Recording Audio In Renoise

The sample editor in Renoise has a recording option since 1.8 editions and on.
If you open the sample editor and click the record button ().

Above the original Sample edit modification tools a new panel appears above the wave-area.

To record into the sampler you need to select an in-device source.
Note that the Direct Sound driver can only offer one source of recording while the ASIO driver can offer multiple input sources. (depending upon your audiocard’s available input sources and how the ASIO driver controls/offers them.) so if you use Direct Sound, the device list will *not* appear.

If you have multiple Direct Sound lines that could be used, you have to select your in-device in the Audio tab of the Preferences dialogue, prior to going to the sample-editor.

Example droplist in Preferences of possible Direct Sound line-in resources

If you have the ASIO driver selected as your line-out device, the line-in device droplist disappears from the audio-tab and the ASIO line-in sources are put in the droplist of the sample editor’s audio source.

Example droplist of possible ASIO line-in resources
(Asio4all might limit you to one input source as ASI O4all are non-official and non specific audio related ASIO drivers)

When you hit the start-button, your audio is being recorded and the center sample area changes to a different colour. The sample recorder is now recording.

To stop recording and store your sample hit the button.

If you want to cancel your recording hit the button.
In the last case your existing samples are not overwritten.

If you use the quantization (Sync start/stop) option, start to play the pattern first before hitting the start button. A green progress line starts running to show current pattern progress. You can now time your actions upon what the pattern plays and if you are ready, click start or hit enter and the next pattern start will start your recording. To quit hit enter again or click stop and your recording stops on the next pattern start.

If you uncheck the “Create new instrument” box, your recorded sample is stored in the sample-slot of the instrument that is currently selected.
So if you select sample-slot 03 in instrument 01, the sample will be stored there.
If you want to have your sample stored somewhere else, you can still change the target location on-the-fly while recording.

So record your session, then before hitting , select your instrument and target sample-slot first and then click on the stop button.

During the recording session, you can use live track effects upon your input. You can use any ordinary note-track except the master or the send-tracks (for the purpose of feedback prevention and possible hardware loss as result of this.)

Note: If you apply track-fx from a certain track and you use a #line-in device upon that track, the #line-in device is being deactivated by default so that only one routine is using that in-device