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So I bought now an ATH-M50X, very happy with it (thanks @TNT) and also sold all my shitty, over-expensive Beyerdynamics. So now I am looking for a second really good studio headphones in the range of 100-250 Euro. Any suggestions for me?

I am pretty lost now about what vendor and model I should choose. I only know what I do not like:

• Highpassed lows
• Compressed lows
• Beyerdynamics, and other German brands (too much “hightech” electronics fixing the sound)
• Lack of “airness” (due compression/limitation or so)
• Predetermined breaking points

Thanks for help.

PS: I discussed a bit on the topic with a friend, and we concluded that your ear and head size, so the pressure on your ears matter extremely for the sound. I found it funny that I mostly agree with the measurements on rtings.com while my friend trusts in innerfidelity headphone measurements. Maybe Innerfidelity is using another head dummy than rtings simply, and the head dummy of rtings matches more my head

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Running Xubuntu 20.04.2 with IceWM.

I have gone down the rabbit hole of ALSA, Jack and PulseAudio. I have come out with no solid information on what I am supposed to do and no community guides that actually work, just piles and piles of sanctimonious nonsense that “pulse bad use ALSA is good.” I want to be able to use Renoise and Apps That Normal People Who Don’t Care About Pro Audio Quality Use at the same time. When I say “at the same time” I mean “when Renoise is running, Firefox can also run audio,” not “Jack and PulseAudio are running at the same time but cannot both do audio because of software mixing even though I tried to make dmix do that.”

What is the least painful way to make this happen? I do not care about sound latency on the Renoise side, I am not playing live and I’m not syncing Renoise to any external devices right now. If I press play on renoise and there’s a 0.0000000001ms delay, that’s fine. I do not want your opinions on “how ALSA/Jack is so much better that Pulse and I switched years ago and I’ve never looked back” because that isn’t actually helping, I tried that and it didn’t work, and also I don’t care. I just want to be able to bang out a tune once every few months when the urge strikes. I just want it to work. Maybe I’ll figure out how2proaudio on Ubuntu some other time when I have the patience and it sounds fun to learn, but given everything happening in the world right now I have One (1) Learn New Thing thread, and I would like to dedicate that to Renoise itself.

Someone who won’t preach at me, please help.

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Night showings

Enjoy!

Lumen video app:

Lumen Lumen - Analog-Style Software Video Synth

Lumen is a Mac App that makes it easy for you to create engaging visuals in real time, using everything you already know about audio synthesizers. With a semi-modular design that is both playable and deep, Lumen is the perfect way to get into video...

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Tiny mockup…
Lots of chords, stacatto strings and a few oboe notes.
Thanks for ear it !
Comments please !

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Hi Everyone,

I know that this has been discussed over the years, but I haven’t seen a recent posting on this issue here in the forum (not since Renoise 3, at least). I would like to run a VST sequencer (such as Cthulu) that outputs MIDI within Renoise, and have Renoise record the MIDI output of this sequencer as it is running. Is this possible to do, perhaps with virtual MIDI cables? I know that I can have the sequencer drive a separate instrument directly, but the notes are not recorded in that case. My idea is to actually use two virtual midi devices - LoopBe and LoopMidi, with the sequencer output to LoopBE, have the MIDI data routed between LoopBe and LoopMidi using something like Midiberry (for Windows), and then have the MIDI data recorded on the instrument track using LoopMidi as the input device. Would this work? Is there an easier way to do this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Aside form my regular work, I moonlight as a graphic designer, and especially enjoy working on design for musical/creative projects. If anyone out there needs graphic design for an album or a track or what-have-you, send me a pm and we can talk. I have extensive experience in print media design with a variety of clients. You can see some of my design work (quick sketches, really) on my bandcamp page here: https://zensphere.bandcamp.com/

These are all within a certain aesthetic, but I can do all kinds of different styles of work, and always aim to work closely with your creative vision.

Plenty busy with work and life/music in general these days, but thought I would throw this out there in case anybody needs some design work!

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It’s a bit cumbersome using the mouse to select each sample in a given folder for preview. Is there a way to move through a samples folder with arrow keys and trigger/preview each sample selected?

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I would really love to see a notepad as an insert effect instead of the song info notepad

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Hi, so I’ve been enjoying Renoise and amazed at it’s potential, have a ton of tracks on the go

Going deeper, I’ve been following this tutorial video for making drum sounds from scratch. All was going well, but hit a wall halfway through with the effects Sends.
in the video, he maps 2 x sends to another to combine them layering some noise on a bass kick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoKoTUJAXrc

Basically I seem unable to get both Sends playing at the same time. At first I thought it was because he was using an older Renoise version, so I used the newer ‘Multiband Send’ instead, but the same problem occurs.

In attempting to troubleshoot/ test I made a new song and DID actually get all the Sends working. But then a couple of steps into recreating where I was going, I’m having the same issue. The send Split isn’t working, and only getting a signal to one or the other - selecting both Send 3 doesn’t function.

I realise this is maybe venturing way past beginner questions, but hoping someone may be able to see if it’s a bug, or if it’s me and I’ve misconfigured something?. I’m attaching a file which is a start again version of where I was going with the tutorial, and the error is occurring. Any help appreciated

sends test Dropbox - sendstest.xrns - Simplify your life

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I know it sounds like a dumb question, but I’m using 512 lines for the trackers and my track is at 180bpm. At around line 260 it’s recorded only 33 seconds worth of audio as indicated by the timer at the top of the GUI. I know of artists who use Renoise who’ve created 6-7 minute tracks so I’m failing to see what I’m doing incorrectly or what I could do to fix this problem. If someone could help that’d be awesome.

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MIDI Universal Controller Download “Demo Version” & “Image Capture Album”: Download the Demo Version here

• MIDI Universal Controller v1.0.245 Demo (May 2021, First Release).

How to start installing?

1. Download the ZIP file. Please always download & use the latest version published.
2. Inside is the tool in XRNX format. Install it like any other tool.
3. The access link is at “Renoise: Tools / ~ MIDI Universal Controller…”

Image Capture Album. A first look!

You can see much of the content of the tool by looking at the captured images. You will see that there is a lot of content there. Many things will be familiar to you! Download the album and take a look!

• MIDI Universal Controller - Image Capture Album

MIDI Universal Controller. Get the full version!

MUC is available as a Full Version, which requires a personalized user license, valued at € 20 (euros). If you are interested, please, contact the author «ulneiz» to get your personalized user license (send me a PM for more information).

Please, seriously consider supporting the development for this type of projects buying a license. Keep in mind that it takes a lot of time, effort and money to build!!!
…ulneiz

I also want to give a big thank you to all the users who are supporting the PRE tool and SMC tool. Thanks to this support, it is possible to continue developing complex tools such as MUC.

Enjoy it!

Concept of the MUC.

The MIDI Universal Controller or MUC allows you to control practically everything Renoise from the MIDI input, managing to unify the control magnificently.

Represented as a single dynamic floating window, the MUC works as a MIDI bridge between your physical MIDI devices & Renoise, controlling all operations. It offers access to a multitude of functions (navigation, transport, song characteristics, or instrument, sample, phrases, MIDI properties…), as well as unified control of all parameters (both for effects, modulation or VST/VSTi devices), editing features, automation, & other unique functions & controls not available from Renoise.

Use absolutely all of your MIDI routing for all your song projects without exception!

The MUC window. Controls distribution.

The main window is divided into 4 parts & will show a width & height determined according to the selected control area (List 1). To position it, use a strategic corner of your image monitor, or place it on a secondary image monitor. The window layout is as follows:

1. Top bar for internal navigation & selection of main elements.
2. Main device panel. Displays a multitude of sliders to control specific parameters or properties.
3. Bottom bar for load or remove different elements.
4. General button bar for transport & navigation.

How to start? Steps to MIDI Map.

As a general rule, you only need to do these steps once. The goal is to save the entire MIDI mapping somewhere. This way it will be possible to use it in a multitude of projects. Start a new project & immediately get to control the knobs, faders & buttons of your physical MIDI devices. The steps to map & save the mapping:

1. Go to “Renoise: Edit/Preferences…/MIDI” & make sure you have your up to 4 MIDI devices enabled.
2. Go to “Renoise: Tools/~MIDI Universal Controller…”. This operation will display the floating window of the MUC.
3. Go to “Renoise” & press “MIDI MAP” button (top right), the “MIDI Mapping” window will appear… Keep “Learn Mode” on.
4. Go back to the MUC window & go through each MIDI mapping by first clicking on each virtual control:
   ▸ Use the physical knobs, faders, or buttons on your MIDI controllers to map at least all of the most important controls of the tool window.
   ▸ In general, use the “absolute map mode” of the limited rotary knobs or faders for the drop-down lists.
   ▸ It is recommended to use the “relative map mode” of the 360° rotary knobs (if available) for all sliders.
   ▸ For most button or switch type controls, be sure to use physical buttons that output two MIDI push-&-release signals.
   ▸ Map all your physical controls strategically. Remember that you will need to do a short mental memorization exercise to associate the physical control with its corresponding virtual control.
5. Go to “Renoise: Song/Midi Mappings Info…”. Read & check that you have the correct mapping of all your controls.
6. Save all your MIDI mapping somewhere. You can do it in 3 ways:
   ▸ Save it inside an XRNM file. Go to “MUC: show options panel: MIDI Map & OSC/MIDI Mapping Files”.
   ▸ Save it in the general “Template Song”, valid to start any project. Go to “Renoise: File/Save As Template Song”.
   ▸ Save it in a existing “Song”, in the middle of the project. Go to “Renoise: File/Save Song As…”.

Once you have saved the MIDI mapping, you can work with all your song projects. MUC allows you to always use the same mapping universally, regardless of what items are added or removed in each song project.

On the other hand, MUC offers a bidirectional MIDI routing alternative. Access “MUC: Options Panel/MIDI & SysEx In ➜ Out”. This is especially useful for communicating with the MIDI Controller, allowing you to send raw MIDI messages or SysEx messages compatible with the MIDI controller in a custom way.

Peculiarities of the MUC.

This advanced control tool offers exclusive functions & some unique ways of handling. Thanks to its design, it is possible to control much more than Renoise via MIDI input, using far fewer physical controls. Some peculiarities:

1. With the window in “OFF” mode it is possible to change the Custom List 1, the Custom List 5, change MIDI mapping or access to Options Panel.
2. The List 1 (Area Control) and List 5 (Edit Operations) are customizable, with 3 presets (A-B-C) to choose from.
3. The automation switch (top bar) allows you to switch between the two automation modes with a simple click or toggle recording on/off, by press & hold.
4. MUC can display up to 1000 parameter sliders, useful for VST and VSTi plugins.
5. The “Slider Master” can be individually bridged with all parameter sliders (positive indexes) or all drop-down lists & transport valuebox for song operations (negative indexes).
6. Transport & Navigation button bar:
   ▸ [Stop] + [Play] buttons or [Stop + Collapse] button let you play the song from the current line or collapse only the selected track.
   ▸ [Stop] button will return a panic when the song is already stopped.
   ▸ The central switch (next to the transport valuebox), allows to switch between 6 different control song operations.
   ▸ The navigation buttons allow “press & hold” for repeat operations.
7. The “options panel” has several preferences & more information that can be turned on or off. This allows greater customization in the functions to be executed.
8. Inside “Pattern Editor” o “Pattern + Matrix” area the List 5 It allows to directly execute a multitude of editing functions, combining them with the 6-position switch.
9. Customizable device panel. It is possible to customize the distribution of the number of slide bars & number of columns, adapting to the physical MIDI controller.
10. The layout of the 4 main transport buttons is customizable -play, loop pattern, stop, edit mode- (1-2-3-4 Distribution), adapting to the physical MIDI controller.
11. It is possible to insert tracks with custom settings.
12. It is possible to control the Distribution Type (Sampler Keyzones) or the Keymap Distribution (Sampler Phrases), using a rotary knob or fader only.
13. MUC provides the ability to reproduce the sound of the instrument, sample, or phrase from a rotary knob or fader, via OSC.
    14 MUC includes envelopes for automation. Allows you to easily save, add or modify envelope points by text editing.
14. MUC is bi-directional. It also allows you to send MIDI output messages (SysEx Data) to enable/disable transport or navigation buttons (LEDs) or others.
15. The Section “MIDI & SysEx In ➜ Out” provides an alternative to custom bidirectional MIDI routing. Use it to gain more control of your compatible MIDI controller.

Also, MIDI Universal Controller offers some exclusive MIDI operations that are not available from Renoise, such as being able to change “presets” in the effects devices, or change “programs” in the plugins, & MIDI access to some specific parameters, such as the “Routing”, “Delay”, “Colors RGB”, “Color Blend” of the tracks, the “Track Headroom” parameter, or the main volume of different elements (song, tracks, instruments, plugins, samples, phrases…). This allows for faster & more direct control.

Use the MUC as a powerful interconnected network of controls for true MIDI control more easy, whether for any modest physical MIDI controller or a sophisticated mix of high-end MIDI controllers!

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Renoise Classic(affordable as it is now)

Renoise X(With,for example,“Elastique Pro”…More costly)

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It’s not my real genre, but I love those epic sounds.

Comments really appreciated.

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Does anyone know of an instrument that can be played comfortably whilst leaning back on the sofa, maybe even reclining?

I cant think of any super comfortable instruments except for maybe mbira or kalimba.
Only problem is you need fingernails to play those properly. Looking for something else. It can be electronic or accoustic. Tannerins looked kinda cool but they are not available to buy, ou have to make one yourself.

As for sequencers, all the handheld softwares which use gamepad for writing music are perfect for sofa time (LGPT, LSDJ, PSPSEQ), but what about actual instruments?
My searches so far have yielded things like autoharp but there must be something better out there.

guitar - left hand too uncomfortable

keyboard / piano - has to sit bolt upright

drumpad - sits bolt upright

mbira - perfectly comfortable but needs fingernails

tannerin - not available to buy

thummer - not available to buy (looked good in folded position)

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The video starts off by demonstrating that everything works as expected in both the track effects section and the sampler fx chain when a phrase is not making use of the the sample number column.

0:32 - The phrase is switched to an identical version with the sample number column enabled. Now the Velocity Tracker in the sampler fx chain only responds to changes in the velocity column when they’re being used on the same line as an actual note. The exception to this is sample 0, which responds as it should.

1:13 - When the Velocity Tracker in the track effects section is set to respond to a specific instrument number, it instead responds to velocity changes from the numbered samples in the phrase.

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That was an old previous post about this but seems that lots of links are outdated. Then better to create a new post.

So if you have a musical Twitter account, let’s be in touch!

Here is mine: https://twitter.com/Makeawishmusics

As that was said previously in the older post, this topic is not about the utility or not from Twitter, that’s another story ^^

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Hey all,

spent the past several days getting all my old tracks up and running with cover art on bandcamp. have a listen if you like! most of these tracks (13/22) were made in renoise. The earllier stuff, reason.

hope you find something you enjoy!

thanks for listening, and for being such a great community. renoise is

•••zensphere••• •••zensphere•••

•••H∑X is love••• •mind manifesting music for dark night deliriums•

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Hello guys!

I’m trying to gather as much information as possible about the Akai MPD232 MIDI controller SysEx data. Does anyone have information to expand here?

At the moment, I have practically the control of the entire device, but I am missing everything related to the control of the RGB lighting of the 16 pads. Does anyone have information about it?

This is all I have collected:

USB MIDI Device: AKAI MPD232. SysEx Data

Device Modes:

• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 00 00 01 F7 ➜ Device Mode 01: Lock all except the pads.
• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 00 00 02 F7 ➜ Device Mode 02: Unlock all. It does not send SysEx data.
• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 00 00 08 F7 ➜ Device Mode 08: Unlocks to send SysEx on MIDIIN4 for all buttons (no pads)
• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 00 00 38 F7 ➜ Device Mode 38: Unlocks to send SysEx on MIDIIN4 for every button, pad, fader

Controls:

• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 00 01 _ _ F7 ➜ Demo Mode: _ _ = (00 off, 01 on)

• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 00 02 _ _ F7 ➜ Preset Change: _ _ = number of preset

• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 00 07 _ _ F7 ➜ Tap Tempo: _ _ = (>=01 off, 00 on)

• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 00 0E _ _ F7 ➜ Lock: _ _ = (00 off, 01 on)

• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 00 11 _ _ F7 ➜ Full Level: _ _ = (00 off, 01 on)

• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 00 12 _ _ F7 ➜ 16 Level: _ _ = (00 off, 01 on)

• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 00 13 _ _ F7 ➜ Note Repeat: _ _ = (00 off, 01 on)

• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 00 14 _ _ F7 ➜ Pad Banks: _ _ = (00 A, 01 B, 02 C, 03 D)

• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 00 15 _ _ F7 ➜ Control Banks: _ _ = (00 A, 01 B, 02 C)

• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 00 16 _ _ F7 ➜ Time Division: _ _ = (00 off, 01 on)

• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 00 17 _ _ F7 ➜ Seq On/Off: _ _ = (00 off, 01 on)

• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 00 19 _ _ F7 ➜ Seq Rec: _ _ = (00 off, 01 on)

• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 00 1A _ _ F7 ➜ Step Bank: _ _ = (00 01-16, 01 17-32)

• F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 01 79 _ _ F7 to
  F0 47 00 36 30 00 04 01 02 00 _ _ F7 ➜ Sequence Lights

• F0 47 00 36 31 00 04 01 0B 0E _ _ F7 to
  F0 47 00 36 31 00 04 01 0B 2D _ _ F7 ➜ Sequence Button

• F0 47 00 36 31 00 04 01 00 _ x _ y F7 ➜ Display ASCII: _ x = Start number, _ y = Letter in ASCII

• RGB LEDS ???

What interests me the most are the SysEx messages that control the RGB lighting change of the pads. This is probably a string of more than 10 bytes, with 3 bytes destined for RGB color, probably 00 00 00 to 7F 7F 7F. I suspect it would go something like this:

• F0 47 00 36 31 00 04 01 ?? ?? _R _G _B F7 ➜ _R _G _B = (00 00 00 to 7F 7F 7F)

SysEx data may have things in common with similar Akai devices (MPD226, MPD218, or old models). Anyone have information on these topics?

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Hi
I thought you renoisers might be interested to see Renoise in a sonicstate articel I wrote recently.

Sonicstate The DAWs - Choosing A Digital Audio Workstation

An overview of the most popular production software available today

Hope you enjoy it !

Chris

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Is there a good way to make a live reverse effect because I don’t like rendering individual sounds and reversing them. I was trying to test to see if I could create this by using a delay and modulating the delay time backwards. It sounds as if it is playing in reverse but I am not getting a consistent playback. Let me know if you have any ideas !

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