The Big Ol' Renoise Thread

I just bought this after sketching out a few tracks! Seems ideal for complex beats but still trying to get the hang of writing melodies that don't sound super mechanical in here. Very fun, though. Any tips or tricks would be welcome.

Hello!

I have the biggest NOOB question in the world.. 

If I have for example one bass sample that is played in F then how do I play it like it should been played in the pattern?
And what happen if I take that F and trigger it as a C? Is it becoming a C or a weird mix between C and F?

Shit my brain is spinning too much around this.. 

  On 4/19/2022 at 9:37 PM, cern said:

Hello!

I have the biggest NOOB question in the world.. 

If I have for example one bass sample that is played in F then how do I play it like it should been played in the pattern?
And what happen if I take that F and trigger it as a C? Is it becoming a C or a weird mix between C and F?

Shit my brain is spinning too much around this.. 

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If the sample played as an F, when you play it as a "C" in renoise it will still sound like an F because it is. And if you play a D it will sound like an G. If you want the note names in renoise to match up instead, you'll have to get the same sample in C, to do this just play it 5 semitones lower, so play a G (in renoise), resample that then use it as the sample for a new instrument. I think theres a tool mentioned earlier in the thread that does this automatically though. My notes could be wrong and i may have misinterpreted you, its early

  On 4/19/2022 at 9:37 PM, cern said:

Hello!

I have the biggest NOOB question in the world.. 

If I have for example one bass sample that is played in F then how do I play it like it should been played in the pattern?
And what happen if I take that F and trigger it as a C? Is it becoming a C or a weird mix between C and F?

Shit my brain is spinning too much around this.. 

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An easy way to do this is by just setting the "Base Note".

Go to Sampler, then select the Keyzones tab, below the Keyzone grid there's Base Note. Just set it to F-appropriate octave.

It's Windows 10 so I guess you can play around with every DAW there is lol 

  On 4/23/2022 at 7:15 PM, cern said:

It's Windows 10 so I guess you can play around with every DAW there is lol 

yeah.. latest renoise is compatible w/raspberry pi or something.. so i guess it's more flexible than ever for install options. 

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Main features: MacOS M1 ARM Support - Raspberry PI ARM Support - MacOS Metal Rendering - Windows WASAPI Audio - Ableton Link Support

  On 4/19/2022 at 9:37 PM, cern said:

Hello!

I have the biggest NOOB question in the world.. 

If I have for example one bass sample that is played in F then how do I play it like it should been played in the pattern?
And what happen if I take that F and trigger it as a C? Is it becoming a C or a weird mix between C and F?

Shit my brain is spinning too much around this.. 

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Just fyi, there is also a tool that will analyze a sample and automatically pitch adjust it to "C" so that when you play C it's a C. Search tools over at the Renoise site

Edit: https://www.renoise.com/tools/easy-tune

Renoise bump!

I totally missed the new 3.4 Update now supporting M1 and Raspberry Pi. 
https://forum.renoise.com/t/renoise-3-4-0-redux-1-3-0-released/66685

I wish there were more built in sound features in Renoise like in Furnace,  Redux is so boring. In Furnace here u can choose different sound engines and tons of different Sound Chips and Modes like from Amiga, Sega Genesis, OPL3 etc.. It is so dope! 
 

renoise is still such a great piece of gear...a pleasusre to make music with

very like hardware sequencers

is there any other tracker even half as good?

i love renoise. one $60 purchase ages ago and i have a full-on standalone incredibly versatile music production thing that works on linux without any fuss. epic piece of software

I would love to get back into using renoise. Never really got super the hang of it but I liked it a lot. I wonder if anyone else will try to build a modern tracker-based DAW. I think renoise is getting a major version update soon, as per a post I saw on reddit:
 

We've now hit 10,000+ subscribers on the Renoise Youtube channel. There's a bunch of new videos incoming, and... info on the next major update coming soon!

  On 2/16/2025 at 6:36 PM, Crazing said:

is there any other tracker even half as good?

M8 is great.

  On 2/17/2025 at 9:26 AM, psn said:

M8 is great.

expensive and hardware...looks cool though

really hope renoise doesnt disappear as abandoned

im sure i could use openmpt if i tried

  On 2/17/2025 at 11:58 AM, Crazing said:

expensive and hardware...looks cool though

The headless version is free, you just need a 40 Euro Teensy to run it on.

When people used trackers in the olden days did they prep samples in editors beforehand ...I.e. effects, eq etc?

  On 2/20/2025 at 2:17 PM, Crazing said:

When people used trackers in the olden days did they prep samples in editors beforehand ...I.e. effects, eq etc?

I mostly just stole the samples from other people's tracks, lol.

At some point I found a simple 303 emulator for MS-DOS that wouldn't run realtime on my 386SX but at least I could render the patterns. And then I started to sample from CDs (both sample CDs and music albums) and radio. I'm guessing there was a simple audio editor for MS-DOS that came with the soundcard, but definitely without an EQ or other DSP things. Just cutting and maybe volume adjustments.

  On 2/20/2025 at 2:17 PM, Crazing said:

When people used trackers in the olden days did they prep samples in editors beforehand ...I.e. effects, eq etc?

Nah, I had a basic sampler interface on my Amiga that I used to sample straight from vinyl or VHS into OctaMed (wish I still had those disks/samples) and like many others I relied heavily on these:

 https://archive.org/details/AmigaSoundtrackerSamplePacksst-xx 

  On 2/20/2025 at 5:24 PM, Silent Member said:

Nah, I had a basic sampler interface on my Amiga that I used to sample straight from vinyl or VHS into OctaMed (wish I still had those disks/samples) and like many others I relied heavily on these:

 https://archive.org/details/AmigaSoundtrackerSamplePacksst-xx 

awesome - i missed this whole era of music making

There are rumors that 3.5 gonna have sequence scripting engine in Phrases (in Redux too i guess) a'la Tidal Cycles

  On 3/20/2025 at 11:45 AM, kausto said:

There are rumors that 3.5 gonna have sequence scripting engine in Phrases (in Redux too i guess) a'la Tidal Cycles

an accessible function for us dunces then