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hi is it possible to have a midi knob or a button or a slider set up that does something in Sample Editor, and something else in Pattern Editor?

i.e. “read state, do something”?

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Would like to change username to BlueTail, thank you

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How can I make a render plugin to instrument sound exactly the same as it would in the VST, the modulation, effects, reverb, note range, ect

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Hi there,

My main monitor is a 4K 27 inch . To its right I have placed a Standard HD 1920x1080 27 inch with a vertical orientation. The idea is to keep Renoise pattern editor on the vertical monitor. Unfortunately the pattern editor doesn’t work when in fullscreen, meaning that the play button would not respond. You can see the UI freezes in some weird way too. If I exit full screen while still keeping the renoise’s pattern editor it on the vertical monitor all works as expected. I’m on macOS Monterey 12.7.3 on a Mac mini (M1,2020). Does anybody know why this would happen? Is this a bug ?

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My new lobit/lofi/alternative/pop/rock album made with Renoise was released today on Sub65 Media.

It’s free to stream and download
https://archive.org/details/s65148

Here’s a music video for one of the songs

Origami Repetika - Conversation Town

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Ah, summer—sunshine, warm weather, and the promise of delicious tomatoes straight from your garden. The key to growing flavorful tomatoes lies in the soil you use. Soil isn’t just dirt; it’s the foundation of your gardening success.

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hi, i wanna know how do i access the current Renoise KeyBindings.xml? it is stored, on macOS, at:

but i wanna get to there with a script. i mean, get the “path to KeyBindings.xml”.
cos i wanna show something from it.

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I’m passionate about horticulture and cannabis cultivation. I recently moved to Placentia, LA for work and have been diving deep into home gardening. Looking forward to connecting with you all!

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Anyone here still into 3.5e I find version 5 way too simple. I’m old school lol. I have every guide pre 2019. Loads of characters drawn up. I personally like defense rolling vs 10 for ac. I need an online group to join but everyone seems to be on version 5 now

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Hi guys,

Does anyone have any tips/systems in place to finish tracks ?

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does the lua gui allow for a method of showing the current sample’s waveform and modifying it?

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hi, i’m running around with a bunch of dialogs and would love to be able to, upon close dialog, somehow retain their positioning, and then make sure that the dialog opens in that position when reopened. is this possible, or does every lua dialog always start solidly in the center of everything?

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It’d be cool if Renoise was a bit more MS Excel like by letting us set custom colors for different effect automations. Like, if I use an inst. macro, it’d be nice to know which device controls them instead of remembering “this macro is controlled by 2xxx on this track”. I keep mine minimized.

Adding to this, a comprehensive filtering would be great. E.g., Press Filter Button > Filter for Tracks > w/ FX example_text (delay, inst. macro, whatever). Then Renoise darkens the other tracks so you can easily identify which tracks are using them, or highlights them somehow.

Then it’d be even cooler if we could customize other things, like filter for all tracks containing the name “Bass” and solo or mute them.

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Hi there, great day( s ) to everyone,

How do i / would i set the Spacebar Functionality to work like inside FT2 ( like in Renoise… ) in Redux ?

Thanks for all help…

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Hi there, i would like to see the usual tracking view in Redux… and i am yet to find a way to remove the QWERTY ( weirdness ) blocking the full tracking view in the plugin

I only want to track… .and compose like using FastTracker… All this extra stuff is Genuinely in the way and i want to remove the qwerty and whatever else is showing in the bottom… Just to be able to compose

All help is appreciated

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Otherwise the volume of the rendered WAV file is too small.
Of course you have to control so that the master level meter does not exceed 0 dB.
It took me a long time to find this simple answer, so I write it down here.

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what is this and how do i get rid of it?

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Hey guys,

So i have been trying to get into renoise, I quickly found out that programming chords and using vsts isnt really the best way towork. So instead of fighting the system I just created a whole bunch of Chord One Shot Samples which will make programming songs easier for myself.

I shared it with a few makes and they told me to offer it up for free for other producers, so feel free to download it, just put 0$ in the gumroad price thing!!!

Feel free to share the link with whoever, on your socials etc

I hope you guys enjoy.

PS: I would actually like to hear what you make with it!

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# FIRST

Why?

• Okay so I had this idea of making my old MacBook 2,1 (2006) as stand-alone Renoise machine, but after endless tweaking, going thru Linux distros and litre of vodka I settled on minimal GUI with Renoise.

Why Fedora i3 spin?

• This was one of the easiest distros to install 64-bit Linux on 64-bit CPU with 32-bit EFI, with almost everything working nicely out of the box while only using about 300mb of RAM.

• i3 can be quite daunting at first, but here is a nice reference card for -keys:
  i3 - Reference Card

• …and I kind of dig that tiling WM aproach for desktop after getting used to it.

Notes

• This guide is intended only for Fedora i3 in mind, but it could be helpful for users of other distros too. For example: sudo dnf... could be sudo apt... for other distro. You might have different text editor to “mousepad”, different file manager from “thunar” and different folder structure to one covered below.

• [CMD] is [WIN] key for Windows people and [SUPER] key for Linux people.

# INSTALL FEDORA I3

• Download Fedora i3 spin -
  Fedora i3 Spin | The Fedora Project

• Make bootable usb stick with BalenaEtcher -
  https://etcher.balena.io/

After great success

• Insert USB stick in laptop.

• Boot holding [ALT].

• (^ [ALT] for MacBook, might be something else for you).

• Select USB stick.

• Select Start Fedora-i3_Live...

When in live environment

• Accept default values for two questions with [ENTER].

• Hit [CMD]+[Enter] to enter terminal

• Type liveinst to start installer

• Now that terminal takes up half of the screen, hit [CMD]+[S] for stacked view.

Installation is pretty straightforward, but if you want to setup Timeshift for making backups like Time Machine on OSX, here is a good guide how to partition your SSD (HDD) in installation: How to setup Timeshift with BTRFS in Fedora? - GeeksforGeeks

^ I highly recommend.
^^ No need to install whole system from scratch when you break something.
^^^ I did not set encryption as it might affect performance and nobody wants to listen to my songs anyway.
^^^^ Also for @ sign you need to type [SHIFT]+[CTRL]+[U]+[40] with keyboard.

When installer finnishes

• Type reboot in terminal
• Remove USB stick
• Fedora i3 should start from the internal SSD (HDD).

# UPDATE SYSTEM + TWEAKS

Update first

• Connect to the internets with icon on right bottom corner.

• Hit [CMD]+[ENTER] to enter terminal.

• Type ”sudo dnf update”

• Accept everything and wait for the process to finnish.

[OPTIONAL] - Install Timeshift

• Type sudo dnf install timeshift in terminal.

• Type sudo timeshift-gtk

• ^ Continue to follow the guide from the link above ^.
  ^ (I did not setup automatic backups as I’ll do it manually before tinkering with the OS).

• [SHIFT]+[CMD]+[Q] to quit Timeshift.

[OPTIONAL] - i3 Title bar on top

I like my title bar on top of the screen, so here is how:

• Type sudo mousepad .config/i3/config

• Scroll in the end of the file and find where it says:

  bar {
  colors {

• Add ”position top” in between so it looks like:

  bar {
  position top
  colors {

• Save

• [SHIFT]+[CMD]+[Q] to quit editor.

• [SHIFT]+[CMD]+[R] to apply.

[OPTIONAL] Disable touchpad natural scrolling

I like my touchpad with unnatural scrolling. Two finger down is scrolling the page down and not the other way around. So to do this, here is how:

• Type sudo mousepad /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf

• Find touchpad settings:

  Section “InputClass”
  Identifier “libinput touchpad catchall”
  MatchIsTouchpad “on”
  MatchDevicePath “/dev/input/event*”
  Driver “libinput”
  EndSection

• Add option ”NaturalScrolling” ”False" before "EndSection", so it looks like:

  Section “InputClass”
  Identifier “libinput touchpad catchall”
  MatchIsTouchpad “on”
  MatchDevicePath “/dev/input/event*”
  Driver “libinput”
  option “NaturalScrolling” "False”`
  EndSection

• Save.

• [SHIFT]+[CMD]+[Q] to quit.

REBOOT!!!

• type reboot

# TUNING SYSTEM FOR LOW LATENCY

Install RTCQS

rtcqs is a Python utility to analyze your system and detect possible bottlenecks that could have a negative impact on the performance of your system when working with Linux audio.

^ Program with cachy name to analyze system for bottlenecks. To install on Fedora i3:

• Type sudo dnf install python3-pip to install pip.

• Type pip install –upgrade rtcqs to install rtcqs.

• Type rtcqa in terminal to see everything that is wrong with your system.

# FIX WARNINGS

Here is a list of every warning I got from RTCQS and how to fix them:

Group Limits
============
[WARNING] User is currently not member of a group that has sufficient rtprio (0) and memlock (16777216) set. Add yourself to a group with sufficent limits set, i.e. audio or realtime, with 'sudo usermod -a -G <group_name> . See also System configuration [Linux-Sound]

(…FIX)

• Make audio.conf with sudo mousepad /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf

• Type these lines in the file:

  @audio – rtprio 95 @audio – memlock unlimited

  (^ @ with [SHIFT]+[CTRL]+[U]+[40])

• Save.

• [SHIFT]+[CMD]+[Q] to quit mousepad.

• Type sudo usermod -a -G pipewire <username>
  (^ username is the username you chose @ the installation)

• Reboot. Type reboot. You should know by now.

CPU Frequency Scaling
=====================
[ WARNING ] The scaling governor of one or more CPUs is not set to ‘performance’. You can set the scaling governor to ‘performance’ with ‘cpupower frequency-set -g performance’ or ‘cpufreq-set -r -g performance’ (Debian/Ubuntu). See also System configuration [Linux-Sound]

(…FIX)

• Type sudo dnf install kernel-tools

• Type sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance

  …and to set performance mode everytime system will boot:

• Type sudo mousepad .config/i3/config

• Add exec sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance in the beginning.

  (^ There is more sophisticated ways to do performance mode on boot, but none of them seemed to work on this distro, so I just did this the crude way on i3 boot config. Seems to add spinning wheel at startup for awhile, but does seem to work otherwise as it should).

Preempt RT
==========
[ WARNING ] Kernel 6.9.11-200.fc40.x86_64 without ‘threadirqs’ parameter or real- time capabilities found. See also System configuration [Linux-Sound] time_kernel

(…FIX)

• Type sudo grubby --args="preempt=full" --update-kernel=ALL”

Spectre/Meltdown Mitigations
============================
[ WARNING ] Kernel with Spectre/Meltdown mitigations found. This could have a negative impact on the performance of your system. See also System configuration [Linux-Sound]

(…FIX)

• Type sudo grubby --args="mitigations=off" –update-kernel=ALL
  (^ Note that this will make your system vulnerable to Spectre / Meltdown attacks.)

RT Priorities
=============
[ WARNING ] Could not assign a 80 rtprio SCHED_FIFO value due to the following error: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted. Set up imits.conf. See also System configuration [Linux-Sound]

• See ”Group Limits” -section above ^

Swappiness
==========
[ WARNING ] vm.swappiness is set to 60 which is too high. Set swappiness to a lower value by adding ‘vm.swappiness=10’ to /etc/sysctl.conf and run ‘sysctl – system’. See also System configuration [Linux-Sound]

(…FIX)

• Type sudo mousepad /etc/sysctl.conf

• Add line vm.swappiness = 10”

• Save.

Power Management
================
[ WARNING ] Power management can’t be controlled from user space, the device node /dev/cpu_dma_latency can’t be accessed by your user. This prohibits DAWs like Ardour and Reaper to set CPU DMA latency which could help prevent xruns. For enabling access see System configuration [Linux-Sound]

• Make new file with sudo mousepad /etc/udev/rules.d/99-cpu-dma-latency.rules

• Type: DEVPATH=="/devices/virtual/misc/cpu_dma_latency", OWNER="root", GROUP="audio", MODE="0660"

• Save and [SHIFT]+[CMD]+[Q] to quit editor.

• Type sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

• Type sudo udevadm trigger

# Install Renoise (WUUUU!!1) #

Add xarchiver to thunar
To be able to unarchive Renoise from file manager (Thunar):

• Open terminal with [CMD]+[Enter].

• Type sudo dnf install xarchiver

• Type sudo dnf install thunar-archive-plugin

• [SHIFT]+[CMD]+[Q] to quit terminal.

Download Renoise

• [CMD]+[D].

• Type firefox and hit [ENTER]

• Go to Renoise backstage and download Renoise.
  ^ [SHIFT]+[CTRL]+[U]+[40] does not make @ -sign in Firefox, so I just googled at and copied from there.

• Click to show download folder from Firefox.

• Right click ”rns_344_linux_x86_64.tar.gz” and choose Extract here

• Right click ”rns-344_linux_x86_64” -folder and select open terminal in this folder

• Type sudo sh install.sh in terminal.

• [SHIFT]+[CMD]+[Q] to close everything.

• [CMD]+[D].

• Type renoise

• Hit [ENTER]

• Go to ”Edit” → ”Preferences” → ”Audio” → ”Device type”.

• Set to Jack

• Renoise.

Change buffer size

There is no setting in Renoise to set buffer size for latency, but you can do it via terminal by typing: pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.force-quantum 256

^ 256 is the lowest I can go with internal MacBook soundcard and play ”Dblue – Tension” demo song without crackles. Tops about 75% cpu usage on patterns 19 → 22.

^^Usual values are 32, 64, 128, 265, 512, 1024, 2048,…

^^^You can also change samplerate with pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.force-rate 48000

TODO

• Spell checking.

• Output is coming from headphones and internal MacBook speaker at the same time.

• Install Surge.

• Renoise more.

Nice. Renoise.

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Hello,
I am reviving an older project, but somehow I lost all the drumkits for the Sitala 1 version. They used to be downloadable somewhere on Google Drive, unfortunately now I can’t find them anywhere Does anyone have them backed up? Thanks.

old video with kits.

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