I actually miss the accordion layout in comparison to the new button-tabs. If it can be implemented as an option in the GUI settings, I’d love the option to use the accordion style layout for the sampler in 3.1’s final release!
Just found out about this beta today and am suuuuper excited to be able to map pitch bend to parameters (without an operand no less).
The only other thing that would be SUBLIME would be to be able to open soundfonts as converted instruments in Renoise, having the samples extract and map into sample slots in a single instrument slot, loading loop points for each sample, and the keyzones for each sample as well. This would eliminate the need for me to use plugins to open sfz, especially when renoise is able to export instruments as sfz files, I was really expecting to be able to open sfz files now as well.
Thanks much for the incredible program! You guys rock!
How can you miss the accordion menu when it only had adverse functionality in comparison to tabs, it takes you longer to navigate and takes up more screen real estate.
As a strong opponent of the accordion menu I sincerely hope it will rest in peace. You will like the tabs solution much better once you get nitty gritty, trust me.
Anyway, I agree that the Renoise guys rock!
I actually miss the accordion layout in comparison to the new button-tabs
The accordion is dead. Long live the accordion!
especially when renoise is able to export instruments as sfz files, I was really expecting to be able to open sfz files now as well.
It is absolutely possible to import .sfz files - this is now referred to as multi-sample/keyzone presets.
If you have Renoise 3.1 installed, you should be able to just click a sfz file from the disk browser, or go into the keyzone tab of the sample and click the preset button - there should already be a nice selection of presets available, with lots more available from from the backstage server (content packs). You can of course save your own presets and recall them later on.
Since these presets are stored in the (new) user library - for example, “C:/Users/YourName/Documents/Renoise”, you can also access it via the file system (organize things in folders, for example)
What about cover flow?!
Ok, after using Renoise 3.1 for a night and morning, and then going back to 3.0, I definitely prefer the new button-tab layout better than the accordion. Renoise 3.0 just had so many good memories for me being such an amazing step up from 2.8, so when the accordion was gone I was thrown off my routine workflow just a bit, but I’m loving all the additions now that I’m finding them and seeing how they function. Specifically the new scale function in the sampler is an amazing thing to have (in addition to pitch bend and better modulation section), now I don’t have to use FL studio’s arpeggiator whenever I want to learn/dabble in some new scales.
It is absolutely possible to import .sfz files - this is now referred to as multi-sample/keyzone presets.
If you have Renoise 3.1 installed, you should be able to just click a sfz file from the disk browser, or go into the keyzone tab of the sample and click the preset button - there should already be a nice selection of presets available, with lots more available from from the backstage server (content packs). You can of course save your own presets and recall them later on.
Since these presets are stored in the (new) user library - for example, “C:/Users/YourName/Documents/Renoise”, you can also access it via the file system (organize things in folders, for example)
My mistake, all of my files turned out to be sf2 (I thought I had at least one sfz in the directory), but I’m finding it difficult to convert any of my sf2’s to sfz format. Is it possible Renoise will include sf2 support soon as well?
Ah, also got a good way to convert sf2 to sfz figured out, so the new sfz format will work perfectly for me! Again, amazing program guys 
On the topic of the new buttons, is there a way to move from next to previous, like control tab and control shift tab? I can only find shortcuts for each tab specifically.
Ah, also got a good way to convert sf2 to sfz figured out, so the new sfz format will work perfectly for me! Again, amazing program guys
What way please? 
What way please?
Using the program Polyphone:http://www.polyphone.fr/index.php?lang=en&page=download
You open Polyphone, select ‘file’ ‘open’ or just click the file icon, select and open a sf2 file of choice, then click ‘file’ ‘export soundfont’, change the “Location” to whatever directory you want it to create a folder inside named after your soundfont, where it will save all the sfz files, change the “Format” to sfz and click the “Export” button.
You can open multiple sf2 files at once using control-click/shift-click, and then highlight them individually in the “Tree” column on the left to select which ones you want to export, the rest of the process stays the same, except if you’re exporting multiple soundfonts in one go, none of them can individually exceed 127 samples, such as the Drill Dozer soundfont and Final Fantasy V. But if you export a soundfont with over 127 samples on it’s own it works just fine.
The program also creates a folder containing the wav files used in the banks, minus the keyzones, so you can load up individual samples as they are if you wish as well without having them pre-mapped to keyzones upon loading.