Renoise

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Renoise

Pattern editor of Renoise 1.5
Author:	Eduard Mueller (Taktik) and Zvonko Tesic (Phazze)
Developer:	Eduard Mueller (Taktik) and Zvonko Tesic (Phazze)
Latest release:	1.8 / 2007/03/01
OS:	Windows, MacOS X
Use:	music composition
License:	shareware
Website:	http://www.renoise.com

Renoise is a contemporary software package based upon the heritage and development of tracker software. Its primary use is the composition of music using samples (in WAV, AIF, FLAC, OGG, MP3 format), MIDI sequencing of soft synths. The main differentiation of Renoise from other music software is the characteristic vertical sequencer used by tracking software, as opposed to the more popular horizontal sequencers.

Unlike major corporate software development, the Renoise development team work with the Renoise user community online to pool ideas for new feature as well as work on bug testing. Given its relatively smaller user base, the sense of collective ownership from this community is strong.

1 History
2 Features
3 Development
4 External links

[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 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 Web site.

[edit] Features

32 bit versions of Renoise currently run under recent versions of Windows and Mac OS X. 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 etc.

Renoise is available as either a free or a commercial version. The only difference between these versions is that the commercial version includes hi-fi wav rendering and ASIO support, but the free version has a window to remind you to register after 30 hours of use. 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 has been released on March 2007. Major new features can be seen here; amongst them is notable to mention mixer, XML-based open file format, audio recording capability.