Not sure if this was requested before, but currently, if you want to use a MIDI instrument like a hardware synthesizer in Renoise, you would need to add a Line-In DSP effect in one of the tracks in order to hear it. Why not have Line-In built in the MIDI instruments as an option? That would give more flexibility on where the MIDI instrument can be used and you could save space within the track’s effects stack. I don’t think the DSP effect should be removed either but making a requirement can make dealing with MIDI instruments that are connected to one or two of the audio interface’s inputs a little bit more of a hassle to set up than to just simply set the line-in outputs within the MIDI instrument itself and you should also be able to save the MIDI instrument as a preset Renoise instrument to make setting it up even more quick.
this is another thing that the Paketti MIDI Populator tries to resolve - it populates the new midi tracks with line input devices of your choice.
If it does what I think it does, then it can be useful to deploy all of my hardware devices at once if I want that but for just one or two, it’s overkill especially compared to what I had in mind.
Also, I realized that giving MIDI instruments line input built-in may pose a problem with how the audio is routed. Like can it output at the selected track or all of them at once? I don’t know. Having it output one selected track at the time would probably be a sane solution as well as being able to change the audio routing to one specific track like you could with plugin instruments. Another problem is that some audio interfaces, especially cheaper ones, may output some noise. So to mitigate that, it may be a good idea to implement a noise gate within the Line Input part of the MIDI instruments that can tweaked for what’s best for the audio interface and the device connect to it.