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Can current Song.xml be accessed without saving & unzipping?

March 16, 2025 - 19:14

I have a track open in Renoise. It’s got bunches of samples.
Is the Song.xml “available somewhere”, or is it only available after saving, which, then, requires you to unzip the .xrns for Song.xml and then do something with it?

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Tool Idea: export track names and instruments/effects to text

March 16, 2025 - 13:34

Hi
I wonder if this is possible to program…a text file which lists all track names, with instrument names used on the track and effects/devices used for each track.

eg.

Track 1: Bongo Rhythmn

Instruments: C6 SAMP Bongo.wav, F9 INST Serum

Effects: NATIVE Filter, PLUGIN D16 Frontier

Track 2: Bass Line

etc

I don’t need any parameter information. This would really help rebuild old tracks with missing plugins and effects.

Is it possible?

Thanks
Chris [midierror]

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MIDI Mappings not loaded with Effect Chain

March 14, 2025 - 04:32

Hi,

In Renoise Sampler, MIDI Mappings are not restored when loading an Effect Chain preset.

Steps to reproduce bug:

  1. Start with a new song and create a Sampler Effect Chain
  2. Add any Effect (I tried Native, VST and VST3)
  3. Open the MIDI Mapping dialog
  4. Map a few parameters to MIDI controls (I tried encoders with 0-127 output)
  5. Save Preset As… using the drop-down menu
  6. Load your new preset using the drop-down menu
  7. MIDI Mappings are gone

However, repeating basically the same steps with a Modulation Set (instead of an Effect Chain) works as expected: MIDI Mappings are loaded with the preset.

Tested in Renoise 3.4.4 Linux x86_64

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Add midi mapping for deleting at cursor position and insterting note-offs

March 13, 2025 - 22:37

Is there any way to create a midi mapping for the functions of the delete key and the caps lock key? I’ve spent some time looking through the api documentation but it is very possible I just missed it.

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Linux+JACK: renoise sometimes crashes when outputting MIDI to ardour+drumgizmo

March 13, 2025 - 12:38

Linux Mint 22.1 using JACK, renoise 3.4.4 crashed twice today while i was working on a hard rock/metal track with a simple synth (1 sample through a few effects) and a midi instrument sending midi to ardour with drumgizmo loaded. Also a bunch of other drum samples were loaded but not used. Just suddenly without reason, the audio becmoes a loud buzzing sound for a few seconds during which JACK registers hundreds of xruns, then renoise just segfaults and terminates. I can resume work by restarting renoise, the JACK session itself and other apps don’t seem affected.

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Automatic Phrase Distribution in Redux

March 13, 2025 - 05:53

It would be really handy to have an option in redux to distribute phrases by individual keys in keymap mode (like “Drum Kit” button in keyzones editor)

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Buy a cheap M4 Mac Mini as pc desktop replacement / audio workstation?

March 12, 2025 - 19:41

Some of you already did, how is your experience with Renoise and heavy projects on a M4 Mac Mini?

I would like to retire my old and rusty i7 4770 Hackintosh desktop, and as far as I can interpret the benchmarks, that tiny m4 Mac Mini is about 3x as fast as that i7, and also takes 1/5 of the energy only. And it costs about 615 EUR now…

I also read and seen reports that you now can buy 3rd party ssd replacements for it, 2tb for around 300 EUR. Still expensive, but already way better than before in Apple world. Also it can simply boot from an external TB4 ssd, too. So even if the internal SSD dies, you can actually replace it very easily.

Here are my questions:

  1. What is your experience as an (audio) workstation and in Renoise?

  2. Can the m4 also boot into the recent version of macos 14? (macos downgrade)

  3. Did you already disable Apple Intelligence system daemons? (seems to be useless, memory hog and a data privacy leak)

  4. Is there still Spotlight in macos 15, or did the AI stuff replace it completely?

  5. Any idea how it compares to an m1 pro machine, regarding audio performance in heavy projects? The plain benchmark seem to indicate that the basic m4 even is faster, but it lacks of performance cores, too…

  6. Any idea for a 4x 2,5 hdd usb-c housing or so?

  7. I am not 100% sure if I read the Apple specs correctly, so the HDMI port on the M4 can output 4k with 240Hz?

Thanks for help and insights.

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Phrase Line 2 Is Blank After Raising Length From 1

March 11, 2025 - 19:27


Lower the phrase length to 1 then raise it to 2. The second line will be completely blank until you so something else with the phrase. Only happens if the UI Scaling is >100%.

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Noobtime! Was/Is Thereaway To Automate Presets?

March 11, 2025 - 06:03

I Swear That There Is Or Was But Thinking More, Thinks, Hmmmm, Cant Remember Sheet…

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More Piano Roll

March 10, 2025 - 21:40

…needed.

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Perfectly sync sample notes with audio output

March 10, 2025 - 19:54

Pulled Renoise onto a laptop with no plugins or anything else installed, just wanted to throw down quick things with the included samples and instruments.

First noticed this when I loaded the Bass AM Talk.xrni with the phrase looper … when I click play, I don’t hear the audio until 2 beats have passed visually. What?

So threw a kick on another channel in the main view. Doesn’t seem to matter what samples I load, visuals are off by 2 beats.

I’m not doing anything crazy here. Latency is set to 20ms, but it doesn’t seem to matter what settings I’m tweaking, I can’t seem to get the audio output to align visually with Renoise steps. The Sync offset setting does nothing, +/- 100ms or at 0.

What am I doing wrong? How do I get the audio and visual aligned? I don’t care about VST MIDI or external routing, etc. I just want basic sample audio aligned with the track notes.

Thanks

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A little review ? Please

March 10, 2025 - 14:10

Hello !

I’ve been meaning to post this question for a while now, but for various reasons I haven’t done it.

It’s about loading the Hypersonic 2 vsti.

Many of us have used it in previous versions of RENOISE, when it also worked in 32 bits. Now with version 3.5, but also since version 3.3, there is NO WAY to load this plugin,

I’ve tried using it with jbridge, but it doesn’t work either.

I know it’s asking a lot, but could the developer take a look to see how I could make it work ?

It’s a fantastic plugin, and should be well regarded.

In standalone form it works, but as a vsti, it doesn’t work…

I have to say that I have other 32-bit plugins that do work…which is strange then…
A real shame…

Thanks a lot!!!

A little review?

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Linux: Bitwig Error with Redux

March 9, 2025 - 22:05

Hello
I am using the actual Manjaro (Arch) with XFCE.

Renoise recognizes Redux perfect.

But Bitwig says:
“com.bitwig.flt.library.metadata.reader.exception.CouldNotReadMetadataException: could not read metadata: Failed to load VST 2 plug-in /home/mobile/.vst/renoise_redux.so: /home/mobile/.vst/renoise_redux.so: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Invalid argument”

Does anyone has an Idea?

Thanks for your Help!

Best regards,
sebasaturn

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Beginner's Stumbling Block: Redux Product Name

March 9, 2025 - 18:54

Hi folks,

I’m a long-time Max and Ableton user, now loving Renoise and Redux!!! <3 But when I have a question and try to do a web search for an answer, the experience is frustrating. I think the product name is the problem.

“Renoise” is a great product name. It describes what the product does, and it’s unique so that web searches yield great results.

IMHO, “Redux” is a bad product name. It doesn’t really describe what the product is or does, and it’s almost impossible to get good web search results.

Search for Redux, and you get a JavaScript library of the same name. To narrow the search, I add the company name, i.e. Renoise. But then most of the search results are for Renoise, not Redux. Do you see my problem?

Product names are difficult, especially when looking for English “re-” words. Would Revisit (ReViSiT) yield better search results? How about Reslot? Or even Renoisy?

Sorry to complain about something that is probably impossible to fix. I do love this software. I’ll continue watching the videos and reading the documentation.

Keep up the good work!
Les

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Formula Device Editor could return key to Renoise if it doesn't use it

March 9, 2025 - 14:32

while i’m editing in the Formula Editor, my shortcuts for muting-unmuting channels, or other shortcuts, don’t work, because the Editor in Formula Device “eats them up”.

this is a pretty hard showstopper for me cos i need to click away from the formula editor to be able to return back to using my shortcuts. what’s the solution?

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Renoise to Ableton song conversion [I know it's blasphemy]

March 8, 2025 - 10:05

I’ve got a finished-ish Renoise track from ages ago, and I want to “finish the job” in Ableton.

Do you have any top tips for conversion? I believe these are my options…

  • Render entire song with tracks as separate stems (with FX)
  • Render entire song with tracks as separate stems (with no FX - use ‘Device Chain’ / Cut to quickly remove FX)
  • Export the MIDI using MIDI convert tool
  • Open the Song File as Zip and rebuild the samples in Ableton Sampler device(s)

Any other top tips?

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Which keycommand would you prefer to use to close a lua dialog?

March 7, 2025 - 12:39

Hi, I’m wondering which keycommand or key you’d want to press, to universally/globally close a lua dialog?

i’ve seen ESC to be pretty popular. i’ve also made tab, backspace, space, enter a possibility. but are there others?

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LSDJ-like note placement and transposing?

March 7, 2025 - 05:11

Is there any chance of ever seeing options to accomodate LSDJ-like note placement? I’m not asking to restructure the entire workflow of renoise, but it would be really nice to have the option to input notes and hold a button to transpose each up or down with the arrow keys with a note preview. Being able to hear each note as I step up or down is a great tool for inspiration, and I’d love to see some way of doing that without installing tools that require you to remap the keyboard in a way that makes everything else harder.

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That eureka moment

March 6, 2025 - 20:39

…WHEN YOU REALIZE… that Renoise is not just the tracker / sampler / “DAW” / etc that you fell in love with…But she is also more like an instrument with her own voice. For years i ran VSTs inside of Renoise as well as made instruments inside of Renoise but lately i have realized that she can almost be like a modular synth in her/or his/ it’s…own right. Of course i have in the past made drums just with the built in waveforms and even bass sounds from time to time, but have after years of learning the ins and outs of synthesis it has blown me away what you can do as far as synthesis alone right inside of Renoise. OK it takes a lot more effort than firing up your favorite VST (AKA incoming MINDFUCK), but WOWZERS!!! I always admired guys that only used Renoise for nearly every sound…I GET IT NOW! Flipping beats and samples is all so much fun, but I encourage all to explore synthesis in Renoise. OK i shut it now…hehe Fecking Renoise fanboys …honestly.

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17 years with renoise - first bug

March 6, 2025 - 14:23

Trying to load my saved song.

getting:

"
Loading failed with the error:
‘/Volumes/Extra Storage 1TB/Renoise Projects/My eyes (no coke) c minor_Backups/My eyes (no coke) c minor_0.xrns/Song.xml’ was saved with an incompatible, more recent version of Renoise…

"
I do not have a newer version of renoise.

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