Now that Rewire is out of the window - and unless it doesn’t come back in any way (?) - I find myself switching back and forth between Logic and Renoise, and when I’m in Logic i miss the stuff that Renoise can do and vice versa. And sorry, Redux really gets on my nerves… My workflow slows down a lot with that one.
I’m totally lost at this moment, and it sucks to be a music producer in the year 2022 so far. So, lets hope that Renoise will implement the main features that other DAWs have; like waveform-view, piano roll etc. And/or that Logic will implement a tracker-view.
I hope and wish for Renoise to stay Renoise - the best tracker available, not the all-and-everything-in-one bloated piece of software, just because some people have to have piano roll in every damn tool they use.
Also I was just now actually able to get decent performance for single channel recording of Renoise with Logic as master sending MMC/MTC over IAC Bus (all checked except PDC), to which Renoise was midi clock slave to the IAC bus, offset to around 25ms in renoise prefs.
Audio output in renoise was set to Blackhole ( a free audio loopback software ) and input in logic to Blackhole.
The first note lags a bit but after that it plays well, so might have to just a blank first bar.
It there are better settings someone knows please update
Renoise must remain a tracker. However, I work with many external VST instruments and also VST effects. It’s so fun to build your own custom studio into a tracker DAW. That’s why:
For me, the most important thing is that Renoise stays fast and CPU-friendly or gets even faster. I work with a laptop for live performances and there the CPU load and a stable system are the most important. It would be great if you could manually turn off some things in Renoise - for example I don’t need a sidechain function. But the CPU load from 3.2.2 to 3.4 has increased quite a bit… Just don’t slow down!!!
Currently not sure about moving to Renoise 3.4 as 3.2.2 runs so stably…
I don’t hope for anything and I don’t have any wishes, because Renoise already has got all you need.
Imagine being a music producer in the year 1992… I can tell you, being a music producer today compared to then is way easier and there are a lot more options. I wish there would have been nowaday’s options back then. It would have been nice to have a proper income due to music besides the usual work. In the 90s there were serious options to become rich by making music. But not today.
I just wished Renoise would have its effect plugins updated, some clunky workflows (as resampling, for example) improved and also the sampler updated with convenient tools that people (understandably) have been asking since the 00s.
I know many of you guys like to praise limitations in Renoise as “character”, or like to say that Renoise shouldn’t change but I don’t think the bare minimum of workflow improvement can be classified as a hard “change”. Renoise has a LOT to catch up, more than any audio software that I currently use imo. I love it more than any DAW despite its many flaws, now imagine if it had some functional improvements implemented, more frequent care directed towards its workflow, tools and updates… It would be insane. I’d probably stop using half of the softwares I currently use pricisely because of the limitations I mentioned…
…plus the Bitwig receiver thing people mentioned, but just because I use Bitwig obviously.
Doofer device’s preset menu: Option to organize custom presets in custom folders. I have a lot of presets for all my hardware synths and it’s getting hard to locate the ones I want now, I need to scroll a lot inside the preset list.
It is possible to trigger multiple instruments with one note by setting the midi output of an instrument to an internal router ( on mac its IAC Bus ) and then select that as a midi input for another instrument
There is this single issue that has been stopping me from using trackers for 10+ years:
I want to record a pattern of notes without any tempo considerations. Then after I have the performance down exactly as I like, I would like to scale the notes in time in order to make them fit a renoise pattern. In other words, the notes should keep their recorded tempo while the pattern is being scaled to find the perfect match. If you implement this feature, I will buy a fresh license instantly.
