Renoise 2.6 Final, a tribute to the most tech savvy users, is out now. The highlight of this release is the scripting engine, which allows users to code new features in scripts that can be plugged into Renoise in packages called Tools. Furthermore there are some exciting changes under the hood, one of which makes working with longer samples a lot easier.

Script everything using an open API

Lua is a light-weight programming language, which together with the Renoise API allows you to build add-ons quickly and easily.

Lua scripting, introduced as part of the beta cycle in July, has already resulted in a plethora of new tools, as well as native support for the following hardware: AlphaTrack, BCF-2000, BCR-2000, KONTROL49, FaderPort, microKONTROL, nanoKONTROL, Launchpad, Remote SL-MKII, Nocturn, Monome, Ohm64, iPad via TouchOSC… All created by the Renoise community on their own dime, just for the fun of it.

Check out the new tools page for more: http://tools.renoise.com/

Sample Autoseek

Samples have a new setting, “Autoseek”, which will, when enabled, make them behave like a traditional audio channel. You can start playing back the song at any position, and the sample will automatically seek to the current position in the song without having to be triggered.

And More

• Open Sound Control (OSC) Server Support.
• Duplex – MIDI/OSC controller framework.
• DSSI Support on Linux, 64-bit Linux Version.
• Support for CAF, AIFC, SND and AU Files.
• Linux & Mac OSX Performance Tweaks.
• Usability and functionality refinements galore.

The full scoop, here:What’s New in Renoise 2.6?

After months of testing and feature finetuning, especially for Renoises new scripting API, Renoise 2.6 gets very close to its final release now.

About Renoise 2.6

If you are a registered user and haven’t tried out Renoise 2.6 and all the third-party and MIDI controller tools that are available already, then this its a good chance to do so now. If you are no registered user yet, you can give the new features of Renoise 2.6 a try now.

Download

The first release candidate is now available for registered users at the Renoise Backstage.
Free demo versions are available at the Renoise Download page.

It’s end of summer and we’re going party like we just don’t care. “Team Renoise and Team Indamixx is gunna BANG THE BOX in 2011 and it’s gunna start right here in Los Angeles by the way of BERLIN!” That’s right, we’re having a pool party at “The Standard Downtown” Los Angeles next Sunday, 24th. The party starts at 1 PM. Free drinks and T-shirts between 6 PM and 8 PM, brought to you by Indamixx and Renoise while supplies last. If you’re going to be there, and of course you are!, sign up in the following forum thread by Saturday midnight PST: Los Angeles Renoisers Unite! Pool Party

Here are some pictures for you from the place to be, “The Standard Downtown” LA:

See you Sunday night… Respect!

Hitori Tori, a.k.a. Canadian Renoise veteran Julian La Brooy has been kicking up a stir lately with his impressive videos of innovative Renoise jamming. See Hitori Tori – Renoise Techniques for some examples. We decided to get in touch for a little interview that should hopefully provide some more insight into his working process.

Read on…

Download

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

Another round of beta testing has passed, a brand new stable and rock solid Renoise is ready for production.

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 their 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.

The first Release Candidate of Renoise 2.5 is now available. Release Candidates are the last steps before declaring the version Final.

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

On Friday the 8th of January 2010, Renoise.com was targeted by hackers.

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

UPDATE You may have missed your chance to witness it live, but fortunately it has been recorded: Remixta First Time Live – Episode 6.

We just received this last minute announcement from everyone’s favorite Estonian radio host, DJ Suva:

“Yeah, that’s right. This time I am going to broadcast the recording of the show itself over Shoutcast. To listen you need, winamp, iTunes, rhythmbox, or any other music player capable of playing shoutcast stream with AAC+ encoding.

The link to tune in will be posted in this forum and Renoise IRC shortly before the broadcast will begin at exactly 16:00 GMT.

The recorded show will be uploaded to remixta.net later in 192kbps mp3 format.

You can all join in for fun and chat on Renoise IRC during the show. You can still recommend me the songs you want to be played before the show in this thread or with PM. You can also request songs during the show, but don’t expect all the requests to be fulfilled.

So be prepared!”

Remixta is a radio show featuring music exclusively made by Renoise users. To get into the mood, check out the previous shows here: http://www.remixta.net/.