Anyone who has been following my blog for a while know I am a fan of probabilities and randomization in my music. While they are a great compositional aid they can become problematic later on in the creative process. It can be frustrating rendering out a piece multiple times in the hopes that the random seed generates something compelling. To […]
MaYbe Not
In the release notes for the new beta of Renoise 3.0 there is something that immediately caught my eye. “A new effect command is the MaYbe command (0Yxx). It can be put into a note column or an effect column, and will allow you to trigger a note/line with a certain probability, or to define multiple notes and trigger just […]
A Little Less Random
My song “Hello World. I Am Lonely Too” uses quite a few random numbers throughout the track. While is this is good for providing infinite variations there is a drawback, I will never be able to produce an exact copy of the album version of the track. This is unfortunate because I recorded the track as a stereo mixdown. It is no longer possible […]