequences programmed with midi keyboard with velocity linked to VCF and VCA. Seqences looped with ditto.
2. Interstellar played on Moog Mother-32 and modular synth
Interstellar movie main theme played on Moog Mother-32 and simple modular synth.
I've routed two synths to different parts of keyboard and thanks to that I have 2 voice polyphony. There is also grand piano routed to part of the keyboard.
Modular is playing through Moog MF Delay and Mother-32 is improved a bit by Valhalla reverb.
3. 'Tirana' played on Moog Mother-32 and modular synth
'Tirana' played on Moog Mother-32 and modular synth. Main melody played on Tirana by Xaoc devices and MI Rings overdriven by Moog MF Delay. Tirana was randomized by sequencer from Mother-32.
