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hi, is it possible to somehow read the OS and figure out where the metronome wavefile is? i’d hate to try to hardcode it to /Users/esaruoho/etc as that would make it completely useless.

but what i’m talking about is having a Preference in a tool that sets the volume of the metronome to a specific volume, by destructively loading, modifying the sample volume and saving the sample on top of the original metronome.wav, no matter if in linux, windows or macOS.

can this be done, @taktik?

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Sorry if this is all a bit crabwise, but I’m a bit drunk right now.

I’ve just been to a Sunday matinee gig at the Museum Vaults in Sunderland. Usually these are DIY punk gigs but today it was summat a bit different: Badger, Seizure and Holy Braille (my preferences ran in the reverse order) - mostly electronica with a bit hip-hop in the middle. At any rate, by the headliners, I found meself thinking what it was that didn’t quite sit well with me and concluded it was what I’ve heard termed as “the tyranny of small differences”. I’ve been making electronica for donkey’s years and so I inevitably have particular opinions and tastes about how it should sound, which tends to make me more critical than I would typically be with, say, a punk band, cos I haven’t done much of that.

Anyway, all of this preamble is probably kind of irrelevant. The point is, it got me reflecting on my own stuff and I hit on the sudden realisation that I’ve been doing this shit for 30 years. And I’m still not good at it, so I should probably keep me opinions to meself.

So anyhow, for anyone who has waded through this, here’s a giggle for you: a video I did a few years ago when I realised I’d been making music for a quarter of a century. It’s basically a string of short clips of songs - one per year - I made between 1994 and 2019, starting with OctaMED and moving on through Cubase to starting with Renoise back in 2004. I know it’s mostly crap, but there’s a pleasingly unsanitised or idealised progression to it anyway. It’s one of these thing where I like to see it occasionally cos it makes me feel like I have actually developed a bit, even if in essence my musical ideas are basically the same as they were in my teens.

It might interest you anyway.I feel a weird need to fly the flag for talentless hacks.

25 Years of Mackin' A Racket

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Hi,
I downloaded the demo to see if this was my workflow, but when it was downloaded and all seemed well, i got signal 11 when i ran it from my terminal. Is there anything i can do to fix this because it would very much like to try and maybe buy Renoise!

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I’m still clinging to Camel Audio’s Alchemy, thanks to Renoise’s bridge. With macOS Sonoma on Apple silicon (M1 and M3 Pro), Alchemy’s GUI is blank in Renoise v3.4.4, but worked in earlier versions. Disabling Metal and turning off the HiDPI support setting does not help.

I tested various configurations…

Alchemy’s VST GUI works (is shown correctly) on:

• Renoise v3.3.2 running on Intel + Monterey / Ventura / Sonoma.
• Renoise v3.3.2 running on Apple silicon + Ventura / Sonoma (via Rosetta).
• Renoise v3.4.1, 3.4.2, and 3.4.3 running on Apple silicon + Sonoma.
• Renoise v3.4.4 running on Intel + High Sierra (in a VM).

Alchemy’s VST GUI does not work (is a blank window) on:

• Renoise v3.4.x running on Intel + Monterey / Ventura / Sonoma.
• Renoise v3.4.4 running on Apple silicon + Sonoma.

The AU GUI works on v3.3.2 in all configurations, but none of the others in v3.4.x. I really only use the VST, so I’m not bothered by that–just sharing more information if it helps diagnose.

I can work around this by using an older version of Renoise to configure the VST instruments first, then exporting/opening them in the newer version for composition. My primary configuration is Apple silicon + Sonoma, so at least I can just bounce between v3.4.3 and v3.4.4.

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Is anybody else getting strange results with the keyzone layers set to random?Sometimes it behaves strangely and it’s as if it randomizes once then just keeps repeating the sequence.

For instance its really clear to see when you do this.New instrument that contains 2 samples of a hi hat,keyzones are layered and it is set to random.Instead of truly being random it is just switching between the two samples in a consistent manner,every once in a while the sequence will change slightly but it quickly moves back to the cyclical pattern.

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Just had crash after i tried to delete an instance of izotope vinyl from a track.

Vst3Plugs: Instantiating: C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\iZotope\Vinyl.vst3…

Vst3Plugs: Instantiating: C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\iZotope\Vinyl.vst3…
Vst3Plugs: Plugin ‘iZotope: Vinyl’ crashed while calling one of its plugin view functions!
Vst3Plugs: Releasing: iZotope: Vinyl…

Warning Message: Ouch. The VST3 plugin ‘iZotope: Vinyl (from iZotope)’ crashed in event, function or class: ‘IPluginView’, Thread: ‘GUI’
Warning Message: IMPORTANT: This is a fatal error. Please save the current document under a !new! name to prevent losing important data. Renoise will silently ignore any following errors from this plug-in.
Warning Message: DO NOT IGNORE THIS ERROR; DO NOT CONTINUE USING THE PLUGIN. THIS CAN DESTROY YOUR SONG OR CAUSE OTHER RANDOM CRASHES AND PROBLEMS!
Warning Message: It’s most likely that this is a bug in the VST3 plugin, so please also report this problem to the authors of this plugin in order to get the problem fixed!

Vst3Plugs: Releasing: iZotope: Vinyl…

CrashLog: Handling Exception! Code : C0000005
CrashLog: 00007FF8929D7A80: ??? +00000
CrashLog: 00007FF8FEE6EF75: CallWindowProcW +00615
CrashLog: 0000000000000057: ??? +00000
CrashLog: 00007FF8FEE6FC8F: EnumChildWindows +008AF
CrashLog: 0000000000000001: ??? +00000
CrashLog: 00000000000F06DA: ??? +00000

Application: Caught an unhandled fatal exception (Thread: GUI)!
Application: Saving a backup…

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Hello there,

maybe those who work on Linux with Renoise know the very annoying focus problem that you can’t play with the keyboard anymore when a plugin is focused. There are a few workarounds like permafocus (I made a script for linux renoise users that lets you play notes with PC keyboard while focused on a plugin window - #12 by grymmjack) but still for me that never was a real solution.

That’s why I started to code a small tool which is running in the background and which intercepts all raw key presses/releases with the X11/XInput API and redirects them to the main window. I only tested this on my system yet, seems to work pretty fine though! I still have to find a way to do that only for windows which also contain a plugin.

ALPHA! Run it to fix the annoying plugin focus problem in Renoise on Linux/X11 - titanlab/renoisix

So if anybody is interested and wants to help testing, message me!

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Stream Time - Space by Laughing In Purgatory | Listen online for free on SoundCloud actually finished the same day as previous song, this is another one from an album I’m working on

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Demo Song:
Reverse-Delay-Demo.xrns (306.7 KB)
Doofer:
Reverse-Delay-IR.xrdp (376.5 KB)

So one can create something that sounds like reverse delay effect using reversed reverb impulse response loaded in Convolver.

Check the demo song.

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I am considering having a second, light laptop for music needs, that’s strictly for music.

My main laptop is functioning as a desktop workstation for e-mails, work, studies, games and entertainment with additional keyboard, external Display and mouse. My brain just associate it with work and entertainment, not so much with production.

And I don’t want to go hardware/dawless - as I already don’t have enough space for gear and synths.

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I wanted to try a tracker that works in Ableton, I find out Renoise is a thing… perfect.
I find out it has a demo… perfect. I don’t really need a tracker, but want to see if there are advantages to using it for myself.

First of all, there is an amazing lack of tutorials on redux… I can’t even find a manual, only a “quick start guide” otherwise everything is about Renoise… okay, so MAYBE there is so much overlap it isn’t necessary.
Okay well here’s the coup de grace…

After about an hour of just trying to slice up my first break and just TRYING to maybe make a 4 on the floor or basic kick snare pattern out of a break to get started I come across what I see as inexcusable.
I WANT “beatsync” on… 64 (64 IDK what… samples per sample?) seems to work well… the sample pitch shifts and plays nice when I have the 64 set… I turn off the “1>” button so each slice will play through…

Then I slice the break and everything goes downhill… Every slice is now NOT beatsynced, and NOT 64, only 16… so i would have to edit EVERY slice to get it to beatsync and be 64 so it will ACTUALLY sync to the master clock in my DAW? NOT good… again… good thing I demoed this…

If I just use a raw break… I could have cut it up in 100 different ways in the time this has taken me, with warp on from the jump all samples would warp to match the beat. What is the advantage of this software supposed to be again? The rolls? I can make a roll 1,000 different ways in ableton… this has, what, ONE roll command?

I’m off to analyze what this commands can do… but if this thing can’t KEEP beatsync for all slices made what is the point?

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Rick Astley - Never gonna give you up (1987) cover on Renoise tracker.

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how do i replicate these buttons? so one is highlighted while the other isn’t.

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is it not possible to write to selected line index in a phrase? like a note or a note off?

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This is the second time in a week I’ve got this error during startup

Log.txt (2.6 MB)

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been procrastinating a bit this year !
That’s why when I had inspiration, I recorded this despite still suffering from the dreaded human malware

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I am replacing Windows with Ubuntu and am struggling with Renoise. Every track I try to play sounds glitched (constantly stuttery).
I followed the FAQ to set limits.conf for @audio and Renoise no longer shows warnings that it cannot create real time threads, but it makes no difference to the stuttering.
I also set CPU scaling, and the output of cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor is (repeated four times) performance

Audio is completely stuttery with ALSA. If I set the audio to Jack then Renoise is totally silent.

Any further advice for Ubuntu?
Should I even try to get this working if the PC isn’t going to be a dedicated DAW?

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Hello - is there some way to have phrases Off by default after loading an instrument please??
If that makes any sense as I usually turn them Off by hand after loading to try some random notes by myself.

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Hello fellow trackers!

I’ve been using Soundtracker/Oktalyzer/Octamed for my tunes, since the early days of Amiga and discovered Renoise back in 2006. I’ve been a registered user since and use it mostly for non EDM/breakbeat stuff (I know perhaps this sounds weird for this kind of DAW, but I mostly make prog/post metal and rock stuff, ambient and jazz).

So here are my ideas (after searching in Tools and not finding anything similar):

SAMPLE EDITOR:
-Ability to move selected area in sample editor by shift+dragging at start/end of selection
-Option to only NNA cut self note (when set to continue or note-off)

PATTERN EDITOR
-Auto-switch to proper octave when clicking on a note.

PATTERN SEQUENCER
-Ability to colorize pattern number boxes and/or names (or at least Sections) for easier navigation.

Cheers.
Mano.G

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Hi, I’m on a Mac running Renoise 3.4.3.

Using Tab to “Jump to Next Column” is doing the Same thing as “Jump to Next Track”. I was expecting the “Jump to Next Column” would go to the next column in the same track?

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