the first Renoise 2.6 beta releases can be downloaded at the Renoise Backstage.

Beta versions are available to registered users only. Demo builds will be available shortly before the version goes gold.

What’s New?

For a complete list of all the new stuff, and some demonstation videos, have a look at the:

Main new features in Renoise 2.6 are:

• Scripting: create powerful new Renoise features with Lua scripting
• Truly customizable bidirectional MIDI controller + OSC support with Duplex, thanks to scripting
• Sample Autoseeking, which will make large samples behave behave more like a traditional audio channel
• 64bit port for Linux
• DSSI support for Linux
• … and more

The scripting features will open up a LOT of possibilities, also in terms of contribution. Everyone is invited to hack their own Renoise features and share them – or not. And if you are not a developer, you can easily install and use scripts from other developers. Its all open, and everyone is invited to hack!

To see what the Renoise team already now has done, have a look at the Renoise tools page.

To create your own tools and start hacking, have a look at the Renoise scripting page.

In case you missed it the first time around, new features in 2.5 include:

• Pattern Matrix: A birds eye view and editor of the song
• Cross Track Routing for “Meta Devices” and new devices like the “Signal Follower”, which allows you to sidechain other tracks parameters
• Plugin Grabber: Render Plugin Instruments to Renoise Instruments, Samples
• Vastly Improved MIDI Mapping
• A Bunch of New Internal Effects
• And much more…

A detailed description of what’s new can be found on the Renoise 2.5 launch page.

We’ve also rewritten the user manual from scratch and published new video tutorial specifically geared towards using Renoise 2.5.

We’d like to thank the Renoise users for all your help durring the beta phase. It’s you that makes Renoise the world class audio application and community that we are today.

Registered users can download their personal copies from the backstage. New users can download and try out the demo.

Oh, and one more thing. Let’s celebrate!

UPDATE: 01/04/2010

A small maintenance update for Windows 7 was released: Renoise 2.5.1 fixes problems with UAC on Windows 7, with the latest security patches installed.

This update is only necessary if you got annoyed by “C:\ Location Not available. Access is denied” messages from Windows when running Renoise.
If you don’t got those messages, you don’t need to update from Renoise 2.5.0 final. Mac OSX and Linux builds only have been updated to set the version number to 2.5.1.

That means if you are an unregistered user, you can finally download the demo. Together with the registered users we have intensively tested and finetuned the release during the last months. So we expect it to be rock solid.

Renoise 2.5 has a ton of new features. A bird’s eye view of the patterns. Improved MIDI so you can map your controller to almost every button or slider. And more, too much to fit here. For the complete overview, have a look at What’s New in 2.5.

Renoise 2.5 Special Offer Price

As previously announced, the price of Renoise will be going up to 59 Euro when 2.5 Final is released. Until then you can buy Renoise for 49 Euro.

We can not pin-point the date for the 2.5 Final release. We test Release Candidates as long as necessary, to prevent a flood of unnecessary updates later on. All we can say is we expect the 2.5 Final release within the next few weeks.

This is your last chance to take advantage of the offer to buy Renoise at the lower price, so don’t miss it!

New Renoise Shop

We have updated our Renoise shop with better international support and new payment options to make registering Renoise easier and cheaper for you. We now support Directebanking, PayPal and Bank Transfers without extra transaction fees. All common credit cards are of course welcome as well. From now on, payments are taken care of by our friends at Avangate.

For more information, see the overview of Avangate’s Payment Methods. If you have other questions about the new shop, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Remixta exclusively features works from the Renoise community. Podcast Number 7 is now avilable at: www.remixta.net

Tracklist

• 1. Overcoat – Evaporative Aircoolers
• 2. Bytesizeerror – Post
• 3. Kaneel – Backyard Bataille
• 4. Sodiufas & Fluffy Dryad – Forest Dub
• 5. Hseiken – Chase The Cats
• 6. Metylonia – Imagined Beauty (WIP)
• 7. Braintwister – InLove
• 8. Cyvergence – Hypnotic (Album version)
• 9. She – Ride (From album “Orion”)
• 10. Vivace – Bad Hare
• 11. Structure Theory – Baby Seals

To prevent any further harm, we immediately shut down the server. We then carefully analyzed what exactly had happened since the attack. This is why the website was down for so long.

Most of the services (wiki, blogs, tutorials) on renoise.com are still offline. They will be brought back online, one by one. We are taking this opportunity to evaluate and fortify every nook and cranny of the website. We are temporarily replacing the website with a static HTML-only version as we work on the server in the background. We are sorry for the inconvenience and hope to to reanimate the renoise community portal as quickly and safely as possible.

We’ve already closed the vulnerability which made the attack possible. We will do everything humanly possible to avoid such incidents in the future.

What has happened:

After extensive detective work, it looks like an automated attack focused on harvesting email addresses. We have to assume that the attack did not specifically target Renoise as a product, but rather that its intent was to acquire a list of validated email addresses every community site is bound to have.

Renoise Backstage, a separate section of the site where we handle the Renoise User Accounts, did NOT get hacked. Therefore, the registered Renoise user accounts are safe. However, some accounts from before 2005 were stored in an obsolete database and were not fully migrated to Renoise Backstage. Those accounts were exposed, but have now been secured and closed. We will be contacting the affected users via email and will work with them to restore those accounts.

We do not store credit card numbers. The payment process is handled by our shop partner (SWReg). Even if the attackers would have been looking for that kind of data, they wouldn’t have found any traces of such data on our servers.

The forum database was the target of the attack. Please note that this does NOT mean that anyone has access to your emails or forum account. We are a victim of a typical website hack, the biggest point of interest was to harvest email addresses for spammers and their botnet. For good measure, you should reset your forum passwords immediately.

Again we are very sorry for the inconvenience and the down time. Fortunately we reacted quickly enough to avoid a much worse scenario.

If you have any questions, apprehensions, or other thoughts about what has happened, then please let’s discuss it publicly in the Server Crash forum or contact us privately.

Thank you for your understanding and continued support.

The Renoise Team