Speaking of patience, thisparticular forum post from taktik is worthreading again today:
http://forum.renoise…lease/?p=293449
Sadly… That thread is 3 years old. Don’t want to sound pessimistic or anything but I’m not a young man and if the updates are years between, I may just have to give up on this alltogether. My hearing and vision are not getting better with old age. This is the reason I was asking if it was worth to purchase the license. I don’t feel good about paying that amount of money (Some of you say its cheap, but you guys don’t know my situation - everything is relative, especially pricetags) for something that may or may not ever happen at all. Does that make sense? - Had the updates been weeks or maybe months between. Ok, I’d find a way to scrounge up the cash. But not with the way it is now I’m afraid. I can’t motivate that.
Renoise is just like any other product in that you buy the actual thing, not some potential future version of that thing. So if you conclude that Renoise currently doesn’t meet your requirements in terms of needed features, it seems quite reasonable to not buy a full license for this particular tool —especiallyif money is an issue.
It’s a bit tough to deal with the fact that Renoise development seems to get slower and slower for each new release. But at the same time it seems reasonable as the codebase gets more complex and the team stays small.
However,let’s not rule out the developers’sense of idealism here.
Maybe they are willing at some point to actually discuss alternative paths for this great project to live and prosper.
Now, my eldest son is 17 and very much into game programming. He said to me the other day, as he demonstrated his new Playstation VR stuff, “Dad, maybe in 10 years from now we’ll see innovative music software in a virtual reality framework”. Then he showed me the stuff he’s doing in Unreal Engine and I have to say that the text on their website really got me, so I’ll quote it here:
If you love something,
Set it free
Unreal Engine is now FREE
FREE for game development. FREE for Virtual Reality.
FREE for education. FREE for architecture. FREE for film.Pay a 5% royalty on games and applications you release. We succeed when you succeed.
(Quoted from: https://www.unrealengine.com/what-is-unreal-engine-4 )
Now maybe the developers of Renoise are open to similar thoughts in the future. At least that’s what I’m hoping for, and I’ve been using Renoise since 2002 so I guess I’ve beenpatient enough. If they were tomake it possible tolicense portionsof the codebase rather than the compiled software, we’re talking a whole new game.
Let’s not rule anything out. Maybe a “Renoise Engine” is there on the horizon. Maybe we’ll once again see the great tracker community flourish.