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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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I have a lot of SFZ files, both downloaded from the internet, and SF2 soundfonts converted to SFZ with Polyphone. For many of them (especially drum kits), when I load them into Renoise, about half of the samples are several octaves out of pitch. This is because Renoise is incorrectly parsing some of the SFZ opcodes such as key, lokey, hikey, and pitch_keycenter.

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I,ve been using renoise for almost two decades and while I occasionally dabble with other sequencers, I always come back to it .
A few moths ago I purchased a second hand license of Reason 10 , the absolute horror of getting any work done and the inferior old dsp code , yet they are charging 500 Euro’s …Insane
Needless to say I sold it within 2 months ,
So why this thread ?
Renoise is awesome , sure it has it’s shortcomings and can be improved in many areas(especially the dsp part ) but at it’s core it’s still a magnificent gemstone , a tightly integrated sampler directly connected to the sequencer .
Taktik don’t ever ever sell out and keep the spirit of tracking Alive .
Renoise is awesome

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is that possible?

Hi and thanks!

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Hey, everyone!

I normally use Cardinal VSTi with 8 mono outputs set to different tracks in Reaper.

I’m trying to do the same in Renoise but I only get summed stereo outputs (1+2, 3+4, …), even though the plugin does support 8 outputs instead of only 4 stereo ones.

Is there a way to split these outputs? I work mostly in mono in Cardinal (since it emulates Euro Rack), so stereo is kind of a waste for me.

Thanks in advance!

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First couple patterns are here, I’m starting to get the hang of using Renoise and noodle around with it.

I have the shakuhachi Enigma used, but I’m thinking instead of going with that I wanna hit’em with the Streets of Rage 2

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Just downloaded my first VST, got an instrument, and it’s out of tune. Spitfire doesn’t seem to have knobs to change the pitch, what options do I have?

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is there a list of devices that can not be loaded into Sample FX Chain, please?

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As topic says , schortcut ctr+shift + right left to hide the first masterfx collumn does not wok .

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Looking at the Intro to Redux page at the end, the Shortcut section points to the general Renoise keyboard shortcuts, where it says Enter: Only play the line that the cursor is on (play step by step).

But that’s not the behavior I’m looking at in my Redux VST hosted by Bitwig. Enter and Space bar have the same behavior of starting play/transport. What am I missing here? I would expect Enter to play only the line where cursor is at.

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I just woke up in the middle of the night and had this vision of making my old MacBook as stand-alone Renoise machine.

Fullscreen Renoise on power up, nothing else. No desktop, networking, unnecessary background processes, etc.

Has anyone done this? I did a bit of research, but I think there is more involved setting up single application Linux that does work with low latency, midi and maybe VST plugins.

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Now one thing I always wanted to have is parallel or serial processing in the instrument fx. Instead of being bound to just one filter with a single mod set, having the ability to put the sample through a series of filters. Or through multiple at once in parallel, then mixing the sound together in the end, or at the beginning or a new mod set.

The other addition I thought of was how to enhance doofers, so they could reflect a parallel processing mode of operation. So there would not just be a single lane of effects inside the device, but multiple which each can have their own set of devices and send channels in between. Together with the new feature of Renoise to support sidechain signals, it would be desireable to be able to route such signals into the doofer, as well, to be able to do sidechain processing inside of it from an outside channel.

For both concepts I have reflected on how such processing could be implemented in a non-breaking way concerning the interface paradigma, i.e. that the user could even optionally avoid or disable the features by sticking to default values or by hiding controls, so that no traditional user interface paradigma has to be broken or changed for the additional features to work.

The idea behind the concept of the extended modulation sets is to enable Renoise users to use the sampler like a synthesizer with greater (modular) modulation and filtering capabilities. The idea behind the doofer extension is to extend the renoise dsp fx modules to encapsulate more complicated and also sidechainable modular effects setups - a feature available for example in software like ableton.

The idea I have for extending the modulation filter capabilities to parallel/serial, is adding controls to each mod set for a pre and post routing of the signal. For the pre signal, I am thinking of a “daisy chaining” control, which could allow sending the signal of the input of a mod set to the input of another one, while of course still processing it. This is to implement serial processing, which can already be done in basic form by copying samples - the solution would allow having to duplicate the samples for a layered sound. At the same time it is modular in a way that you could daisy chain as many modsets as you want by just passing on the signal from the next modset to yet another one. The default option would just do nothing and could be hideable.

For the serial processing I propose an additional control that defines where the output of a mod set is routed. The hideable standard setting would be “Sample” which means the mod set is routed to where the sample would go, either directly to track or to the selceted instrument FX DSP lane for that sample - the default behavior now. Other option could include routing the output to another mod set instead. This will enable the user to process their samples in a serial way through multiple filters. A third kind of option would then enable the user to send the output to a selected DSP Fx chain, or to track directly, circumventing the setting from the sample that is fed into the stream. This option must be force-enabled somehow for a modulation set that has no sample associated to it, or the daisy and post-routing chain must be traversed and the destination could be taken from the most prominent sample of the sound stream.

The doofer solution involves adding an additional option to create additional effects lanes and to change the currently viewed to one of them when the doofer is expanded to show all DSP. Another useful proposition would be that of an “Ext. Editor”, which possibly could expand an UI similar to the instrument effects editor, either with an additional effects lane displaying the currently selected lane’s devices, or with the bottom effects lane switching it’s display in that mode. Sends and sidechain signals could be allowed just like in the instrument effects. To allow sidechain input, each lane could gain an option to receive such signals from a list of possible streams. This just on the scope of the whole doofer - to use internal sidechain devices, you’d then have to use another sidechain send inside the doofer.

Both concepts could be made to follow the Renoise top down left right enforcing routing paradigmas when it comes to sends.

Let me know what you think about these two theoretical additions to the Renoise sound engine.

I might try to create mockup images of the concepts later, to see how they might fit into the current UI

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Hello everyone!

I’m looking for a way to use the probability command Yxx in Renoise to control the execution of an effect command, specifically the Bxx command (sample reverse), instead of applying it to notes. Currently, the Yxx command primarily affects whether a note is played or not, but I would like to know if there’s a way to make this command work for other effects within a pattern line.

Is it possible to make the Yxx command affect the execution of Bxx or any other effect command? I would appreciate any suggestions or ideas on how to achieve this behavior in Renoise.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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