Yes it seems only to affect the envelopes…
I didn’t noticed the sample retriggering because i was testing with short looped samples.
Without using plugins, this is what can get you close:
http://forum.renoise…arpeggiator-30/
It depends on what kind of sequence that you want to do (and what your LPB rate is!), but you can try to copy the sequence from the pattern editor into the envelope arpeggiator (ctrl- or shift click on the fetch button under the note column) and see if you can get satisfactory results with that.
We should at least explain the ghost noting technique on the documentation, i can’t find it anywhere and i know it was somewhere in the former documentation…