Something people don’t seem to mention much when they talk about renoise is that it just sounds so good. I don’t know why, but to me it sounds just crisp and clean, and the inbuilt effects are great.
You can use fx chaining basically like a modular synth, the sound creation options are just so deep.
I’ve been beating myself round the head trying to enjoy ableton as much, because there are a couple of things you just can’t do in renoise (like work with long vocal tracks or real instrument recordings easily).
Also arranging whole tracks in renoise basically hasn’t been bettered. It’s so easy to create pattern, structure and variation with the arranger section. I wish they’d put something like that in ableton session view.
100% sequence in renoise. If you can get your head around hexadecimal then, as an Elektron user, you’ll transition quite well - I found the journey in the other direction pretty easy.
Don’t know about sequencing hardware though. Never done it with that.
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