How Can I Use My Keyboard With Renoise?

I’m trying to get my Axiom 49 to work with renoise, and I have no idea how to even begin to do this.

I recently discovered that the reason why my Axiom won’t play any sounds is because it has no built in sounds…

I started taking keyboard/piano lessons and he told me that I have to somehow play it through a program.

I’ve used renoise in the past, so I know how the basic functions work, but adding an instrument is really confusing…

Can anyone help me get started?

First you need to set up Renoise to accept MIDI from the Axiom. Go to the preferences window under Edit > Preferences or do ctrl + ,

Hit the MIDI tab and select the Axiom as In Device A, now renoise will receive MIDI from it.

You can download the Custom Wave Synth toolso you have an instrument generator. Click on a slot in the upper right part of the screen

Which will bring you to the sample screen, right click anywhere in the waveform view where it says “No sample loaded” and in the context menu that appears there will be an option to “Generate custom wave”.

By default it’ll generate a Sine Wave at note A-4 which should be fine while you get acquainted with things, but you can change the range and wave it generates and other things if you so wish. Once you’re happy with your settings just click generate. Then go back to the edit view and play away. Note you need to have the instrument slot you want to control highlighted, otherwise you’ll be triggering silence or another sample.

i suggest to check out downloads section, there is a lot of great instruments. also if you want to use your keyboard just for learning not crafting sounds you can get some vst freeware plugin

vst tutorial -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxhijSDOo_E

To be able to play piano-style you’ll want to check out/find some kind of vst plugin or standalone program that will work as an extended “real” sampler (compared to the tracker style sampling renoise does), and feed it with some good piano sounds. Under linux I use the linuxsampler, which is free, plus one or another piano sample patch (soundfont, sfz, gig) I found on the net for free. This can give quite some piano feeling (or harpsichord, or whatever). I believe there’s standalone and vst versions of linuxsampler for windows, despite it’s name. VST-versions can be plugged into renoise as a plugin as well. I use it, because I don’t have to pay for it, for practising keyboard playing techniques. Renoise could theoretically do the same internally, but not really with a very big piano patch that samples every key in different velocities and weights several hunderd megabytes (thus sounding quite natural).

Linuxsampler: https://www.linuxsampler.org/

A piano patch is linked on the site, google for “salamander grand piano sfz” for another free one, that’s a really big file, and will sound even more like a real piano when played.

This be for piano simulation via a midi keyboard, other than that you should be able to control any software synthesizer (plugin) or the internal renoise instruments with your midi keyboard. Looking for free vsti’s is one thing one could do to get more sounds. Learning how to use these programs is of course needed. The suggestion for renoise as a tool to produce sounds is a bit strange, as it’s quite some specialised piece of software regarding its internal instruments and the way things are composed and recorded. Sometimes I guess you might need to tune one or another thing about your computer’s audio, to get the delay between a pressed key and sound coming as low as possible.