Highlights: Mixer, Recording, Line-In Device, Full Undo/Redo, Open
Fileformat
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Undo/redo is now available for all operations (with no exception).
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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.
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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.
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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
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Smoother automations, processed per tick instead of per lines, giving
you at TPB 6, 6 times smoother parameter changes than before
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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.
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Higher volume resolution in the volume column: 0-0x7f,0x80, instead of
0-0x40
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The tick delay (DX) and tick note cut command (FX) can now be
specified in the volume and/or panning column.
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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.
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Virtually unlimited number of samples per instrument
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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
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Renoise is now compatible to the new VST 2.4 standard
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Improved VST timing (VSTS with own Sequencer should run more reliable
row...)
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The DSP list got a "search box", so that you can quickly access VSTs
or native Effects
Pattern Editor Improvement
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Pattern syntax highlighting: Volume/Pan/Offset/Pitch effects can now
be shown in different colors in the Pattern.
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Tracks can now be cloned (including all pattern data or not)
Sample Editor
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Added a "Snap to Zero" option, for selections and loop based operations
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Better keyboard navigation support: You can now control, view and edit
in the sample editor without touching the mouse.
Disk Browser
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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.
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Samples can be viewed and loaded directly out of XRNS songs
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All filetypes that Renoise can read, are now visible in all Browser
categories.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Added a window menu on top of the interface
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Advanced Edit operations are now in a collapsible side panel next to
the Pattern Editor
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The preferences are now in a separate dialog, which can be accessed
from the window menu
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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...
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The Keyjazz option (polyphone/monophone note input) is back: You can
now en/disable polyphone recording of notes in the transport section.
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Added a dialog to show a summary of all MIDI mappings that are
currently set.
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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
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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.
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Added a "Mute Src" option for the native Delay DSP effect, to use in
send tracks without playing back the dry signal
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Added a command to skip loading the song template when creating a new
song (Ctrl + Shift + N)
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Increased the maximum beat sync value to 512
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Added a color picker to the theme preferences and a bunch of new
texture sets
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Moved the song comment view into a dialog
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"Follow automations on song position changes" is now a preference
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The "Record MIDI Note Offs" option has been removed from the MIDI
preferences. This option is now always on.
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Some old advanced edit operations (like Delete Instruments) can now be
found in the Edit window menu.