I’d love to see improved pattern sequencing and audio tracks.
I’m also content at present to have a genuinely improved UI, some new features, and most importantly, nothing royally broken from what it was before.
As a developer myself, I know that sometimes you have to tear down the existing code and rebuild the existing features so that the program can grow in the future. Sometimes you have to re-pour the foundation before you can build a better house. And judging by the history of 2.x, I have a decent amount of faith that that is what is happening here.
I’ve never used Buzz, but I can say that I consider the underlying principle of this vitriolic but valuable thread one worth paying attention to: “More visibility to the user, without losing the essential tracker workflow.” Frame that and put it on the wall as a mission statement for all the 3.x revisions to come, because it’s a great purpose to pursue.
I don’t want Renoise to be just another DAW, but I do know that I recognize moments when using it where I am accommodating myself to the machine too much - holding things in my head because there’s no other place to put them. And in my developer day job, this is where I’d write myself a function or macro, to encapsulate that stuff in my head. Something that lets me make that opaque corner of what I am working on more transparent. And I wish for the same in my creative workflow. If or when you can find a way to make that more of a reality in Renoise, you shall hear cheering from the 4 corners of the globe.
Meanwhile, thanks for not screwing it up.
Finally, for what it’s worth, I am genuinely excited about Redux. Not because I want to drop Renoise into another DAW like a barnacle on the ass of a flatulent whale, but because I see a lot of opportunity to use it in places where sequencing is non-existent or highly tedious (I’m looking at you, Max/MSP). I like the idea of Redux becoming the ultimate Korg Wavestation-style sequenced wavetable oscillator and audio sample Swiss Army knife of my giddy sound design dreams. Make it so.
And maybe, if Redux hits that sweet spot I am hoping it will hit, that mission statement should be “More visibility AND flexibility to the user, without losing the essential tracker workflow.”
I’ll support that.