check out the piano roll studio New tool (3.3.2): Piano Roll Studio v1.0 build 264 (January 2022)
looks pretty dope, and available now, if that’s what you’re after
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I don’t follow much of the talk about a Piano Roll in Renoise, mostly because I think the Pattern Editor is superior, and also because I use GuttRoll (a guitar roll) and ChordGun (a chorder plugin) to fill that need in my own playing. And when I do want a piano interface, I have a $200 piano keyboard MIDI controller sitting right on my desk.
My question, though, is… what’s wrong with those input methods staying community-sourced plugins rather than a core feature? I for one don’t need it to be part of core (especially if it’ll add cost and complexity to the app as a whole). I’m very happy to offer donations to those enterprising dev/users who create something valuable to bolt onto Renoise and make it more useful in more types of playing scenarios.
I know that, at this point, it’s become a meme like “when are we getting piano roll?” but I want to voice support to @ulneiz for creating an awesome solution that does not bloat the main product. Throw the devs some cash for their hard work, and let’s reward more indie devs who want to extend Renoise in cool ways.
If I had the programming chops, I’d be figuring out how to make it a better tool for live looping, similar to the now-defunct ZenAudio ALK, but I’d be happy to buy a few coffees for anyone interested in bringing that kind of functionality to Renoise.
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Will there be a Renoise 4 ? 
Renoise 1.0.0: June 21st, 2002
Renoise 2.0.0: January 15th, 2009
Renoise 3.0.0: December 21th, 2013
7 years between 1 and 2, 4 years between 2 and 3.
9 years between 3 and 4? wishfull thinkin 
Because the tools API changes with every Renoise update, those plugins will need maintenance and most likely will be abandoned pretty quickly. I mean, even plugins written by people from the Renoise concept/alpha testing team are abandoned after an update or two. Having functionality as a native feature assures that they will work in future versions.
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Idiotic Developers! That’s all what i can say to this! I surely not buy a Mac for this. May Renoise go to hell!
LOL… But… isn’t Windows 11 quite shitty anyway and prevents serious work? Why not installing the original instead?
I think I bought in at v. 2.8 and am still going strong several years later for free. Best value in software, audio or otherwise.
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I really hope you’re joking, it’s hard to tell.
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true. It’s my best software-purchase ever. Using it every day.
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Same here… Whatever the downsides of the glacial development pace, it’s certainly an amazing value!
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…don’t complain, make music…
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Dude please , just go back to wherever you came from
I am pretty confused as to why people keep insisting on a piano roll. I am somewhat new to this forum, but it trips me out. I feel like Renoise is special because it’s an exception to the 80-20 rule (we only use 20% of a programs features 80% of the time). I love that I am able to use a majority of its features in a quick and efficient way. It doesn’t feel bloated. Thats why I use it. When I start Renoise I feel inspired, when I launch Ableton I draw a total blank. I think it should be enough to have the ability to create tools for it separately without insisting on it being a core feature. I get that it might bring more users, but it would probably be better (in my opinion) to just keep it as a separate tool.
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Genuinely curious, why are you using Renoise when you seem to detest the core element of the interface? If it’s the case you can’t afford to get a new DAW Reaper is very cheap and the demo is effectively unlimited. I would even sell you my licence cheap as I never use Reaper. Serious offer.
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Because i often use both imput methods pianoroll and trackerwindow. i often use trackerinput for triols, sixtols and some synthlines/drums. Most of Strings and Fills with harmonies and accords i prefer to input in Pianoroll. So why we should not have both abilitys? No one is forced to use input methods he not liked.
happy tracking
I agree with you that pianoroll can give way more overview and better usability. But this is only because the current trackerview is not like Aodix, so kind of a vertical pianoroll. IMHO instead adding a pianoroll then, the trackerview should be visually improved instead. Then it would be way more coherent. I don’t think that the standard pianoroll ever was a really good concept UX wise, it also lacks of vision and ideas.
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For a pianoroll i would prefer classic left to right concept. but for audiotracks i would prefer vertically samplegrafics with vertical helplines which can be move up/down to stretch/shrink/syncronite the audiotrackcontent with tracker notes. fairly similar to the sample slices, but much easier and more effective usable on audio record tracks. Parameter visualisation could be i vertical area on Trackcolumn similar to the FX hexfields. Only need to paint a little graphic in tracklines with a selected FX parameter or cursor on FX field and nothing when no FX is selected in FX Trackcolumn switches. maybe if i have time i will make a concept demo graphic for better visuality