What feature are you hoping for in upcoming Renoise releases?

Ideas & suggestions
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This is what I’m talkin’ about - Gleetchlab, for example. It’s just so useful, being able to use the sampler as not only a looper or another piano, but as a haze/granular cloud generator. For those of us not on facebook, there is no equivalent video of this, so I’m also going to provide a screenshot.

https://fb.watch/48ALtMydI-/

Screen Shot 2021-03-10 at 7.42.02 AM

There are TWO Tools that can provide a rudimentary version of this type of sample manipulation - SMC Tool and RxMarkers. Both of them are able to only use a single instance of the sampler’s playhead, so the amount of granular stuff they can do is on the basic side - that’s all that is available within the sampler currently. They are great tools for sample mangling and click generation.

Since they can only use one playhead, there’s no actual way of getting ‘clouds’ or ‘haze’ that full granular synthesis can get. It’s such a unique sound, Renoise would only benefit from it. Since we do not have PM/FM synthesis, more aggressive sample manipulation would add more sound generation capability to Renoise, and quite possibly grow it’s user-base.

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again, Renoise can be so similar to Max/MSP in it’s tight sequencing and sample manipulation, and it is EASY to understand in comparison to visual programming. Renoise is the entire reason I can create tracks that sound like they came out of Max/MSP; all it is missing at this point is smaller (but big) sample manipulation, and maybe some sequencing additions (more random/logic functions). Yeah, I want more synthesis within Renoise, but I can get by by creating my own single-cycle waveforms or larger samples.

So much more can be done with Renoise besides the typical electronic music tropes - why not take it to the next level without requiring VST/AU plugins? Renoise’s effects are so damn good, and if you don’t like the TWO built-in reverbs, you can “roll your own” CONVOLUTION reverb which can sound like any reverb or any space you desire…

Renoise can sound like anything, would love for it to be able to push sample manipulation to the fullest.

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100% with you on this.
the integration of renoises sequencer and sampler (and phrases within that) makes it the best tool for control of samples. so a bit more granular power feels appropriate.

tbh you can do some interesting stuff with the phrases already - definitely granular/wavetable territory.

here’s a crack at getting a cloud going - it’s a bit hacky setting it up and could use an envelope for the voice as well as the individual grains but it’s something.

cloud.xrni (2.8 MB)

options like phrase LPB automation/patterncommand would open this kind of thing up a bit for a start

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embedded detachable chat (that can be enabled / disabled) in order to talk with other online renoisers (with public and private rooms, text & voice rooms to share sound of incoming tracks, etc)

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Some sort of device that allows the user to map a pattern or global effect
command to a CC-assignable push encoder knob.

Sorta like a small command line interface that allows you to issue, on-the-fly,
one-shot, pattern and effects commands; only enhanced with device support.

That said, im not 100% sure if this is already doable, gonna go check on that.
Time passed… guess phrases can help to do something like it.

Thanks for Renoise! (…and all the fish)

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Im missing sometimes when working on something very complicated, info where sample/sound is ending/reaching zero. Like if you chop break and want to put another slice there is no clear way to figure out where it should be placed. It could be maybe done by settings that when toggled when you put note that is attached to sample, note off is automatically place on end of sample (with delay included) So it would show visually where thing ends but it would not really need any additional visual info

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I wish these threads were a bit more focused… Maybe a voting system or something ?

Because there are like 20% of good ideas and 80% of things that are either already possible, extremely niche or… straight up “I want ableton live/reason/whatever into renoise”, as well as a lot of things that are easily done with free/cheap vst (like granular synthesis).

I wish we could stick to fixing the bottlenecks of Renoise workflow such as the cumbersome time stretching feature or the very limited midi (especially with VST effects)

As I said in a previous post, adding too many features is a bad idea, because this is what renders a software unusable. It is critical to make sure the core features are flawless before adding anything big.

The only “niche” feature I’d really want to see is the Polyend Tracker collaboration because it’ll bring a lot of people to Renoise as well as providing a proper controller to draft ideas. Like Renoise’s own little Push in a way.

But, if I had to choose 3 features, I’d say : midi, effect routing (parallel, etc…), and better stretching UI

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In the end Taktik will decide what he thinks is the most important. He reads these posts, but won’t decide by any voting. So like 95% of the amount of requests is obsolete anyway. It’s more like a self-therapy for frustrated renoise users. You put your (maybe negative or evne positive) energy into space, where it deflagrates. Problem solved, you freed your mind, only god will care. I do that since… 2006? or so. If you write feature requests such a long time, you realize that the most ones will be repeated over and over again. So I guess anything possible already was written here :laughing:

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Bullshit. If only we say RAS enough times, things will be better.

Otoh, the request for paralell routing seems quite common, so it doesn’t hurt mentioning it once more :wink:

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A realtime waveform visualizer

In the style of “jthorborg - Signalizer” or “Smartelectronix - s(m)exoscope”

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Parallel processing free ( temporarily)

https://www.mutools.com/m8-temp-user-keys.html

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…But not combinable with Renoise internal fx :thinking:

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…and can’t combine x86 and x64 VST

Not Perfect,but this is the most powerful host

Think a doofer+hydra…10x more powerful

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Still wait for gridlines in sample window. VERY necessary stuff for me.

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I may be blind, but saving / loading track automation curve (to file) will be very useful (or is it somewhere already and I didn’t see it?).

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176.4 Khz export

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I want more than 256 instruments and controllable song compression. Some very large tunes I don’t want to compress at all, because it’s slow. In every major daw the number of instruments / tracks is only limited by ram and CPU. 176.4 Khz export should be there too.

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If you don’t already know; you know every instrument can contain multiple samples right?

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I want more than 256 instrument slots for orchestral template. Here’s an example of one: https://cinematiccomposing.com//uploads/assets/john-powell-template-1024x734-5977e3a3a7645.jpg

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I can load hundreds of vstis and if I render plugin to instrument, thousands of instruments with multisamples. There is no reason, not to load everything at once. In fact, at this point browsing and loading dozens or more of instruments individually is downright retarded.

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Loading multiple sample-based VSTi can be very painful.

Renoise is limited to 255 instruments because it needs 2 digits in hexadecimal value to define each index. What do we do with it?