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I was working on Renoise and when I saved my project it freezed, so I had to force quit it. Now when I try to open Renoise it halts to the point where it is “Starting MIDI subsystems”.

I got version 3.4.1 running on Macbook Pro / Monterey. I’ve got this setup approx. 2 years now, it’s not connected to internet and I haven’t installed any new plugins or updates. It’s been a completely closed system.

Anyone got any ideas, how to fix this? Thanks!

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Please point me in the right direction if a post like this already exists.

I have been having troubles with vst instruments loading with a black bar at the top and being unaligned. Namely XLN XO. I’m not sure what is causing the problem or if this is something I can fix. It’s almost as if the GUI map is usually larger than the pixels of the visual.

Has anybody else had this problem?

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(v3.1+) Repeater BPM Sync Failure

The Repeater’s Divisor setting takes the BPM into account when grabbing the sound slice, since the Divisor is a fraction of the beat length. At least that’s how it used to work when it was introduced in v2.8 up to v3.0.

Something changed in v3.1, where it no longer does this when changing the BPM. Even returning the BPM back to the first value has the repeats out of sync. This is clearly not how it’s supposed to work, since reloading the song again puts it back in sync.

Edit - Interestingly it works properly if the BPM is changed via effect commands or graphical automation. The problem seems to be when manually changing the setting in the Transport Panel.

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Repeater Notation - Renoise Tool

> Download Repeater Notation Tool

The Repeater captures a chunk of sound from what’s playing, but odd timings make it impossible to write music to match it. But what if you could, for example, have the kick drum follow exactly what the Repeater is doing?

This tool inserts notes into the Pattern Editor that match Repeater timings. It can be done manually or by linking to a Repeater and using its effect commands to track the changes made.

Limitations (v1.0)

• Only uses data from effect commands, not graphical automation
• If the Sync setting is automated, its changes are not taken into account
• Contiguous repeats before the current pattern/selection can affect the rhythm in ‘Repeats - Sync’ mode if there’s no initial ‘Mode - Off’ to break them up

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I’m trying to automate a filter sweep using automation commands, but the plugin isn’t responding to the commands nor graphical automation.

1. I am running two instances of Pro-Q3 (VST 3), one for EQ and a secondary one purely as a filter.

2. Set Secondary EQ as sweep in, use linear fill to fill in automation commands.

3. Should filter sweep but doesn’t respond to commands whatsoever.

note: I’ve also tried sandboxing the plugin and also using VST 2 version, but it doesn’t seem to work. Any ideas?
I’ve also attached an image for illustration purposes as well.

Thanks

H.

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I have decided to finally try one of these piano rolls I have seen before. There’s a few of them so I was wondering which one you are using, for those who are using one, that is.

I do not need the one with the most features. All I really want is reliable, stable, not many glitches or strange behaviors. Just something that works how you would expect it to, and is easy to learn. Something that integrates well with the main software.

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Collection of my own original instruments, mostly bass. There’s a video of me demoing some of the instruments on the site

Gumroad Kaidiak's Renoise Instruments

Collection of my .xrni files. Neurobass, reese, growls, melodic leads, and even rudimentary additive/spectral synthesis. All native to Renoise

Price: USD 0.0

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The site is called https://linuxdaw.org/ but as most vsts work as “bonus” on Linux and usually work on windows, you can find a fine collection of free and non-free vst here.

Found that on mastodon today and I think you’ll like it.

Linux DAW Linux DAW

Quality audio software for Linux Audio Production such as LV2, VST2, VST3, and CLAP effects, synthesizers and sampler plugins.

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In response to the latest video from @GroovinG and inspired by a comment from @muximori on Discord, here is a tool to aid chopping up your own patterns into new variations.

chunk_chops

Provides two key-bindings in Pattern Editor / Tools

• Render Chunk Pattern
• Render Chunk Pattern With New Seed

They are available in the context menu of the pattern editor as well.

setup

• Have the first track in your project be empty, this will be your chunk track
• Name it so it starts with @
• Have two FX columns

usage

• Type chunking information into your chunk track
• Run one of the Render… commands mentioned above
• Alternatively, enable Render / On Change in the settings (on by default)

chunking

• The first FX column controls what pattern to take the chunk from
• The second FX column can control what lines to take

pattern commands

You need to have one of these in the first FX column to start a new chunk

• -Pxx : chunk from pattern at index xx
• -Sxx : chunk from sequence step xx
• -Uxx : chunk from xx above the current sequence step
• -Dxx : chunk from xx below the current sequence step
• -Rxx : chunk from a random pattern with seed xx
• -Exx : chunk from a new random pattern every line with seed xx
• -O-- : stop chunking (works like OFF commands for notes, without it the chunk will continue until the end of the pattern or another pattern command)

pattern flags

Append to the front of an existing pattern command

• S--- : only chunk a single line

line commands

By default, chunks start copying from the same line where they start at.

For example a chunk starting in the middle of the pattern will copy from the middle of the other pattern. You can modify this using line commands in the second FX column.

The first character will determine the type of line selection

• --xx : the default mode, offsets by xx lines
• Bmxx : specify the line offset in terms of beats
• Lxxx : specify an absolute line number
• Rmxx : start from a random line with seed xx

The second character will set what the xx values mean

• -Dxx : start chunking xx below the current line
• -Uxx : start chunking xx above the current line
• -Rxx : sample random lines with seed xx (for beat mode only the beat will be picked randomly, the rest of the chunk will stay as it was, otherwise each line will be sampled from a new random location)

examples

• chunk from pattern 1

-P01 ----

• chunk from beat 4 of the pattern at the second sequence step

-S02 B004

• chunk from 4 lines below the current line from a random pattern

-R00 -D04

• chunk at a random line from 4 sequence above

-U04 R000

• chunk at a random beat from 5 sequence above

-U05 BR00

• chunk completely random lines from pattern 8

-P08 RR00

• copy a single line from 8 from the pattern 4

SP04 L008

additional commands

There are a few more commands you can use inside the Vol or Pan columns of the first note column.

• K- : keep the line as it is (useful for when you want to preserve some handwritten lines while chunking the rest)
• C- : clear the line
• N- : no rendering, everything will be skipped after this

If you want to protect an entire pattern from re-rendering simply mute the chunk track at the particular step in the pattern matrix (middle click on a pattern).

Transpose the chunked notes

• Dx : lower by x semitones
• Ux : raise by x semitones
• Bx : lower to x octaves below
• Ax : raise to x octaves above

Transpose the instrument of notes

• Ix : raise by x
• Jx : lower by x

If you want to cover more lines with the same transposition your can repeat any of these with zero for x, this will transponse to whatever value is at the top of the chain. For example this will raise four consecutive lines by 4 semitones.

U4 U0 U0 U0

• OFF: you can put an OFF into the note column to write a note off across all tracks

settings

• Track Prefix sets what you need in your track’s name to be recognized as a chunk track

Render

• On Change - enable to have your chunking get auto-rendered whenever you change lines
• Watch Interval - ticks to wait before auto-rendering after lines changed (increase this if the auto-rendering is too quick for you)
• Render - run a render now

Randomness

Random commands use a seed to have randomly generated values stay reproducible, you can unlock this seed to have each render get a new seed, otherwise you can change the xx values after random commands to have a new offset from the seed (and so a new random output). You can also force a seed change using the Render with new seed commands.

• Lock Seed - keep the random seed locked
• $eed to Track - write the seed into the name of the track as $seed to preserve the seed for the song, otherwise your seed might change between project (since it is saved globally with the tool preferences)

Pattern

• Pattern Format - set how numbers are interpreted for pattern commands (decimal or hexadecimal)
• Line Format - same for line and beat indices
• Automation - toggle chunking automation info (this might not work as well)

Note: if you set a format to decimal but have a hexadecimal value in you chunk track like -P0A it will still get interpreted as hex.

Colors

• Change - enable changing the chunk track’s color while editing and rendering
• Assign Edited - press this to assign the currently selected track’s color as edited color
• Assign Rendered - same as above for the rendered color

download

see the source on gitlab

download from direct link (this zip includes all my other tools as well)

Note, this is a beta version, the commands might change a bit after more testing.

Tell me what you think!

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A retro playlist of influental music.

97 R: A Retrospective - YouTube

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Voting ends Monday February 26st, 2024 Hawaii Standard Time:

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Countdown to 24. Feb 2024 23:59:59. Showing days, hours, minutes and seconds ticking down to 0

Mutant Breaks Competition #16 is over. Time to rank the entries. Everyone can vote, so please do!

Many thanks to everyone who entered. You all did great! And special thanks to @martblek for making the tool that made it all possible.

Judging Criteria:
Your favorite track p1 +7 points.
Your favorite track p2 +5 points.
Your favorite track p3 +3 points.
Best mix +5 points (can be different from your favorite track(s)).

Bonus points:
1 Less than 3 single cycle waveforms. +3 points.
2 Only using full samples longer than 3 seconds and no single cycle waveforms. +7 points
Single single shot samples are fine.
3 Writing a review for all submitted tracks. +10 points.

Renoise XRNS files:
Remsky: 2024 Impulses | 0.046% of 1440k
H3ADL3SS: Unbound | 91.147% of 1440kb.
Eretsua: MBC#16*-_Demo_track | 99.48% of 1440kb.
Mr.Zensphere X∑NøB∆B∆••• no limitations.xrns | 63.11% of 1440kb.
M. Garbanzo Reduction.xrns | 88% of 1440kb.
Highway rehab blunt (MB16 - 2024)
Tessier Server Migrations Never Go As Planneds
Lneheb Amidst sedimentary narratives, geological epochs unfold. Time’s chisel carves stratigraphic tales, i
Fabric MBC16-MAKEAWISH-Space_Travelers | 86% of 1440kb.
Kara Kusa MBC-16_Kara Kusa_The Sun Turns Into Satan
StartScreem Memory Failure by StartScreem
DarkCloudsEverywhere Popshovit
Etheross Viléter - Sampleless

Soundcloud links:

"2024 Impulses" v2

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i have to ask you i use renoise in 16 bits 44100hz(its enough for myself) could i use 32 bits impulses responses?

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what is the path for vst on arch linux i don’t found it

thanks

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Since a few weeks ago, I’ve run into several recent plugins that heavily break Renoise’s GUI, essentially making the application unusable, and often also hard crash the entire host. The simplest way to trigger this, which works consistently pretty much every time is:

1. Open the plugin editor window.
2. Click on any of Renoise’s dropdown menus on the menu bar.

Instead of the obvious expected result, Renoise’s GUI just “dims” out, as if to indicate it being out of focus or presence of some modal dialog. The GUI becomes uninteractable via mouse, and generally inoperable. Keyboard shortcuts still work, but even trying to open a new project will just hang Renoise indefinitely.

Video example of this behavior: https://i.imgur.com/EKilyb8.mp4

I’ve so far found three vendors with whose plugins this bug occurs:

1. Sub Ninja by The Him DSP (demo, or available for free)
2. NA 501 Chorus Echo by Nembrini Audio (demo version)
3. Codec by Lese (free, happens also with the Sweep plugin, which is also free)

All of these plugins are only available as VST3, not VST2.

In addition to the GUI just “bugging out”, Renoise also becomes completely unstable, and often crashes almost immediately afterwards, or within a handful of seconds. Here’s another example of triggering the bug with the Codec plugin, and then clicking back on the plugin GUI, causing Renoise to hard crash immediately: https://i.imgur.com/Ci6h9on.mp4

I’m not seeing any obvious connection between these plugins, especially considering that they’re from different vendors. I do kind of suspect that they might be using JUCE, which perhaps introduced some sort of incompatibility in a recent update. Other than that I don’t have any good guesses what might be the culprit behind all three (or four) of these. Just overall the fact that this happens with several completely unrelated plugins makes me thing that the issue here might be with Renoise this time around, or that it’s at least worth taking a look at.

The logs don’t really contain anything too helpful, but here’s a relevant bit pertaining to the second crash anyway:

Vst3Plugs: Instantiating: C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\Lese\codec.vst3\Contents\x86_64-win\codec.vst3…
Vst3Plugs: Failed to apply initial component state to controller (not critical)

Error Message: Ouch. The VST3 plugin ‘Lese: Codec’ crashed in its editor window.
Error Message: IMPORTANT: This is a fatal error. Please save the current document under a !new! name to prevent losing important data.
Error Message: It’s most likely that this is a bug in the VST plugin, so please report this problem to the authors of this plugin in order to get the problem fixed!

I’m using Renosie 3.4.3 and an up to date Windows 10 installation, with up to date NVIDIA drivers.

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I have a question about copying a group of samples from one track. I use 5.1 speakers and also divide the samples per track in one direction, but when I make a copy I have to use all samples 01 or 02 03, editing is involved. program that I can call an entire track the smaples sample 01, saves a lot of work with one song, please advise

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Ok let me first state that i do not make tutorial videos , but a few people requested me to do so , so here we are.
Basically it involves using the free virtual mixer Voicemeeter being set up to capture any audio from your computer, internet, media player, etc etc, including my fave recording Renoise back into Renoise. Maybe someone else might find it a useful tool as well.
Really sorry about the horrible quality video, but it’s all i got. Be nice…lol

Rumble HOW TO RECORD RENOISE BACK INTO RENOISE and shit

A really bad quality yet possibly informative tutorial on how to use the free VOICEMETER virtual mixer to record anything into Renoise, even itself.

Duration: 289

Recording Renoise into Renoise and more

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I manually created a VST3 folder in C:\Program Files\Common Files (later, C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
and placed my .VST3 file in it, rescanned, set it as my path for VST2’s (no option to set it as a VST3 path), rescanned again.

Attached is a screenshot of my preferences window. Let me know if anyone can help me.

I’ve also placed the .VST3 and .dll versions of my plugin in the same folder.

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hi there, great day to you,

i would like to know, any way to use Renoise/Tracker successfully in a composing session, in a way that is musically appealing/easy to navigate, with all the tracker features

I am wanting to use Renoise in Sync with Bitwig, and have all it’s tracks routed into Bitwig, and have Start/Stop/ Song Position etc. follow accordingly

I have tried Redux, however it has too many mouseclicks, and is missing a real FastTracker ( logically laid out ) interface

Also, it does not allow for making a song, like a tracker would… even with the workarounds

Any way, or any way to appeal to someone who would be able to make a way, for Renoise to work in Modern Environment ?

It has been way too long for Trackers to be isolated in a corner, without having the possibility to implement them in a fully functional setup

And Some Beats kind of would be great to just make with a Tracker… And send midi to a host DAW… etc

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Hello,
I am a veteran Linux user (Opensuse/Tumbleweed) since around '08.

I also am very familiar with music, sound design and music production (back to the old days). I am new to Renoise (since 2022) and digital music production.

I am making a solo gig of digital-to-digital avant-garde electronic-noise music on a zero-budget as a side-project.

Any useful tips mastering in Renoise/Linux would be very helpful. Would this be easier on Mac? A comparable project would be someone like hrastprogrammer.com

I am sure this is possible but am uncertain what tools are available to “check my work.” Meaning, I am mixing/mastering myself and don’t know how to baseline myself…meaning doing/fixing something with the correct intended result. The intended result being a consistent sound in Laptop/Stereo/Phone/Car.

Any guidance would be appreciated.
When I listen to other tracks, my mixing/mastering testing levels all seem relatively low. I know how to fix this but am assuming the other track EQ levels are insanely high.

Thank you very much in advance.

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I get a hundred+ inox message and allerts from so called newly created topics .
Is the forum going haywire , or my account hacked ?

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