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Phrases are great and have loads of potential, but I would find it much more productive if the phrase editor would not just be visible in the Instrument tab, but also in the side bar, so one can see both the regular editor and the phrase editor at the same time.

This way it would just be easier to select phrases or change things while working on the arrangement. I feel this would make things much easier and provide better oversight of the project.

Another helpful addition would be to give Phrases names in addition to their number. Also Phrases within Phrases within Phrases within…

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• Requires Renoise 3.2.2
• This is an early version of the tool and you may encounter errors. Use at your own risk. Please report any bugs in this thread.
• If you delete things in an instrument that are used by this tool and the warning tells you to undo this immediately, it’s not kidding. If you don’t then you may get errors and the tool might stop working.

> Download Rx Markers 0.1

This tool allows you to control the movement of two slice markers while re-triggering the sample. Playback normally only cares when the starting marker moves, but the Rx makes it also respond to the end marker.

Press the ‘Set Markers’ button and the tool will install the following things into an instrument: a small repeating phrase, a new fx chain with two devices, and two slice markers at the Origin points (you can set these before hitting the button). Either the tool GUI or the fx chain can be used to alter the various parameters and they will update each other to any changes made.

Note that markers will stay at least one sample apart and cannot pass each other.

• Auto Reset - The same as on a regular XY Pad, this will cause the values to move back to the center when the mouse button is released.
• Follow mode - Causes the GUI sliders to move in tandem when one of them is used. This also applies to the XY Pad, but you’ll find it ‘quirky’ with this on.
• Instr. Link - Links the tool GUI with the Instrument Selector so that changing one will change the other. Disabling this will allow you to work on one sample in Renoise while controlling another with the tool GUI.

• Range - How far the slice marker can move to either side of its Origin point. Changing this will alter the accuracy of the sliders/XY Pad.
• Origin - The central point on the waveform that the slice marker will move out from. Pressing ‘Set Markers’ again will set new Origins at the current marker positions.

• Sliders - The first number shows the Offset (how far the marker is from its Origin), while the second number is its exact sample value on the waveform. You can click on these numbers and enter new (valid) ones.

• Slice Size - The amount of samples between the two markers. The option to the right can be used to set the anchor point for any changes to this value.

Other Cool Stuff

• The devices in the fx chain allow the slice markers to be automated via macros (see the video).
• There’s no save files. Everything is calculated from the available data. This means any songs or instruments that make use of this tool will work for anyone that has it installed.
• You don’t have to use the provided phrase. You can delete it or create your own one with different effects (e.g. try varying the Rx value or adding backwards commands).
• Slices have their own loop points which you can move to create loops within loops. Changing the loop type can also have different effects that will be apparent on small slices.
• Two slice markers means there’s actually two slices. Although the second one isn’t used by default, you could create a phrase that does, which is useful because it’s changing in length in response to the first slice.

Limitations

• Since this is a Lua tool, automations created with it are not going to result in playback that’s exactly the same each time.
• Pressing ‘Set Markers’ will use the first sample of an instrument, even if you’ve selected another one.
• Values are stored using the XY Pad and Doofer, so accuracy is restricted to 3 decimal places. This makes the tool inaccurate with very long waveforms, so I’ve restricted its use to those under 20,000,000 samples (several minutes long). This issue can probably be overcome in the future.
• Playback can stop when trying to move markers past each other by clicking and dragging them with the mouse.

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This releases fixes compatibility issues with OSX Catalina and a few other small issues:

See full changelog and announcement at the Renoise Forum

You can grab a free demo version from the download page. If you are a registered user, download your personalized copy from the backstage server.

Specs: windows 10 64bit, i7-7500U, 16gb ram
When I try to load any preset I made for sektor (version 1.3.9) it immediately crashes the plugin. The presets were ones I saved in renoise as .fxp files. I loaded up an instance of sektor and didn’t have anything else loaded in renoise and let it idle for a bit and I got a Renoise Has Stopped Working message O_O. On renoise version 3.2.1 it was working perfectly fine. So far all my other plugins are working as they should.

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I’ve been happily using Blackhole (https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole) as an in device to pipe output from Csound into Renoise, and it seems there’s been a regression in the latest bugfix 3.2.2, in that there is silence at the Line Input device.

This is on Mojave.

I can’t see any changes in the bug fixes list posted on this forum that would point towards this. The only thing that happened is that Renoise asked to install the latest version of Rewire, which I’m not using here

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A track I made with Renoise a few years ago. After all, when to make music with Renoise, can get the desired sound with all the grains of the sound. In other DAWs, the final rendered sound is often different from the actual sound. Ahh, I’m talking about the dynamics.

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I very often create synth tones by hand drawing a wave form, but it’s often hard to get a very smooth sounding wave form. Hitting the smooth operation button several times will often work quite well, but I have often wished for a wave editing mode that makes use of the same curve editing code that is used in the automation system.

I imagine something along the lines of a “curve edit” button that turns on a curve edit tool, and converts those curves back to sample data. It would be very similar in function to the draw wave mode, only it would ensure very nice smooth wave data.

I suppose there’s a grey area here if you were to hit the button on a sample that already contains data. Maybe it would have to have a warning popup: “This mode will delete existing data”, or something?

Thanks for considering my suggestion

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Registered versions can be downloaded at the Renoise Backstage and demo versions at the Renoise downloads page.

The Renoise 3.3 feature release is not very far away, but things are going steady but slowly here in general these days, so we wanted to get rid of a bunch of pending fixes better sooner than later. Especially the missing “Apple notarization” in older Renoise and Redux releases gets more and more a problem because more people are running OSX Catalina now.

Songs saved with this version are fully compatible with Renoise 3.2.1. Renoise tools are as well, as the Lua API version did not change.

• All OSX builds are now signed and notarized to pass Apple OS X’ latest security features

  Please Note: OSX only - as we can no longer integrate the Renoise license into the application you’ll need to locate the Renoise.license file after running Renoise or Redux the first time. It’s part of the tar.gz file that you’ll download from the backstage.

• Retrigger FX issue with Slices
  [fixed 3.2.2] Sliced Sample - Effect Command Issues

• Using combination of RX effects in volume, pan columns and effect columns doesn’t work as expected
  [fixed 3.2.2] Rxy After Rx Does Not Properly Retrigger Sample

• Issue with fadeout command in vol/pan columns with ghost-notes
  [fixed 3.2.2] FadeOut Command in Vol/Pan Columns with "Ghost Notes" not ramping correctly

• Autoseek could overflow and crash when using very large samples which didn’t get turned off explicitly with a note off

• Undo recording a sample with slice markers could sometimes cause a crash

• Switching between folders with lots and files and sub folders should be more responsive now

• Deleting files in the disk browser may fail in newer Linux distributions (“gvfs-trash” is deprecated)
  [fixed 3.2.2] Can't delete files on Linux Manjaro (“gvfs-trash” is deprecated)

• Loading some very old Renoise files on OSX Mojave could lead to a crash
  [fixed 3.2.2] OSX Catalina: crash opening an old XRNS song

• The “Flip” option in automation editor did not adjust custom curve settings
  [fixed 3.2.2] "Flip button” in automation editor does not adjust custom curves

• Last point is not present in automation’s “Process” functions
  [fixed 3.2.2] Last point is not present in automation's "Process" functions

• Pattern split may leave empty “active” automations behind
  [fixed 3.2.2] Pattern split command does not deactivate possibly empty automation in splits

• Lua API: don’t allow setting beat_sync_lines of 0
  [fixed 3.2.2] Problem Renoise or API6: "Beatsync lines" does not allow value 0

• Lua API: phrase shuffle rounding issue
  [fixed 3.2.2] "Unstable" value in phrase.shuffle

• Lua API: Missing Text style property
  [fixed 3.2.2] Problem API with viewbuilder text: "style" property, not available to change

• Lua API: Console hangs/crashes when dumping some VST presetdata
  [fixed 3.2.2] Console hangs/crashes when dumping some VST presetdata

• Lua API: Moving slice markers may update notes incorrectly
  [fixed 3.2.2] Lua 'move_slice_marker' Updates Notes Incorrectly

• Keyboard input should work as expected now in Ardour, Mixbus and Reaper on Linux.
  Also, the Redux GUI sometimes didn’t resize correctly in Reaper on Linux
  [fixed 1.1.2] Redux not receiving keyboard events in Ardour and Reaper under Linux
  [fixed 1.1.2] Linux: Redux in Reaper - Keyboard in Phrase Editor not working

• File import dialog sometimes didn’t show up or could crash down hosts when using the awesome window manager

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Full on lowercase/microsound music. Hot on the tail of Neuro… No Neuro’s full-on ambient onset - “A Particular Timeline” - “Let’s Be Happy” provides a mélange of arrangement techniques. Rhythmic, yet less percussive. Melodic, with broken pieces everywhere. Ambient without the long-form structure. Lowercase without the minimalism. Composed entirely in Renoise with every sound synthesized or field-recorded.

Full album released on July 22nd, 2020, and available from Audiobulb Records here: http://www.audiobulb.com/albums/AB099/AB099.htm

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Hi. I’ve been using Renoise on and off for 12+ years, but this is my first post on the forum. I’ve been really getting really back into Renoise recently, and have been exploring new features.

I really enjoy using Renoise more as a synth than a sampler, making sounds from single wave cycles, using the instrument modulations and effects to shape the sounds. (Basically subtractive / wavetable style sythesis.)

I’m trying to achieve a particular thing but so far I can’t find a way to do it, although I can get close, so I was wondering if maybe I have just missed some crucial thing that might get me there…

So, to explain the exact thing I want to achieve: I’m working on an instrument, and I’m in the Effects tab of the instrument editor. I’d like to add an LFO to modulate volume (or filter cutoff, etc). Then, I’d like to add an envelope to control the frequency of the LFO itself so that it changes over time from slow to fast.

As far as I know, there’s no way to automate this in the same way we might automate it in the pattern editor. (Is that correct? Please tell me I’ve just missed something!) I can get quite close to what I want by adding an additional LFO, and using the “custom” modulation envelope editor to draw the envelope I want. The problem I have is that I can’t see a way to sync this slow-to-fast modulation to the actual note trigger such that it retriggers the envelope from the start when I press the note. Instead it just loops constantly, independantly of the note trigger.

Is this something that can be achieved? Perhaps I’ve missed some meta controller or something?

I was thinking / hoping that there could be some kind of meta controller that works basically like a stripped back LFO, with just the custom envelope, and which is synchronised / retriggered by the note trigger event.

Actually, all that would be needed would be a “retrigger” tick box on the LFO that would retrigger the custom envelope on note-down.

One idea I have for this is to hand draw an envelope in a second sample, and use a signal follower to automate the parameter. I’m not sure if that would work, but it’s worth a try. (I’ll report back on it.)

Thanks for any advice you might have for me. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that someone is going to point out something I just haven’t discovered yet.

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Hello
I’ve just released a huge update to my ratcheteer. It shoots out MIDI notes at different velocities and speeds - and can be automated for a live feel.

It’s ideal for making trap hi hat patterns, but can send any MIDI note so it can be used for snares, kicks and used on multiple tracks to build a whole drum section.

Hope you like it!

midierror

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Wanna anyone could some Help find Need Downloading Please Bring releases EMU emulator II Collection sample Disks Sharing link? Thanks!

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I actually got around to using my hardware instruments! I have a Korg Minilogue and a Yamaha P-105 that I’ve kinda neglected, so im glad they could be put to some use!

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Hi, I’m trying to figure out how to get ReWire to be registered into Renoise. I’m already running via -ForceRunningAsSlave, but nothing seems to be happening. am on macOS Mojave. Is there some way of reinstalling ReWire?

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Well I’m continuing my theme of vocal house remix’s, but I’ve gone for a male vocal this time (even though I have feminised it a bit, which is probably the ultimate sacrilege ).
A combination of 2 things I like, house music and The Doors.
The Acapella came from https://remixpacks.ru/.

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I saw this rubberband with a piezo pickup and diodes and it looks amazing, not as an instrument to be played on its own onstage, but as something to sample into renoise and write tunes.

The sound of it when its struck with a soft mallet on the back is really cool.
Im pretty sure you could hold the rubberband in a way that would allow you to get tuned up to any note you want accurately for sampling into renoise.

I love the sound. Sounds like it might be great for a duo like chitar renoise + live bohdran, chitar renoise + live jaw harp and finger cymbals or chitar renoise with glitch drums and layered tastefully and sublty with synth tones.

Best value noise maker for sampling as well probably.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a renoise Chitar song?
Id really love to hear that.

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Hi,

I have a Virus TI and a Roland MKS50 (midi hardware synth) which I want to sequence.

When I sequence the mks50 via midi, everything seems in sync.

When I then open up the Virus Control Plugin, the midi latency to the MKS50 goes way out of hand, the Virus stays on tick though.

I’ve tried all the standard stuff (i’m a seasoned midi user), other buffersizes, multiple midi ouputs cards, setting static buffers on and off but nothing works. Futhermore I have a brand new audient evo 4 card, and a computer that has enough cpu cylces and memory, so everything should work perfectly.`

When I test the same setup in Ableton, there are no problems at all. But when I work in Ableton, i can’t get any music out of my hands, it’s terrible man

Why is it that loading the virus control plugin breaks my midi output? Is it a PDC problem?

I hope you can help me.

(PS I want to use the plugin, so I can use the usb outputs of the virus. When I connect the virus only over midi, I can only use the hardware outputs and I have only 2 inputs on my audient card, which I need for my MKS.)

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Dear Taktik

Could you please make it so that when clicking the Midi Box/Note Light in the Instrument Selector that it will mute the Instrument (Box would crossed out with an X).

I find this much more useful than muting tracks also read a long time ago that you where already considering implementing this.

thanks

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An aditional button to be put underneath the pre-hear sample toggle and can be used together with it.

Simply chooses a random sample in the current selected folder. Just keep clicking until you find one you want to load.

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I think many people need this and there is a topic that you may have missed here.I tested it my self and it works perfect!!Many thanks to Olga U.laserbat
I made a script for linux renoise users that lets you play notes with PC keyboard while focused on a plugin window Tips & Tricks Hi! I was always annoyed that in linux renoise version you have to always change focus from a plugin window to DAW window if you want to play a few notes and see how it sounds. So I made a very simple script that uses xdotool to solve this issue. It basically waits for focus change events and as soon as one happens, it switches focus back to the renoise window. Here’s the script itself. You can just download it, put it into ~/bin or ~/.local/bin or /usr/local/bin depending on your distro and…

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