I’m using Renoise for composition, also I use it for live sessions.
It could be great to have some features for Live sessions, here is 2 simple ideas :
preselection of some channels before muting or unmuting at the same time.
possibility to have a tabbed user interface for opening and playing modules simultaneously and for exchanging data between them, like the great open source tracker called MilkyTracker ( http://www.milkytracker.net/?about )
+1. I was about to say the same thing: live Renoise is the future (I hope).
It would be intuitive for each ‘tab’ to be routed independently or have the tracks grouped in the mixer (each tab is a stereo bus). Other things I can think of:
Independent timing to allow for working on a tab while the song still plays through and awesome offset pattern effects.
Features for aligning the playback of the tabs, e.g. offset by half a pattern or unmute/mute tabs at the end of patterns for smooth transitions, crossfades, etc.
This is starting to sound like ‘sessions’ in Live but one-up because of 1337 Renoise powers.
a mixer for each “tab” → fully featured with routing , monitoring, multiple muting/unmuting, etc…
a global “tab” including the mixer for all “tabs”, + a Special Global [sequencer+tracker+DSP effects] to organise smooth transitions, crossfades, muting, etc… between the different songs. (with new set of effects to realise the crazy sequencing…
each “tab” could have the usual Edit fonctions (cut/copy/paste…) to exchange datas
and a very very special feature to prepare the coffee early in the evening!!!
That would be so great and would be a serious next step to definitely make Renoise as the best Universal tracker… for ever!
It could be great to have a better colored view in the mixer tab, I mean that the selected track in the mixer should have a really different color than the other tracks…Could it be choosen in the “Preferences-Theme” options?
