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Renoise, midi and older windows operating systems
Hi there, new to renoise. I have an old windows xp computer that I wish to use a tracker program with to communicate midi messages to external hardware devices. from what I can tell there is a few options for software trackers that support windows xp, some being legacy software options that I am curious about potentially learning and using for music making. I am wondering if renoise is a tracker that I should include in my list of tracker software to learn?
is there a version of renoise that was developed with compatibility for windows xp which included midi out so I can control external synths and hardware?
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Stay Positive (angry neighbors version)
Just released this little electronic dystopian thing.
All music, mix and mastering done in Renoise. I should prolly have worked more on the mix but hey, there’s always a next time
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Kriyananda - "Te0Cr4xy" new breakbeat track
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Note offs not working correctly in redux
Hello. Not sure if this is a beginner’s question or just a bug. But I’ve used Redux for a few days, and never Renoise (nor any other tracker) before, so I at least am a beginner.
My issue is that note offs don’t work correctly. I’ve had two issues:
- The first is that note ons on my bass drum (midi note 36) muted the decay of crash (midi note 49). They do not share a mute group (the crash is not in any mute group). This only happens when the kick note on is at the exact same moment as the crash’s note off. Played freely, the crash note off doesn’t to anything, since the sample is set to one-shot (as are all samples). NNA is Note off, but I would imagine that refers to the same note? Or is NNA = when a new note arrives exactly (the same tick) as a note off? Seems like a pretty useless function, but maybe it’s tracker specific. I’ve found the/a solution, I just wanted to figure out if I’m completely missing something. So far the help files and forum search haven’t helped (I did search and look around).
My other, bigger issue, is that note offs (or ons, it may not be related to the above) just don’t work properly.
Here are two sound samples of the same piece of a song.
The first is a live “bounce” from Reason and sounds correct.
In the second, which is a render, the drums during the first three chords sound correct, and after that a bunch of cymbal hits are missed. given the (probably too) distorted and compressed mix I can’t tell if the cymbal hits start at all.
The midi loop is the exact same throughout this part of the song. I’ve used Reaper’s drag-loop-function so the midi data should be identical every time.
Nothing else was changed between the render and bounce. The only difference is that I pressed play well into the song, rather than bounce it all. Souldn’t change things… No CCs are sent, just the same midi loop with note ons and velocity, nothing else. No phrases used, just notes from Reaper.
Correct, live bounce: http://noise.technology/audio/ok.mp3
Incorrect, render: http://noise.technology/audio/not_ok.mp3
The not off-layer is empty, basically I just want the GM note hits to play those samples until they’re done. No loops are used, just one-shots.
So far Redux is great for my needs (and I will explore glitchy stuff further on) but if I can’t trust it to simply play the samples the same way every time I’m not sure I’ll continue using it. The small modulations I use (velocity to pitch, or velocity to filter) shouldn’t make a sample not be played. There’s no random element anywhere.
My first issue is easily solvable, but weird, but this second one is just unreliable. It sounds right when I’m mixing and changing notes, only upon rendering will I find out if things came out correctly. That’s not really workable for me.
The issue could also be with Reaper’s midi handling, of course.
Any ideas?
Max
ps. Likely not needed but here’s an image of the loop in question.
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Unclutter and improve track effect chain
I love simple things and improved workflow so here’s a simple suggestion for the track effect chain.
It will look like this as default without the effect list shown.
When you move the mouse over a spot where you can insert a FX a plus sign appear.
Click on the plus sign and the VST FX list box appear.
Search for your FX, the most probable/suggested will be highlighted while you type and you can just press enter to insert it.
Et voilà. You have your effect inserted just where you want it so you don’t have to drag it in place and we have removed a piece of clutter at the same time.
Maybe this is already possible with keyboard shortcuts but I’m not great at remembering the millions shortcuts the would make life easy unfortunately.
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Problem with render
Sometimes after render I get file with silence and I must open Renoise again and mix whole song again.
But today I get even stranger thing - one channel was not render!
https://www.xtdmusic.eu/download/testrender.zip
test1.wav was what I get first time, test2.wav - after I re-opened Renoise.
Is possible to made better re-initialize everything before render? It’s absolutely unacceptable to work with that type of roulette.
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Default Volume/Velocity Value
Default Volume/Velocity Value (in hex) should be 64 instead of (maxed out) 7F. It’s standard value 64 (100 in dec) in DAWs. No problem to create custom template with predefined values of course. But should be set to 64 as default globally.
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[GUI PROBLEM] "Run all plugins in sandboxes" slows down the Renoise GUI
R3.2.2 or old, W10
In Renoise: Preferences / Plugin / Misc there is the following option:
- Run all plugins in sandboxes (-->separate process)
- If this option is activated, all plugins, both 32bit and 64bit will run in a separate window.
- If this option is disabled, only 32bit plugins will run in a separate window.
In either case, running a separate window (both AudioPluginServer32.exe and AudioPluginServer64.exe) causes a general slowdown in the Renoise GUI. That is, any 32bit or 64bit window run separately is going to negatively influence the graphics performance of the Renoise window. Why does this happen? Is it a direct Windows 10 problem or is the problem really internal to Renoise?
One very clear way of looking at it is to navigate through the Renoise top bar menus when Renoise are running any AudioPluginServer32.exe or AudioPluginServer64.exe (you must have the plugin window open). You will see that it works as if it were drunk. And furthermore, the problem is cumulative. If you open multiple plugin windows, the Renoise GUI will perform even worse, especially in the drop down menus…
I think this issue is one of the main current problems for Renoise, from that Renoise reached the first version with HiDPI compatibility.
Renoise Team, could you please resolve this matter?
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Ignore pattern in pattern editor
What do you think , an ignore option for the pattern
So it will jump straight from the preceding pattern to the pattern after the ignored one
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[PROBLEM] unordered list return of available_devices in track
R3.2.2 or old W10
There seems to be a small problem with the return of the two lists available_devices and available_device_infos for the tracks.
When starting Renoise the available_devices and available_device_infos properties can return the VST effects to the beginning of the list. But later these properties can return the VST effects to the end of the list, changing the order of the list.
It is desirable that they always return the same order of the list. I think the correct thing is that they always return the native effects and then the VST effects.
I cannot describe why this happens…
>>> rprint(renoise.song().selected_track.available_devices) [1] => Audio/Effects/VST/TAL-Vocoder [2] => Audio/Effects/Native/Delay [3] => Audio/Effects/Native/Multitap [4] => Audio/Effects/Native/mpReverb 2 [5] => Audio/Effects/Native/Reverb ... [42] => Audio/Effects/Native/*LFO [43] => Audio/Effects/Native/*Key Tracker [44] => Audio/Effects/Native/*Velocity Tracker [45] => Audio/Effects/Native/*Signal FollowerLater, in the same project session (look up and down the list)…
>>> rprint(renoise.song().selected_track.available_devices) [1] => Audio/Effects/Native/Delay [2] => Audio/Effects/Native/Multitap [3] => Audio/Effects/Native/mpReverb 2 [4] => Audio/Effects/Native/Reverb ... [41] => Audio/Effects/Native/*LFO [42] => Audio/Effects/Native/*Key Tracker [43] => Audio/Effects/Native/*Velocity Tracker [44] => Audio/Effects/Native/*Signal Follower [45] => Audio/Effects/VST/TAL-VocoderWhy does this happen? Can this be corrected?
Related Code -- Devices. renoise.song().tracks[].available_devices[] -> [read-only, array of strings] -- Returns a list of tables containing more information about the devices. -- Each table has the following fields: -- { -- path, -- The device's path used by insert_device_at() -- name, -- The device's name -- short_name, -- The device's name as displayed in shortened lists -- favorite_name, -- The device's name as displayed in favorites -- is_favorite, -- true if the device is a favorite -- is_bridged -- true if the device is a bridged plugin -- } renoise.song().tracks[].available_device_infos[] -> [read-only, array of strings]1 post - 1 participant
Dirtywave m8 tracker
Anyone getting the dirtywave m8 tracker?
Looking slick imo, though a bit weird maybe with the button layout . Gas is definitely activated, though at the moment I can’t justify a 450,- dollar purchase, also knowing I have a hardly touched polyend tracker here that needs more love. If in the future the price can come down, perhaps with a cheaper Nerdseq portable as direct competition a better choice can be weighed.
Great to see these projects come to light!
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I'm happy that old version disappears from the installed list
It’s a trivial matter, but there is something I really want to thank.
That is, the old version Renoise disappears in the Windows app list when the program is overwritten and installed with the new version.
With other programs such as Bitwig Studio, even if install by overwriting, the previous version remains in the list, so have to delete it from the registry ourself.
It’s a trivial matter, but thanks for the well-thought-out program Renoise I love forever.
I’m a Mac user since Mac Plus 1MB, but recently I’m enjoying 2in1 Windows 10 laptop. But my favorite is the Xfce environment of Linux.
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Apply DSP to repitched sample
I have a break that is repitched to fit the project’s BPM. I have an fx chain associated with it.
When I press the “apply DSP to sample” button, what exactly is happening ?
Is the DSP applied at original sample speed and I hear the repitched version of it, or is the sample repitched and the DSP applied later (which would fit the live version) ?
If the first case is true, the sound could be different… This confuses me.
Thanks for your help.
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How to filter out incoming midi sync in FL Studio
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Usage of sqlite in a Renoise tool?
Is it somehow possible to use a sqlite database and driver within a renoise LUA tool?
All I found are kind of LUA extensions, written in C(++)… If it is not possible, what about including a sqlite package into the Renoise LUA core?
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Problem with QjackCtl in ubuntu
Hey guys listen i have QjackCtl and works well, the thing is the volume of say firefox and renoise are not the same when running them at the same time.In QjackCtl execute script after startup i have put the following command pactl load-module module-jack-sink channels=2; pactl load-module module-jack-source; pacmd set-default-sink jack_out so i can have multiple audio apps running alongside without problems but when i watch a video in firefox the audio is like it is suppose to be but if i switch over to Renoise the audio is much higher.Any ideas?
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Good bluetooth earsticks for sports and phoning
Hi,
I already bought two types of bluetooth earsticks for sports and phoning. Sadly one sucks for jogging (it has a cable in between the sticks, sony), and the other one has extremely poor microphones.
Any hint for me what would be a good model/vendor here? I was looking at a price range of 60 eur maximum or so…
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"Reder-Or" by Divine Electronics
This is a simple dace-ish track I’ve put together lightning fast (two-three weeks, compared to years normally), let us say it’s more like a celebration of the newly added VST3 compatibility and the Surge synth. Surge is responsable for 3 instruments here. As per usual, the track is downmixed to tape, hence the hiss.
And the comic book this refers to is yours to decipher
Hope you dig it,
cheers
DVE
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Is it possible to save a sample after beatsyncing?
So i don’t believe it’s possible to beatsync and then slice up the sample, as the slices wont be in the same bpm even after placing the same value in each slice. I was trying to find a workaround and attempting to beatsync the entire sample and then saving as the correct bpm and then slicing it up. Everytime i save sample as a .wav, it just saves as the original sample. This is hard to articulate hopefully this makes sense lool
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Multiple lfo tool
i like so much to automate everything to get new exciting sounds with llfos. but the process itself is so boring. can i possibly do something like this in lua? get device params, choose which to automate, setup one automation chain of lfos and multiply it to the list of parameters? i don’t know lua at all. maybe some other software will be more interesting for this?
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