Preferences

Configurations / Preferences Panel

The preferences panel (or configurations) in Renoise lets you set up various general options for the program, like your sound card settings, which MIDI devices are used, how files are loaded/saved and much more. Such settings have to be set up once only, and will then be applied to all songs and sounds you create in Renoise. So they do affect the general behavior of the program.

To open the preferences, click on Edit then Preferences... on top of the Renoise interface (Windows + Linux). On the Mac, click on the main Renoise menu, then choose Preferences....

Audio

• Device Type Determines the sound-driver used for input / output and how much delay to use.
• In Device (only appears when Direct Sound driver is selected) Selects recording device for the sample editor and #line-in routing device.
• Out Device Selects output source if you have multiple (ASIO supporting) audio devices.
• 'Sample rate Selects the sample rate for playback.
• LatencyControls latency buffering. A higher number will reduce any crackles, but also results in a less accurate response.
• Use hardware buffers These speed up playback processing, but some audiocards may mess up when recording. Experiment with using the sample recorder with this option first. If you experience strange results, then disable this function.
• Dither Apply [Dither dithering] to the audio stream.
• Limit to stereo in/out (ASIO Only!) Only use the main line-in / out channel of the ASIO sound card, no other device lines are available for selection or routing.
• Control panel (ASIO Only!) Open ASIO driver control panel. (Not all audio cards allow changing ASIO preferences when it is in use by the audio app. Some preferences may be applied only when the app is restarted).
• Multi CPU/Core support If you have a multicore CPU or you have a multi-CPU system, the number of utilized cores is adjustable. By default all cores are used. Hyperthreading CPU’s are not supported.
• Automatic PDC Enable automatic Plugin Delay Compensation for Renoise internal effects and VST effects and instruments. When this is toggled, Renoise automatically uses the reported delay by the plugin to compensate synchronisation with the rest of audiostreams.
• Cpu Load and Threshold Option to auto-panic when you have a CPU causing performance problems (usually when Renoise becomes unresponsive).
  • When the CPU is above % value, For at least - msec value, then perform panic (instantly freeze all plugins).
• Metronome The Main click value controls the frequency of the stressed metronome click. The Sub click value determines the frequency of unstressed clicks occurring between each main click.

MIDI

• MIDI Master keyboard
  • In-Device A/B Which MIDI Device to use for input / output.
  • Record and play velocities Register velocity levels sent by the master keyboard.
  • Record and play Polyphonic Aftertouch Register Aftertouch signals sent by the master keyboard.
  • Record and play program changes Register program changes in the pattern editor when sent from the master keyboard.
  • Record note offs Add note-offs to the Pattern Editor if a key-release message is sent.
  • Record Channel Aftertouch Record single Channel Aftertouch.
  • Record and play controllers Record MIDI controllers, like pitchbend / modwheel.
  • Ignore specific controllers Prevent certain MIDI (CC) messages from being received/recorded.

• MIDI Clock Master
  • Out device Determines the out device for MIDI clock data.
  • Send clock Pulse for timing synchronisation
  • Send start/stop Trigger to start / stop the external device
  • Send song position pointers Send current song position to make the external device start/stop from the desired position (and remain in sync).
  • Send MIDI Machine Control (MMC) Send specific device trigger messages to the external device.
• Midi Clock Slave
  • In-Device Selects the MIDI Device to slave to (adds the midiclock to the play panel and the MIDI Sync leds to the top-right of the titlebar).
  • Offset Delay compensation amount.

Files

• Wave Import options
  • Ignore loops Do not load saved loop-points within the wave file samples.
• Raw audio import options
  • Bits Set bit-rate of the raw sample (8 - 32 bit, signed and unsigned - if you know it).
  • Sample rate Set the sample rate of the raw sample (if known).
  • Skip header bytes Skip header bytes that are not part of the sample, yet unrecognizable by Renoise.
  • Big Endian Trigger between Little Endian stored or Big Endian stored sample data.
• Device Chain Import
  • Replace Existing Chain When checked, the current device chain on the current selected track will be completely destroyed and replaced by the chain loaded from disk (Default). Unchecked, it will append the chain behind the existing one.
• Midi Import options
  • Create instruments Create instruments based upon instruments from a MIDI file.
  • Create MIDICC devices Create MIDICC devices for instruments that use these commands.
  • Lines per Beat Set the amount of lines per beat to devide sequence data across, the higher the value the higher the precision.
  • Lines per pattern Divide the partitures in xx-lines of patterns
  • Midi device Choose MIDI device to select MIDI instruments from (and send output to).
• Song/Instrument export options
  • Sample format Save samples in Flac (up to 24-bit are exchangable with other applications), uncompressed wav or gzipped wav format.

Keys

• File:Vvoois renoise preferences keys load.s.png - Load a saved set of key-bindings.
• File:Vvoois renoise preferences keys save.s.png - Save a custom set of key-bindings.
• File:Vvoois renoise preferences keys reset.s.png - Reset to default key-bindings.
• File:Vvoois renoise preferences keys print.s.png - Display key-binding layout in default browser, with special print-layout (use print preview mode in browser).

To seek a specific function, click the searchbox on top of the binding-list and type your search-phrase.The droplist shows the shortcut key assignments for each region (Global shortcuts are currently shown).To assign a keyboard shortcut, click on the text-field, then press your keyboard shortcut.When done, click on Assign to submit the change.Your configuration will be saved automatically when Renoise is closed.

GUI

The Gui options supply you with several options to customize Renoise’s display behavior and global representation settings. Most are self-explanatory, some will have some additional information.

• Global
  • Enable Gui effects Triggers various GUI transitions.
  • Use more compatible GFX updates Specific trigger to supply a workaround for VST plugins that seem to update their GUI differently.
  • Frame Rate Set the frame-update rate of the GUI. A lower number means the GUI will update in a choppier fashion, but this may free up more resources for audio processing.
• Pattern editor
  • Single mouseclick navigation Wherever you click in the pattern editor, the key-cursor will follow when single-clicking that position. Usually you have to double-click to move the key-cursor to that position.
  • Delayed drag’n’drop If checked: When left-clicking upon a selected area, a small delay of a few msecs will pass before you can drag and drop the selected area.
  • Position number format Select hexadecimal number format or decimal number format.

• Pattern Sequencer
  • Separate edit & play positions (with pattern follow) Detach the current play position in the sequence from the current pattern that you are editing. Toggle “Pattern follow mode”:
    • Pattern Follow mode on → Edit and play position are linked, so if you scroll in the patternsequencer, the pattern underneath the play position will always be played, this means if you are playing pattern 04 and you select pattern 05 in the sequencer, pattern 05 will be instantly played.
    • Pattern follow mode off → Edit and play position are separated which means that you can scroll the playposition in the sequencer, the current pattern in the pattern editor will not be played, the sequencer will follow the order of the sequence it is currently playing.

Theme

File:Vvoois renoise preferences theme.s.png*

Configuring the Renoise skin to your likings.

Misc

• VST Plugins
  • You can select two separate VST plugin folders to scan. You activate them by enabling the checkbox.
  • Browse Select folder where VST (instrument) plugins are.
  • Rescan Rescan for new plugins (if you added any during Renoise run-time).
  • Rescan previously failed plugs If for some reason a plugin you installed failed during its scan (and the reasons were recoverable) you can check this box so that Renoise will also rescan plugins that failed the initializing procedure.
  • Scan for new plugins on startup Renoise by default always starts scanning for new plugins when loading. However not everybody is adding new plugins on a daily basis or some prefer to do this just manually at their own chosen moment. If you disable the checkbox, Renoise starts without the scanning process. Depending on the speed of your harddrive, skipping this process can speed up loading of Renoise.

• Backup
  • Autosave backup Toggle autosave mode for backups.Your songs are saved in the Renoise preferences folder when you have not given your song a filename (you did not initially saved the song yourself). Once you have saved the song under your own custom filename, the backups are saved along with them in a subfolder of your song’s parent folder unless you state otherwise in the “Save at” option.
  • Save while playing Save while song plays.Note When saving while playing, VSTI playback is deactivated during save which is nessesary as there are known VSTI plugins that crash Renoise during saving.
  • Every x minutes Autosave every x minutes. if save while playing is off it will save at the interval when the song is manually stopped by the user so if you save each minute and the song plays at save time, it skips saving and saves at the second minute if the song is stopped at that moment. Renoise does not autostop the song for saving. (in discussion:Renoise does not save during Record mode.)
  • Keep x backups Keep x separate copies of the backup.
  • Save at Save the backups to a custom place (by default it saves it next to the song in its own subfolder carrying the filename of the song and a suffix extender).

• Misc
  • Autoplay song after loading Play songs when loaded into Renoise.
  • Stop playing notes on pattern sequence navigation Kill output when changing song position in sequence editor (noteoffs are send to all playing instruments).
  • Update automation on row position changes Perform (interpolated) automation values while editing.
  • Space rec/stop mode
    • Renoise use the space key to start/stop playing.
    • FT2 use the space key to stop the song and or to toggle the record mode.
  • Default Trackmute mode
    • Off Notes and other events will not be triggered, the sounds of the tracks is still running (Soft Mute).
    • Mute The track is completely played back, but its sound will be muted (Mixer Mute).