This alone is the biggest reason to make LineIn device more versatile. Right now, it’s not possible to jam along renoise directly, and to do that with multiple line devices. I think this one is crucial for some of the next versions. It would be nice to automatically set note in pattern at position you are starting recording to the root one. In that way renoise could become a solid multitrack… with a multitude of other possibilities
I think this could be solved more elegantly.
The discussion of audio tracks has some great ideas, but I have the feeling that the devs are already on the road to get there.
In any case, when Renoise becomes a multi track recording studio also, the option to stream samples from disk will be needed I think.
I already have that bugging “out of memory” dialog box slapped to my face to often
Reaper is the exception to the expensive horizontal daw rule, though there are some legal limitations to the discounted version I think. Like you may not release records with it, correct me if I’m wrong.
Wouldn’t happen. Xrns would still be fully self-contained. Just you would have to set a (default) location for songs to be unpacked to when you open then, rather than everything be loaded into RAM. No worry of loosing audio files or it being harder to share songs.
Obviously that’s just my own view, not that of the Developers, but I doubt they would want to break the self-contained xrns structure Renoise has always followed just to introduce streaming from/to disk