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Registered Renoise and Redux users can download the update, as usual, from:
Renoise Backstage.

Demo versions will be published later today or tomorrow.

ARM support for OSX (on Apple Silicon) and Linux (Raspberry Pi), MacOS Metal rendering, Windows WASAPI driver support, Ableton Link support (all platforms).

• OSX: ARM64 builds (shipped as Intel 64bit/ARM64 Universal binary) with the ability to load intel plugins via plugin bridge and Rosetta in Apple M1 based systems

• OSX: New macOS Metal based GUI rendering to improve UI speed, especially on Retina Displays and with some color profiles

• Linux: 32 & 64bit ARM builds (ARMhf & ARM64), optimized for Raspberry PI 3/4

• Windows: WASAPI Audio device support (with “exclusive mode” support like ASIO - and “shared mode” support like DirectSound)

• Ableton Link support

• Windows: Improved MIDI output timing, especially when using DirectSound
• Windows: Added an option to ignore ASIO reset requests (necessary workaround for some buggy drivers)
• Windows: Boost MIDI input thread’s priority to improve MIDI input playback/recording timing
• Linux: Added support for shared memory X11 images to improve GUI speed on some systems
• Linux: Allow using the “default” ALSA system device (e.g. to use pulse audio)
• Linux: Don’t limit possible ALSA audio buffers sizes to pow2 values
• OSX: Added “Audio Workgroup” support on OSX to minimize dropouts with very small audio buffer sizes
• OSX: Explicitly ask for user permission to use the microphone when using CoreAudio input devices
  OSX: In Device not picking up audio from microphone
• Fixed various timing issues with MIDI generator plugins
  Unstable timing (jitter) of VSTi MIDI routed events
• Compensate UI scaling when mouse-dragging controls with the GUI → “Mouse warping” option enabled
• Added new option to compensate MIDI input playback (not recording) jitter (at the cost of introducing a bit of latency) → See Preferences → MIDI → “Fix received MIDI event jitter”
• When recording MIDI events, always compensate/fix the time it took to receive MIDI events to improve timing, also when the “Adjust recording latency (record what you hear)” option is disabled
  Midi recording precision dependent on latency
• Allow specifying multiple “secondary” VST paths on Windows and OSX
• Try to avoid crashes when VST3 Plugin GUIs crash while opening/closing down their GUIs
• New Renoise Color Themes from spktkpkt and NPC1
• New DemoSong from keith303: Burst your Bubble

• OSX: fixed freeze when opening Redux VST GUI in Mixbus32C
• OSX: mark AU plugin as “sandboxSafe”
• Linux: Fixed keyboard focus issues when reopening the Redux GUI
• Linux: Fixed editor resizing issues in yabridge
• Fixed possible lags in hosts with many Redux instances
  Multiple Redux Instances Introduce Playback Lag (Logic X and Reaper)
• Don’t change the host’s mouse cursor when the plugin UI is closed
• Fixed a crash when shutting down Redux while a sample is previewed in the sample editor
  Redux crashes when deleting the Redux instance while an instrument is previewed

• Windows: Fixed possible wrong window size when maximizing Renoise on secondary monitors
• OSX: Fixed uncentered panels (open file/directory dialogs) on some version of OSX
• Linux: stop logging ALSA sequencer errors at some point to avoid flooding the log with errors
  Hard drive filled with log file
• Don’t remove unused tracks with the “Delete unused Tracks” command which have linked bypassed send tracks
  Delete Unused Tracks Bug with Muted Send Tracks
• Fixed wrong “Surround” maximum in track mixer devices
  Width & Surround Parameters Should Be Identical
• Fixed wrong default highlight color state in track mixer panels
  Loading a Renoise theme resets track colors
• Fixed crash when trying to render a plugin to instrument with routed MIDI outputs
• Fixed smoothed (fade-in) first transient in beatsynced samples with Rubberband timestretch
• Fixed that swapped plugin instruments in instrument box may temporarily silence them:
  Hard drive filled with log file
• Fixed possible wrong sample position labeling in sample editor with very large samples
  Loop/Slice Markers In Wrong Position When Zooming On Long Sample
• Some stereo VST2 plugins have been falsely treated as mono plugins with a mono side-chain input:
  Excalibur VST2 is mono in Renoise 3.3 & keyboard assignment issues
• Some stereo VST2 plugin’s MIDI output routing didn’t work:
  MicroTonic MIDI Routing not working
• Fixed a crash when receiving aftertouch events from a MIDI generator VST/AU plugin
• Fixed possible crackles when automating bypass parameter of send devices
• Skip processing bypassed side chain devices, when no delayed samples are present
  Bypassed sidechain send won't disable sidechain input
• Apply BPM/LPB/TPL pattern automation also when an envelope in “Point” mode is present:
  BPM/LPB/TPL Automation Overwrites Effect Commands In Pattern
• Treat envelope automation in point modes like pattern effects and fixed pattern follow for them
• Fixed missing updates of “parameter is automated” highlights in the automation list
  Parameter automation status isn't updated when changing pattern
• Ensure idle for tools is called frequently on Windows and Linux even on high GUI loads
• Fixed a few small envelope device GUI issues
  Envelope Device GUI Issues
• Bring existing song comments/options dialog to front when opening them via the menu/keyboard shortcuts
• Fixed broken playback of real-time played MIDI poly-aftertouch events
  Poly-Aftertouch implementation is flawed
• Fixed missing applied initial program changes when importing MIDI files
• Fixed possible crash in MIDI importer with very long MIDI files
• Fixed a crash when entering a “0” value in filter HZ parameters
• Fixed wrong reported velocity values in Velocity Tracker for notes in phrases
  Velocity Tracker Responds Incorrectly To Phrase Velocity Changes
• Log why exactly a plugin can’t be opened when it was created for a different architecture which the plugin bridge doesn’t support
• Fixed possible missing update of track popup in instrument FX chains:
  Sampler Effects FX Chain: Routing tracks not update!
• Fixed a crash when releasing a dragged slice marker after/while a sample gets deleted

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On Windows there’s now a new WASAPI audio driver mode in Renoise’s audio prefs, which allows, compared to DirectSound, lower latencies and more stable audio processing. It’s basically a great alternative for those who don’t have proper ASIO drivers for their inbuilt soundcard or when the provided “pro” ASIO drivers suck.

• If you’ve got a proper ASIO driver for your soundcard, always use this one.

• Then, try WASAPI in non-exclusive mode first. This basically works similar to DirectSound but offers better performance and latency as DirectSound.

• If you don’t need to use your soundcard for other apps while running Renoise, try WASAPI in exclusive mode. It will allow to use even lower latencies, but obviously will block sounds output from all other apps.

• If WASAPI doesn’t work for you, use DirectSound. It’s the most compatible and last option, which should simply work everywhere. This also should be the default in Renoise on Windows.

WASAPI tends to have problems synchronizing capture and playback devices - this is not only a problem in Renoise, but a general one. With a line-in or microphone device enabled, the required latency very likely is higher than when using a playback device only. This unfortunately is also true in exclusive modes and especially when the devices are from different drivers.

So if you don’t need your line-in or microphone device, don’t enable it with WASAPI.

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As some of you did not like my last lo-fi-release I just sat down again and deeply concentrated on creating a lofi-tune with much better sound than the disastrous last one.

I’ve always wanted to create this “concentration-music” everyone is deeply learning too. Maybe this is good enough?

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Last night I had a dream about putting a piece of video into one of the instrument slots and cutting it up with the tracker interface the same way I would glitch and mangle a sample. The resulting video was like a music video or the visuals they show in clubs and concerts. This got me thinking what a “Renoise for Video” could look like. Video synthesizers could generate interesting color patterns to modulate. We could string out video filters the way we build signal chains, with LFOs and automation creating rhythmic effects. All of this creative power with a tracker workflow! Wouldn’t that be amazing? What a dream…

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Check it!

https://www.youtube.com/embed/bcRHNduz7xo

Stay safe!

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I was just wondering if anyone around here knew of a listing of active renoise artists who are willing to give lessons (in my case, maybe every two weeks for a while and for compensation). For me, lessons would ideally be aimed at helping a classically-trained composer master the nuances of renoise and of artistic decision making in electronic music (I can always resort to the manual for which effect does what).

Thanks!

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I want to quantize an instrument to Half-of-a-Beat (1/8th at 4 LPB). However, the only options I see are Line (1/16th), Beat (1/4th), and Bar (1/1). Is there some way to do 1/8th in Renoise? If not, is it possible to write a Tool that could do this? I’ve never made a Tool but would learn for this.

I want to get 1/8th because I find it really useful for live breaks, such as this: youtube link

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When the native lfo is connected to the M12 filters frequency cutoff,the sound becomes extremely distorted.

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I’m not too sure if the subject conveys what I’m asking for here, but I’d like to be able to reassign the notes played on the keyboard. As far as I’m aware, you can only capture key presses when the GUI is in focus, but is there a way to globally catch them, so it doesn’t matter what window is currently open?

Many thanks!

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Seems like macos now does different zips itself… If I pack a renoise song dir with context menu “archive”, Renoise can’t load the zip anymore, messaging “wrong zip format”.

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Sometimes I have an instrument I would like to cut off earlier than the song resolution allows, so if note and cutoff are back to back:

C-4
[OFF]

it still makes the note too long. I wouldn’t want to change the whole song resolution because then it feels like the whole other song is in a too high resolution and it slows down my work. Is there a way to add a negative delay or something to the note off? Is the only way to add a delay to both of them and move them up a notch? (which only works if the pattern is not too crowded and I’m not playing a legato instrument, and they’re not on the top two lines)

Sometimes I wish there would be a local resolution increase function to use with temporary need of a higher resolution where a retrigger isn’t enough

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Font Renderbug or Control high Measuring Bug of Textout/ValueLabel Controls…

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Hello everyone,

I have done under vb.net a simple tool that changes some cc values ​​with a slider to a kontakt instrument
I can change using the value 7 the volume, with the 64 the sustain. ok all right.
This is my question:

How can I change the LPB value in Renoise app ?
It can be done via CC command, or what other way can. Thank you very much !!

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Hello in Version 3.3.2 a new behaviour was introduced that groupchannels has no groupspecific colored VU-meter in mainmixer. I can go with that there is the wish for generalization in softwaredevelopment. (I am developer too) But i’m screendesigner/softwareergonic too. And from this position i must say that this decision reduce the viewergonomics in bad direction. The awareness of groupchannel status is much more quickly and easier about the VU- meter color, as over the “#S>S01” headerstring only. There are potenzial problems with changed/customfonts in rendering and/or missing Charsign’s in Font. Thats why i make a call to the developer bring back the old Renoise 3.3.1 state, or at least, when you stuck on that decision, even it in all meters, not only in mainmixer VU Meters. Here are some marked screenshots…

happy tracking

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Hey all,

I’m interested to know how one could achieve bass glides like in this track: Stream HOW TO MAKE 909'S (these is 10010s tho) by Ghosty | Listen online for free on SoundCloud

I know of the producer, and know he uses fruity loops and their glide feature. Can this be done in Renoise? Afaik the entire bass melody is one 909/808 sample, and it’s the glides that gives it that feel when it’s bouncing all over the place.

I’ve tried to play with glides, and they’re confusing me. If I want to glide from C3 to C5 within say 2 beats how can I do that? I think once I know how to do that I can get close.

Advice please.

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I’m using two sequencers at once with Renoise, it would be great to have the ability to send the midi clock to both of them at once instead of having to pick one or the other.

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A tiny, tiny thing. Some of the last fx digit sometimes disappear. See video. It looks more like a C than a 0.

Resolution: 3840 x 2160. Windows 10.

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When I zoom in (using mouse wheel), the curve point will disappear. You can move it around. But you can not see it.

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See video. When you try to move the curve point, the cursor immediately zaps to the automation point. So you end up moving the automation point instead of the curve point.

It seems you have to click the utmost left pixel of the curve point to grab it.

This problem is also present in the regular Automation Editor. When you hover over a curve point, the cursor icon will transform into the double up-and-down-arrow which indicates that you will grab the curve point. But often, you will move a nearby automation point instead.

Makes sense?

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If I select my Earfun bluetooth as audio out in Renoise, it will always use the samplerate of the prior selected settings, and not always 44100Hz, which is the supported rate. So if I had noraml audio out at 48kHz before, and then switched to bluetooth, Renoise now tries to wrongly resample to 48kHz.

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