Renoise
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| Design by | Eduard Mueller (Taktik) and Zvonko Tesic (Phazze) |
| Developed by | Eduard Mueller (Taktik) and Zvonko Tesic (Phazze) |
| Latest release | 1.9.1 / 31/01/2008 |
| OS | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux |
| Genre | Music composition |
| License | Shareware |
| Website | http://www.renoise.com |
Renoise is a contemporary digital audio workstation (DAW) based upon the heritage and development of tracker software. Its primary use is the composition of music using samples (in WAV, AIFF, FLAC, OGG, MP3 format), MIDI sequencing of VSTi soft synths. The main differentiation of Renoise from other music software is the characteristic vertical timeline sequencer used by tracking software, as opposed to the more popular horizontal timeline sequencers.
The Renoise development team works with the Renoise user community online to pool ideas for new features as well as work on beta versions testing, which is performed by involving registered users in the process directly. Given its relatively smaller user base, the sense of collective ownership from this community is strong.
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[edit] History
Renoise was originally written from the code of another tracker called NoiseTrekker, made by Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius (Arguru). The then unnamed Renoise project was initiated by Eduard Mueller (Taktik) and Zvonko Tesic (Phazze) during December 2000. As discussed in this NoError article the development team planned to take tracking software into a new standard of quality, enabling tracking scene composers to make audio of the same quality as other existing professional packages, while still keeping the proven Fast Tracker-like layout. By early 2002 stable versions (such as 1.27) were available. Over the years the development team has grown, including Paul Rogalinski (Pulsar), Martin Sandve Alnes (Martinal) and Simon Finne (Blackis), in order to expand on features, port to Mac OS X, and maintain the website.
[edit] Features
32 bit versions of Renoise currently run under recent versions of Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Renoise has a long list of features, including for example full MIDI and MIDI sync support, support for VST 2.0 plugin technology, ASIO multi I/O cards support, integrated sampler and sample editor, internal real-time DSP effects with unlimited number of effects per track, master and send tracks, full automation of all commands, hi-fi .WAV rendering (up to 32 bit 96 kHz), etc.
Renoise is available as either a demo or a commercial version. The demo version is fully functional, but begins to display a message every 30 minutes that asks you to register after 30 hours of use. The commercial version includes hi-fi .WAV rendering (up to 32 bit 96 kHz) and ASIO support. By registering, a user is given the chance to download Beta versions and contribute to the bug testing and feature improvement phase.
[edit] Development
Renoise 1.8.0 was released in March, 2007. Major new features can be seen here; notable additions include the new mixer, XML-based open file format, and external audio recording capability.
Renoise 1.9 beta stage started on July, 2007 (the changelog can be read here). The project entered Release Candidate stage on 2007/10/08, and the final version of Renoise 1.9.0 was released on November 2, 2007. The new features can be found on the Renoise website.
The first final Linux version (1.9.1) was released on April, 19th 2008.
[edit] 3rd party tools
The open XML-based file format makes it possible for anyone to develop 3rd party applications and other solutions in order to manipulate file content. A project for creating PHP scripts utilities for needed advanced edit tasks has been set at SourceForge: XRNS-PHP project
In August 2007, a functional XRNS2MID script was published in version 0.11 by Renoise Team Member Bantai. It enables Renoise users, via an external frontend, to convert native songs into regular MIDI files (.mid) and thus exporting their work for use in conventional piano-roll sequencers such as Cubase or Reason.
