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I wonder what is the “best” way to get really started in Renoise.

My musical history: I’m interested in EDM production, already played around with several DAWs (mainly Garageband on iPad, Ableton Live), finally went for FL Studio and spent some weeks with it working through several video tutorials. I like the concept of patterns in FL and the easy way to just “paint” them on tracks to produce a song. I should add that I consider myself to be a semi-beginner when it comes to music theory, scales etc.

But then I remembered that there is Renoise (already had a quick look at it some years ago) and for the past few days I tried out the demo version. I have to admit that - though I successfully worked my way through the Quickstart Guide - I still have some problems to wrap my head around some concepts of Renoise. I can understand the fascination for the Tracker approach but at the same time the absence of a graphical representation of the notes (don’t want to write the P.R. word) discourages me a bit.

On the other hand I feel strangely “attracted” by the clean user interface of Renoise and the program-like appearance of the edit window (I’m an IT guy - this might explain it). So I would really like to give Renoise a serious try and dive into it. Think I have to finish a song (or something like it) to achieve this goal.

I already watched quite a bit of YT video tutorials (official Renoise channel and by @midierror, @grooving and even the incredible @slujr (MrZensphere) ) but I still don’t feel “at home” in Renoise.

Does anybody have suggestions, tips or something like a best practice approach? Any help is appreciated!

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Purposely idiotic question, I know - but I feel recently that the flame is withering away - I feel like I am playing with baby toys, the whole endeavour seems silly.

It’s all just tonality and syncopation with timbral variations - why should I care.

I stuffed all my instruments and pedals away in storage, deleted Renoise shortcut. All I have is a fretless acoustic guitar.

I hate Music! It is stupid!

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I finally bought Renoise some days ago and downloaded my copy from the Backstage area. Then I unpacked the file rns_342_osx.tar.gz and got the files Renoise.app and Renoise.license. But what to do now? Simply copy Renoise.app to the Applications folder (overwriting the demo version that already sits there)? What to do with the file Renoise.license? Can it be used to turn my demo version into a licensed version? If so, how do I achieve this?

Sorry if these questions may sound totally silly but I would like to be sure to do “the right thing” and understand what is going on.

I already asked the following questions already via the contact form some days ago but did not receive an answer yet. Maybe it would be a good idea to put the answers in the Backstage area.

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Not sure if I’m not searching well enough, but I can’t seem to find a way to navigate from pattern to pattern while focused on the track automation editor pane (i.e., line automation). Similar to using the CTRL+Up and Down keys while I’m focused on the pattern editor. Is this possible?

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This tool was made purely by ChatGPT

I haven’t figured out how to compile it yet.

This script creates a new phrase, copies the selected notes in the arrangement editor to the new phrase, and adds the new phrase to the song. After running this script, you will have a new phrase in the phrases list that contains the selected notes.

Feel free to test at will…

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– Create phrase from selected area in arrangement editor
local function create_phrase()
local selected_start, selected_end = renoise.song().selected_range
local phrase = renoise.Phrase.new()
local phrase_line_index = 1

– Iterate through the selected lines
for line_index = selected_start.line, selected_end.line do
local line = renoise.song().patterns[renoise.song().selected_pattern_index].lines[line_index]

-- Iterate through the selected columns in the line for column_index = selected_start.column, selected_end.column do local note_column = line.note_columns[column_index] local phrase_line = phrase:line(phrase_line_index) -- Copy note data to the new phrase phrase_line.note = note_column.note_value phrase_line.instrument = note_column.instrument_value phrase_line.volume = note_column.volume_value phrase_line.panning = note_column.panning_value -- Increment phrase line index phrase_line_index = phrase_line_index + 1 end

end

– Add the new phrase to the song
renoise.song().phrases:insert(phrase)
end

create_phrase()

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I’m looking for an old copy of the LiveDive Launchpad edition tool.

New Tool (2.8, 3.0): Live Dive Renoise Tools Hello, this tool was formely known as “Rableton Dive” which was beta and never was released officially on the tools page. Now I finished a new version with Launchpad support and decided to rename it and finally deploy it on the tools page. [livedive203.png] The primary purpose was to use it for remixing a song in a live performance. During the beta phase I got some great ideas of users and added also a recording option, so the tool also allows to record all changes, which makes it very easy …

My goal is to have a tool similar to this working by April, and it would be a lot easier to start with the tool’s lua source (which I can decompile) and start adding features to it.
Originally, the developer sold it for about $15 USD, which was definitely worth it, but now they may not have the source code or the time to dig it up. I haven’t heard back from them for about a week or two using a few different channels.
The way they were able to sell it and keep it sort of closed-source was by compiling the Lua 5.1 code into a binary format, which obfuscates the code, so main.lua and the others did not contain any editable lua code.
I’d gladly pay for it again, but there’s no longer a way to do so.
If anyone has it handy, I’ll start working on it right away and try add any features of bugfixes that are requested.
Thanks!

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Dear Taktik,

I hope this letter finds you well. I am writing to express my excitement and passion for Renoise, and to implore you to use all available resources to give the platform the updates and improvements it so desperately needs.

Renoise is an incredible tool for musicians, producers, and creative individuals, offering a unique and powerful platform for making music and exploring new sounds. However, as much as I love Renoise, I cannot ignore the fact that there is so much more that it could be, so much more that it could offer to its users.

In today’s fast-paced world, where technology is advancing at an astonishing rate, it is essential that Renoise keeps up with the latest trends and innovations. Whether it be new features, improved performance, or a more user-friendly interface, Renoise has the potential to be the absolute best in its class.

I know that you, as the lead developer of Renoise, have a deep understanding of the platform and its capabilities. I also know that you have a genuine passion for music and for making Renoise the best it can be. That is why I am confident that, with the right resources and support, you can take Renoise to new heights and make it an indispensable tool for musicians and producers everywhere.

Please, Taktik, use all the resources at your disposal to give Renoise the updates and improvements it deserves. Invest in the platform, invest in its users, and invest in the future of music. With your passion and dedication, I know that Renoise will be a force to be reckoned with for years to come.

Sincerely,
MuTon

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It would be nice to be able to disable pattern wrapping entirely. I don’t want to move to another pattern nor wrap around to the other end of the current pattern. Neither of the current behaviors suit my usage, especially when scrolling quickly with swipe gestures on Mac trackpads (though I still find it irritating when scrolling with arrow keys). Boundaries being used as walls to ram into with fast input is a useful thing.

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(Originating thread: Renoise Mutant Sound and Processing Department)

Hello Everyone!

This is the first in a series of 12 threads that I’ll be starting this year to host collaborative renoise resources. This month, the “format” is percussion (you can view the planned “theme” for each month in the original topic linked above).

I am staying true to my word that I will be paying out $100 of bounty money to those who submit samples, instruments etc. There is no system for how that works so if someone submits 100 oneshot samples and another person makes a 32-channel cybernetic drum-machine submitted as a single xrni, I would say those could be potentially equivalent. The main idea with the money is that it’s just a little fun so maybe some of you have some beer money at the end of every month, it’s nothing super serious lol.

The main goal with this project is to produce renoise-native tools that are free, interesting, well thought out, and USABLE I ask that participants keep this, as the final and hosted selection may not include all entries.

To say more: entries (in whatever format) should use only native renoise processing and royalty-free samples – simple test: any entry, in whatever format, should load into a clean install of renoise and it works just like it’s supposed to. that said, nothing is wrong with using samples rendered from VST.

Original, self-generated samples are preferred, though if you have royalty-free samples to submit I would ask that you be judicious For this month (probably in general too), instruments are much preferred to samples, but if you’ve got some really cool one-shots then by all means share them.

Since this month is percussion, and there isn’t going to be a month dedicated to breaks, I would say that breaks are the one exception to this rule. That said, please don’t submit break-samples all by themselves – put them in an instrument and do some fun things with them!

I would greatly encourage any participants to submit early and with a large spread of submissions, for a couple reasons – one, in the name of collaboration, I would find it fun for others to tweak or give feedback to my instruments, and to be able to do the same, so that at the end of each month, we have a truly collaborative product. If you want to submit multiple “versions” of an entry, just let me know which one you would like to be the “definitive” one (if applicable).

I’m sure I’m missing something but just let me know your thoughts or questions and I can add it to the OP.

I’m looking forward to see what people are making!

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Alright y’all. Time to vote for your favorites. please list your top 3 picks…

Points (including extra points) will be tallied and prizes distributed randomly among the top 14 participants. The stakes are pretty low this year, lol, although the shirt is undoubtably awesome

Prizes!!!:
So far:
•A “renoise… create more music OR ELSE” T-shirt designed and printed by @TNT
see here
•an ounce of organic catnip
•pride and glory
•???

If anyone wants to sweeten the pot by offering additional prizes, it’s not too late. PM me and we can add it in.

Special thanks to @Achenar for curating the official playlist:

Awesome work, everyone. Thanks for participating!!! We’ll keep this thread open til Feb 15th or so to give a little time for people to listen to everything and get their votes in

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Hello everyone.

I have a question and I’m sorry again if it’s a noob one

I have a simple instrument (a saw) with ADSR applied: 1s for attack and 8s for decay (S and R are zero).

Here is what I want to achieve: when I play the first note, attack is applied and during decay when I play a second note I want that attack is applied again, BUT from the current decay volume. So if the instrument volume during decay was at 50%, the attack should last only 0.5s to reach it’s peak and NOT start from the beginning with 0 volume. I hope I’ve described it well and understandable.

I know that this can be achieved by using the E command for envelope position, but with this I have to manually figure out the correct value for the position for every note I play. Is there another way, something I need to set in sample properties or elsewhere?

Thanks very much for help.
Cheers!

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I used the Windows clone of ProTracker to make this album. I prepped all the samples in Renoise, though! Actually some of the tracks I basically wrote in Renoise and then just exported whole pattern blocks as samples… i.e. the lazy method.

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Hello together!

Is there a way how ican the upper Filedialog bigger in size, or at least make it more wide? A userscript or a Tool maybe? Anyone can suggest something?

happy tracking

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In microtonic even when It’s not focused ( or in the shown example the instr.slot is occupied with Zebra ) , the Computer keyboard keys A,B,C,D,E etc… still change the patterns in Microtonic .
Never happened before .

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Renoise crashes when saving sysex patches with the motorolla dsp project ( virus emulator )
As soon a a preset is saved , the gui freezes , only hppens with renoise

DSP56300 Emulation Blog DSP56300 Emulation Blog

Emulating the Access Virus C & other virtual analogue synthesizers

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Hello,

Still running into weird things with Redux when I try to work with it. Today’s weirdness: Why does Redux handle this FastTracker instrument differently than MilkyTracker, ie: wrongly?

Oh, wait, I can’t attach an XI, XM, or a Zip to this post. Sigh. Now what?

Here: Dropbox - GUS Bowed Glass.xi - Simplify your life

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Wasn’t really sure where to ask this.

Does anybody here use a Behringer TD-3? I was wondering if anybody knows if it is possible to slide or tie midi notes together?

I’m aware of the M0 - M3 commands but M1 doesn’t slide the pitch but does change it. I did figure out how do it with the *instru. MIDI Control Pitchbend. I guess that works pretty well but I am trying to mimic is the portamento that is found when it is programmed onto the TD-3 machine interface. It’s a bit steppy as things are with trackers sometimes. I guess I can just double my LPB for higher resolution.

Does anybody have any expert experience on tracking midi to a TD-3 with Renoise and could give me any pointers?

Thanks.

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Hello,
As everything develops further, I am interested in your simple answer.
Do you prefer a uniform renoise gui or do you prefer something else as well?
I’m asking because development takes time and I don’t want to waste it on nonsense.
I have another tool that supports skinning now.
It’s not just a sketch, both versions work

So… Skins or not?

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Spent a whole day making my first Lua program. It basically copies samples from several instruments into one. I couldn’t find a way to copy samples fast, so big samples take quite a lot of time to be processed (don’t worry if Renoise wants to terminate process). Hope you’ll find it useful! Any feedback is appreciated.
Download

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hey all!

proud to announce the release of xenobaba’s super sane ep on zen sphere records

6 tracks of high intensity, high bpm, left field dark psychedelic trance with some occasional breakz

all realized in renoise, of course! mixed and mastered in renoise, too

mostly (90%+) native sample-based sound design with serum, loom 2, metasynth, and fm8 filling in the cracks.

if you like fast, hard, crazy, experimental music, give it a listen

will be on streaming services in a week or so

alien image courtesy of Josie Kins

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