Highlights: Mixer, Recording, Line-In Device, Full Undo/Redo, Open Fileformat

• Added a Mixer, for a fast access and total control of all used DSP effects and volume levels within Renoise. DSP effects can be easily accessed and modified (copied/pasted/ moved/deleted by keyboard shortcuts or drag'n'drop). Mini sliders (DSP parameter controls) can be optionally shown in the mixer strips for those DSP devices parameters, that you want to control via the Mixer. All components of the Mixer (mute/solo, panning, faders, volume, routings) can be hidden to get a better overview.
  
• Introduced PRE/POST volume/pans: All tracks have now two sets of volume/pan parameters: The first one (PRE) is automatable, and will be applied prior to all other DSPs (how it used to be in earlier versions). The second one (POST) is not automatable, and was introduced for the final mixing/mastering process: It will be appied after all DSP devices, giving you the final control of the tracks volume without having to worry about already created automations.
  All volume and pan parameters can also be MIDI mapped.
  
• Recording in the SampleEditor, which allows to create new samples on the fly, directly in Renoise. Signals can be either recorded cleanly (with no DSP FX), or be routed in realtime through any tracks DSP chain.
  
• Added a "#Line-In Device" (registered users only), which allows you to directly route any of your soundcards physical input into a DSP chain in Renoise.
  
• Undo/redo is now available for all operations (with no exception).
  
• New open (XML) file format for all exported Renoise files (except samples). To view the XML files for songs or the other documents, simply open the newly saved files with an unzip tool. Songs and instruments are still self contained, so nothing (except the new file extensions) has changed for those who do not want/need to edit/view the file contents. The new open file format will allow third party developers to easily write extension (Instrument or Pattern generators) or converters (from / to other file formats) for Renoise.
  
• Unicode support: If you have the "Arial Unicode MS" font installed, nearly all characters you can think of can now be displayed in Renoise (for example in the Disk Browser). Japanese characters are supported without the "Arial Unicode MS" font, as soon as you have installed the operating systems default fonts for Japan language support.
  
• Patterns can now be rendered into separate files as well (registered users only). This way you can easily create sample loops out of your songs, to use them in other programs.

Audio Engine Improvements: Smoother, Faster, better Routing

• Smoother automations, processed per tick instead of per lines, giving you at TPB 6, 6 times smoother parameter changes than before
• Tight BPMs to improve compatibility with other Software, when using exported/rendered samples from Renoise: BPMs are now played back exactly as they where typed in. In previous versions, the BPM was quantized to tick resolutions.
• Higher volume resolution in the volume column: 0-0x7f,0x80, instead of 0-0x40
• The tick delay (DX) and tick note cut command (FX) can now be specified in the volume and/or panning column.
• Changes in routing sheme (good ones): All tracks are now by default routed to the master track (not the first physical stereo channel of your sound card), which allows you to easily change the routing for all tracks by just changing the routing of the master track.
• Virtually unlimited number of samples per instrument
• Added a CPU overload prevention option in the Audio preferences: When active, the player will automatically panic and stop when reaching a specific,configurable CPU amount for a specific, configurable time

VST(i) Improvements

• Renoise is now compatible to the new VST 2.4 standard
• Improved VST timing (VSTS with own Sequencer should run more reliable row...)
• The DSP list got a "search box", so that you can quickly access VSTs or native Effects

Pattern Editor Improvement

• Pattern syntax highlighting: Volume/Pan/Offset/Pitch effects can now be shown in different colors in the Pattern.
• Tracks can now be cloned (including all pattern data or not)

Sample Editor

• Added a "Snap to Zero" option, for selections and loop based operations
• Better keyboard navigation support: You can now control, view and edit in the sample editor without touching the mouse.

Disk Browser

• Flac, Ogg, MP3 and M4A files can now be previewed in the DiskBrowsers "Sample" section. To preview or load MP3 and M4A, Quicktime 7.0 must be installed.
• Samples can be viewed and loaded directly out of XRNS songs
• All filetypes that Renoise can read, are now visible in all Browser categories.
• Multiple samples or instruments can now be loaded at once, by holding down the Shift key while selecting entries in the Browser, or holding down Shift while navigating the Diskbrowser via the arrow keys. To create a multi sample instrument, drag and drop the selected samples into the sample slots of an instrument.

GUI Improvements

• Keyboard focus: Sub parts of the GUI, like the automation views or the Disk Brower can now have exclusive keyboard focus, which means that you no longer need to press magic modifier combinations to access simple tasks like directory / file browsing.
  
  By default, everything will work as it used to be. To enable the new focus behavior, you either have to click on the to be focussed sections with the middle mouse button, or by holding down the Alt key while clicking. Even in focused mode, there still exist a lot of global keyboard shortcuts. When for example the Patterneditor is focused, nearly all old key combinations will work as usual.
  
  Note that "shift" is now used everywhere to start and modify selections. To change instruments quickly use "Alt" + the Arrow keys instead of "Shift" and the arrows.
  
  You can also set (advance) the keyboard focus via the Control+Tab (Windows) or Option+Tab shortcuts without having to touch the mouse.
• View snapshots: The global view layout (which parts of the GUI are visible or hidden, which editors are selected) can now be stored/recalled via a single keyboard key hit. There are 7 presets available, which can be by default stored/recalled via F1-F7.
• Added a window menu on top of the interface
• Advanced Edit operations are now in a collapsible side panel next to the Pattern Editor
• The preferences are now in a separate dialog, which can be accessed from the window menu
• All automations (of Tracks or Instruments) can now be zoomed in/out to allow easier navigation/editing in large patterns. You can now also select / copy and paste parts of the envelopes by either using the mouse or the new keyboard shortcuts, as soon as the automations are focused.

And even more...

• The Keyjazz option (polyphone/monophone note input) is back: You can now en/disable polyphone recording of notes in the transport section.
• Added a dialog to show a summary of all MIDI mappings that are currently set.
• The DSP and automation list views and the VST drowdowns have now a quick-find field, which lets you show only entries which match the given search string
• The custom or default keyboard shortcuts can now be printed from within any browser. Press the new "Print" button in the keyboard preference pane to do so.
• Added a "Mute Src" option for the native Delay DSP effect, to use in send tracks without playing back the dry signal
• Added a command to skip loading the song template when creating a new song (Ctrl + Shift + N)
• Increased the maximum beat sync value to 512
• Added a color picker to the theme preferences and a bunch of new texture sets
• Moved the song comment view into a dialog
• "Follow automations on song position changes" is now a preference
• The "Record MIDI Note Offs" option has been removed from the MIDI preferences. This option is now always on.
• Some old advanced edit operations (like Delete Instruments) can now be found in the Edit window menu.