List of implemented features
- Easy to use interface
An all-in-one, customizable and user friendly interface that uses Direct X for fastest response time
- Easy to use song arranger
Arranging patterns and song structure is really easy with Renoise, especially when you’ve worked with other trackers before.
- Fast Tracker 2-like default keyboard shortcuts
You’ve worked with Fasttracker before and want to switch over to Renoise? No problem, the keyboard shortcuts are set to what you’re used to.
You have not worked with Fasttracker before? No problem, changing the keyboard shortcuts to what you like is as easy as 1–2−3 in the Configs menu. (user definable), and similar GUI
- Full MIDI support (WDM, MME)
Not only does Renoise support full MIDI usage, it gives you the possibility to manually correct unwanted latencies to give you full control over MIDI.
- Full synchronization via MIDI clock as Master or Slave
Connect Renoise to external programs or hardware that is able to receive or send MIDI Clock commands (e.g. drum machines, external sequencer, etc.)!
- VST/VSTi 2.4
Use your favorite VST plugins in Renoise! Widen your sound repertoire to unknown dimensions by using all the professional software. Renoise contains workarounds for almost all known VST plugins in order to make their usage stable.
- ASIO multi I/O cards support
Use your ASIO soundcard to achieve even lower sound latencies than Renoise already provides you with! Renoise additionally supports routing of tracks to hardware channels.
- Integrated sampler and high quality mixer
- Integrated sample editor
No need for an external sample editor! Renoise gives you everything you need to make your samples sound the way you want.
- Integrated instrument editor
Create great sounding instruments out of your samples using graphical envelopes (better than classic ADSR envelopes) with Cubic interpolation.
- High quality player
Renoise’s internal sound player has 32-bit float-point processing, is interpolated, and click free.
- Real-time DSP engine
Put all the effects you want onto your Sample or Send tracks. Use Renoise’s internal ones or external VST plugins (reverb, echo/delay, compressor, distortion, flanger, phaser, EQ…).
- Sample tracks, Send tracks and a Master track
Exercise full control over your Sample tracks, route effects to Send tracks to save CPU power, and control your whole song by putting effects and commands into the Master track.
- Unlimited number of effects
Use as many effects per track as you want. The effects are processed very fast in Renoise, too.
- Automation of effects
via track and instrument envelopes. No need to type or remember effect numbers .
- Sampler supports: samples, multi sampled samples
(sample splits), loop samples (loops)
- Use sounds all at once:
Sampler + VSTi + MIDI audio (as one instrument)
- High quality WAV renderer
(32-bit, 96 kHz, 2 quality modes (near perfect and perfect), with ability to render each track in separate file)
- Built-in visualization
(Stereo Scopes, Track Scopes, Spectrum Analyzer)
- Many popular formats supported
Have a look at the list of formats that Renoise supports.
- Compatibility with all 32-bit Windows versions
Renoise 1.5 runs on all Windows versions that support Direct X 8.0 (Windows 95–98-Me-NT-2000-XP)., Renoise 1.8 and higher runs on Windows 2000 and newer.
- Macintosh OSX 10.3 version available!