Everybody wants to know when they will release the 2.8 because everybody is curious to see what will be the next features in it.
I think that the devteam has allready said that Renoise 2.7 introduced several new features, that will be improved in future versions.
So let’s have a look in the more recent features.
Since the EQs are always improved the EQ bands and Q should be 100% fully automatable now.
And for example Renoise 2.8 will improve the multilayer instruments logic in some way… the sample keyzones will be improved, with the ability to zoom vertically in it ; a multilayered instrument could allow something like a round robin sample playback selection, or something “humanized”.
It’s possible that we’ll get envelopes per samples instead of envelopes per instruments directly in the 2.8 release, otherwise it should be ready for the 2.9 one.
The instruments envelopes should be improved, for example, a better pitch envelope definition, and maybe, an integrated arpeggiator.
The automation envelopes have been improved but some DSPs and Instruments still have limited envelopes so we can probably expect something that should make all envelopes look better and behave exactly the same in the GUI.
The Phase meter will be “coherent” and more usable.
The beat slicer will probably be improved, and moving slices will probably also “move” (timestretch) audio data on the fly.
They said that lots of bugs we noticed in the actual release have been fixed. So we can expect an improved multiband send device for example.
Same thing for the bunch of VSTs and VSTis troubles that have been tested and fixed during the last Renoise version.
The highly alpha stage of the *Formula device will end, the highly beta phase will start.
The GUI will allow a selection of more customized fonts for the pattern and more renoise logos in the upper-right corner.
The GUI will allow to have curtomize the background track color instead of a top track color for those who need to group/organize their setups.
Concerning the new DSPs/FX that would come in addition to the previously ones, I don’t know why but I expect something totally unpredictable… like… like a basic 3D binaural “emulation”. And concerning the new meta devices, thay will probably deal with real time “spectral” analysis.
MIDI controls recognition and assignment will be improved as usual.
A new “community radio” will be introduced, and renoise users will be able to play a random selection of xrns tracks (sorted by genre) that license owners will be able to upload in their backstage section.
