finally …
This time it took more betas and a longer time as expected, but we dont wanted to release till all known fixable problems are fixed.
Thanks to all the users who have send us beta bug reports and helped us making Renoise as stable as possible !
Here is what’s changed since the 1.2 release :
General:
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Optimizations for AMD processors (using 3D Now!) and Pentium CPU’s
(using SSE) -
MIDI Remote Mapper: Assign your external MIDI controllers to any
effect slider in Renoise. In record mode the values are recorded
into the automation, otherwise they simply change current value of
the slider.
Relative controllers send relative changes instead of absolute ones
which is great because you have no jumps when learning a parameter
and controlling it for the first time. Unfortunately there is no
realstandard for this message type, therefore we’ve added the most
common ones so that you have the possibility to adjust this manually
if needed. Take a look into the manual for more details. -
GUI is now resizable. Set your favorite full screen resolution in
the Configs/GUI tab or simply resize the window in windowed mode. -
The bar width of the spectrum view can now be adjusted by pressing
the “width” buttons -
Finally, support for 24-bit desktop color depths
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MPC style recording feature: When you enable the pre-hear switch in
the instrument box you can play and record samples with the Num Pad
keys. Default keyboard shortcut for toggling the pre-hear on/off is
“,” on the Num Pad -
You can choose the default audio processing buffer size for effects
and instruments in the Configs/Audio tab: Using lower values will
allow you (especially with ASIO) lower audio latencies: Use at least
your audio latency/2 as process buffer size when using ASIO to get
more stable and click free output. Smaller process buffer will
produce more CPU overhead, so you should just try out settings that
are the best for your configuration. We recommend the setting of 128
samples for ASIO and the setting of 512 samples for the Direct Sound. -
Added a pulse waveform to the instrument LFO-s
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Fix: User presets of the instrument and track envelopes are restored
properly now -
Fix: Renoise crashed on some machines when minimizing full screen
mode and restoring it afterwards again by clicking on the taskbar -
Fix: Lowered ASIO latency (forgot to remove some test code : )
Internal Effects :
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Added a “Gate” device to the internal effects section
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Added a new much better Compressor/Limiter to internal Track-
Effects. The old one is no longer available in the device list but
will be instantiated when loading old song documents. -
Added “DC Offset” to internal Track-Effects. Supports manual and
automatic DC adjustments. -
Added a “*LFO Device”: Automatic control of any effect parameter via
an LFO -
Added a panning slider to the “Gainer” device
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Dithering is again an option in the master track’s “Track DSP” tab
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Tracks which use a “*Send Device” and have the “mute source” option
enabled are visualized in the scopes now before they are muted. -
Fix: Some sliders didn’t respond quickly while moving them (for
example Reverb/Room Size) -
Fix: Delay and flanger are no longer saving their status depending
on the current sample rate -> they should sound exactly the same on
all sample rates
MIDI:
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Renoise sends and receives MMC (MIDI Machine Code) commands now
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Fix: Pitch bend and CC Messages were recorded wrong
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Fix: Play current line works now also with MIDI instruments
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Fix: Bank and program numbers of MIDI instruments are no longer
shown in hex but decimal
VST/VSTi:
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More stable VSTi handling (fixed a big FPU problem)
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Added possibility to import of FXP and FXB files in the external VST
editor window -
VST Instruments are now also played in the “working” player mode
-
VST Time Info checks the number of ticks and BPM quantization error
now -
VST FX parameters bigger than F (maximum parameter number in the
pattern that you can automate) can now be automated via the track
automation -
VST editor windows: You can now enter values using the keyboard when
the editor window is focused and the new “enable keyboard” checkbox
is enabled -
Fix: Sometimes Renoise got minimized after closing a VST editor
window
Keyboardshortcuts:
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The “Note Off” key can now be set up in the Keyboard Mappings
default is the Caps lock key -
A new “Smart Note Off” key was added, which removes
extra noteoffs between the line it’s inserted and to the first
found noteon in each direction. Default is LShift+Caps lock -
Added keyboard shortcuts for Mute and Solo:
Default for Mute: Backslash (# on German keyboards, next to the
Return key)
Default for Solo: Left Shift + Backslash -
Added new shortcut: “Play From Cursor”, default mapping is the
“Win menu key” (the key between right CTRL and right shift) -
Added keyboard shortcut for capture instrument (LSHIFT + Enter).
Capture instrument will select the instrument of the currently
selected note as a new instrument in the instrument box -
Keyboard shortcuts for the message boxes:
‘y’ -> Yes
‘n’ -> No
‘c’ -> Cancel -
Changed/added default keyboard shortcuts:
‘CTRL + P’ -> Paste block continuously
‘CTRL + Shift + Left’ - Decrease number of note or effect columns
‘CTRL + Shift + Right’ - Increase number of note or effect columns
‘CTRL + Shift + V’ - Toggle view of volume col. in the current track
‘CTRL + Shift + P’ - Toggle view of panning col. in the current track
‘CTRL + Shift + Ins’ - Insert new row only in current effect/note column
‘CTRL + Shift + Del’ - Delete current row only in current effect/note column -
Hold down Left CTRL to zoom the sample view with the mouse wheel
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CTRL right click on a note selects the instrument that is being used
by the note
Patterneditor/Player:
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Maximum number of lines per pattern is now 512 instead of 255 : )
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After releasing shift when entering notes in chord mode (hold down
left shift while entering notes) the song position will advance by
“edit step” and jump back to the note column where you started the
chord (simply try it : ) -
Second parameter for the 0x04 effect (slicer)
04xy - x is now the sliced volume (0 = silent, F = full volume),
- y is the tick where the slicing will begin
- Renoise now retriggers a note if it has a pitch slide but was cut or
sustained before by “Note Off”. For example:
C-6 01 40 0000
OFF … 0000
C-5 01 … 0515
In the old version, this would slide from the sustained note C-6 to
the new note C-5. Now the slide command is ignored and will trigger
the C-5 note instead (changed this for compatibility with IT and XM)
- Changed “Note Off” handling for monophonic VSTi-s and MIDI instruments:
C-4 01 … — …
— 01 … D-4 … -> Will glide to D4
E-4 01 … OFF … -> Was gliding in < v1.2. Now, not gliding but triggering E-4
-> Note Offs are now always sent before the Note On-s when in the same row!
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Fix: Small looped samples sounded detuned in higher octaves
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Fix: Insert line worked only for lines less or equal than 0x80
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Fix: Expand/Shrink in Advanced Edit works again now
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Fix: A note without an instrument number will no longer restore the
channel volume and panning -
Fix: Some GFX card showed trash when the pattern was bigger than 80
lines
In/Export:
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Effect chains can now be imported and exported: Imported by loading
them through the browser, exported in the advanced edit tab -
Imported 32-bit WAV samples are correctly scaled now
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Added support for 24-bit WAV samples
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Muted Tracks are no longer rendered when rendering the individual
tracks -
Fix: IT module import: fixed wrong import of Note Offs. Sustain of
the instrument envelopes is now also converted. -
Fix: Rendering to WAV skipped the first line of the first pattern
-
Fix: International characters (i.e. accented vowels) in the XML
files are stored and loaded correctly now.
in behalf of the whole Renoise team :
very sooner.
Thank you guys for doing the best audio-software around!! Every release is like x-mas 
You wont regret it.
