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As a new Renoise user, and someone with zero coding experince, I’ve decided to throw myself into the deep end and am attempting to directly edit a renoise file in text editor. Silly, I know.

I am doing this because I want to use Renoise to convert environmental data into sound. Using excel I have converted a year’s worth of measurements from an oceanic wave measuring buoy into HEX values that fall within Renoise’s useable range, and with these values I am controlling FX parameters in the VCV Rack VSTi.

To date I’ve input the data manually into each line of a pattern, and I now have a working prototype. It’s slow going though and now I want to find a way to bulk input this data directly into the renoise xrns file. I have access to 20 years of data recorded in half hour increments, so yeah, an insane amount of data that I could potentially use.

My first step has been to try this on the smallest possible scale, so that I’m not changing anything coding wise, but only a single parameter value. I’ve tried it in this way:

Unzip the xrns file using unarchiver (on an M1 mac). i read that renoise files are renamed zip files, and it seems that they at least open in as zip files do.

Open the now revealed XML file in text edit.

Find a parameter in the “Lines” section of the code, and simply change this from say 6E to 6F. No other changes to code.

Save and close the XML file

Right click and compress the XML file so that it is now contained in a ZIP file. There is no sample data in the original file so no Samples folder to compress.

Change the extension on the resulting .zip file to .xrns so that it wlll open in Renoise.

When I go to open the file in Renoise, it recognises the extension, but won’t open the file. Error message is “Loading failed with the error:
Invalid Zip file!.”

This happens with XML files that i have unzipped and rezipped without changing the file. The edited xml files also open successfully in an XML specific editing program without errors.

If renoise files are really just renamed zip files, i don’t understand why the process wouldn’t work. There’s probably something really basic and fundamental that I’m missing here. Could it be in the way that I’m re-zipping the file?

Thanks in advance.
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When rendering the plogue ops to nstrument , the samples are only 500 ms long , while the settings are
duration: 500
Tail : 500
So it should be 1000 ms
Only happens with plogue ops 7

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Just wondered if anybody knows what presently or in the past has been the largest sample-based instrument collection by any one person for any tracker?..

I was drawing a blank…

I say this because as I was creating instruments for Protrekkr today I noticed I was over 3,900 so I spent a bit more time topping 4,000…

Might be a record, might not…But it’s alot…My therapist states that “4,000 Instruments is ENOUGH and that I can move on with my life & enjoy family & an occasional nasty hot pocket”…Thus ending this endless OCD masturbatory instrument creation process…I’m CURED!!

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Apologies for first question being something people have reported before. I’m trying to understand how to get efficient at working in Renoise.

My new M1 Macbook Air is fine, but entering two notes (instr>keys>piano) + Play = 24% CPU. This can’t be an accurate representation of use, surely?

My old intel Macbook Air shows high-20s %, running a relatively sparse arrangement of 5 tracks + FX.

What am I doing wrong?

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US only please. Shipping the Atom SQ across either pond doesn’t make sense. Listed on ebay at $350. DM with offers. Everything works great, just revised my process. I’ll pay presonus transfer fee. Thanks!

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The Middle Mouse Click on the Onscreen keyboard should be to preform a glissando whereas the Left Click just depresses and stays on the note would be a neat option.

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Hello,
I put it in the wrong forum before.
ReSpeak is a graphical extension to the TTS program Espeak.
It is an offline text-to-speech converter.
I think no further explanation is needed, the controls are sparse.

v0.02

• added buttons for executable file and temporary sample storage selections.
• the ability to keep the created wav file from espeak
• creating one or more samples for the instrument
• resolved an issue with loading into a multiline text field

cz.martblek.REspeak_v02.xrnx (5.1 KB)

Still tested on Linux, No Win or Mac here.
Every language and voice is set according to my setup for espeak.
Some languages and voices may not work for you.

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Just a thought really; I’ve looked through all the prepacked tuts, which are very valuable, and thought it’d be nice if there was some sorta crowdsourcing way to milk our collective brain teet and create a number of user created tutorials about topics that we think valuable to know.
I think it’d be super useful and feel like I’d learn more about this program than I thought possible at the time of writing this.

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hello,
I can’t put text into a variable
I load the text from the textfield and save it in the document .

> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <ReSpeak doc_version="0"> > <pitch>50</pitch> > <kapitals>10</kapitals> > <voice>1.0</voice> > <amplitude>100</amplitude> > <word_gap>3</word_gap> > <text>"Hello"</text> > <language>25</language> > <speed>175</speed> > </ReSpeak> > vb.views.text:clear() > vb.views.text:scroll_to_first_line() > print("Load: "..ReSpeak.text.value) > vb.views.text.text = ReSpeak.text.value

but I can’t load it back. it is still NIL

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Hello,
While waiting for the next version of Maciulxochitl

try “REspeak”.

cz.martblek.REspeak_v01.xrnx (4.1 KB)

It is a tool for creating samples using the TTS engine Espeak.
Tested on Linux.
But perhaps it will also work on windows if espeak is installed in the path.
I don’t use Mbrola phonemes yet.
I wanted something offline and I don’t have Google TTS paid, we’ll see in time

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I don’t know if this a bug in Renoise, Kontakt or just how Windows 11 behaves, but sometimes when I open an old song file (with missing Kontakt instruments, or anything that leads to an error popup), and go to another program (web browser etc.) while waiting for the song to load, the loading gets stuck to a missing instrument, and if I select Renoise, there is no popup on top of it, it’s just stuck at “Loading song… ‘blabla.xrns’ (Document)…” and never gets anywhere because it’s waiting for input.

So, changing between Renoise and another program, you won’t have any kind of popup to click on to get forward in the loading, however, if you go to the other program, and instead switching to Renoise, you minimize it, either by clicking on its icon on the taskbar or top right minimize button, suddenly there’s an error popup on top of Renoise that lets you fix the missing contents issue and get forward with loading.

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Hi there! Houston, we have a problem! When I am editing, the tracker jumps four lines downwards. This is when I enter a note, or delete one. Why is this, and how do I make it jump just one line, as it should ?

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I can’t figure it out; is there a specific file location that they need to be loaded to?
I can’t click on the file icon because it’s greyed out and the list isn’t showing anything installed.
I couldn’t find it in this…
https://tutorials.renoise.com/wiki/Plugin

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