“healthcare for the entire universe?” -snl
an extra digit in the fx column?
09xxx!!
I miss: Simultaneously recording of multiple audio tracks.
to me and my way of using Renoise, the ONLY important thing i dream of
is “Audiotracks”, meaning just to have the ability to trigger long wavs from a folder (relative path) on harddisk, and at the same time SEE the wav inside renoise.
I use energyXT to do this now, but I find this combination is a buggy, limiting, boring and timeconsuming way of arranging stuff, both in production and during ‘postmixing’ , which I also prefer to do in Renoise 
Audiotracks are the one thing that sits between Renoise and Absolute Stardom.
It’s not “real” studio software because of this… face it, despite all the benefits that
tracking has to offer, the program suffers from the limited options when it comes to
recording (like what captain Atomsk said). Besides, since Renoise now has
a recording function, the ability to handle long samples would be a logical next step.
Renoise shouldn’t limit itself to recording snippets only!!
I would like to start out by saying…that first post…golden!
I remember the first time I booted up Renoise 1.9…
I was a little overwhelmed but I sat down watched some tutorials by Kaneel and studied the demo songs, of in about a month time I was creating quality music.
Renoise 1.9 was my first tracker. I have been hearing about them for years but I always thought I wasnt good enough to use them and I didnt understand how to work them.
Now that I do know how to operate Renoise…it is my fav peace of software now…
I havent booted up Cubase SX ever since I bought Renoise.
I love Renoise. I am hopelessly addicted. Thnx you guys for a danm good quality product. I couldnt be more happy with a peace of software.
Now on to features…
I have only been using Renoise for about 6 to 7 months now. I love the way how everything is set up.
I think a piano roll would be taking away from the feel of Renoise, a patter editor would be cool…but…I think it would also take away from the feel of Renoise. Rewire slave/master would be cool. I dont know much about the structure code of the program but…cool?
anyways. Long story short…I love the way Renoise works. I love have there are like 10 ways to do everything, you just have to be creative. We have a very nice Jem here guys…and I agree, lets keep this unique. I dont want anouther FLstudio clone and Live clone…I want Renoise.
Pure and simple.
Done!
well said. i agree 100%. if i could pick 1 feature to be added, audio tracks would be it.
SIDECHAINING!!! FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS DEMOSCENE!!!
A lot of interesting reading in this thread so far-
thanks to the Renoise team for version 2.0. It is now an even more refined beast!
My two pennies worth:
LPB makes a lot of sense in moving towards the proposed expandable pattern view,
which I think would be an asset to Renoise when it comes to the final arrangement of a track.
To have an overview of your patterns would really help with getting one’s head around the form of a track.
I feel that improvements to the XRNI structure would be the next logical step for continuing in the spirit of a software that is highly tuned as an instrument of expression:
Offering automation on more parameters, such as the cutoff frequency of the instrument’s filter ( rather than a filter DSP effect ) so that the envelope shape is being moved, would be very welcome.
Automating envelope curves would also be good. To have a “morph” function so that you can change between envelope presets for example.
Morphing between multiple instances of an XRNI with different filter, envelope & loop settings would be brilliant IMO.
Assigning midi channels to each XRNI instance would allow for multi-timbral playing. E.G, playing two instruments from your midi keyboard by assigning them the same channel.
I would like to see Renoise forging its own path away from the traditional routes of music software development. Therefore, piano roll doesn’t get my vote.
On my wish list are:
Live mode implementation/ expandable pattern view and triggering.
Integration into another Mixing application through Jack transport / Rewire / or as a VST/AU plug-in.
XRNI developments.
Once again thanks for a brilliant piece of music software-
Renoise has rekindled my love of programming.
all i’d want:
this is the biggie
- some sort of audio track that’d allow for instant playback from any point without having to scroll back miles to find the sample trigger. i reckon this feature would cut the amount of time it takes me to do a song by a quarter.
and a distant second and third:
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ability to set automation over multiple patterns at once. scrolling about, copying and pasting can get disorienting.
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allow for copy and paste on the “column in song” selection option. i’ve no idea why only the delete option is available but there’s been a number of times it would have been very convenient. and a related possibility: allow columns to be dragged and dropped on the pattern editor in the same way that tracks can.
The only thing I’d really want is midi controllable gui. Really hard! Play/Record/Metronome, Muting/Soloing Channels, maybe (that’d be deluxe) the possibility to activate/bypass effects in your effects chain, and instrument +/-.
This way you could not only have a nice way of performing live, you could also do more work without moving the hands from the (midi-)keyboard/controller.
That’s the one thing I really really hope for (for now! 
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I have to say I’m quite happy with RN as it is… with the delay column & quantize plus the note send it took care of a couple of biggies for me.
There are a couple left tho that I’d like to see sometime in the future, and they have been mentioned before…
Rewire, some form of audio track and some way to detach windows from the main window, so you can throw say the mixer window into your second monitor and have the arranger in another.
An audio track is by far the most important to me personally tho, just because of the music I make. As it is now I cut em up into verse/ref/verse/ref aso, and sometimes I even put in trigger points (09xx) along each vocal track, just so I don’t have to rewind to the beginning just to fire up the vocals again and then listen through a minute and a half to get to the point I’m working on. So yeah, it is doable atm, but it is very time consuming.
Then there’s a couple of small things that I’ve come across (maybe these things are doable and I’ve just missed it… i dunno).
Grouping tracks together in the mixer view so you can change the track volume for a bunch at the same time while keeping the level difference the same, if that makes sense.
And the other is routing one send channel to another one, atm if I pop in a send device on a send channel and point it to another one I get no sound… but maybe I’m just missing something obvious, it’s been known to happen hehe.
yeah, would definitely welcome better support for dual screen setups. of course a luxury thing, but Renoise IS luxury, so why not 
to be able to hit play from the cursor (in the middle of the pattern) and hear the samples previous to the cursor. i spend so much time listening to sections of patterns that i’m not programming…it’s killing me!
+10
This is a much needed part of the way Renoise plays back our songs seeing as its modern sampler with huge memory , ideal for recording live vocals instruments . Not sure how easy it is to integrate, at a guess moderately hard…
My request, is a more intuitive Pattern arranger the current system is way out of date and not up with the rest of the high quality features Renoise has today
I find it hard to finish songs , after 20 patterns or so i lose track of where i am in the song (damn thats why my songs are never more than a minute long!) , maybe the new zoom-able features will enable songs to be written with as little as 8-16 patterns …?? 
One of the reasons renoise tracks sound so good is that Renoise doesn’t have arranger like fruityloops and all that stuff. Really, I may talk about it later some time, now I am in a bit hurry and tired.
The lookback feature is not VERY hard to implement, I have worked with it, in other tracker. Sample wise it’s not too hard to look back for the last note and compute all the pattern effects. In most cases there is quite a few or no pattern effects between the start and current position so it’s pretty fast. VST wise it’s harder. As VST’s doesn’t have so tight control. I have experimented with using discard buffer and rendering since last note, but it takes quite a lot of CPU and is not that useful anyway. If the note is not too far away, it’s tolerable, but you still may get few seconds of latency before pattern starts playback from the wanted position.
+1
This would be a critical feature for making automating easier!
I vote internal for internal midi routing …so we can use midi vst´s
My vote for:
- midi controllable gui
- drawing automation over whole song
- extentions
Renoise is lightweight program (now) with good sound quality and a very usable GUI, but i don’t want a heavy monster with features that i don’t never use.
Long story short, release any features by extention; take what you need and build your perfect Renoise setup (a super DAW with long file support, lite version with beatslicer, an so on).
I’m not talking about API for 3d part developer, just a modular approach.
my vote:
-metadevice for sidechaining ( oh noes )
-live setup
-long sample support
-pimped sample editior (e.g drawing instrument envelope on it and other stuff which i posted somewhere here)
-liverecording
-plugin-container for the xrns project tools
not so common vote:
-renoise as vst
-xrni improvements
-customizable themes (changing knobs/jpgs/vu-meter)
-render song to mp3/ogg directly
not votable:
-piano
-beatslicer