What Would You Like To See In A Renoise 3.0?

Ideas & suggestions
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dude, why such a blinkered view? sometimes when i post something i would consider useful, you’re like “hey mang, only you would use it, dude, that’s just for your workflow, what’s the point, so fed up with this, why don’t you just get with the program” ?

so you think pianoroll and horizontal view would be useful, well, i would rather have more api functions and a pattern matrix that allows for multiple length track-clips while arranging a song. oh, and more api functions.

seriously tho, i do get bored of everyone going off about horizontal view being some sort of a magic solution for renoise.
i WOULDNT MIND being able to see what it would be like to track horizontally, with the cursor keys and inputting notes like that, i would love for Logic for instance to have full on keyboard / tracker-like features and functions. but Renoise is doing so well as a tracker, so why bother…

in my opinion, renoise as a VST would be a solution to this endless “hey why this no look like my fav daw? u lame” mess.

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I think we can both very much agree on that one! :)

256

Nothing big like a piano roll or audio tracks, but these are a couple things I think would be nice

-More mouse wheel use, hover over faders and move with mouse wheel, hover over mixer tracks and use wheel to shuffle DSPs, use mouse wheel to adjust band width of EQ nodes in graphical view

-Display VST parameter CC’s in lower status bar or somewhere in the instrument panel when tweaked, maybe I’ve missed something but it seems like there’s no easy way currently to identify what CC’s correlate to what parameters aside from referencing the plugin manual, would make automating VSTs easier

257

This for sure.

Also, can we make hovering over (or perhaps highlighting) a pattern command in the pattern editor show what it’s doing in the status bar at the bottom?

For example:

DSP commands would show: “Set [effect] [parameter] to [value]”
Sample commands would show things like: “Retrigger [instrument] [sample] every [y] ticks with volume factor”

All of the values would be filled in of course. This would be suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper handy. I lose track of what parameters I’m changing with what commands all the time when I have a bunch of DSP effects automated via pattern commands.

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Hey… I just had a thought… On the LFO Meta Device… The option to load wavetables, for a custom waveform.

cheers

:w00t:

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You can allready convert 8 bit mono samples to automation points with this tool.

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That’s amazing, but I don’t understand how you did that. And… :frowning: Renoised crashed on exit… Still, cool trick. I’d love to do stuff like that. But I confuse easily with this type of stuff. :frowning:

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? I’ve reloaded the empty.xrns example, and tested it with renoise 2.8 on my system… it didn’t crashed on exit. Try to get a look in your Log.txt file.

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Ok… So what am I looking for? I found the Microsoft events viewer, in the Control Panel B) But I can’t find anything that says Renoise in a log file.

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heee no, renoise produces its own log file, there are sometimes some usefull informations in it

264

Read why I explained audiotracks are a bad idea. The same is true for a piano roll.

You are forgetting about the amount of work needed to add fundamental changes to Renoise’s feature set. Not only do they have to code the thing,
they also have to keep supporting it (debugging, adding any features people request related to it). Adding a piano roll is opening a can of worms (or bugs, technically). It is a prime example of feature creep ( Feature creep - Wikipedia ).

Your viewpoint is exactly what leads to software bloat: Software bloat - Wikipedia
The idea that unused features are easily ignored is delusional. One only needs to compare an Apple product to a Microsoft product to see this.
I’m not even sure the development team is large enough to implement these things rigorously (or affordably).

Look, the developers have spent the time to implement ReWire so you can add another DAW for these features. They did this, I’m assuming, because they don’t want to make Renoise a vertical Cubase, or vertical Logic, or vertical FL Studio, or vertical Sonar, or vertical any of the other hundreds of DAWS that are designed for those things.

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Hey NER can you please explain then why the developpers wrote that :

extracted from Renoise changelog :

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Renoise 2.0 features Precision, Timing and Plugin improvements
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  • ready for the future: NoteDelays and LPB are the most important and necessary
    steps for upcoming big features like Zoomable Patterns, Piano Roll, more accuracy
    (timing wise) with FX automations, and so on.

Thanx

266

Better sub row editing (this could be pattern zoom, piano roll or negative delays in delay column).

Freezing and disk streaming, which probably happens when we get audio tracks.

267

Very interesting. Ok, I’m sending a link to the log, via PM. :slight_smile:

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  1. A ‘remove noise’-option in the Sample Editor. I use audacity’s, but it would be awesome in Renoise.
    In fact, more options to remove sound artifacts.

  2. More drawing tools. Imagining something like Photosounder’s drawing options in the Sample Editor.
    Or even the possibility import images- convert em to sounds - edit - etc. Sorry, i just love that tool!

  3. A spectrogram in the Sample Editor.
    Btw- I love the spectrogram in the master Spectrum.

  4. Possibility to automate the Attack, sustain n release on samples.

  5. A rename all option, in the Instrument Settings/Sample. Like, if i wanted to remove the "VST"text-part from each n every single sample in the .xrni

  6. I dont know if its only me, but it can be hard to see the texture in the Pattern Editor on play. It gets fluffy. So maybe a more “floating” kind of thing. Or zoom in n out. I don’t know if it just me who need glasses. ;)

  7. Something like the Plug-in Grabber, but with DSPs on imported or created audio.
    Example, if i create a sample with the wonderful Padsynth, put on some DSPs - and then convert/render the hole deal to a .xrni.
    The “Process Track DSP’s” in the Sample Editor doesn’t do the job as well… And i have to do it on each and every single sample in the instrument. Would be nice with something that effected all the samples at one time.

  8. Monophonic/ “Chord Mode” in the Sample editor for each and every instrument slot. Maybe with some more glide options.

I am still a new-b to Renoise, and there are tons of things that i dont know about “yet”. And if its already possible to do some of the things I have mentioned in the above points, please let me know, as i am learning:)
And sorry for my english, but i hope it make sense.

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Hi, when talking about, “noise,” have you tried using the gate? In your native dsp effects… Can you post a sound example of the noise you are trying to remove?

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Doesnt the gate just effect the quiet part? Lets say that i have recorded a song from an old vinyl. There are a lot of “noise” like hiss, clicks n pops. With an “remove noise” tool you can grab that noise - learn it from a “quiet” part by the tool - and mute or delete it on the hole audio-file. The noise is also included in the audio itself. That’s the thing i would love to see in the Sample Editor.
But,. For my kind of purpose, it is the room noise, that also effect the audio in the sample.
I have an usb-mic and no kind of setup for recording. So loads of “room”-noise are included in the recordings which i hate.- but can be somehow removed with audacity’s remove noise.

but is that what a gate can do?

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Because people bug them about it. Also, ReWire was added in version 2.1, after this changelog.
I said they probably don’t want to add a piano roll, not that they aren’t planning on adding one.
If I didn’t think that was a possibility I wouldn’t be arguing against it, obviously…

You come off as a spoiled consumer (and this is coming from an American).

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<-- Doesnt the gate just effect the quiet part?

A Noise Gate is a volume related tool… When you have your signal above the threshold the door, “opens,” and below the thresh, “shuts.” In electronic music this is used to create trance, and pulsing bass, “the side chain effect.” ( beyond the scope of this post. )

<-- Lets say that i have recorded a song from an old vinyl. There are a lot of “noise” like hiss, clicks n pops. With an “remove noise” tool you can grab that noise - learn it from a “quiet” part by the tool - and mute or delete it on the hole audio-file.

While a noise gate, would not be great for a whole audio file, I would think, that depending on your type of music, a noise gate would be ideal here. You could gate out the noise, and have an organic sound, rather than audacity’s ultra destructive remove noise function, that has always sounded plastic to me, and is also not giving you great results. Trust me on that.

<-- But,. For my kind of purpose, it is the room noise, that also effect the audio in the sample.
I have an usb-mic and no kind of setup for recording.

I have seen some tools for vinyl, something from numark perhaps, that allows you to plug the phonograph into a usb port. Maybe look into the USB Turntable? Or quiet the room…

<-- So loads of “room”-noise are included in the recordings which i hate.- but can be somehow removed with audacity’s remove noise.

If this is what you are looking for; it is a, “feature request.” However, even though you may not hear them, with audacity’s tool, there are still artifacts from this type of recording, in your music.

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Man, if they are really, really bugged, like you said, they dont want of it at all. And if they don’t want of it at all, man, they can allready delete the whole Pianoroll thread.

But…, why did you used the word “probably”, then ?

Are you really sure of what you’re saying ? You’re drawing conclusions, but about things that you can not definitively prove, and that’s why you added the word “probably”.

Concerning the PR, the devteam is exactly like this community : you’ll find members that want it, other ones that don’t want it, and other ones that have no opinion and wait & see, that’s all.

Now if the devteam don’t add all the ideas I’ve added in my wishlist, I will respect their free decision, and won’t call them “spoiled programmers”.