Looks like heaven man
me i have some synth(modular synt,tinysizer,arturia minibrute connected at a mackie mixing board to my soundcard(fireface 400) i have a sherman filterbank a quadraverb and a t resonnator in insert on the mixing board ,i sample in renoise and cut the samples and sequence them with renoise
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I use an Arturia Minilab mk 2 and a Launchpad X. As I mainly play bass and guitar I prefer the Launchpad.
The other day when I was tinkering with the Launchpad, I realized that you can assign keystrokes to the pads so I made a basic control layout for Renoise 
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Love this topic - I’ve found I get more done if I can remove the mouse from the equation and have some tactile tools with visual feedback within arms reach. Launchpads and Launchkeys are great because they have a fairly well-documented midi spec for controlling lights, allowing you to create custom UIs using the renoise lua api. Faderport and Streamdeck are also great for this reason (motorized slider, and buttons with dynamic labels).
Recently experimenting with external samplers like Digitakt and ASR10 so that I can bring the sample organization/editing process out of the box as well. I do my edits on the hardware and then use Hardware Sampler Tool to bring them back into Renoise as xrni Instruments.
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I have started from connecting Korg Volca’s and MS-20 to Renoise and since the list of equipment Renoise is controlling grew up a little…
Korg Volca: Beats/Keys/Bass/FM/Sample
Roland: TR-8/TR-8S/JU-06/TB-03/FA-07
Behringer: Neutron/Model D/CAT/MS-1
Moog Mother 32/Modal Craft Synth 2.0/Waldorf Streichfett/Arturia Microfreak
Most sound sources are going through compressors/gates and guitar pedal effects (chorus, delay, reverb) or rack multieffects to be the grouped on two large Allen&Heath consoles and sent to Renoise via Firewire (18 tracks) for additional processing, then master is sent compressors and A/D converters and recorded live on another machine…
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Whoa, nice spaceship command console you got there! 
Guitars: Strat, Tele, a couple acoustics, a Les Paul-type from ESP’s subbrand for whenever I need humbuckers, Spongebob ukulele. Signal chain varies a lot because some days, amp sims are enough and on others, a world of pedals.
Synths: Casio CZ-1, Waldorf Blofeld, Yamaha QY70, Yamaha AN1x, Roland SH-201, Novation Xiosynth 25, Korg Poly-800, Korg Monotron.
Misc: a bunch of mics, flutes, kazoos, and just about anything that produces noise for foley when you hit it for wave generation/foley.
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This is all my set up. The only external thing is the ipad which I use to run some synths and Korg Gadget
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I have a metal dedicated guitar, marshall combo, a mpd-like chinese controller, a launchpad, a studio mixing table, 2 amigas (one with midi) and their own mixing table, and an old DJX yamaha keyboard (embedded sounds are quite nice, but I mostly use it for midi keyboard).
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Hi, cool topic.
Currently got in the studio with Renoise using:
Elektron Cycles
Korg Electribe 2
Korg Electribe 2 Sampler
Korg Electribe R MKII
Novation Keystation Mini32 3
Waldorf Pulse
Need newer gear and synths but my process is jamming live, mostly on the Korg’s, and Renoise midi trigging the Waldorf pulse with midi keyboard recorded melodies playing via renoise, vocals triggered in renoise with some FX etc. Then I record everything in Wavelab or Studio One as live Jams, I tried to get the jams clean as one Jam without any after edits (Though some tracks very hard to do without some after edits)
An example of the sound (This is with the Korg Electribe 2, Waldorf Pulse & Renoise):
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Always like to have the Pulse there, it has such a massive sound, though it needs a service.
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Pretty minimal here: just an LXR-02 and a Beat Buddy, plus a Scarlett OctoPre to capture their audio.
They’re controlled via MIDI, and patched back into Renoise via Line Input devices, so I can process their output with plugins.
I do use guitars and basses, and related hardware, but they go directly into Ardour rather than through Renoise.
…huh. I just realised I can now reproduce something I did many years ago, for a friend’s project. We sampled my guitar and amp in full feedback frenzy, and it was the best Hammond organ sample either of us had heard. Now I have a terrifyingly loud amp, plus a few pedals, so I can take that idea a little further.
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I like the sound of this. Do you have any audio examples handy per chance?
I don’t use any hardware in Renoise, just run it on an old Linux laptop and use the keyboard/touchpad as standard.
There’s an Akai Mini MK2 lying around but I hardly use it, maybe sometimes in Ardour. Also have an M-Audio larger keyboard that never gets used and my fiancé has a full on massive electric piano with weighted keys etc that’s a joy to play but is in storage as we’re in the process of moving house.
Had edrum sets but sold them when my daughter was born.
I have a Yamaha MSG from the late 80s (tuned in drop B with top heavy strings) but I never really play it. Same for my Danelectro longhorn (semi-hollw with the 3 single coil pickup).
My Danelectro Baritone 56 however (tuned in low A standard) is my main instrument these days. I do all my writing and recording with that, in Renoise and Ardour, because it is the greatest guitar ever and that is as simple as that.
I usually set up a few channels using Guitarix to record the baritone (single take processed in multiple tracks) but for live use and exceptional circumstances I hook up a submarine pickup to the baritone and split the outs to run through an NUX Ss5, an NUX MLD (for “bass”) and an NUX Cerberus. If only I could record 3 mono samples from 3 separate inputs straight to Renoise… 
Sorry, but I don’t at the moment.
I never got recordings of that project, and right now I’m fully occupied with a non-musical project, so I don’t have the time and mental capacity to give this the attention it’d need. I’ll report back if I produce a recording that uses it, though.