What’s the problem? I haven’t tested the 1.5 much yet, but so far I’ve noticed no performance issues. And I have HT. If anything, 1.5 is faster than before.
Renoise 1.5 is faster for me as well with HT enabled. 
Ouh, lovely GUI, fast and even the mixing is faster than in 181.
I checked a song that would hardly run on a P-III-500 and it ran much better on 1.5 . But there are some differences playing the 181-mods.
I have to check out a lot. No, I need to sleep. What an alpha, I need to sleep.
And thanks that you devs did care about selfmade beat shuffles!
You can choose if VST’s should get Speed&BPM or just BPM for sync.
You guys really care a lot. Thank you so much.
Edit: not 181, 1.281! I need to sleep.
JUHHUUUUU
dance dance
HEY!!! Did you notice new effects??? mpReverb and MixerEQ. They’re great!!!
YEAH!!
I’ve been playing with Renoise 1.5 all day (after not sleeping last night), and these are my findings so far, in random order:
First, it’s been said before, but goddamnit you guys created a rocking interface! VERY nice! The ability to show / hide the panels is just genius, and I love the slick looking metal backdrop 
It took a while to get used to the new drag-and-drop functionality, but once I did, it felt awesome and saved a bit of time.
The delay sounds a bit different, and produces a delay that’s not quite what I expected. It sounds as if the delay starts too soon, and the left/right values are different even if I set them to be the same.
mpReverb - I LOVE IT. A really nice addition to the standard set of DSPs.
I’ve had six or seven crashes so far, but hey, it’s an alpha, I wouldn’t expect anything else. I’ll try to narrow down when those crashes happen and file a bug report.
But: Every time Renoise crashed the song was saved. This is WAY better than in Renoise 1.28 
Overall, you guys have made me a very happy man and I’ll probably be using Renoise 1.5 despite the crashes. Good job!
edit:
YES!
Awesome, I didn’t even notice… this is great!
Register now and you’ll get the alpha 
You know what? I just went to the order page and was preparing myself to buy it, when I noticed something:
“Please note that the total for European Union customers is EUR 45.77 including 17.5% VAT”
What the hell!?!! Why do europeans have to pay more?!?!?!!?
(Just in case you don’t know, $45 = 38,95€.)
Why do we have to pay $55? There’s no S&H!
(Or US customers don’t pay VAT?)
There’s already a button for that.
(Yes, that means I just registred Renoise! 
)
Yup, us Europeans pay 17.5% VAT, which goes straight to our respective Governments.
The Americans don’t have, nor pay, VAT.
Excellent work devs! The GUI looks one heck of a hell of a lot easier on the eye, and less cluttered. It looks beautiful!!
Had a few crashes (ie. standard Windows system errors). First when trying to load Renoise from a 800x600 desktop (easily rectified by switching to 1024x768 prior to loading).
It’s also taking 1 min 17 secs for Renoise v1.5 to load up, as opposed to just 9 secs for Renoise v1.281. It seems to spend a very long time “loading the keybindings”. I have a 700MHz Athlon with 384MB Ram, and am running Windows 98se.
Been locked out cold (ie. the program froze, requiring a Ctrl+Alt+Del shutdown of the prog) several times, one of which happens every time I go to select a Midi CC as a Meta Device prior to creating an automated envelope.
Great, though, that a bug I had with my old 1.281 version that crashed every time I tried to run Renoise in a window has been seemingly corrected for this version, and great to see Renoise working within the Windows environment when at full screen.
Will check it out more tomorrow!
Thnx,
Timo
well it seems that your hyperthreading does not interfere with renoise 1.5, whereas mine, and the one of some other users does.
but it’s a fact that it is related to HT, because turning it off from within the BIOS fixes all slowdown-problems for me.
this is not a diserable workaround of course.
and johan, i guess you know the related thread in the bugforum - so it’s not just me and my crappy system exhibiting such behaviour with HT enabled 
I just wanted to say GREAT WORK! To the developers, this is certanily the best tracker EVER to this date and it looks FANTASTIC 
The tracker is a artwork in itself 
Now I can finally import my miditracker tunes!
There is so many good thing you have done to improve the UI!
Autocapture nearest instrument:
dig it.
Yeah! The new renoise rocks! What a nice GUI and it runs much faster then the older versions…big thx to the whole renoise-team!
They work. You just have to tweak it a little bit, as there are some new gui parts to choose a color.
hi
…
i haven’t found the option button for pattern scrolling…
ok … i found the damn button now 
…
now i’m happy 
…
first bug: … waveshell-5 - waves plugins
waves truverb … gets loaded with weird settings,
not with the full reset setting. haven’t checked
all other waves yet. the songs using waves plugins,
also ir-1, sound as in 1.281
yes, it’s true. renoise 1.5 and creative asio won’t
harmonize together. i have the same problem.
song is faster and the sound is pitched up.
when i use directsound and try to use 96000,
renoise starts to lag as hell. wasn’t so in 1.281.
when i tried adobe asio system, wich prolly is
sent tru directsound, and want to use 96000hz,
then 48000hz, renoise lags again.
haha … just had a module loaded with some non-
renoise dsp’s. also ir-1. then wanted to load a module
with morphoder as vocoder, absyth and sytrus as as vsti’s.
and guess what … renoise didn’t shut down, nor loaded the
song or did anything. it just hang. and, i didn’t stopped the
song wich played before i loaded the new module. i can
still hear the echo’s …
another problem. waves seem to have removen their
morphoder m/s plugin. now i have to put all automations
back to a normal morphoder plugin. ah man …
an option to exchange a plugin, but keep the automation
would have rocked
haha … the automation is more smoother… and all
now i have to re automate a whole song as soon
as renoise 1.5 final comes out … NO! ! !
ok … i’ve figured out that renoise 1.5 has problems
loading the automation of kontakt and morphoder m/s.
coz as i tried it in renoise1.281, all ok. in 1.5
midi cc automation of kontakt was not correct and
the automation of morphoder was totally wrong 
besides that … the sound seems to be much better,
the gui is nice … haven’t played much with it yet …
my system:
System info
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AMD CPU : YES
Vendor String : AuthenticAMD
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CPU Support SSE : YES
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FPU onboard : YES
Clock Speed : 1681.640527 MHz
OS Support SSE : YES
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Unmask Exceptn : YES
Total Phy MEM : 511 MB
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Memory Load : 50 percent
High Memory Machine : YES
Accelerator Display Card : YES
Fast machine(>386) : YES
i agree, i think it sound better too