planetdamage

I first started making music in 1995 with a piece of software called *FastTracker - I was heavily, emotionally invested in something called *the demoscene, a bunch of talented and creative guys who made, basically, music videos. Music making softwares in those days did not look like anything like today's horizontal-UI-based DAWs, FastTracker looked like Excel to everyone who did not understand what they are seeing. To us who used it on a daily basis, in looked like the same, only with meaning. Renoise is a *tracker, such as FastTracker, a DAW where progression is vertical instead of horizontal and where the underlying math looks more prominent. If you can get over that (and also the thing that notation is a tad bit different and you really are working in a spreadsheet, to give you an overall view of things to come), this baby is amazing. Compact, fast, solid, works with most VSTs, does not crash often (I had my weird problems with my EMU0202 sound card, though, when you try to quit Renoise, you often have to resort to a force quit) and I made a full EP on it. My problem with it, though, is that in the long run I needed to work with vocal tracks and that is something that I simply could not solve neatly (maybe because I completely overlooked a feature?) and also in terms of visuals I liked an approach better which gives me visual oversight on the whole length of the track down to the sample level without clicking too much. TLDR Renoise is as good as any other DAW out there. Main point of difference for me was the underlying logic and the lack of the horizontal track view. If you can live with it, this will be an amazing flagship in your arsenal.

I recorded my first EP "Snapshots..." with this! This was actually my first mike, gotten two recommendations for it from bands I adore. Surprisingly good on its price level.

Been looking for a good harmonizer ever since I heard the first Benestrophe album and I tried out a lot of software solutions (Pitchproof being the one that got a lot of thumbs ups) but on stage live and in my tracks recorded I tend to use the VT3 and I ever since I first laid my hands on it, it was the best vocal tool that I could grab on this price level. My only heartache is that it although it has a reverb slider, it does not have a built-in delay so I have to carry an extra pedal and cables and adapters just for a delay. Still this is so good that I cannot give a 4-star review just because of the lack of the delay effect. (Wish there was an update, though!)