One that I find to be super useful is the Randomize Notes tool. Incredibly handy for sketching out ideas. Once you have a scale you like, you can use the shuffle option to create different variations of the notes within the pattern.https://www.renoise.com/tools/randomize-notes
Weizenkeim, thank you so much for the answers and links! So helpful! (You passed the exam with flying colours!)
In my current flat, I don’t have internet access and can only get online at the library - that’s why I haven’t replied sooner. It’s also why I can’t really read the manual right now, because it’s online and you can’t download it. Though I’m trying to download the videos as we speak (slowly)!
I do hope to get stuck into the manual sometime, but Renoise is generally quite straight forward to use and I’ve been able to start making great-sounding tracks very quickly! Having my questions answered has really helped me a lot, thanks!
With that said, I have 20 more questions!… (Please don’t feel you have to answer them all.)
General editing
When recording a part, how can you make it start playing when you hit the first note? (Ideally with the metronome playing prior, to let you get the timing right.) Otherwise, how can you record a part which starts at the beginning of the pattern?
I wonder, is there any way to adjust effect command values_with the mouse_(by dragging it?) Instead of always having to enter numbers? For parameters such as velocity and delay, I would love for a slider to appear so you can visually see exactly where it’s set, from lowest to highest. To me, this would be more intuitive than having to always think about numbers.
When I hold down enter, it plays really fast. Any way you get this to play back at normal speed?
34. What’s the quickest way to delete a block of pattern data? - Just seen the answer to this in the forum!
Important: Is there any way to control the ADSR of each note (especially the ‘release’ - how quickly the notes fade down)? Using trackers in the past, I’ve always just used the volume function to fade notes down, but this is quite a crude way of doing it which doesn’t work on slow tracks. I’d really been hoping that a modern tracker will allow proper control over a note’s release. That’s really why I opted for Renoise instead of the other DAWs - because I like fine precision.
Samples
I can’t seem to get NKI sound fonts to load? Doesn’t Renoise support them? If not, does anyone know a way to convert them to sfz format? (I don’t want to have to use a Kontakt VST just to play samples!)
How do you slightly adjust the pitch of an instrument? (ie tune it)
How can you make a sample play backwards?
Vocals
For a vocal track (sample) - is there any way to make precise timing changes? For example, say you want to slightly nudge the words of the vocal so they all fall precisely on the beat? Or match up a vocal with another instrument? I don’t like conventional DAW “timeline” views, but some kind of “timeline” view would be useful for adusting vocals.
Does Renoise have anything like autotune, or Cubase’s amazing VariAudio? (Probably not, but I’m just asking, LOL!)
Does Renoise have a vocoder function, or will I need a VST for that?
Mixing
Important: How do I group tracks, so I can mix them as a group?
Important: How do you create an effects track based on a different track? For example, I might want 3 copies of a track - one central, one left, and one right, each with different delays and effects. I know that I could just duplicate the track, but that would be a very sloppy way of doing it as I’d have to edit the notes in all three tracks!
GUI
Is there any way to get Renoise to automatically name tracks based on the most common instrument on the track? (If not, I’m going to suggest this as a feature as it would be SO helpful.)
Small detail, but on the editor, is there any way to hide leading zeros from numbers (eg from sample numbers) - I find them distracting
Just a thought really but I don’t think the ‘currently selected track’ is very clear - just a few lines in the corners. I’d rather the whole track light up. No way to do that is there?
Also, is there any way to make it so that the editor background is ‘coloured in’ wherever notes are playing? - So you can visually see where notes start and stop? This would be particularly useful for long samples such as vocals, so you can actually see they’re there!
Misc
How do you generate white noise?
Important: How do you change the playback transpose? (Not the actual notes, just how it sounds.)
My keyboard sometimes randomly stops working (suddenly no notes will play any more), so I have to unplug and replug and it works again? This seems to happen when I’m playing more notes at once. Not sure if it’s a problem with my keyboard, or a Renoise bug, or my PC?
For the record, just to introduce myself… most Renoise users would seem to be dance/techno producers. I’m quite different… I’m a pop musician. Been making pop music for years, in an amateur way, but wanting to go “pro” now! I’m also into orchestral/classical music, and in the future I’m hoping to use Renoise to do soundtracks - though I’m aware it doesn’t currently support video playback, which is a shame!
Use SPACE, ALT GR, ENTER and NUMPAD ENTER. Test it!
There are several keyboard commands, other than the selection within the pattern editor. Learn to differentiate between track, pattern and pattern-track and use the Matrix Editor for clear pattern-tracks or delete patterns…
Use the Note-OFF. Press A or Block Caps for insert this in edit mode.Renoise has an extraudinary precision of the time.Note-OFF also works with delay parameter (delay subcolumn).
For NKI use Kontakt Player VSTi inside the plugins to a instrument.
Depend of the instrument type. Sampler left column, Transpose & Finetune | Use VSTi/ VST controls.
I do not understand well.Unfortunately, Renoise does not have a timeline marker, use the vertical sequence on the left.You can use positive or negative delay to adjust different tracks, Pre Device (in + - 100 ms), inside DSP pane.
Insert a group, CTRL+G. Drag with mouse…
Learn the duplicate options for tracks and groups. right clic menu and track /duplicate…
No.You can color the tracks, but do not highlight the selected track in any other way…
^_^Blocks?Learn how to visually detect the Note-OFF’sand the ear.
Very strange.
32, 39, 47They are very good suggestions, already commented many times. Really Renoise does not understand genres, only shoots sounds …I also use Renoise for orchestral music …
first I wanted to answer some questions, but then got distracted by something else, now comming back to find it would be some serious self-punishment to dedicate the time to this. you should learn about “divide & conquer”.
I am offended by your avatar .
I dislike religious symbols , especially in a public forum .
yes, true, but can’t you see the force in action - the lord grants him the power to achieve mastership by absolute dedication to workflow details. I mean, both of us, it probably took us lazy bitches months to grasp how renoise works for us in&out, yet this guy finds the shortcut by disciplinated meditation. please have respect for the insane, I am too, you probably also, in a different way but still…
Hey chaps not make fun out of someone having faith in something that helped out of the dirt. Its just…a thread with not two or three but 50 questions will be a bit…unwieldy, and people will lose overview… RTFM, use the forum search, then ask the questions in the beginner section with one topic per thread and title that represents the question well. Only few people are insane enough to read through this thread to look for questions already answered.
I think there was a tool offering a scripted shorcut to keybind, that would toggle all DSP in a track on/off at once. Ask in a single (not fifty!) question thread, maybe someone can point you to it.
Put the reverb 0% dry 100% wet onto a send channel. Then you can pre/post filter, delay or process the reverb tail, or even stack reverbs. Using sends also enables you to send multiple tracks into the same reverb, and fine tune the dry/wet levels individually.
In the upper right corner of the multitap delay there is a button with a triangle pointing right. Click it, to reveal additional options for the currently selected tap. There you can choose linesynced operation, fractions can be dialed in with the delay sliders that will now switch from ms to percent offset.
Cannot be done yet
as said, hydras can make you control/automate 9 other devices in sync with a single slider (also additional hydras), and those devices can be in different tracks. A doofer might be an option to control multiple fx in the same track.
Yes but with limitations, only vst 2.4 modules, no sidechaining (no multi in, no multi out other than for vsti)
I think renoise can load .xm (“fast tracker 2”) modules, you might have luck with a seperate convertor program that can convert your modules to .xm - every conversion might cause some glitches on the final song though, but you should be able to extract note data and the samples via this path.
To the left of the sample waveform view in the sampler should be a sample options panel, it should feature transpose and finetune buttons. Finetune works like a semitone has 127 cents, not 100, be aware of this. The spectrum analyser might be useful, and musically trained hearing, I sometimes calculate tunings by reading the width of a wavecycle in the sample editor.
reverse the sample in the sample editor, or use the reverse pattern effects command, or use reverse or ping pong loop, whatever suits the sound your are aiming for best.
40+41 use vst, be aware that vst effects in renoise are only supported with stereo in, so vocoder needs to be one that works with modulator/carrier left/right split action.
45 we are all nerds, we love our trailing zeros and prefixes and stuff
48 load a white noise sample or generator vst, or there is also some renoise tool that can generate noise samples I think.
I dislike religious symbols , especially in a public forum .
OK I’m sorry you’re offended. I also am offended by a great many public things - but what can you do? But please, let’s have a little perspective here. The entire history of the United Kingdom, and most European countries is based on that symbol - the Cross has been upheld for millennia as a symbol of our national faith. It’s what everyone has always believed in. Everything that is good about modern society is thanks to that symbol. To me, that symbol represents my friend and Saviour Jesus, the man I owe everything to, who changed my entire life. He is everything to me. I don’t really see what is offensive about a symbol representing the kindest, nicest man who ever lived? So I’m sorry you’re offended, but you may not realise how much good that symbol can do for hopeless people and how much it can change their lives.
Check this out, it’s pretty cool, 232 pages of answers.
OK I’m sorry you’re offended. I also am offended by a great many public things - but what can you do? But please, let’s have a little perspective here. The entire history of the United Kingdom, and most European countries is based on that symbol - the Cross has been upheld for millennia as a symbol of our national faith. It’s what everyone has always believed in. Everything that is good about modern society is thanks to that symbol. To me, that symbol represents my friend and Saviour Jesus, the man I owe everything to, who changed my entire life. He is everything to me. I don’t really see what is offensive about a symbol representing the kindest, nicest man who ever lived? So I’m sorry you’re offended, but you may not realise how much good that symbol can do for hopeless people and how much it can change their lives.
LOL, thanks! I didn’t know there was a full downloadable manual, very helpful. Cheers
Thanks so much Raul, really helpful!
Thanks Yoda!
Thanks once again!
I wrote a long answer , but eventually deleted my whole post …giving info , I shouldn’t give.( not renoise related )
