Look, I’m hoping to hear from the developers, not some EDM guy who doesn’t think any options he or she doesn’t use is important. I also don’t care about the opinions of people who don’t actually read what’s said who want to give “smart” answers that don’t actually address anything. That’s shit pisses me off and you’ll see it in my post.
One: The ability to turn on an option that makes it so when you scroll through with the arrow/cursor keys through the song, it always plays what’s on the current line.
Won’t work with notes that are not set to autoseek.
Tough if it’s hard to implement! Just because you don’t think it’s important doesn’t mean it’s not important! It’s been on other programs, it’s not that hard to implement into this. The enter key is NOT a replacement. One CANNOT MAKE A SONG BY EAR WITHOUT THE OPTION!!! I’m sick of not being able to write by ear and by audible pattern and complex pattern recognition! You can’t play a note while hearing what is on the current line. You can’t hear how what you’re entering harmonizes with what is already written. Do you just not get it? No, nobody who only writes EDM gets it because there’s no such thing as a complex melody line or odd timings in EDM. It’s all this simple stuff that you could enter a “melody” at random with the computer keyboard and you’d be satisfied.
I don’t care if people like you don’t write anything but EDM, stop promoting keeping the program as an EDM tool only!!!
if you’re going down a pattern, simply hold Return.
I’ve been told this shit since 2003 by people who only write EDM! If you only like writing EDM, more power to you, some people like to write other stuff.
For other uses use looping, I havemade a toolthat may make selection looping a bit easier, there’s also the most useful, play song from marker tool.
Two: The ability to make it when you set the amount of lines to skip when you enter a note or hit the delete key, that it can also affect just hitting the arrow keys, so you can enter notes quickly with lots of lines skipped and still correct errors easily when in a song that the pattern has been expanded.
Use the Edit step function. It will automatically move down by the edit step when a change is made however, I’ve addressed the ‘issue’ in my tool.
Don’t respond if you’re not going to fucking read! What part of not being able to correct your errors do you not understand? If I make an error entering a note, I don’t want to have to spend 10 seconds just going back up to the spot where I made the error because I can’t just hit up arrow and get to it!
Three: Some sort of method of smoothing or doing a pornamento when a pitch is cut to a certain value via the pitch bend wheel via midi.
For renoise instruments there’s a doofer, see link posted by danoise, make sure you pick the fixed pitch version.
For vsts, it should be supported by the vst otherwise no luck(in any software), to control it without an actual wheel bound to midi pitch bend, use the instrument MIDI control meta device.
These are workarounds, not actual fixes or changes to the program. Renoise NEEDS to be modified to be easier to those who enter notes with MIDI. If they’re not going to improve Renoise in such ways, there’s no point in me using it anymore and getting frustrated. I don’t care if there are workarounds that take 10 minutes to do any one thing, that’s bullshit, these options have been requested since 2004 and NONE of them have made it into Renoise. In fact, NO standard DAW options have made it into Renoise except the record option that someone had to win an EDM contest for the Renoise team to even CONSIDER putting it in the program, and then they only did it half-assed.
Four: The ability to do slides on samples via the pitch bend on the keyboard and be able to use the sustain pedal to do note-off commands on samples.
There’s a tool called Slide pitch to next note will make things easier, to map a midi pedal get an external program that can take that CC and turn it into a keyboard command.
Why should I have to go through all that shit, and then it’s still not going to just do a slide when I enter the slide in the song, there’s always a HUGE amount of cumbersome actions that have to be taken for EACH SLIDE. That’s not an answer.
Six: Have the option to switch back to the old way of handling live input. Have the option to turn on and off the old chord mode. Have quantize options for after notes have been entered.
Turn off quantisation. Non-realtime quantise afterwards.
That doesn’t help. Since they changed the engine and implemented “quantize”, live input has been totally fucked.
Five: When recording a live audio track, the ability to make it insert the appropriate C note in the exact spot one starts recording.
not something I use, no idea, would be easy to implement with a tool
I don’t give a rat’s ass if there’s some cumbersome third party tool to do this, Renoise needs to be revamped and BASIC options need to be added to make it a decent DAW that competes with other programs.
Yes, the “chord” mode is now specified per instrument, which is far better IMHO - but it would seem that we forgot to add a keyboard shortcut.
