I just found a bunch of renoise sketches on my HD, and surprisingly I liked quite a few of them. Now I’m in the process of burning them to a CD to listen to them in the car, before deciding which ones to finish. So far so good.
Since I’m running linux my perferred way of doing this would be:
ls *.xrns | xargs -iarg renoise -r arg
which would generate every xrns in a directory to wav. But since no commandline options exist, I’m hoping this could be added. I do realize that a no-gui, renoise2wav utility would be too much work, but how about making the -r (“r” for render) switch work as if I: 1) open the xrns file with renoise, 2) press shift-control-r + return and 3) press Alt-f4 (quit)?
I think this would make life easier for users that (like me) prefer to write scripts for as much as possible (including “generate up-to-date mp3 files for the album I’m working on and copy them to my phone, my webpage and dropbox”).
I think I see what you’re thinking, but I’d much perfer a commandline option, since this would allow me to integrate the render in my regular workflow.
Edit: The thing you’re taling about would actually not satisfy my needs at all (I don’t think I would ever use it…), for the following reasons:
A gui would force me through something that might not fit, a commandline option would give me the power to do things in scripts. For instance I have a small script that generates mp3/ogg vorbis/flac of xrns files, and it only renders if the xrns has changed since last time. This could of course also be a feature of your gui, but every twist or special user need would have to be integrated, whereas a simple render commandline option, would leave all that up to me. And also “headless” operation (no clicks needed) would mean I could run “renoise --render” in the background server every night on the xrns files I maintain for instance in a dropbox folder. The possibilities are endless
Some kind of batch rendering would indeed be very nice, whether it’s done via command line, a more advanced render dialog within Renoise itself, or even with a LUA-based tool as Bantai suggested.
Mental note: I really need to set aside more time for Renoise script dev!
But, again, I think a simple, single file processing would be exactly right. Leave the multiple file selection, mp3 (or flac, or ogg, or what-have-you) encoding, tagging of mp3 file + 1.000.000 other user cravings to the user.
And, again, please no gui solution. I need something that I can call from the commandline that will do it’s thing and exit back to the commandline without me having to do anything.
Yep, I agree. Ideally it would be possible to render everything from the commandline without the extra overhead of the GUI, but it would not be the only method.
I was just linking to that earlier thread to show that the general concept has been buzzing around the forums a few times already. Either way, I would love to see something that enabled batch rendering.
Just a simple switch that a) after load starts render-to-disk (preferably with an option to select output dir) and then exits renoise. It would really make my life alot easier…
I’ve been asking for a commandline exporter here to a brick wall for ages…
glad to hear someone else sees the potential benefit.
how bout it devs?
this is the man-page mockup I suggested last, It didn’t get any reply other than “bump” so I’m not sure if it will here or not, atte but I’m 1000% with you on this one.
(render Entire song, high priority, perfect interpolation, save each track to separate file… will render allll xrns files in /media/renoise/xrns/ into subfolders in /media/premasterMixdowns/. Subfolders are named by the xrns file.
flags:
e - Entire Song
s - Selection in Sequence
p - Selection in Pattern
h - high priority
l - low priority
c - Cubic interpolation (very good)
a - Arguru’s sinc Interpolation (perfect)
T - Save each track into a separate file
P - Save each pattern into a separate file
v - verbose
f - create a folder in the destination for each xrns
@mSepsis: i like the idea, and i feel command-line powers for Renoise fit with what Renoise is.
looking at your list, i am wondering though: if you are working without a GUI, how can you make a selection and render that through the -s and -p parameters? the rest of it looks great.
uhm…err… yeah. good point. you can’t. … and you wouldn’t want to anyway, so cut the e,s and p flags… command line rendering would really only make sense for rendering entire songs.
anywhoo… I’m pretty sure command line export was my very first wishlist item for renoise when I started using it 6 years ago… I am stunned renoise still hasn’t implemented some sort of batch export, either at the command line or otherwise…
i THINK the emphasis in Renoise’s development has not been strongest on the Linux side of things, at least in that sense that such truly native Linux-functions are not very high on the (hypothetical) to-do list. i can understand this though; as a developer of a DAW i would (roughly) put the music side first, the global ui (so not OS-specific) side 2nd, and then go crush some bugs.
maybe if the right mood strikes, or we can manage to make a couple of devs enthusiastic enough over this, it might get implemented.
While I appreciate your effords, it’s not really what I need. I don’t wanna fumble around in renoise, making selections and stuff. I want it to be controlled from the commandline. It’s part of a larger puzzle of automatic re-rendering, converting, tagging and copy-mp3s-to-my-android-phone of my projects…
exits renoise. It would really make my life alot easier…