Lauri Saine (www.sainemusic.com), an instrumental Finnish composer and Renoise user, has released a new album – Break A Pattern. A 12-track sonically engaging and intimate ambient ride. A year in the making, Lauri has been working hard to embrace his intuitive side and it shows...
Listen to Babylon's Whistle:
Lauri has been using trackers for 14 years. Trackers are his main weapon of choice. He initially began on FastTracker II, moving to Madtracker and eventually discovering Renoise. Renoise has played a significant part in his latest project. When asking him how Renoise has assisted his musical workflow, he had this to say:
“Renoise allows me to do the things I need to - fast. I use a lot of plugins and automations, which are easy to handle together with pattern data in Renoise imo. I feel I can instantly get very close to the essence of a song with Renoise, tuning microscopic bits of it while having complete control over the whole picture. In addition to recording (I do play some keyboards, guitar, percussion etc. on the album as well) I use plenty of sampling and experiment a lot with different sound sources, grabbing percussions and sounds from household objects or making sounds using some old recording as a basis. I could, say, take a small piece of texture from a recording of a previous era, attempt to make something very different of it while maintaining its original ambiance, and then record or program things on top in a different context. Guess you could say genres or forced ideas don't really interest me, I like to have a wide palette of methods available when composing. Renoise suits this well.
You can basically do all this in sequencers of course, but since they are not originally designed for putting together/combining tiny bits and pieces of audio like trackers, I feel I can get there a lot faster with Renoise - also having more options to choose from in between. I love the instrument/fx envelopes for example, enabling the user to loop parts of samples on the same track and changing their parameters in certain parts without having to affect the whole sound or track. I don't really like loops or software that cut loops in neat hits automatically, you usually find more interesting angles (sometimes by accident!) when treating each and every audio-edit uniquely. In a nutshell, Renoise is vital to me - even if in end the actual tools used are always only one small portion of the whole picture.”
Break A Pattern can be purchased here - http://www.digital-tunes.net/releases/break_a_pattern
- Mick Rippon