Track Scopes

Scopes

Scopes in Renoise provide a visual representation of the song, allowing you to easily navigate through the song (seeing whats going on where in the Track Scopes) or give you the ability to analyze the master output (Master Scopes, Spectrum Analyzer)

Track Scopes

The track scopes in Renoise display each tracks audio output, separately in the form of an oscillator. MIDI instruments, which only send MIDI events and thus have no audio visualization, are visualized with a small red dot in the lower-right corner of the scopes.

Track scopes are extremely useful to get an overview of your song, once you got used to the waveform display of sound. They do not only allow you to "see" which channel plays (like VU meters do), but also give you a hint of "how" things sounds alike – where your bass is, where your hats are and so on. By using the mouse buttons to mute/solo tracks, you also can use them as a improvisation tool.

Layout

The upper part of a single scope contains the track name, the lower-left corner contains the track number. If the track is routed to a send-track, you will also notice a less-than sign behind the track number. Behind that sign you will find the number of the send-track which the audio signal is being sent to.

The currently selected tracks name and number is highlighted.

Mouse Operations

• Toggle tracks on/off with the left mouse button.
• Solo / unsolo a track by right-clicking it.
• Mute the current track in the Pattern Sequence (see Pattern Matrix) with a middle mouse button click
• Scroll through tracks by using the mouse scroll-wheel.

If you have set the track-function to Mute in the preferences rather than OFF, the scope will show a Mute instead of OFF

Master Scopes

The master scopes display the master output (the main output that leaves Renoise) in the form of two oscillators, left and right signal. Sometimes its just nice to see your song visually this way, also you can get an idea of how well the output is balanced if its clipping too much or too less, compressed too much or too less.

Spectrum Analyzer

A spectrum analyzer examines and displays the spectral composition of an audio signal; displays amplification of frequencies in the range that humans can hear (around 20 Hz to 20000 Hz).

This is useful to analyze how exactly your sounds, or multiple sounds combined, are arranged in the frequency range.

Hovering the mouse to the spectrum will give you exact frequency and gain numbers for the given position (note the cross and blue number in the image below).