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Probably a new user issue, but e.g. I am recording in A2 notes from my synth (shows as A2 in the Instr. MIDI pane) but its recorded at A1 in the pattern, and shown as A1 when being sent back out MIDI. What have I missed?

Side question. My synth documents banks in msb,lsb format but I can’t seem to type that into the box (though it seems I can select the send order). Do I have to always manually multiply out to get the 14 bit bank number?

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Hello!

I’m kinda new here, I suppose. I mean, I bought a Renoise license like 10 years ago, hoping to start using it, but I found it too hard to make it work with my Reason-based setup back then, and didn’t persist past a pair of songs.

Nowadays, Reason can be used as a VST3, Renoise added VST3 support, and somehow my Renoise license is still valid, so I knew what I had to do:

Soundcloud version if you prefer:

Let’s see who cares to talk shop!

So, all sequencing was done with Renoise and the odd Reason player device, while all sounds and effects come from Reason.

It’s probably my 4th song ever finished with a tracker, I’m not super comfortable with the whole “making a song in microsoft excel” thing yet, a few things tripped me up, and I intentionally left in a pair of classic noob mistakes happy accidents, such as the long drone starting around 1:58 being a note off I forgot to send lol.
I tried to use Renoise close to its default settings for now, I want to give it a fair try before I reconfigure things too much.

I tried out a few Renoise tools too, Chord Lord is very neato. I also like how the tracker interface lets me see all harmony at once.

To integrate with Reason, I found that the simplest consistent way would be to use Reason Combinator in every single instance, to program its macro controls, then wire that Combinator to a Renoise Doofer. Otherwise, there’s way too many unsorted parameters to program the one I need. I assume it’s the way most people go about it?

I tried out using Reason player devices, they work pretty well, except I can’t toggle them on the same tick, gotta wait about 3 ticks for it to work reliably, I used the note delay for that. Ah well, musically imperceptible, but annoying.

I found myself using tricks I wouldn’t have bothered with in other DAWs because it’s be too much of a pain. For example at 1:13 I automate bringing down the volume of the reverb and delay send returns to 0 in perfect sync with the notes for a split second, the effect is subtle but interesting.

Reason’s sequencer is a neglected antique breaking at the seams, so I’m desperate for more inspiring options. I dunno if I’ll make many more songs with Renoise, but I definitely want to add it to my frequent roster of music tools now that it has VST3 support. It works particularly well for my style of synth modulation micro-edits. I’ll hear advice if you got any!

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I always have Auto Capture Instrument From Pattern enabled. This simplifies the cumbersome connection between the track you’re working in, and the sample you use in that track.

But. If you’re on a pattern where no notes are entered, instrument is not selected.

Please, please. Make the Auto Capture Instrument read the track in song. Not just pattern. Or add an option for this alongside the one that is already there.

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Hi! This is somewhat a “Tool”, but not a traditional Renoise tool since it’s not a LUA or Duplex thing.

I bought a used LK mk2, for all the sliders, buttons and pots on it. And thought that I could make it better fit for Renoise. Since I’m no coder and havent time to learn Lua or get into Duplex, I decided to make it with the only coding language I know. So it’s a Windows only tool.

What can it do then?

• Put colour on the pads to help remember what you have mapped in Renoise
  You may save different profiles with different colour setups.
• Also add a little Text label for each pad. These 2 point whas the main feature for this “tool”
• Added a page to view all the mapped controls on the keyboard - not just the colored drum pad.
  Select a saved Renoise MIDI mapping file to view,
• See pictures:
  
  
  

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…of tonal harmony…
JS Bach is 336 years old today. First day of spring!

midis for your enjoyment:
http://www.jsbach.net/midi/
http://www.bachcentral.com/midiindexcomplete.html

super quick remix of bvw 1062:

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Here’s a cool thing that I contributed to the trailer for.

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Sun - Goaa

Nexus 3 & RMX.

very electronic as usual ^^

feel free to enjoy.

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Forgive me if I’m blind - but I can’t seem to find an option anywhere which lets me turn off phrases/Prg as default, when loading instruments (xrni). When browsing through the instruments, it’s a annoying to hear all those phrases and manually have to set it off each time. But I have a feeling I’m missing something

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God, I cannot begin to tell you how long I’ve waited for VST3 support, side-chaining, and some of you have probably seen some of my posts. The hours spent EQ’ing and compressing, weird partial workarounds with DDMF or other tools, trying desperately hours after hours after hours trying to rip the mud out of some deeply amazing piece.

And tonight, after an OS refresh and finally getting through installs, weeks after stumbling across news of this update and nearly having a heart-attack … spending an hour throwing a quick base together, drums side-chained into sub-base, side-chained into a grungy bassline, trailed by wandering chord strikes, and everything just so … bloody clear.

I want to say thank you, and thank you is deserved for this work, after years and years and years of begging pleading for this attention, I’m finding a stalemate of balance in this.

But it’s like … I can breathe. It’s all here. It’s all right here.

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Have you some reference MIXs?

mines are for example:
. Audio-Control freak
. Cossfire-Hydra
. Dom & Roland-Parallax

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Hey there. When you download the demo version of Renoise, you are reminded every couple of hours to register your copy, and you are provided a count of how many hours you have used Renoise for. Does Renoise count your hourly usage, even after you’ve registered your copy? If so, how would one find out what the count is?
(Here is one of my screenshots from before I had purchased Renoise showing what I’m talking about.)

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R3.3.1 Win10 x64
I am experiencing precision issues with the timer to run a function repeatedly. When using:

renoise.tool():add_timer(func,time)

I can’t get the timer to run below 60-62 ms. This could be used to create a repeat button, for example to shift the position of the line up or down.
The problem is that the timer seems to run very slow with a value in milliseconds below 60-70 ms.

For example, if you put 1000ms (1s), the timer will work practically perfect:

renoise.tool():add_timer(func,1000)

Up to about 70-80 ms it seems to work fine:

renoise.tool():add_timer(func,70)

But if you use a value lower than 60 ms, the timer will keep running something above 60 ms always. I get the feeling that in previous versions of Renoise (v3.0 …), the timer could run at 10 and even 5 ms with a small margin of error.

Is it possible that add_timer now has a minimum limitation above 50 ms? We need a timer to work ultra-fast, which can reach up to 1ms speed. For example:

renoise.tool():add_timer(func,20)
renoise.tool():add_timer(func,15)
renoise.tool():add_timer(func,10)
renoise.tool():add_timer(func,5)

I have been experimenting with this code that I have purposely written to test it:

local C=0 local T=0 local function bang() local NC=os.clock() T=T+1 --print("T:",T,"clock:",("%d"):format((NC-C)*1000),"ms") vws.TIME_TEXT.text=("T: %s | clock: %d ms"):format(T,(NC-C)*1000) C=os.clock() end local function bang_timer() if not renoise.tool():has_timer(bang) then renoise.tool():add_timer(bang,vws.TIME_VALUEBOX.value) else renoise.tool():remove_timer(bang) vws.TIME_TEXT.text="" C=0 T=0 end end --viewbuilder local function gwt_frame() local FRAME=vb:row{ vb:valuebox{ id="TIME_VALUEBOX", height=19, width=79, min=1, max=5000, value=1000, tostring=function(value) return ("%d ms"):format(value) end, tonumber=function(value) return tonumber(value) end, }, vb:button{ height=19, width=99, text="Timer Test On/Off", notifier=function() C=os.clock() bang_timer() end }, vb:text{ id="TIME_TEXT", width=140, text="" } } return FRAME end

It is even possible to notice that something is wrong simply by simply printing on the terminal.

Can anyone try this? If we cannot comfortably set a value between 10 and 100 ms, the timer is useless in many cases.

@taktik, can you review this matter in depth? Personally I use various tools with add_timer () remove_timer () and i’m experimenting serious slowness problems below 100 ms.

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Renoise 3.3 still uses the wrong full screen mode on macos, where instead of being a new full screen “virtual destop” like everything else (respecting control+left/right etc), it does something custom, which it shouldn’t be doing.

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Had an experiment with swells, then I got side tracked and made this thing!

Enjoy!

Editing MIDI curves across two segments is a painful experience, or am I doing it wrong?

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hi,

i loaded an old song, from before my reinstall to new win10.
when loading, renoise 3.1.1 dont just report what vst is missing, it asks me to point to steam.

i dont know which vst use the steam engine, and clearly its not installed.
instead of then just loading the song with missing plugins, it crashes.

i need to know what vst is missing, in order to get my song working… ?

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I look at the API reference,and it seem not possible to create a list from all registered Renoise instruments and effects…

I’am wrong?

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I didn’t use it since a few years, tried it again yesterday.
Really impressed, I’m currently trying to make a jungle tune in it.

The audio editing is smooth and the interface is really reactive (compared to bitwig…)
makes chopping breaks in audio an almost pleasureful experience.

The things that are missing compared to other daws :

• No “lfo tool” or modulators. I think this is not such of a loss, since there is the lfo automation generator thing. Automation is really well done, you can do automation clips and move them around under your media items. not bad

• No straightforward midi drum machine thing. If you want to control samples by midi, you have to stack instances of the internal sampler and set manually the note for each instance … annoying.

• No integrated slicing. We lose some of the renoise workflow here. No way to quickly try slicing something to see if it sounds good.

• No cool way to do parallel processing. You really have to setup send busses for this kind of things… annoying. Bitwig is clearly the winner there (and Renoise in the sampler).

There is also a cool feature, you can apply effects to “clips”. This is similar to the sampler effect chains in renoise.

In a way those limitations are OK. This makes me more focus about making a track and less about endless sound design sessions like in Bitwig. Compared to Renoise it’s cool to see the waveforms of the breaks you are slicing. I will see what I will come up with it…

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Hi Renoise folks

Is there a function to play from actual editing position in pattern? Always when i press play Button he start Playing from position 0 of pattern not from actual editing position. thats broke my Workflow.

happy tracking

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Cant login anymore, password request dont work

Edit: Nevermind, email was in spam folder. But i’m not sure, why the password wasn’t working anymore…

Edit 2: I’ve set a new password and now my login is blocked. It seems login form is broken?!

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