Change History

V1.9.1

V1.9.1
summary:

  1. 5 new additions (1 full new, 4 upgraded functions),
  2. 10 fixes,
  3. 3 changes (moves / removals).


Complete new functions

  • [Add] Linux Support

Upgraded functions

  • [Update] Added a “Draw Mode” and to the Sample Editor to draw new tiny waves by hand, or to retouch existing waveforms. A simple “Create Sample” option was added as well, so that you can create new hand-drawn samples.
  • [Update] Added “Clear Muted Tracks/Columns” actions (shortcuts + context menu entries) to the Pattern Editor and Sequencer. This can be especially useful as an “arranging” aid in the Sequencer.
  • [Update] Added a “Record Dry” switch to the Sample Editors recorder, which allows you to preview the to be recorded signal wet (depending on the selected Track FX), but enforces to record the dry signal (without FX).
  • [Update] added an info button to VST / LADSPA FX, which will show you some details about the loaded plugin

Fixes

  • [Fixed] problems CPU detection with some newer AMD multicore processors. Renoise could sometimes recognize those as single core CPUs with some energy saving settings enabled
  • [Fixed] The 2nd Pattern Editor “Delete” keyboard shortcut has not removed FX values, but just Notes
  • [Fixed] VST FX On/Off automation could cause unwanted delays when rendering songs to disk
  • [Fixed] very high pitched backwards or ping-pong sample loops sometimes didn’t played back correctly
  • [Fixed] The Mac “Jack-insert” VST should now work properly in Renoise
  • [Fixed] OSX Leopard: Hitting/releasing the Command or Control key while Caps-Lock was on could produce unwanted Note-Off events
  • [Fixed] VST plugins which are listed as FX but are VST instruments, will now automatically be “fixed” (listed correctly) after you’ve instantiated them and restarted Renoise
  • [Fixed] import of Impulse Tracker songs skipped IT Note-off/Note-cut pattern events
  • [Fixed] import of Fasttracker XM songs could lead to invalid sequencer loop ranges
  • [Fixed] Instrument envelopes in Fasttracker XM and Impulse Tracker IT songs are now correctly imported

Changes

  • [Change] Easier Drag and Drop in the Pattern Editor: You no longer have to hold the mouse button down a bit, before you can drag a selection in the Pattern Editor to move or copy it.
  • [Change] rescanning the folder & file contents in the Disk Browser should be a bit faster now
  • [Change] Zoombar in sample editor has been moved underneath the sample-view frame to fit to the current view.

V1.9

V1.9
summary:

  1. 44 new additions (11 fully new functions, 33 upgraded functions),
  2. 18 fixes,
  3. 5 changes (moves / removals).


Complete new functions

  • [Add] Added Bus compressor DSP
  • [Add] Added Maximizer DSP
  • [Add] Added a chorus effect
  • [Add] Added new Distortion DSP (old one still loads through old songs)
  • [Add] Added search bar in Disk Op
  • [Add] Added a “*Velocity Device” (with different vel. scalings thanks to pulsar)
  • [Add] Hotplugging of MIDI devices for OS X (no chance to get this done for Windows)
  • [Add] Multi CPU support (multicpu/multicore, sorry no HT!)
  • [Add] improved MIDI Clock Master support
  • [Add] There is now also a default pattern length option
  • [Add] Added peak indicators to the master track device

Upgraded functions

  • [Update] Added merge command to pattern sequencer which creates one large pattern out of a selected sequence.
  • [Update] The Middle Mouse now triggers a sample preview in the Sample Editor, so you can quickly click to preview large samples (from different offsets)
  • [Update] Added post volume control in the effects area
  • [Update] Added a Re Init button into the Audio Preferences
  • [Update] Added interpolation mode per sample
  • [Update] Added preset handling in effects
  • [Update] Added A/B mode in effects
  • [Update] Added configurable Rulers in sample editor (rightclick on rulers pops context menu)
  • [Update] Added stage control to the phaser
  • [Update] Added more quantize options to the sample editor (Shortcuts are Control + 0,1,2,3,4,5,6)
  • [Update] The pattern highlight settings are now saved per song, no longer in the preferneces.
    You will find them in the song properties pane.
  • [Update] MIDI device are now only opened when they are used
  • [Update] You can now render your songs in 88.2 khz
  • [Update] Adding new samples to a drumkit instrument, will now update the basenotes and sample splits in the instrument editor automatically
  • [Update] Freq and Q controls for the EQ5 and E Q10
  • [Update] The LFO device has a custom mode now, where you can draw tiny envelopes
  • [Update] The LFO devices frequeny is now shown/editable in Lines Per Cycle, so you can now enter
    for example 64 to let the LFO cycle once per pattern (if the pattern has 64 lines)
  • [Update] “BPM sync” for the delay device
  • [Update] Pan TAP added for the delay device
  • [Update] Line sync added for the delay device
  • [Update] phase inversion switches to the gainer device
  • [Update] Added filter control to the flanger device
  • [Update] Meters for all the amp related devices
  • [Update] Surround width is available in the Stereo Expander as well
  • [Update] Freq graphs for all EQs
  • [Update] Channel control (L/R / L+R) for all EQs
  • [Update] new mpReverb2
  • [Update] new “soft” fullscreen mode on Windows
  • [Update] Support for dead characters in all Renoise textfields (you can type,enter combined characters like ñ now…)
  • [Update] Own drawn Caption and resize borders on Windows
  • [Update] All delay lines are now “smoothed”, so that you dont get clicks when changing the delay time
  • [Update] All Buttons, Chooser, Whatever (non sliders) in the FX devices will now show the pattern code in the status-bar on left clicks and write automation or pattern codes (depending on fx recording mode) on right clicks. Including the Device On/Off button
  • [Update] Upgraded the internal Flac to 1.1.4 (should be a bit faster and compress better)

Fixes

  • [Fixed] Render Selection In Pattern With Null Selection, Crashes Renoise
  • [Fixed] Normalizing A Sample Doesn’t Change Bit Depth, (to 32bit float)
  • [Fixed] Hittin Rec, change playback position
  • [Fixed] Program Load Bug With Komplexer VSTi
  • [Fixed] Delete - >”all Automation In Song” Only Affects current open pattern
  • [Fixed] LFO GUI update when type change performed by effect command
  • [Fixed] Undo enter new Pattern Name doesnt refresh, gui
  • [Fixed] Tooltip Pattern Wrap
  • [Fixed] Song Comments focus now exclusively visualized
  • [Fixed] Incompatability issues with 1.5 RNS songs where VSTI plugins could be loaded with the wrong patches
  • [Fixed] Crash when deleting a playing sample or instrument on the mastertrack.
  • [Fixed] Copy/paste selections in unequal note/effect columns, pattern command values unpasted
  • [Fixed] Disabled context “copy/paste selection” into automation when no automation yet exists.
  • [Fixed] Double-click song in explorer and Vst Plugins, Doesn’t tell me which ones I need
  • [Fixed] 24 Bit Sample Gets Broken, when using flac
  • [Fixed] AIFF files with empty copyright header won’t load
  • [Fixed] Oscilloscope graphic glitch caused by missing updates
  • [Fixed] Japanese keyboard bug using modifyer keys
  • [Fixed] Midiccdevice Automation Envelope Polls Ccs Too Often

Changes

  • [Change] Removed quality mode in song settings
  • [Change] Splitted 09xx and Pitch mode in song settings
  • [Change] moved the mastering settings “Soft Clipping”, “Autogain” and “DC Filter” from the prefs to the mastertrack
  • [Change] Notecut (fx) and retrigger command (0exx) combination behavior changed to a more logic behavior (now retrig is cut at tick fx)
  • [Change] Moved “Save as default song” from Preferences to Song settings

V1.8

V1.8
summary:

  1. 51 new additions (in detail),
  2. 28 updates (features that got extended),
  3. 9 fixes,
  4. 15 changes.


Additions

  • [Add] Menu bar
  • [Add] Show used midi-mappings dialogue
  • [Add] 7 presets for storing specific custom GUI layouts (bound to the first seven function keys)
  • [Add] Keyjazz option
  • [Add] Single-pattern or pattern selection rendering to file
  • [Add] Render each pattern into a separate file
  • [Add] Multiple sample/instrument selection in the diskbrowser (shift click and ctrl click) to import multiple samples or instruments
  • [Add] Colour syntax in pattern editor
  • [Add] Zooming facility in automation (4 levels: 100, 200, 400 and 800%)
  • [Add] Manual value change of automation nodes (yes you can now type in exact values for each automation point)
  • [Add] Copy / Paste selection in envelope windows (inside and between(:D) automation / instrument envelopes)
  • [Add] Line-in device to routing group
  • [Add] Search facility to various listings (VST/DSP list; automation list; VSTI list etc.)
  • [Add] Copy track in song through pattern editor context menu or shortcut (lctrl-lalt-ld)
  • [Add] Added transparent copy mode (aka mix-paste in other trackers) to Advanced Edit which allows you to copy contents in between existing notes
  • [Add] Added “Column in song”option to Advanced Edit selection criteria
  • [Add] FLAC support (encoding and decoding) FLAC files are stored in 16-, 24- and 32-bit (yes first app to support true 32 bit flac!) format
  • [Add] Configurable prehear volume slider in sample-section of the diskbrowser and assignable to master or current selected track.
  • Sample editor improvements:
    • [Add] Snap-to-Zero for selections and loop-based operations
    • [Add] Short-cut key controllable options
    • [Add] Prehear wave-play on mastertrack or selected track
    • [Add] Added bit-depth option to the conversion dialog
    • [Add] Line-in recording which features
      • [Add] Pattern quantization
      • [Add] Record-latency compensation
      • [Add] Channel recording selection (L/R/L+R)
      • [Add] Selectable device input (In general for ASIO:Line-in / Mic/Phono-in etc:depending what the soundcard supports)
      • [Add] Realtime track-fx processing to line-in signal
  • [Add] Advanced Mixer which contains:
    • [Add] Six switchable control components (mute/solo+panning+fader+volume-value+routing component)
    • [Add] VU-meters contain three different min/max limits: −24 to 0dB, −48 to 0dB (default) and −96 to 0dB
    • [Add] drag & drop dsp/VST effects in mixer
    • [Add] expandable/collapsable parameter tables in Mixer DSP/VST blocks and hide/view labelnames
    • [Add] Pre (automatable) and post (none-automatable) and MIDI mappable slide-buttons (vol & pan)
    • [Add] Specific ASIO channel routing possibilities
  • [Add] Command to temporary skip loading the song-template when creating a new song (ctrl-shift-n)
  • [Add] specific keyboard focus areas (highlighted with specific area markers in around the corners)
  • [Add] lock keyboard focus to pattern area function
  • [Add] CPU Load Threshold
  • [Add] Hardware buffer triggering:More control to circumvent audio-card quirks, some soundcards perform better with hardware buffers, but *may* perform unpredictable when using the line-in device or recording with it (wrong bit/freq rate recording / playback etc.)
  • [Add] SSE support to improve CPU performance (rates of 10% improvement are possible)
  • [Add] Custom root-folders for autobackup files
  • [Add] Colour-picker added to theme preferences
  • [Add] Mute source in delay DSP
  • [Add] Three different sample export types in song/instrument export preferences
  • [Add] Added colour invert option to invert the complete theme
  • [Add] Printable custom keyboard settings from within any XSLT compliant browser
  • [Add] Open/Save as song using common dialog
  • [Add] Open Recent songs loadlist
  • [Add] Missing vst plugin survey for songs loaded that contain plugin references that lack locally.
  • [Add] Set option in the advanced edit for mass alteration of values to the same value in the pan/vol/effect column.

Updates

  • [Update] You can now exclude specific controllers in the MIDI prefs pane
  • [Update] Note-Cut behaviour altered to lower CPU usage
  • [Update] Flac, Ogg and AAC/M4A added to importable samples, involving improved mp3 support
  • [Update] Import format sample-files can now be preheared in the Disk-browser as well
  • [Update] Prehear of samples in the diskbrowser can now be initiated by right arrow key (regardless of the prehear button state)
  • [Update] Import options (MIDI / raw sample import / wave loop options) can also be altered on-the-fly from the file context menu of the disk browser (use Load File with Options)
  • [Update] Samples can now be loaded directly from the XRNS and XRNI archives.
  • [Update] Samples in the archives can be replaced with whatever sample format Renoise can read
  • [Update] Sample-slot window can be resized so you can balance between the amount of instruments / samples view.
  • [Update] All supported file-types can now always be loaded regardless which preset section is selected (song/instrument/sample/theme)
  • [Update] Added option for rendering 24-bit quality
  • [Update] Effect plugins can be moved by keyboard shortcuts
  • [Update] All XML related clipboard contents (pattern / automation / dsp / inst.envelope data etc.) can be shared between Renoise and third party tools (like text editors)
  • [Update] Individual MIDI mappings can now be removed without having to redefine all the other controllers
  • [Update] Automation can now be controlled by more keyboard shortcuts
  • [Update] global Undo/Redo - All actions performed are now all undoable
    this includes removing complete tracks and deleting samples from instruments etc
  • [Update] You can now hear instruments when playing notes in the mastertrack / sendtracks (excluding track effects!)
  • [Update] ASIO auxilary control can also be set in the Mastertrack now
  • [Update] Note delay (Dx) and note cut (Fx) commands can now be used in both panning and volume column
  • [Update] Increased pattern volume value to 80 (7f) to better support the MIDI volume range
  • [Update] Expanded maximum amounts of samples to 256 per instrument
  • [Update] Changed file format (XML) for all saved sound-files (song / instrument) to a ZIP-compatible archive
  • [Update] Increased beatsync (Now called Sync) value to 512
  • [Update] Expanded maximum bpm rate to 999.
  • [Update] Automation interpolation process per tick instead of per line. (values are still per line!)
  • [Update] International characters are supported now in the fonts. (Using Free Type fonts)
  • [Update] Folder locations in diskbrowser can now be summoned in OS explorer through short-cut / context option.
  • [Update] Added global shortcuts for Sequencer navigation: In the keybindings section “global” of the preferences pane, you can now assign keys to navigate the sequencer. These are by default not assigned.

Fixes

  • [Fixed] (Mac) Right side modifier keys work properly now
    (to start playing the Pattern / Song by default)
  • [Fixed] Changed BPM behaviour to match exact BPM at specific tick-rates (1, 2, 3, 6, 12)
  • [Fixed] Fixed quantize problems and hiss sound in EQ filter DSP’s
  • [Fixed] VST compatability (Allows you to run V2.4 protocol VST’s)
  • [Fixed] VST Timing. (VST plugins with own sequencers now run better synchronised to Renoise)
  • [Fixed] Click and crackle problems with Delay dsp when automated have been resolved by smoothing out the volume parameter response (feedback / send)
  • [Fixed] Buffering issue with Direct Sound drivers, this might resolve a lot of playback issues as well if experienced so far
  • [Fixed] Samples are saved in full true bit rates (24/32 bit) now instead of being converted to 16-bit equivalent
  • [Fixed] “Make Selection unique” now sorts pattern sequence in ascending mode instead of descending.

Changes

  • [Change] Moved Clipboard selection menu from pattern editor context menu to Edit drop-box in menu-bar
  • [Change] Removed Midi mapping button from top-right frame, added it to View dropbox of menu-bar
  • [Change] Removed Prehear button from the instrument area (still toggable through the numpad decimal-key)
  • [Change] Moved Configs to Preferences dialogue approachable from the menu-bar
  • [Change] Moved Advance Edit to (expandable/collapsable) side panel on the right side of the pattern editor
  • [Change] Moved author/title and song comment to specific dialog, with toggle switch (saved with the song)
  • [Change] Moved “Follow automation on song-position changes” to preferences
  • [Change] Moved Copy DSP chain from Advanced Edit to Mixer Panel right-click context menu
  • [Change] Moved CPU Usage to Song properties and changed name into Quality Mode
  • [Change] ASIO channel-names are now shown in the routing list instead of 1 + 2 and 3 + 4
  • [Change] Categorised send-device as routing component
  • [Change] LFO Device now displays effect and parametername in droplists instead of referring to the devicenumber
  • [Change] To read AAC or MP$, you need to install Quicktime 7.0 or higher on windows
  • [Change] log-file is being extended instead of overwritten
  • [Change] Renoise styled modal dialogs returned.