šŸ› Looking for beta testers for the upcoming Renoise 3.3 and Redux 1.2 release

General Discussion
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In the past we usually have done public betas, where every registered Renoise user could download the betas at the backstage. This time weā€™d like to do things a bit differently, and only want to invite a bunch of people to help us testing the beta versions before itā€™s going public. This hopefully eases things on our side by concentrating on fewer people. Also, the 3.3 mostly is about just one feature: VST3 so weā€™re not expecting many issues that need to be discussed apart from plugin compatibility issues.

We also wonā€™t have time to add new features during the beta and will try to release Renoise 3.3 stable this year - if possible.

If you want to help testing the Renoise 3.3 betas, before they are going public please send me a private message with the following info:

  • your backstage email (your login), so we can enable the beta builds at the Renoise backstage for you. Please note: donā€™t send us your passwords - we just need the login
  • the operating system that youā€™re going to use mostly (Windows, OSX, Linux), so we can make sure that all platforms get tested somewhat evenly

I think weā€™ll only need around 30 (33?) people to test the betas, so please understand that we canā€™t accept all requests.

Please only request access to the betas, if you are planning to do some actual testing

This release basically only is about VST3 support, so thereā€™s really not much more to see.

Thanks a lot for your help!

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some news finally! :slight_smile:
Looking forward to this!

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What are the features of Redux1.2? Can we use it as an effect?

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As this release mainly focusses on VST3, there are no new Redux only features.

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:sunglasses:

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Will there be more options available for vst directories?microtuning? Sorry just curiousā€¦

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Nope. Mainly VST3. Thatā€™s it. This alone requires a lot of testing and finetuning, to ensure that all (well, most) plugins work as expected in Renoise.

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I couldnā€™t agree more. Mixbus32c launched VST3 compatibility as it was a minor release, whereas 3 subsequent updates were addressing some serious issues (crashing DAW, not really usable).

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Out of curiosity, what makes VST3 more difficult than VST2 to implement?

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dumb question but Is there a sound difference between the two ? or is it just more cpu efficient?

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Itā€™s a new standard which is not backwards compatible with VST2 - so everything is different ā€œinternallyā€. And this means we basically need to test every plugin out there, to ensure that it works correctly in Renoise.

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VST2 is deprecated - Steinberg no longer allows new plugin developers to license it. So many new plugins are only available as VST3 plugins.

It has a bit better support for Linux (itā€™s at least defined how it should work on Linux), allows resizing editors (without hacks). And there are a little things here and there which make host and plugin authors life easier, but it wonā€™t be more CPU efficient.

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Is it then possible in Linux to set keyboard focus on vst3 when playing with keyboard and ajust the parameters on the synth? Before it Was not possible like on windows

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Count me in please

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