Definately the feature called “audio track” This would make my life a lot easier 
and increase resolution or something, cause i have a hard time to make grooves in a tracker because of its limited resolution. My beats just sound too robotic, i want to give them more feel, funk and groove, to make them more interesting.
i cant think of any other vital features that are missing
After playing with the Linux demo I’ve come to the conclusion that you need more extensive midi mapping. My main midi controller is an M-Audio Trigger Finger and I would love to map note numbers to track mute & solo buttons. Also a non-sequential midi note mappable pattern selection would make this great for restructuring & remixing live & on the fly.
As it is Renoise is a great compositional tool. But the simple addition of the midi mappable mute, solo, and pattern selection would turn it into a great INSTRUMENT.
That’s my $0.02
Getting 10 bucks through my cd-rom every time I finish a track would be an awesome feature
. delay comp
. rewire
. audio tracks
all of those are massive steps.
so i am just really happy with how renoise works today. it lets me compose.
plugin compensation
a function that allows you to send midi notes to an effect, don’t know what thats called?
arranger, with a random function
make effects on/off midi controllable, some effect don’t have a wet/dry, I like to use this for reverbs, so i fast can add space to a single snare hit live…, this would be pretty easy job i would guess
select looper, when I select a part of one pattern It would be nice not to use the Block for finding that loop, but just loop selected.
“cut n zoom to nearest data” when trimming a lot of samples in your Renoise instrument zooming in an out to find the closest cut can be a bit of a pain… If Renoise could guide you to that spot i one click it would be nice.
sometimes I don’t understand way Renoise is so cheap, well I like that I can save some money BUT if I had the opportunity to pay double or 3 times the price to get just some of the features above I’d happily do that, compared to the amount of money cubase/logic cost Renoise is peanuts…
-2nded on the note trigger->effects.
-also I think I mentioned this before and the answer was no because of a necessary buffer, but I would really, really like to be able to send feedback. it would make the native effects a lot more useful, for example.
-on the resolution tip, adjustable subticks would be sweet, especially if there was a command (even a “macro” command, I only need one hex digit!) to change them within a pattern.
-and if automation wasn’t restricted per-step. that one’s big for me. I understand the reasons for it but I wish that automation could be smoooooth.
-somehow being able to use meta-fx between tracks so that I can have LFO synced to things on several tracks, or even several parameters on one track.
-can’t think of how this would be done, but it would be nice to be able to automate vertices in instrument envelopes.
basically I’d just like some improvements on automation, resolution and control.
and here’s couple of unreasonable dream features
-macro patterns that could be triggered in different ways, like a sort of multi-instrument/multi-channel arpeggiator.
-DSP chain -> instrument integration that allows instrument-type envelopes to be applied to any parameter of the DSP chain. this would probably get hairy with polyphonic tracks though…
yes to all of this!
also…
-python or similar scripting for advanced editing, maybe also for triggering meta-events, realtime processing of automation or instrument data, etc.
-separate pattern-channels
As .XRNS is an open, XML based format, and .XM specs are easy to find online, all it takes is convincing some bored developer to take up the cause and write a converter. Alas, I would, but I’ve got too many stalled projects “on the go” as it is 
(I hate work 
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rewire . 
Who needs rewire when you have jack. I think the jack support should be ported to all available platforms.
I read an idea about this on another forum
it’s a bit silly but i’m going to try it out
the idea was to bind a hotkey to a blank screensaver
there’s probably some software that would allow you to bind the spacebar to toggling the screensaver on top of stop/starting the song, but I can imagine it wouldn’t be a very reliable/convenient solution.
I often atleast look away when I am in the final stages of a track and listen to it as a whole. I would turn my monitor off, but I need the playing-time to write down those small things that come to my attention.
1)Pattern zoom
2)Proper device routing
3)arranger
4)rewire
5)drag n drop
6)audiotracks
7)Possibility to expand the RNI-view
8)A grouped vst/i+
9)track freezing
10)MMC support(more intergration/support with hardware.)
a little more than top 5,but would LOVE to see any of this in renoise
1st (and only) : JACK Transport.
color coding of instruments …
Ability to play multiple pattterns at once ( for example one pattern is 8 bars long , the other 4 etc …)…A damn fine arranger …the current one gives me a hard time to finish something
Internal midi routung
Vst multiple outs
I may have already said this here…
ability to name each used note in a multisampled instrument with a short name that is shown in the pattern ed. Ie “bd” “sd” “ch” etc…