Release Notes for Renoise 1.9.0
Changes between Renoise 1.9.0 and 1.8.0.
Summary
- 44 new additions (11 new functions, 33 upgrades )
- 18 fixes
- 5 changes (moves / removals)
New functions
- Added Bus compressor DSP
- Added Maximizer DSP
- Added a chorus effect
- Added new Distortion DSP (old one still loads through old songs)
- Added search bar in Disk Op
- Added a “*Velocity Device” (with different vel. scalings thanks to pulsar)
- Hotplugging of MIDI devices for OS X (no chance to get this done for Windows)
- Multi CPU support (multicpu/multicore, sorry no HT!)
- improved MIDI Clock Master support
- There is now also a default pattern length option
- Added peak indicators to the master track device
Upgraded functionality
- Added merge command to pattern sequencer which creates one large pattern out of a selected sequence.
- The Middle Mouse now triggers a sample preview in the Sample Editor, so you can quickly click to preview large samples (from different offsets)
- Added post volume control in the effects area
- Added a Re-initialize button into the Audio Preferences
- Added interpolation mode per sample
- Added preset handling in effects
- Added A/B mode in effects
- Added configurable Rulers in sample editor (rightclick on rulers pops context menu)
- Added stage control to the phaser
- Added more quantize options to the sample editor (Shortcuts are Control + 0,1,2,3,4,5,6)
- The pattern highlight settings are now saved per song, no longer in the preferneces.
You will find them in the song properties pane. - MIDI device are now only opened when they are used
- You can now render your songs in 88.2 khz
- Adding new samples to a drumkit instrument, will now update the basenotes and sample splits in the instrument editor automatically
- Freq and Q controls for the EQ5 and EQ10
- The LFO device has a custom mode now, where you can draw tiny envelopes
- The LFO devices frequeny is now shown/editable in Lines Per Cycle, so you can now enter
for example 64 to let the LFO cycle once per pattern (if the pattern has 64 lines) - “BPM sync” for the delay device
- Pan TAP added for the delay device
- Line sync added for the delay device
- phase inversion switches to the gainer device
- Added filter control to the flanger device
- Meters for all the amp related devices
- Surround width is available in the Stereo Expander as well
- Freq graphs for all EQs
- Channel control (L/R / L+R) for all EQs
- new mpReverb2
- new “soft” fullscreen mode on Windows
- Support for dead characters in all Renoise textfields (you can type,enter combined characters like ñ now…)
- Own drawn Caption and resize borders on Windows
- All delay lines are now “smoothed”, so that you dont get clicks when changing the delay time
- All Buttons, Chooser, Whatever (non sliders) in the FX devices will now show the pattern code in the status-bar on left clicks and write automation or pattern codes (depending on fx recording mode) on right clicks. Including the Device On/Off button
- Upgraded the internal Flac to 1.1.4 (should be a bit faster and compress better)
Fixes
- Render Selection In Pattern With Null Selection, Crashes Renoise
- Normalizing A Sample Doesn’t Change Bit Depth, (to 32bit float)
- Hittin Rec, change playback position
- Program Load Bug With Komplexer VSTi
- Delete - >”all Automation In Song” Only Affects current open pattern
- LFO GUI update when type change performed by effect command
- Undo enter new Pattern Name doesnt refresh, gui
- Tooltip Pattern Wrap
- Song Comments focus now exclusively visualized
- Incompatability issues with 1.5 RNS songs where VSTI plugins could be loaded with the wrong patches
- Crash when deleting a playing sample or instrument on the mastertrack.
- Copy/paste selections in unequal note/effect columns, pattern command values unpasted
- Disabled context “copy/paste selection” into automation when no automation yet exists.
- Double-click song in explorer and Vst Plugins, Doesn’t tell me which ones I need
- 24 Bit Sample Gets Broken, when using flac
- AIFF files with empty copyright header won’t load
- Oscilloscope graphic glitch caused by missing updates
- Japanese keyboard bug using modifyer keys
- Midiccdevice Automation Envelope Polls Ccs Too Often
Changes
- Removed quality mode in song settings
- Splitted 09xx and Pitch mode in song settings
- moved the mastering settings “Soft Clipping”, “Autogain” and “DC Filter” from the prefs to the mastertrack
- Notecut (fx) and retrigger command (0exx) combination behavior changed to a more logic behavior (now retrig is cut at tick fx)
- Moved “Save as default song” from Preferences to Song settings