Song Properties

With song-properties, you set some global values for your current song.

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Player Options

  • Tempo : indicates true BPM value and LPB value.
    If you keep the tickrates at 1, 2, 3, 6 and 12, the true BPM will be the same as the BPM you set in the player-control panel. If you change the tick-rate to any other value, the true BPM will differ with a couple of decimals.
  • 09/pitchmode - Sets pitch mode for use within your song. Generally this is a compatability feature to be able to use XM / MOD files with their correct pitch values.




Pattern Seq./Hightlight

  • Highlight every xx lines : Shows every xxth row in highlight colour.
  • Default patternlength - Sets the default patternsize in rows.
  • Highlight every xx blocks - Highlight every xxth block in the Pattern Sequencer.
  • Highlight block offset - Sets the the offset in the sequencer the block highlight should start.



Groove settings
Ever wanted to create a song having some kind of Rasta groove? These are the slides to use for it. You’ll get the hang of it when playing with the presets. (try presets 4, 5 and 6). Though it is a fixed groove for the whole song, there is currently no way to adjust this from within the song. The old-skool trick usually was to change the song-BPM in the effectcolumn, this required the musician to fill in the groove blocks throughout the whole song in every pattern the groove was desired though. But the old-skool method gives a musician the ability to apply multiple groove variants throughout the song. To notice groove effects, depending on the speed (how many ticks per line) you need to use each row to hear the groove configuration in effect.

A detailed picture of the groove behavior:

(image courtesy of dblue)

In other words, a groove of 25% means the first note will be extended to 125%, while the 2nd note is shortened to 75% and is triggered with a 25% delay, creating the groove/swing.

Technically speaking, a 100% groove should mean that the 2nd note never actually gets triggered at all, but this is not the case in Renoise. Some software does it this way, other software does it other ways, it seems kind of a personal preference choice with the developers. 100% Groove is rather useless in most cases.

If you want to hear groove effects applied to every note on each “even” row in situations where song-groove has no effect, then you would require to apply speed / bpm alternation tricks but beware:alternating speed/bpm tricks will cause timing and synchronisation problems in a MIDI Master/Slave configuration between two different hosts or between Renoise and the Master/Slave MIDI hardware. So don’t use alternating speed/bpm rates when you Master or Slave Renoise to another host.


Oldskool tempo-groove


Here another few examples borrowed from Satobox:

< These are speed-grooves >.





Template Song

  • Save - Saves current song as template (will be loaded each time you (re)start Renoise or perform a “New song” action)
  • Delete - Deletes current template song.




Song Somments (View → song comments)

  • The upperleft text-line is the Title field. If you start with a clean song it shall say Untitled so that you know that this is the titlefield.
  • The upperright text-line is the Author field which will show By Somebody when a new song is being created.
  • The larger textfield underneath it is the comment-field where you can insert whatever notes you desire.
  • The Show song comments after loading checkbox takes care the comments pop up after the song is loaded into Renoise. → This setting is saved along the song and not somewhere along the global preferences of Renoise, so it’s a song-related trigger!