You can actually do more with Redux than Renoise + Rewire. Rewire has the limitation that everything from the slave ends up on one giant buss. So for me, I like to program drums in a tracker format but would prefer audio tracks and piano roll for mostly everything else, but I can’t do much with the Rewired audio coming from Renoise. I can’t side chain, and I can’t have different sends for different reverbs/other effects. Redux via Phrases will give me a way to route however the hell I want in whatever DAW I want and still program drums in a tracker with an awesome built in easy to use sampler.
I’m doing multi-out from Renoise into Logic via ReWire just fine like this. But have had serious headaches sometimes with ReWire… keeping track of routing, recordings, track states, cross-track relationships (meta devices), etc. There’s so much housekeeping with it… Partly to do with the fact that I have to spread things over several Renoise files from lack of computing power. Redux + Logic track freezing (a chapter unto itself) could solve some of that in my case.
Won’t stop using Renoise (via ReWire) anytime soon. Maybe some day if Redux instances can use plug-in effects and instruments, have some type of arranger, and lastly can communicate via some protocol to do cross-track stuff in or even between other DAWs. :)) Like you can do with Reaktor instances now using OSC.
@gova Wasn’t aware that phrases could have their seperate BPM’s. Or is it just the overall Redux instance? Going to be useful at any rate.