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Renoise 3.3

Renoise is a complete, expandable Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).

Renoise is a complete, expandable Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) with a refreshing twist. It lets you record, compose, edit, process and render production-quality audio using a tracker-based approach.

In a tracker, the music runs from top to bottom in an easily understood grid known as a pattern. Several patterns arranged in a certain order make up a song. Step-editing in a pattern grid lends itself well to a fast and immediate workflow. On top of this, Renoise features a wide range of modern features: dozens of built-in audio processors, alongside support for all commonly used virtual instrument and effect plug-in formats. And the software can be extended too: with scripting, you can use all of your MIDI or OSC controller to control it in exactly the way you want.

    

Features highlights:

  • Cross-platform: Renoise runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. If you want to use Renoise on all of them, that's possible too! A Renoise license covers all platforms, so there's no need to register a separate copy for each.

  • Tracker Interface: Quick. Once you get rolling with the keyboard shortcuts, there is no stopping you. There are no annoying floating windows. Every widget stays where it belongs.

  • Plugin support: Plugins provide you with a vast array of effects and synths. With Renoise, all of that is within reach. Renoise supports VST, AU, LADSPA and DSSI.

  • ReWire Support: Connect and synchronize Renoise with other ReWire-capable audio applications. Combine the best aspects of both trackers and sequencers.

  • Multi-Core Support: Take advantage of all the cores in your system to boost performance, allowing you to add much more and heavier DSPs, tracks, VST FX and VST Instruments than before.

      

  • Automatic PDC: Plug-ins and external inputs have varying amounts of delay, making your tracks sound really sloppy. With Automatic PDC, instruments and effects in your productions will be tightly synced.

  • 26+ Native DSP FX: With over 26 native effects included, Renoise has all the essentials you need to tackle any production: reverb, delay, filters, compressors, EQ, distortion, flanger, phaser and more. Use as many of them as you like.

  • Powerful Sampler and Sample Editor: Edit and playback samples with the Sample Editor. Actually the whole tracker is one big sampler with a vast amount of sample mangling possibilities.

  • MIDI: Connect Renoise to hardware synths or VST instruments to send and receive notes and controllers changes. Sync Renoise in either master or slave mode.

  • Lua Scripting API: Renoise contains an API (application programming interface) which enables you to customize and extend the application by writing scripts in the Lua programming language.

  • External Audio Recording: You can record your sound card's line-in in the Sample Editor. Capture perfectly synched or manually triggered external audio directly into a sample slot. Or route the external signal through the Line-In Device into the DSP Chain.

  • Mixer: Renoise's flexible answer to the traditional mixer. Also doubles as an interface for the DSP Chain.

      

  • Track routing: The Send and Master tracks pave the way for unique routing options. Whether you route a single channel or 50 channels to a Send track full of effects, your PC's CPU will hardly know the difference.

  • Meta Devices: With meta devices like the Signal Follower, LFO, X/Y Pad, Meta Mixer and more, you can modulate or control other device parameters instead of manipulating audio. They can even be linked between different tracks, making for complex and powerful sound design possibilities.

  • Automation: Draw curves to tell effects and instruments how their parameters should change during playback.

  • Rendering to WAV: Export your songs to WAV. Up to 32-bit, 96 kHz, with either cubic or sinc interpolation. Renoise can also save the separate tracks and patterns.

  • File formats: Renoise accepts many sample and song formats

      

What’s new in 3.3 version

In summary:

VST3 plugin support Audio Sidechain support for VST2/3 and AU plugins and for some native Renoise FX devices a few little other tweaks and fixes In detail:

  

(Renoise only) VST3 support: The VST2 protocol was deprecated by Steinberg a while ago and replaced with the VST3 protocol. More and more plugins will be available in the new VST3 format only. VST3 support is by default enabled on Windows and Linux. On OSX it can be enabled in the Renoise Plugin/Misc preferences. Feature-wise, VST3 behaves similar to VST2, but sidechaining is a lot easier to realize in VST3 (see below) and external VST3 editors can more easily be resized - when supported by the plugin.

  

(Renoise and Redux) New #Sidechain device (in the Native/Routing sections in Renoise’s Track FX browser), to send audio in tracks or instrument chains to sidechain ports of plugins (VST2/3, AU) and the following native devices: Compressor, Bus Compressor, Gate. A video has been created 286 to demonstrate how this device works. Please note that the sidechain support in VST2s is a bit wonky: The VST2 protocol never had an official way to support side-chains, so the support in hosts and plugins is problematic. The VST3 protocol simplifies this, so it’s preferred to use a VST3 version of a plugin, if available, for side-chaining.

(Renoise, Linux only): Timing fixes for ALSA MIDI: previous version of Renoise may not have applied note delays in MIDI events correctly.

  

(Renoise and Redux) Alt-Tabbing to Renoise sometimes could have frozen the Renoise GUI for a few seconds when a lot of sub folders were visible in the Renoise Disk Browser.

(Renoise and Redux, Linux only): Use XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME paths on Linux (defaulting to “~/.config/Renoise” and “~/.local/share/Renoise”) to get rid of the Renoise folder in your home directory. The old “~/.renoise” and “~/Renoise” folders are symlinked to the new paths, so older versions of Renoise, when installed, can still use the old paths. If you don’t have older versions of Renoise installed you can remove them.

  

(Renoise and Redux) Various compatibility tweaks and fixes for OSX - but most of them got released in the Renoise 3.2 bug fix updates already: All builds are notarized now, a few drawing fixes for OSX Big Sur, replaced Renoise’s “custom” full screen mode with the standard OSX’ full screen mode for better compatibility in newer versions of OSX.

(Renoise only) Lua API changes (new API version is 6.1 - this is a minor, fully backwards compatible update - so all old tools will auto-upgrade)

  



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