lol, some feedback from Richard Devine:
“sums up my night.”
I totally love the new GUI.
It is a bit “ModplugTrackish” for me so I got used to it in a minute 
The phrases editor is great addition as well ass the FX-chains on instruments. Many thanks to devs.
To be honest I was not expecting that much from the new version but you guys made it much more than I expected!
The best Renoise ever… The best Christmas gift!
Actually, now that I think about it, there is something that I could make use of: support for more than 32 inputs.
With the Jack sound server it is quite easy to get overboard with the number of audio tracks.
Since HW resources are less of an issue those days, it would maybe make sense to bump up a bit that figure.
Otherwise the new GUI is all fine with me - the tabs and resizable areas really seem to help with the visual clutter.
Seems to be a bit more heavy overall - I hit the latency threshold a bit faster than with 2.8.2, but since it is the first beta, I guess this comparison is not fair.
At least it seems to be stable, I didn’t encounter any dragon yet.
Cheers,
LX
Before Renoise 3.0 i used VSTi and didnt have any tendency to create and save instruments. Now I dont care about vsti so much and my library is growing! And the time when we gonna change these presets didn´t even come yet 
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The only thing i little miss is instrument preview even without loading it (like in ableton 9)…
being kind of broken up in pieces from past weekend this sure is a nice way to wake up
oooomg looks sexy…
thanks santa taktik
- No audio tracks
- No piano roll
- GUI change (yes, please learn all that stuff again)
- lot’s of toys added
To be honoust, this oldfag is gonna stick with 2.8 for awhile. For the first time I’m not really happy with an upgrade. Sorry guys, for me this is -1.
And if anyone has a good alternative for making ambient (wave tracks) DAW, please let me know. Still looking for one.
Sorry, i was maybe a bit too harsh on my post. I’m definately not a hater. IMO Renoise is “almost” the best DAW around. I was so frustrated when i found out that features which Renoise definately needs on my workflow (audio/midi sends to vsts) wasn’t inluded on the update. Features which i have been waiting from version 2.7. Now i that have marinated the 3.0 updade few more hours on my computer, i’m beginning to find quite nice features like phrases, doofer, midi monitor, midi note range and harmonic scales.
Thanks devs for your hard work!. Hope my one and only need is satisfied sometime soon 
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Happy Holidays to everybody!.
What about live performance features in 3.0?
I have again to remember you that any x.0 release for Renoise is a foundation stone: just look how far Renoise has gone from 2.0 to 2.8…
you of course have the right to be disappointed with the release because it lacks of “your” feature, but this doesn’t mean that it hasn’t been taken in count.
there are some more unfinished features which have not been included in Renoise 3.0 for the sake of stability and manageability of the release by our small developing and testing team.
the 3.x cycle will try to include as much as of the most-wanted features as possible, while of course trying to improve and extend the already implemented ones.
again, I invite you to look behind to Renoise 2.0 and compare it to 2.8… hopefully, reaching 3.8 won’t take as much as the time needed to reach 2.8
also, stop thinking about the addition of big features in 3.0 and try to focus on the improvement of the already available ones, so that 3.0 final can be released as fast as possible and the development of new features can start.
we are the first tracker which managed to reach its own third generation, you all users should be proud of this result
audiomulch is great
If it’s any consolation, the new Renoise instrument is very good at making a Absynth-like pad sounds?
You are so dramatic… These changes in gui are minor, it took me about hour to learn and find everything i´ve need.
I´ve always wanted pianoroll also, but phrases (…can be transposed easily…) and scales are great compensation for me. If you add scale finder tool I dont see need for pianoroll anymore. Now i tend to lock to some scale, turn my midi keyboard on, play something and see if it sounds good. By this way i learn much faster about chords and scales than with piano roll and random painting (i tend to do it 
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Your question about ambient music looks funny to me because i think that renoise new functions (…modulation of sample, macros, probability FX…) are great addition for this type of music, much more than a piano roll. What i find more limiting is that lack of audio tracks you mentioned, be able to move them and scratch them as you want, but same problem was with previous version that you are used to, so no game changer here…
If I have to recommend some other daw it would be reaper wich is ultimate and cheap daw with every thinkable function or ableton 9 that has some flaws but on the other hand is very intuitive and has everything what you need. But its PDC problems, size and slow speed are NO for me. If i was you I would wait for Redux and connect it with Reaper for almigty combo.
And me? I´ll stuck just with Renoise and try to think inside the box… 
All I can say is that I`m a traditional man - give me audio effects on the channel strip please! We have that, so its no biggie smalls
see above
OHHHH HOLLY MAKARONI!!! what a gift for christmass… dam’n i’m so shaky… mind just geting to blow so many additions… hope too some of features i expectect is includet to
Great to see the new version. I’ll be testing the new features with my ‘dead’ tracks - the ones that are going nowhere (there’s a lot of them!)
thanks!
Thank you Renoise team for providing us with Christmas gift I will definitely try new features. I also like the Redux idea. It will make cooperation with non-renoise folks easier. And majority of folks is non-renoise
As for community disappointment … well, the bigger the community the more disappointed people. I couldn’t understand how emotional you all got. It’s just software… you can write your own or extend it easily (you don’t even have to code). There are tons of tutorials on the net.
C’mon guys, it’s been two years. In that time you could learn Reaktor/Pure Data/C Sound and do 50% of your requests on your own. Or learn how to write your own VSTi’s. Two years! Instead you wasted time moaning on the forums.
This turned out to be great. At the first moment while going through a new feature list I too felt disappointed because of the lack of some features that I was hoping for but after really checking out the new stuff I dont care anymore, the phrase editor, instrument effect chains, macros...good stuff. Getting an audio tracks would have been cool but for example phrase editor is much more inspiring and useful tool while composing so Im quite happy with the new Renoise.
Thanks a lot to devs/alphas for the hard work and the good ideas and congratulations on the new version!
How can we get audio without sample as we did thanks to the Line Input module, which I can’t find within the 3.0 ?
I’m writing a new song now with the new beta, and I want so say a big thanks again to the devs!
I’m VERY, very glad and thankful that you didn’t abandon the tracker concept but pursue and evolve it.
As always, it welcomes unbridled creativity, sparks many ‘creative accidents’ and proves to be once again, a superior tool for a crafty computer musician.
Canastas, dev team! 