can i record a guitar track in renoise like in reaper? i guess i mean is there a time limit to recording audio in renoise since its a tracker. can i record a 2 minute guitar track?
You can record a guitar, but not like in Reaper.
In Renoise you record into RAM, in Reaper you record to hard drive. You’ll run out of ram faster than hard drive. Renoise being a 32-bit application, you have a limit of around 4GB of RAM (2GB is more realistic, but it depends on the OS)
2 minutes is doable, though. You get about 1 minute for every 10MB.
so all of my parts to a song can only be about a minute long?
No.
You could record hours of material. (10MB =~ .01 GB)
Just be aware that you will eventually hit a limit, and when you hit it, it’s not pretty.
Reaper is better suited for audio recording. Renoise, composing and sound hacking.