Edit: Actually, how about multiple types of timestretching. Including, but not limited to, gritty, nasty, granular timestretching (with multiple grains… I’m not just talking about phrases and 0SXX commands here).
A parallel effects container at the track effects level - as per the device found in Bitwig, Ableton etc.
Native granular playback.
One feature that we would all appreciate most - blunt honestly from @taktik , what can feasibly be added and what cannot. What features are “never, ever” items? What features could be added if we were to chip in some money? Like a “fix the school roof” fundraiser, lets set some goals and get stuff funded. I don’t care that I’ve paid for a license up to 4.3 - lets get a Kickstarter going, set goals, stretch goals and some timescales - be pragmatic. Be honest - what is possible, what is not and if not, what can we do. I want to see this DAW grow and be something that has a healthy community around it. I’d contribute to such an idea. Perhaps a Renoise Premium, a recurring payment kinda like Patreon to help move things along - selling licenses is not a steady stream, would such an idea help?
Just putting ideas out. I’m not rich by any means, but I do support people on Patreon and I would sub to move Renoise forward with the big requests that people have.
A “Favorite” system of instruments. Tag an instrument as a favorite, then in the browser there is a dedicated folder of “Favorites”. If you change location/delete instrument its ok it would just be removed from “Favorites”
For instance, with envelope as a meta device, you could do really precise side chaining which you could apply with a single fx command. You could also modulate stuff in an interesting, decoupled way. Just add “one shot” mode to the LFO and make the “envelope” shaper available to the lfo too.
Also, i noticed samples now become polyphonic when they have an envelope applied to them. Was this always the case? I would prefer them to stay monophonic, it seems more consistent.
I think it would be handy if the phrase editor could (optionally) occupy the right side of the instrument editor screen in any of the available tabs (keyzones/waveform/modulations/effects). Just like you can expand the disk browser on the right side of the screen. Always be able to edit & see the phrases in the instrument editor. Also some kind of visual representation of the phrase events in the main pattern editor would be cool, so you can see the structure of the phrases compared with the ‘normal’ stuff in the pattern editor.