Saving Song Without Instruments/samples

Ideas & suggestions
1

Would there be a slight chance of saving the song without samples in the near future?

Just having pointers/paths in the song data to the location of the samples/instruments
that are in use. And then, when loading the song, it will automatically insert the correct
instruments (loading them from disk). This would save alot of space since one sample/
instrument could be used in many different projects.

A single sample usually doesn’t take alot of space, but when using multisampled instruments,
and including them time after time in songs…

Choices something like : Save Song / Save Bundle

2

agree. I’ve asked for this in the past, so I believe it is somewhere in the to-do list.

expecially when renoise will support multilayered instruments, this would be necessary.

3

+1

I’m also looking forward to the availability of this feature.

4

would be nice if you could select which samples /instruments to save with the tune and which not

5

+1 for the option to save the path only. I now often carry my songs from one PC to the other, which have the same path for samples (D:\Samples), so it would save space and time when saving and copying songs.
I can also imagine it would be much faster for people syncing their songs via internet, for example. The “clouds” are getting popular nowadays.

6

I’m happy to support this idea, but please make it optional.

One of the main features that I like about Renoise is that whole songs/instruments etc. are self-contained.

7

I was thinking the same thing lately. Now that we have multisample support, it is just not very convenient to always have a copy of the instrument in there. For instance, when using the Piano that comes with the new Renoise 2.7, then this alone adds 80 MB per song.

8

from what i’ve understood, the appeal of the current method is the portability, which hails from the old mod/demoscene days (i wasn’t there myself, just hearsay)

i do agree that this would be a useful option to have, especially since we are no longer in ‘the old days’, and songfiles seem to have grown exponentially.

+1

9

Renoise ST-disks ftw :)

10

+1000!!!

11

Renoise song XML file already includes absolute paths to samples used. Which is something I initially frowned upon (I’m kinda touchy on security subjects) but never spoke.
Now given this argument about large samples/multilayered instruments it makes very good sense. So it gets +1 from me as well.

12

+1 for optionally, but Renoise should be able to auto search for the samples that are moved since the initial save. Similar to how pro-tools does it and I bet a lot of other daw’s, either automatically or through a pop up window being able to direct at another folder to search in.

13

optionally of course.

and good point about the searching. might be only logical but good to mention at least.