Recently, I’ve been trying to connect Renoise to DAW’s to do multitrack audio recordings. I found Rewire but then it turns out it was discontinued on all DAWs. Currently I dont know how do achieve this. My music is on Renoise, from the current build to about 12 years ago. It would be so amazing to spawn Renoise as a master of a Daw to record vocals and guitars of my band. Or use Renoise as a slave to achieve the same. The ultimate would be to route tracks from a DAW into mapped Renoise as tracks with play/stop etc control, which is exactly what Rewire was. However that is not possible apparently.
Thanks all. It was a pleasure to randomly pull up a tutorial of a young Vvoois tutorial from 11 years ag!. All roads lead to Vincent Voois
His tutorial talked about Midi Yoke, some software that doesn’t work even on my Windows 8.1 machine.
I found that Rewire had been abandoned in 2020 by Reason, yet it works currently!
Others suggested simply Reaper + Renoise (Rewire). I actually managed to make that work, by mapping a Reaper track FX to a Renoise as a slave. The entire Renoise daw then became a slave.
Is there a way to use Renoise as a master controlling Reaper as a slave instead? to map tracks into Renoise from Reaper etc ?
Reaper will not run as a slave to anything, but you can easily send MIDI and audio back and forth between Renoise and Reaper using ReaRoute and loopMIDI, which should work on Windows 7 and later.
You can still send a clock to Renoise from Reaper, but you will not have timeline / song position synchronization or anything like that.
This setup basically turns Renoise into a separate tempo synced sampler / sequencer / groovebox while Reaper functions as a digital multi-track mixer and tape deck; however, your mileage may vary depending on what you’re trying to do.
Thanks for the input, I’ll try. Not having both synced with quickly be a problem in studio sessions with a guitarist / vocalist but I’m willing to experiment!
You can actually BPM sync with Ableton Link, but you will be controlling audio playback in real time instead of triggering MIDI, and the audio waveform will be out of 0 crossing, resulting in crackling noise, etc.
I believe that these are the reasons why there are often problems with MIDI synchronization of DAWs. I believe that what worked when the receiving device was only a MIDI device no longer works when the receiving device plays back audio in real time.
Is there perhaps another solution (literally any DAW) that would work? I tried Live 11 but my win 8.1 doesn’t meet the minimum requirements, so I tries Live 10 and discovered that it just didn’t seem possible. I dont really care which is the master as long as everything is routed in one and I can use the non Renoise DAW for vocals and guitars. Actually a Renoise extension allowing long horizontal wav format with autosync would be perfect too. I’ve been trying to do this since 2006, and some how if anything, it seems to have become more complicated.
Pretty sure Ardour can run as a slave but I think its just tempo / BPM sync (check there forum for info).
I think your just going to have to except the limitations and work between two DAWs independently man.
Why not just render you tracks, then record your vocals and guitar in whatever DAW you want then bring those recordings back into Renoise as samples to be placed and triggered as you see fit ?
Will post results!