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Hey all,

Cooked up a new native granular instrument for renoise. Credit to @beatsgo for providing the initial inspiration for using phrase control as a functional sample offset. Yes, you can automate sample start position with this instrument. Some limitations apply!

Each single line phrase (probabilistically) triggers a note with an attached sxx command. Which phrase you access with each key press is determined by the first assigned macro “start position.” Each key press triggers only one phrase, so repeated note-on events are required in the pattern editor to approach granularity. This I see as an asset because you can control the rhythm and speed of note events for various effects. A solid wall of notes on each line will approach traditional granular synthesis (depending on your bpm and lpb values) whereas slower patterns, like every 8 lines (or whatever you want), will produce really interesting rhythmic effects. Very versatile.

Anyway, play around with it, have fun, drop in your own samples and share the results if you get something interesting. It helps to start with a sample that has some interesting variation to begin with - depending on the result you are after, of course.

I’ll aim to make a little demonstration video soon. In the meantime, here is the patch. Macros should be pretty self explanatory, but if anyone has questions, this is a good place to ask.

I left a couple of macros open and there are no fx applied, just an LP filter in the modulation section.

I’d recommend starting with a pattern with every line or every other line filled, midi mapping the macros to your favorite controller (along with bpm for extra fun), pressing play and tweaking knobs. Again, drop in your own samples and see what you can create

GRAIN SCRUBBER v1.xrni (892.1 KB)

pretty tedious work making all the phrases for this one, so if you want to show some love you can donate thru my soundcloud page here: Stream •zensphere• / slujr music | Listen to songs, albums, playlists for free on SoundCloud or better yet, buy some of my tunes if you can stand them, lol : https://zensphere.bandcamp.com/
Of course, no expectation, though! This is a free will offering to y’all
hope you enjoy

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Renoise has built-in support for midi files importing. It works by creating a new midi instrument and adds new dedicated tracks in existing patterns.

This plugin will reuse existing instrument and will only update existing tracks with notes from the file.

• reads midi files with .xrmid extension,
• prints notes and file information in Scripting Terminal.
• adds midi note events (note, volume, delay) to selected pattern track.
• adjusts number of pattern lines and visible note columns to match the midi file.

This is my first Renoise tool and first code in Lua. I am also new to the midi file format and midi events. The use case implemented here is very simple and might be limited to my specific need. It is not meant to be a replacement for the built-in midi files import nor a general purpose midi file to Renoise song converter.

It is not possible to override midi files import procedure so the midi files need to be renamed to have .xrmid extension. E.g. my-file.mid needs to be renamed to my-file.xrmid.

Currently, it only interprets note-on and note-off midi events. All notes will use currently selected instrument. On import, currently select track will be cleared and extended if needed. Only midi channel 1 will be read.

It will not work well for multi-instrument or percussion midi files.

Double click any .xrmid file in songs or instruments file browser. Currently selected track in currently selected pattern will be replaced with the notes from the file.

This tool works well enough for the collection of midi files I have. I haven’t tested it enough on other midi files available on the internet, hence the version 0.1. Any suggestions on other use cases that it should support is much appreciated. Example midi files for testing are welcomed.

MIDI file import is done with MIDI.lua by Peter J Billam. It was released under MIT/X11 licence and has been included here without any changes in the code.

• MIDI.lua
• MIDI 6.9-0 - LuaRocks

General plugin structure has been significantly inspired by Additional File Format Import Support code by Martin Bealby.

Thanks!

This tool is available on GitHub and is released under Apache License Version 2.0.

Renoise Simple Midi File Support. Contribute to nilcaream/rsmfs development by creating an account on GitHub.

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My use cases:

• I record the basic idea of a song with a mic, and I want to use it a basis and continue from Renoise.
• I want to remix a song, and bring in the full song or stems into Renoise to build on top.

Is there an automated way to do this? I’d also settle for a methodical, but effective and reliable way to do this manually.

My current process is to guesstimate the BPM (or look it up if it’s a known song), then fiddle with the sample start, or the delay column until it is sort of aligned. Problem is it’s sometimes hard to pin down, and can drift over time. With beat detection I assume it would be possible to automatically analyze the whole song sample and set up the settings so the pattern never drifts from it and is aligned.

Also, is there an effective way to fill a track with a long song sample, so wherever I start playback that track will resume at that spot? (I could fill the pattern with notes with sample offsets, but that would be really tedious.)

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Model Cycles

https://www.youtube.com/embed/afwLQSn9aew

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Hi all. Here is the situation, i’m using NI FM7 vst for pads, i have already put a comand line for midi control to play the sound with mod wheel, everythings sounds good, but when i render to *,wav it apears that the mod wheel is off. Also problem apears when you stop song and play again.

Renoise version 3.4.1, 3.4.2

Doe’s any one experienced this situation?

update - it seams that it will only react to midi value changeing, you have to write more than one value to make it work.

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Hello !

This composition was made with Renoise 3.4.2, without any instrument or virtual or midi effect.
You can download xrns file here : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gnn3lRxn5JxMLTuQPvNqaBC3wlofX8nc/view.

It’s quite electro but I included a violin sample (from LooperMan website) and composed a more oldschool melody at the end… good listening

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Hey all,

Just getting back to renoise and in-the-box music making after a long time away. I was looking at the Puredata releases page and discovered that a very nice alpha has been released for PlugData:

PlugData is a standalone and DAW plugin version of pd, with a new GUI made with JUCE

Pure Data as a plugin, with a new GUI. Contribute to timothyschoen/PlugData development by creating an account on GitHub.

It’s a pretty nice GUI, and I’ve only just started playing with it.

I won’t be able to help out too much, but if you know a little pd and want to get started, you can use the PlugDataFx in as an effect, with the [adc~] providing input, and [dac~] or the [output~] object for output.

Cheers to the renoise community!

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I’d like to be able to See Samples Waveforms when Hovered over in a little Pop Up window, with the possibility of Notes added too. The Feature should also be Theme Customizable too.

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I’d like to be able to use the keyboards arrow keys to explore my comps file hierarchy, where as Left Arrow Key (LAK) goes up and the Right Arrow Key (RAK) goes into the file and the Up and Down Arrow Keys (UAK, DAK) act as they do at the moment when the Disk Browser is Highlighted by the Middle Mouse Button (MMB)

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What’s the best way to give back to the Renoise team? $75 USD for a full version release cycle is super cheap (which is nice when that’s all you can afford). I want to show some extra love to the Renoise dev team and give incentive to keep innovating! I’m planning on getting some Renoise apparel, and renewing my license soon, but I’m curious what the best way is from their perspective.

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I’m struggling to get a program to change from entries in the pattern editor.

Instrument is 10
Prg is 02
Using u-he Zebra so bank is a default where sounds are saved in the ‘Midi Programs’ folder. apparently.

Firstly using guidance from https://files.renoise.com/manual/Renoise_Redux_Effect_Commands_Wide.png
—10 … M2 -0 02

also trying:
—10 … M2 -0 02
—10 … M2 -1 02
—10 … M0 92 02

None of these change the program.

I don’t think it’s specific to u-he Zebra as i’ve tried on other VSTi and can’t get a program change to trigger.

What am i missing?

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How to set it

When the cursor is at the bottom, use the mouse wheel or the keyboard.

Let’s go to the next style instead of looping to the top of the current pattern.

On the contrary,

Each time the cursor is at the top, press the scroll wheel again, and the cursor will jump to the bottom of this pattern instead of returning to the previous pattern.

How to set and cancel the cursor cycle

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I always found it extremly annoying that when using mousescroll that you advance 2 lines instead of one and didn’t know for years that if you use your mousewheel over the scrollbar of the editor, it would actually only make the editor advance one line per scroll.

Now seeing how useful this is when inputing notes, it now makes me annoyed that I always have to hover over the scrollbar to do this. Why can’t there be a option in the setting to switch this around or configure this yourself. It makes inputting notes and changing values in the editor so much easier if you have one hand on your mouse to navigate the rows and one hand on the keyboard to enter notes.

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I can’t seem to use my MiDi keyboard at the moment; it’s not showing up in the MIDI Preference Devices or being recognized by Windows (11). I’ve had some computer troubles lately and don’t know if it’s that or something else. Is there something I need to click or do for it to work correctly?

Thanks.

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vmv3REv86F4

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I´ve been sticking to samples all my life but now that I want to make dance music, I have realized that synths are the way to go. Much easier to make a dance-able sound. I´m amazed by the change of sound, it feels like Renoise just got a sick expansion, it´s the same game but I now have a lot more to learn.

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TWEAKY DRUM v1.xrni (16.0 KB)

Thought I’d give this its own topic for ease of access later. This instrument is a simple monophonic drum synth with saw/sin/square/triangle waveforms and a noise oscillator.
Really simple, just tweak the macro knobs and play around. Easy to get lots of different tones for resampling or sequencing. Future versions will be posted here if this gets reworked at all.

Hope you enjoy it!

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I consider it a suggestion, so I’m posting here. These things: https://intech.studio/

I’ve gotten four of these controllers and they are awesome and fully customizable. I would love to see someone develop a tool that makes these controllers basically a bi-directional Surface controller for Renoise.

If you have what it takes to develop the tool, I will buy you the controllers to do it!

They are on summer sale until end of August. Not pricey - they’re not plastic like - love them.

Please - this must be done. These are the controllers for Renoise - TRUST

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It’s essentially a monophonic drum-synth, except it has multiple ‘voices’. Each voice cuts off the next in the sequence.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/x5hL94MlRlo

I downloaded this old app (still works) on my iPhone, and it’s addictive. I’m imagining that one instrument would contain X amount of drum synths (the kind we could build internally in Renoise), and the instrument itself would have to be ‘mono’.

Is this possible? Some form of drum synthesis and each instrument assigned to a note?

Would be a fun way to get a different sound.

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