Available Rewire Slaves & Masters

Help, Support & Bugs
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The list has been moved, all users who have an account on this board now can adjust / add information:
http://www.renoise.com/wiki/ReWire_Compatible_Hosts

Notice: The info below, will no longer be updated.

Please also have a look at the General ReWire FAQ/HowTo for general info about Renoise & ReWire that applies to all masters/slaves.

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ReWire Masters
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  • Ableton Live (OSX & Windows)

  • Works perfectly with Renoise

  • Tracktion (OSX & Windows)

  • When starting Playback from Renoise, Renoise may miss notes on the line you are starting from

  • Except this, works perfectly with Renoise

  • MU LAB (OSX & Windows)

  • Works perfectly with Renoise

  • “MU.LAB Free” only supports 1 mono out for ReWired devices

  • Bidule (OSX & Windows)

  • Works perfectly with Renoise

  • Steinberg Cubase 4 & Nuendo i[/i]

  • Works perfectly with Renoise

  • Cakewalk Sonar i[/i]

  • Repositioning and starting/stopping is slow, especially while playback

  • Tempo can only be set in Sonar

  • ACID Pro (4.0 or later) i[/i]

  • Tempo can only be set in ACID, all other transport controls work fine

  • Synapse Audio Orion i[/i]

  • The transport control in Renoise as slave do not work. You can only control the transport in Orion

  • Tempo can only be set in Orion

  • When starting Playback, Renoise may miss notes on the line you are starting from

  • Cockos Reaper i[/i]

  • BPM can only be set in Reaper, all other transport controls work fine

  • FL Studio i[/i]

  • Transport control in Renoise as slave won’t work. You can only control the transport in FL

  • Tempo can only be set in FL

  • Adobe Audition i[/i]

  • Tempo can only be set in Audition

  • Repositioning & changing the Loop can only be done while stopped

  • “Sometimes” (really sometimes) Audition can not be repositioned from Renoise

  • Samplitude i[/i]

  • Tempo can only be set in Samplitude, all other transport controls work fine

  • Project 5 i[/i]

  • Tempo can only be set in Project 5

  • Repositioning in Renoise only works when playback is stopped

  • Loops, set/changed from Renoise, are sometimes neglected or take a long time to be applied

  • Pro Tools (6.1 or later) i[/i]

  • Tempo can only be set in Protools

  • All transport controls except Start/Stop (Repositioning, Loops, …) can only be set in Renoise while the playback is stopped.

  • Zynewave Podium i[/i]

  • Tempo can only be set in Podium

  • Block loop sometimes breaks; may happen once you move Podium’s loop beyond Renoise’s pattern sequence range

  • Logic Pro i[/i]

  • Repositioning while playback is slow, but works perfectly when the song is stopped.

  • Apple Garageband i[/i]

  • Garageband 3 (iLife 06): With multiple ReWire slaves installed, only one of the slaves will work. Please uninstall all other ReWire slaves to use Renoise or update GarageBand.

  • Garageband 4 (iLife 08) works fine.

  • Intuem RW i[/i]

  • Repositioning while playback is slow, but works fine when the song is stopped.

  • MOTU Digital Performer i[/i]

  • Repositioning while playback is slow, but works fine when the song is stopped.

  • MAX/MSP i[/i]

  • Works just fine

  • Arturia Storm i[/i]

  • Unknown Compatibility to Renoise

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ReWire Slaves
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  • Ableton Live (OSX & Windows)

  • Works perfectly with Renoise

  • Reason & Reason Adapted (OSX & Windows)

  • Reason 4.0.0: Notes played from Reasons internal Sequencer may randomly stop on higher BPMs -> Update to 4.0.1

  • Reason 4.0.1: Works perfectly with Renoise

  • ReBirth RB-338 (OSX & Windows)

  • Loop Jumps might be out of sync for a short while, else it works just fine

  • Plogue Bidule (OSX & Windows)

  • Works perfectly with Renoise

  • Cockos Reaper i[/i]

  • Older versions of Reaper (<= Version 2.55) wont sync correctly as slave.

  • BPM has to be manually set/updated in Reaper or Loops are out of sync

  • Loops may be “modified/distorted” by Reaper on some BPMs

  • CPU usage raises up by 20% and more in Renoise - display problem only

  • FL Studio i[/i]

  • Transport control in FL as slave do not work (it moves, but won’t sync with the master any longer). You can only start/stop/reposition the song correctly from the master.

  • Tempo can only be set in Fruity Loops

  • Yamaha Vocaloid i[/i]

  • BPM is not automatically synchronized and output sounds noisy when BPM is out of sync; Either synchronize bpm values manually in both hosts or use the “Import ReWire Host Tempo” function in the job menu inside Vocaloid.

  • Vocaloid seems to claim certain audiocard drivers to play back audio triggered by a midi device even though it is in ReWire slave mode. This may cause Vocaloid not to play triggered audio when Renoise is using the ASIO driver as a master (it however returns audio when Vocaloid is in songplay mode). Resolve this by (temporary) selecting the Directsound driver instead.

  • Requires a lot of cpu resources and tends to buffer audio in large blocks before transmitting whenever too much cpu resources are required, which may result in a 1~2 seconds audio-gap in the stream before audible output is mixed with the Renoise audio. Use Render(freeze) function in the Vocaloid-Editor to resolve audio-gap issues.

  • In general, Vocaloid works fine with Renoise.

  • Orion i[/i]

  • Only play and stop buttons in the transport control in Orion as slave are available. Position changes from Renoise are not recognized by Orion. The transport control from Orion works fine.

  • Tempo can only be set in the master

  • ACID Pro (5.0 or later) i[/i]

  • Tempo can only be set in the master, all other transport controls work fine

  • MAX/MSP

  • Works just fine

  • Celemony Melodyne (OSX & Windows)

  • Works just fine

  • GigaStudio 3 (OSX & Windows)

  • Using the ReWire MIDI ports results in missed/hanging notes. Use the regular “GigaOut” MIDI ports instead

  • VSampler 3 i[/i]

  • Discontinued Product

  • Steinberg Groove Agent (OSX & Windows)

  • Unknown Compatibility to Renoise

  • Steinberg Halion 3 (OSX & Windows)

  • Unknown Compatibility to Renoise

  • dfh SUPERIOR & EZ Drummer (OSX & Windows)

  • Unknown Compatibility to Renoise

  • Waves Tune (OSX & Windows)

  • Unknown Compatibility to Renoise

  • Arkaos ArKaosVJ & GrandVJ (OSX & Windows)

  • Unknown Compatibility to Renoise

  • Arturia Storm i[/i]

  • Unknown Compatibility to Renoise

  • Line 6 GuitarPort i[/i]

  • Unknown Compatibility to Renoise

  • Madtracker i[/i]

  • Unknown Compatibility to Renoise

  • M-Audio Torq i[/i]

  • Unknown Compatibility to Renoise

  • RiffWorks Standard i[/i]

  • Unknown Compatibility to Renoise

*** PLEASE COMMENT IF YOU FOUND OTHER ISSUES, OR FOUND OTHER WORKING REWIRE APPS ***

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would just like to add

that running renoise 2,1 as master and reaper 3 beta as slave.

the tempo gets automatically set(correct)in reaper

and the cpu hit i get on my comp(dual core 6600 2,4ghz)only "raises"to a little over 5%

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Is the tempo really correct? As said above, it looks like Reaper accepted the new BPM but Reaper doesn’t adjust samples/clips/timelines correctly. You can check this by entering the same BPM again in Reaper, then hit return. If somethings changing then, then its obviously not correctly applied.
At least if behaved so in the Reaper3 beta last week…

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just remembered that i ran renoise as master,i will try to double check with both renoise and reaper as master.

will post here later

EDIT:just tried it,as far as i can see/hear it appears that the tempo IS correct(im still using beta 6 of reaper)theres beta 7 out now

and it seems like it takes renoise 1 bar to sync up

i dont have a cpu problem in beta 6 my cpu is around 2,0%

but havent tested with a big arrangement though.

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The arrangement should not matter much (When Renoise is Master) i even have a CPU utilisation of 20% when Renoise is doing completely nothing (not playing, no instruments are being manually triggered etc.)
I have not tried the latest beta though…

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Yes, when running Reaper as ReWire master, but not when running Reaper as ReWire slave…

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hmm thats weird i dont have the cpu problem,doesent matter if i run renoise as master or slave,dont have the cpu problem. <_<

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Then be happy instead of wondering why you don’t get this;)

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hehe i am.believe me,just a shame i can help out :D

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Renoise being the best sequencer, can I use one Renoise to start/stop several other instances of Renoise?
This way I can perform a whole liveset, by activating one Renoise after another.
I tried this but couldn’t get it to work, going to try this now with another rewire master and a load of Renoise slaves.

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No, you can’t. See https://forum.renoise.com/t/rewire-renoise-to-renoise-to-renoise/24938 (ReWire Renoise to Renoise to Renoise) for details please…