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Hi everyone! Here is a track I completed recently using Renoise if anybody is interested - I named it Fernweh because I recently learned that is the German word for longing for faraway and unseen places, and that definitely fit the story I was trying to tell. Hope you enjoy.

cheers everyone

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Well: Nothing to say about this, especially because this was just improvised today.

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Im looking for drum synth vsti recommendations.

Not giant 40GB sample packs with sampler software ontop of them as a vsti, but actual drum synths with adjustable parameters.

So far my choices are.

FXpansions Tremor,
SugarBytes drumcomputer
Microtonic

They all look pretty decent, not bad at all, but that seems to be about it. There isnt much choice as far as I can tell after searching. Im not sure they have the nice fatness and punchiness of hardware drum machines like vermona or even oldschool ones like drumfire or even mattel?!

Are there better ones out there or do the pros use ‘actual synths’ intead to sculpt their drum sounds, such as FM8 or something like that?

Another one, ruismaker FM, which will not run on my computer because its only available as an audio unit sounds pretty excellent to me for drum sound design. Although im not a fan of the ‘euclidean’ sequencer being the only option for sequencing, it seems like a fast way to hear the sounds your tweaking inside a rhythm without actually writing one. Shame there is no vsti ruismaker FM. It sounds pretty good, nice and simple, but good and useful.

Any other drumsynth vsti which are worth checking?

Is tremor actually the best one, with its ‘cloud oscillators’, even if its discontinued?

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If I set up my drumpad to send a different midi channel per pad, should i be able to trigger up to 16 different vsti instrument instances in renoise without any trouble?

My Idea is to make a super pro FM drum synth with 8 instances of Chipsynth MD…so that I can tap a drumpad, tweak the patch in instrument 1’s chipsynth MD, play another pad, tweak the patch in instrument 2’s chipsynth md instance, and so on.

Is there any problem with this setup? I just set each instance to recieve a different midi channel, and set the pads up to send a different midi channel per pad?

Chipsynth MD will be excellent for the bugged out FM synth drums. Good way to build some original, tonal drumkits. Finally, after sound design is done, sampling each drum sound and setting up the samples as a drumkit as usual with renoise fx chains and modulation sets per sample…with the new excellent drum envelopes

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I was thinking of spending some money and buying an elektron cycles for FM drums and bass tones, but when I was checking the reviews I became suspicious and skeptical.

Do you think the name ‘cycles’ actually implies that this ‘FM drum synth’ is actually a rompler containing samples of many single cycle waveforms, rather than ‘real oscillators’?

I was watching the reviews and it looks like the pitch knob could be carefully callibrated to only go an octave up, an octave down to hide the aliasing which can occur when pitching up a single cycle waveform sample really high, or the ‘fartiness’ which can occur when pitching them down really low.

So if anyone knows if it is true oscillators or sampled single cycle waveforms inside that box please let me know.

Also, has anyone had any success plugging a drumpad into it and playing the FM drum sounds live from drumpads? Thats the purpose I want it for. The tiny drumpads on the box look sub par for live play…though overall the box is enticing, Im skeptical about making a purchase before I know.

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Has anyone here tried the new Gstomper, Gstomper producer?
I have to plug it here because it deserves some attention for its excellence, especially for those interested in portable, battery powered, travel friendly electronic music solutions.

I cant believe how excellent it is.

The VA beast (virtual analog synth) sounds like a professional hardware synth like polivox or moog. Its warm, fat and bassy and capable of all kinds of crazy sounds in addition to the normal kinds of synth tones you would expect.

Each track can have independent pattern length, timing and groove.
Its really special software for android, so I feel I have to give props where props is due to the developer.

I dream of the day when I can midi sync my android tab with renoise on my windows pc laptop…all sampled drums, other sampled sounds and vsti controlled by renoise, either sunvox or gstomper running on android. It will be so nice.

Google unfortunately seems to be slow in fixing latency issues on android, so no external controllers, such as drum pads can be plugged into android tablets for live play as yet. There is too much latency still. Its a shame.

The great developers who put out excellent software for android have to wait for android to catch up to their software.

Anyway, just for anyone who reads, please check out Gstomper producer. It is so seriously excellent…Im going to spend some time using the VAbeast synth inside it to make some synth drum sounds and sample them into the electribe style sample drum machine…it is so great. Just check it out. Check the specs at the link below

https://www.planet-h.com/gstomperbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=751

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I’m trying Ardour again in linux.
Anybody like Ardour?

I remember from past that ardour is not maybe good choice for electronic music production when using linux.

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Hello

I’ve just updated to 3.2.2, but 3.2.1 is still present (including desktop icon).

The only program listed for Renoise in Add & Remove programs is 3.2.2, so I don’t know how to uninstall 3.2.1. correctly.

The program folder is still present (containing installed files).

Do I just delete this folder (and the desktop icon) ? Will this leave redundant stuff elsewhere e.g. registry ?

Thanks

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Hey,

I just bought Redux and I have a question about how the modulation works. Let say you want to put some attack on a low pass filter. Normally you would dial in the cutoff frequency and the resonance. Then you would dial in the envelope/adsr, and then you would increanse the amount of modulation either into the positive or into the negative. However, in redux I’m missing the modulation amount. Here you have input, but that seems to be your frequency control. Can anybody tell me if I’m missing something?

Thankyou!

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Hi guys, i’ve decided not to spam the topic I would like to hear your music made with Renoise or other Daws so i’ve decided to create separate post for instrumentals that i upload on a daily basis, started few days ago.
I hope that you will enjoy them.
Cheers!

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Sorry if this is in the wrong place. I figured this was too complex/specific a topic to put into the “beginner help” section, so I thought I’d put it here instead.

I like strings. I’d been using Famitracker for years, so when I first got Renoise about a month ago, I was really excited to use its extensive DAW features to more closely mimic the timbre of real-life instruments.

Recently I learned of the Karplus-Strong algorithm [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karplus–Strong_string_synthesis], which wikipedia describes as “using an inverted, scaled control system for very small time values in a filtered delay line to create playable notes”. Essentially, from what I understand, you apply a filtered delay to a tiny section of noise, and the timbre of a real string instrument is closely emulated.

Unfortunately, Renoise’s delay effect control isn’t granular enough for this to work. Each MS of delay accounts for several semitones, so if you stick a key tracker on it, it seems to almost work, but not very accurately. It’s almost usable. Is there any way to achieve this properly in the stock program? Am I missing something major here?

As you might be able to tell, the idea of “physical modeling” synthesis is still pretty new and alien to me. If anyone has any valuable resources, advice, tutorials, it would be much appreciated. The idea of using Renoise’s stock effects to achieve this kind of stuff seems pretty exciting to me.

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I am slightly confused by the RXY Command.

since the X Command is for lowering or increasing the volume, I thought it woul be possible to create rolling upwards or downward retriggers, so every retrigger is getting lower or higher in volume, it kinda reads like that’s the purpose of the effect, but when I only put 1 RXY command next to a note, it stops after hitting the next line and if I put multiple RXY underneath each other it just creates a stutter.

I guess it’s just not meant for that kind of effect or am I doing something wrong?

By setting LBP to 1 I actually can get the RXY to sound like I sorta would expect, since the Repeats are ringing out longer due to staying on one line for longer but impossible to write a track like that

Would be cool if it was possible to extend the Retrigger Command effect over multiple lines

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I’d like to see simply rotary volume controls and sends amount in the Track scopes, turning them a bit more into a mixer. Already used for muting, so why not add a bit of more control

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Hi:

I am starting to take a look to Redux and I have a question (probably is very simple to do but I did not find how to):

I am adding two samples and I want to apply a different volume (or filter or pitch) envelop to each sample when they are played simultaneously.

Can I do that? Thanks!

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am i blind? user instruments page have moved?

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New to the forum, long time Renoise user.

I have an LFO’s random oscillator controlling the “note” on a ringmod. I also have a keytracker controlling the LFO reset, so every time I hit a key, I get a random note. This in combination with the Y command has been a lot of fun.

I wonder if anyone knows a way to quantize these note values I’m getting from the LFO’s random oscillator in the same way you would with an Intellijel Scales or similar synth module?

Right now I’m solving this problem by using an autotune after the ring modulator, which actually sounds pretty cool in its own way, but isn’t my ideal solution.

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Bootleg remix - Billie Eilish - everything i wanted

Extracted vocal stems -only- and everything else is sampled and manipulated in Renoise.
Comments and feedback appreciated!

Pre-Master.
Best with headphones.

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I have implemented Milkdrop visuals on my music page.

http://eatme.pro/music

I have used the Butterchurn.js Milkdrop visualisation capabilities
and extended my website with it.

Fullscreen functionality on right-click of the visualisation or
when you push longer on he visualisation on mobile phones.

Next preset when you tap on mobile or click on computer.

It also responds to any song played on my webpage.

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I was wondering, is there a way to do this without deleting the track?

A friend and i are working on a cover of an old rock song from the 1970’s, i’m doing the drums and synths in Renoise. We recorded our tracks (guitar, vocals, bass) against the original recording, but the tempo fluctuates by 2 or 3 bpm over the course of the song, probably because the band was using analog metronomes that weren’t so accurate. So instead of redoing all our takes, i added a track in my renoise module with ZTxx commands which adjust the tempo to match the original song.

What i’m wondering is, what if i wanted to completely disable this tempo fluctuation, but without scrapping it or keeping a bunch of backup xrns files, kind of like “commenting out” the track? Global commands are still executed even if the track is muted. Changing this would certainly break compatibility with existing rns/xrns modules, and adding an extra flag per track would be confusing and probably not the best way to do it. Maybe a “do global commands on muted tracks” flag in each song/module’s properties…?

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On Windows 10:
Windows+R (run command): Control (enter) to open Classic Control Panel.
Choose Sound
Choose the 2nd tab, Recording Devices
Enable the Stereo Mix or Sum
not found? right-click in the list, mark “Show Disabled Devices” and “Show Hidden Devices”
still not found? download the latest Realtek codec at
https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/advanced-search/499?Itemid=276
https://www.realtek.com/en/downloads
or download a High Definition Audio Codec for your soundcard. See the bottom of this post on how to find the vendor and the subsys to find the correct drivers.

On MacOS:
Finder, choose Go > Utilities. Open the Audio MIDI Setup.
Control-click the device (Built-In Output),
or select the device to be used, (Built-In Output)
and click the Action menu gear icon at the bottom of the sidebar.
Choose “use this device for sound input”.

Read more: https://support.apple.com/guide/audio-midi-setup/welcome/mac

If you want to connect multiple sound cards to one input, read https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202000

On Linux via PulseAudio:
add PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) to your system. This is usually available in the distribution’s repository.
Ensure that PulseAudio is running.
Open PulseAudio Volume Control and choose the “Recording” tab.
In the "Capture from " dropdown, select the “Monitor” option of the playback device to record.
Then you can select the ALSA / pulse recording input in Renoise.

On Linux via JACK:
Jack may be started using QjackCtl or from the command-line.
Any Jack-compatible applications that are running will have their ports available in Device Toolbar (or rescan the devices).
Applications that do not directly support Jack may also be used with Jack on a system that uses PulseAudio (such as Ubuntu and Debian based distributions) by installing “pulseaudio-module-jack”. This provides the modules “Jack Source” and “Jack Sink” that allow PulseAudio to use Jack.

On Linux via ALSA:
Use alsamixer, type alsamixer in a terminal window. If a Mix device is shown as a capture device, set this as the active device to enable recording sounds that are playing on the computer.

Have fun!

sources: Realtek driver downloads, MacOs guide, Audacity Linux recording tutorial

on Windows, how to find the sound card Vendor and Subsys:
use Windows+R (run command): Control (enter) to open Classic Control Panel.
open Device Manager.
open the branch of Sound, Video and Game controllers.
right-click your sound device (could be High Definition Audio Device) and click Properties.
go to the Details tab.
find the value of “Hardware ID”
search google for the VEN_??? and SUBSYS_??? listed, ? are numbers, to find out.

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