Not really. Last time it was Reaper that I wanted to use for some tests, but previously it can be Steam or any other program. I may work on various software before I started Renoise. It would be much easier, I know, if I know which software causes this, but that would need to start Renoise every time I open another program.
Now my keyboard stops working again.
What I was done before:
- Using SoundForge
- Using Audacity (update) with all plugins scan.
No games.
And as usual - only logout and login into Windows fix it.
I had a similar issue this week (Win 10, nothing too special about it).
I was using a very old VST host called, rather creatively, VSThost from Hermann Seib at the same time and it evidently was grabbing (and keeping hold of) my computer keyboard.
I could name tracks in Renoise, but no keyboard control of functions was possible until I closed VSThost.
Just thought I’d throw that out there.
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I’m having this issue today. Renoise will not accept keyboard commands, like using space to play or entering notes in the editor. I can’t move the marker with the direction keys, either. I’m on Windows 11.
What I did notice that this coincides with a problem I have noticed in Windows 11 (maybe even 10) for quite a while. I tried renaming Keybindings.xml but couldn’t because Windows wasn’t responding to the F2 keybind. When this happens, Windows will stop responding to certain keybinds, even issuing the rename on the right-click menu.
Most programs are not affected, but for example File Explorer always is. I never found an answer as to why this happens. It persists until restarting the computer. I wonder if something hangs in Windows that Renoise also relies on but very few other Windows programs directly do…