Release Notes for Renoise 1.8.0
Changes between Renoise 1.8.0 and 1.5.2.
Summary
Additions
- Menu bar
- Show used midi-mappings dialogue
- 7 presets for storing specific custom GUI layouts (bound to the first seven function keys)
- Keyjazz option
- Single-pattern or pattern selection rendering to file
- Render each pattern into a separate file
- Multiple sample/instrument selection in the diskbrowser (shift click and ctrl click) to import multiple samples or instruments
- Colour syntax in pattern editor
- Zooming facility in automation (4 levels: 100, 200, 400 and 800%)
- Manual value change of automation nodes (yes you can now type in exact values for each automation point)
- Copy / Paste selection in envelope windows (inside and between(:D) automation / instrument envelopes)
- Line-in device to routing group
- Search facility to various listings (VST/DSP list; automation list; VSTI list etc.)
- Copy track in song through pattern editor context menu or shortcut (lctrl-lalt-ld)
- Added transparent copy mode (aka mix-paste in other trackers) to Advanced Edit which allows you to copy contents in between existing notes
- Added “Column in song”option to Advanced Edit selection criteria
- FLAC support (encoding and decoding) FLAC files are stored in 16-, 24- and 32-bit (yes first app to support true 32 bit flac!) format
- Configurable prehear volume slider in sample-section of the diskbrowser and assignable to master or current selected track.
- Sample editor improvements:
- Snap-to-Zero for selections and loop-based operations
- Short-cut key controllable options
- Prehear wave-play on mastertrack or selected track
- Added bit-depth option to the conversion dialog
- Line-in recording which features
- Pattern quantization
- Record-latency compensation
- Channel recording selection (L/R/L+R)
- Selectable device input (In general for ASIO:Line-in / Mic/Phono-in etc:depending what the soundcard supports)
- Realtime track-fx processing to line-in signal
- Advanced Mixer which contains:
- Six switchable control components (mute/solo+panning+fader+volume-value+routing component)
- VU-meters contain three different min/max limits: -24 to 0dB, -48 to 0dB (default) and -96 to 0dB
- drag & drop dsp/VST effects in mixer
- expandable/collapsable parameter tables in Mixer DSP/VST blocks and hide/view labelnames
- Pre (automatable) and post (none-automatable) and MIDI mappable slide-buttons (vol & pan)
- Specific ASIO channel routing possibilities
- Command to temporary skip loading the song-template when creating a new song (ctrl-shift-n)
- specific keyboard focus areas (highlighted with specific area markers in around the corners)
- lock keyboard focus to pattern area function
- CPU Load Threshold
- Hardware buffer triggering:More control to circumvent audio-card quirks, some soundcards perform better with hardware buffers, but *may* perform unpredictable when using the line-in device or recording with it (wrong bit/freq rate recording / playback etc.)
- SSE support to improve CPU performance (rates of 10% improvement are possible)
- Custom root-folders for autobackup files
- Colour-picker added to theme preferences
- Mute source in delay DSP
- Three different sample export types in song/instrument export preferences
- Added colour invert option to invert the complete theme
- Printable custom keyboard settings from within any XSLT compliant browser
- Open/Save as song using common dialog
- Open Recent songs loadlist
- Missing vst plugin survey for songs loaded that contain plugin references that lack locally.
- Set option in the advanced edit for mass alteration of values to the same value in the pan/vol/effect column.
Updates
- You can now exclude specific controllers in the MIDI prefs pane
- Note-Cut behaviour altered to lower CPU usage
- Flac, Ogg and AAC/M4A added to importable samples, involving improved mp3 support
- Import format sample-files can now be preheared in the Disk-browser as well
- Prehear of samples in the diskbrowser can now be initiated by right arrow key (regardless of the prehear button state)
- Import options (MIDI / raw sample import / wave loop options) can also be altered on-the-fly from the file context menu of the disk browser (use Load File with Options)
- Samples can now be loaded directly from the XRNS and XRNI archives.
- Samples in the archives can be replaced with whatever sample format Renoise can read
- Sample-slot window can be resized so you can balance between the amount of instruments / samples view.
- All supported file-types can now always be loaded regardless which preset section is selected (song/instrument/sample/theme)
- Added option for rendering 24-bit quality
- Effect plugins can be moved by keyboard shortcuts
- All XML related clipboard contents (pattern / automation / dsp / inst.envelope data etc.) can be shared between Renoise and third party tools (like text editors)
- Individual MIDI mappings can now be removed without having to redefine all the other controllers
- Automation can now be controlled by more keyboard shortcuts
- global Undo/Redo - All actions performed are now all undoable
this includes removing complete tracks and deleting samples from instruments etc - You can now hear instruments when playing notes in the mastertrack / sendtracks (excluding track effects!)
- ASIO auxilary control can also be set in the Mastertrack now
- Note delay (Dx) and note cut (Fx) commands can now be used in both panning and volume column
- Increased pattern volume value to 80 (7f) to better support the MIDI volume range
- Expanded maximum amounts of samples to 256 per instrument
- Changed file format (XML) for all saved sound-files (song / instrument) to a ZIP-compatible archive
- Increased beatsync (Now called Sync) value to 512
- Expanded maximum bpm rate to 999.
- Automation interpolation process per tick instead of per line. (values are still per line!)
- International characters are supported now in the fonts. (Using FreeType fonts)
- Folder locations in diskbrowser can now be summoned in OS explorer through short-cut / context option.
- Added global shortcuts for Sequencer navigation: In the keybindings section “global” of the preferences pane, you can now assign keys to navigate the sequencer. These are by default not assigned.
Fixes
- (Mac) Right side modifier keys work properly now
(to start playing the Pattern / Song by default) - Changed BPM behaviour to match exact BPM at specific tick-rates (1, 2, 3, 6, 12)
- Fixed quantize problems and hiss sound in EQ filter DSP’s
- VST compatability (Allows you to run V2.4 protocol VST’s)
- VST Timing. (VST plugins with own sequencers now run better synchronised to Renoise)
- Click and crackle problems with Delay dsp when automated have been resolved by smoothing out the volume parameter response (feedback / send)
- Buffering issue with DirectSound drivers, this might resolve a lot of playback issues as well if experienced so far
- Samples are saved in full true bit rates (24/32 bit) now instead of being converted to 16-bit equivalent
- “Make Selection unique” now sorts pattern sequence in ascending mode instead of descending.
Changes
- Moved Clipboard selection menu from pattern editor context menu to Edit drop-box in menu-bar
- Removed Midi mapping button from top-right frame, added it to View dropbox of menu-bar
- Removed Prehear button from the instrument area (still toggable through the numpad decimal-key)
- Moved Configs to Preferences dialogue approachable from the menu-bar
- Moved Advance Edit to (expandable/collapsable) side panel on the right side of the pattern editor
- Moved author/title and song comment to specific dialog, with toggle switch (saved with the song)
- Moved “Follow automation on song-position changes” to preferences
- Moved Copy DSP chain from Advanced Edit to Mixer Panel right-click context menu
- Moved CPU Usage to Song properties and changed name into Quality Mode
- ASIO channel-names are now shown in the routing list instead of 1 + 2 and 3 + 4
- Categorised send-device as routing component
- LFO Device now displays effect and parametername in droplists instead of referring to the devicenumber
- To read AAC or MP4, you need to install Quicktime 7.0 or higher on windows
- log-file is being extended instead of overwritten
- Renoise styled modal dialogs returned.
