I believe some people are having trouble installing xrnx files by drag and dropping them in the renoise window, so here’s how to manually install them.
Make sure you see hidden files and folders (windows only)
Unzip the XRNX you want to install (Yes, XRNX is just an undercover .zip) You might need to rename it, enabling the display of file extensions might help you to do so if needed)
Now you have “main.lua” and “manifest.xml”, create a new folder and rename it to match the name of that good ol’ XRNX file. (example: com.renoise.Duplex.xrnx)
Macintosh HD\Users\"Your username here"\Library\Preferences\Renoise\V2.6.0\Scripts\Tools
That means your new folder now called “com.renoise.Duplex.xrnx” should now be in the Tools folder.
If one of these folders doesn’t exist (mostly “Scripts” or “Tools”), you can create it.
5a) Restart Renoise or
5b) Enable the scripting Developing tools and hit “Reload All Tools…” (See !Introduction.txt in the XRNX code repository for more info)
Currently having this problem on OS X Snow Leopard.
Checked the log file and found:
Exception: Failed to create the destination directory ‘/Users/keyg/Library/Preferences/Renoise/V2.6.0/Scripts/Tools/com.renoise.Nibbles.xrnx/Bitmaps/’
Exception: Failed to create the destination directory ‘/Users/keyg/Library/Preferences/Renoise/V2.6.0/Scripts/Tools/com.renoise.Duplex.xrnx/Duplex/’
thanks for this - drag and drop might not be the best idea for linux, as it is not really consistent from one environment to another - doesn’t work with mine, for example. A simple menu “add a tool” opening a file manager would be nice.
I had some strange behaviour on Mac Snow Leopard.
Some devices installed without any problem with drag and drop (Slicer, Wave generator, Arpeggiator), while Duplex and BeatSlicer didn’t install at all, I drag the xrnxs from their folder to Renoise and nothing at all happened.
I tried to install them manually following the instructions above, but Renoise in the Tool Browser it would only list them as folder, without any content.
Also note that inside the xrns files there were more files than just main.lua and manifest
I believe some people are having trouble installing xrnx files by drag and dropping them in the renoise window, so here’s how to manually install them.
Make sure you see hidden files and folders (windows only)
Unzip the XRNX you want to install (Yes, XRNX is just an undercover .zip) You might need to rename it, enabling the display of file extensions might help you to do so if needed)
Now you have “main.lua” and “manifest.xml”, create a new folder and rename it to match the name of that good ol’ XRNX file. (example: com.renoise.Duplex.xrnx)
drag and dropp XRNX not work to me? please some help!.
I have Renoise 2.5.1 / win vista . My directory dont have \Scripts\Tools folders,but no problem, i can create this new folders to next put my “main.lua” and “manifest.xml” - But next i don´t see a window to select any Tool inside Renoise soft?
"Opening Renoise’s config.xml file from the preferences folder, and set the ShowScriptingDevelopmentTools property to “true”. This way, you don’t have to pass the above mentioned argument all the time. If you don’t know where to find the Renoise preference folder, open Renoise and click on “Help” -> “Show Preferences Folder…”
Ok, I am checking my config.xml file and it does not have “ShowScriptingDevelopmentTools property”, is really difficult install finally the tools in my 2.5.1 version. I don´t understand that more to do…
Hi, I am using the latest version of Renoise 2.7beta and tried to download a few of the tools.
They are all disabled as soon as I drag them onto Renoise, saying that I have to get the “latest version” of the tools.
I used drop’n’drag, i’m on windows XP.
I thought the tools are compatible with 2.6 and up, so what is causing conflict?
cheers
The script catalog in 2.7 seem to bee in the renoise folder rather than the place mentioned in the first post(which was for 2.6 i reckon). but i still cant find the tools folder in there. im pretty shure that i have set windows 7 to show all hidden files and folders.
For those who are on Linux, I just want to add a little more specificity, since it took me a little hunting to find where Renoise binary files were installed.
As the instructions say above, download the tool file (.xrnx) and add ‘.zip’ to the end of the filename.
Extract the zip.
Terminal to /usr/local/share/renoise-3.5.2/Scripts/Tools (may differ depending on your version of Renoise)
Move the extracted folder there (should be something like “tool.name.xrnx”). Requires sudo/root permissions. This will look something like sudo cp -R path_to_source path_to_destination/
In Renoise: Tools > Reload all tools
Note that the folder for the tool must match the ID of the tool listed in its manifest. Renoise will tell you if there’s a mismatch and instruct you to change the folder to the proper name (which it will provide in that dialog).
Hello,
No, this is a bad practice.
Never manually install anything into system directories.
Never. Especially with root privileges !
That’s why .local and .config are in the home directory.
If you want to manually add tools to the Renoise directory, do it there.
Are you saying that you can install tools by unzipping the .xrnx files into a directory under .local/share/Renoise/Scripts/Tools? Because that directory doesn’t exist and there’s no documentation to suggest that Renoise would recognize a tool in that location.
Apps are generally installed outside of your home directory, for example in /opt/. There are times you have to install apps in other binary directories, and you can’t do that at all without sudo privileges. Using your package manager requires sudo every time. I think you’re confusing installing something with sudo, which happens all the time, vs. running an app as sudo. You should never run any apps with root privileges unless you have a good reason, like it’s a system utility.
Obviously the better fix would be for Renoise to have an option in the GUI for manually adding tools, since drag and drop doesn’t work on Linux.
Renoise of course creates these directories in $HOME.
It is logical because each user can have their own settings.
Even in the program in the menu Help/Show the preferences folder this points to $HOME/.config/Renoise/…
This is simply a rule for every program on Linux.
Of course, programs are installed into system directories using packages so that they are accessible to everyone.
Manual installation of tools .. see opening the preferences location.
I haven’t had any problems with D’N’D’ yet.
I don’t know how it is on Wayland but on X.org it works without any problems.
Really thanks man!