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Renoise Multisample Instrument Creator
Introduction
RMIC is multisample instrument creator for Renoise. Renoise is a modern application for creating music using the oldskool tracker style that was used in the days of FastTracker, ScreamTracker and Impulse Tracker. One of the powerful features of Renoise is an integrated sampler that can load up to 256 stereo 16-bit multisamples inside one instrument. Back in the days of FastTracker, this was limited to 16 multisamples.
Why multisampling?
Multisampling is needed when you want to sample an instrument that has a different timbre along the pitch changes. For example, the lowest key on the piano sounds different from the highest key. Not only the pitch is different, but also the timbre and the envelope. If you would only use one sample of the lowest key, and spread this sample on all keys on the keyboard, the piano sound will change into a kind of guitar sound when you hit higher keys. That’s because not only the pitch changes, but also the timbre.
Therefore, in more advanced sample libraries, there are a lot of samples for one instrument. Each sample is taken from a region where the timbre will be different from the previous region. If this kind of sampling is done correctly, the virtual instrument (in the sampler) will sound more naturally.
What is RMIC?
If you are like me, you have tons of multisamples laying around, extracted from earlier Akai, EMU samplers or even a VST Sampler, and you want to use these in Renoise. For example, when we have a multisampled trumpet, the sample names can look like this:
Normally, if you want to use this multisampled instrument in Renoise, you load each sample into the multisample location in the Renoise sampler, and you use the splitmap to assign each sample to its intended place on the keyboard. But if you must do this by each instrument in your sample library, this will be a lot of work!
This is where RMIC can help you. With RMIC you can create a multisampled instrument within only a few seconds! And the best of all, RMIC is freeware!
Download
RMIC is currently a console application. No installation is needed. A tutorial is included in the ZIP archive.
This application requires Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0, which can be found here.
