Some Newbie Problems

Help, Support & Bugs Beginners Questions - Renoise
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Hello there!

Well, I finally entered the world of PC sequencing, after running a tracker on my Amiga for… well from the time Amiga was still high-brow state of the art. If my questions are rather stupid, forgive me I’m really new to all this…

I got me a soundcard (an Emagic EMI 2-6), a midi device (a Steinberg Midex3) and a laptop (compaq p3 - 1ghz, 256 mb).
First of all I have two problems that I think have little to do with Renoise: when (in audio config) I set the Device Type to ASIO, my midi drumcomputer connected to the Midex doesn’t run smooth anymore. When I turn it to Directsound it all runs smooth. Any suggestions on what I do wrong here?

The other (non-renoise related) problem I have is that my soundcard makes a truly weird noise, it almost sounds like the pink noise on my old analog synthesizers… Again, I have no idea what causes this…

And then, finally, my Renoise related question: how do I set vst instruments like for instance Pro-53 to an individual output? All vst instruments now only play over outputs 1 & 2 (which I can pan, I figured that much out) but I’d rather have them spread my vsti’s over all 6 channels on my mixer. How can I assign the indv. outs? I tried to search the forum but I couldn’t find any suggestions, and the help-file is a bit cryptic to me.

Thank you for your time!

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I don’t have any answer to your first questions, but to change outputs do like this: First make sure you don’t have the “Limit to stereo” checkbox checked in the Renoise config. Then you should have a number on the top of each channel you can click and change output. I.e. you can’t change output for specific instruments, just for individual tracks.

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Thank you for your help, it works. Unfortunatly it only works with ASIO and with my current problems that won’t do me much good… I guess I need to find a solution for my other problems first :) Thanks again tho!!

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The MIDI timing issue is a known problem with Renoise and ASIO:
When using big buffersizes with ASIO, the timing can get worse. But on the other side - with very small buffersizes - its much better than with Directsound.

Have you tried to use different buffersizes ?
Do you already use the minimum buffersize that is possible on your system ?