Renoise 3.1 User Manual Renoise 3.1 User Manual Table of Contents 1 Welcome to the Renoise User Manual.......................................................1 2 Introduction To Renoise...........................................................................2 2.1 Main Screen Overview.....................................................................................2 2.1.1 Upper Status Bar.....................................................................................3 2.1.2 Global Song Control................................................................................3 2.1.3 Song Visualisation...................................................................................3 2.1.4 Loading & Saving Files............................................................................3 2.1.5 Selecting Instruments.............................................................................4 2.1.6 Creating & Editing Instruments...............................................................4 2.1.7 GUI presets.............................................................................................5 2.1.8 Sequencing Patterns...............................................................................5 2.1.9 Creating Patterns....................................................................................5 2.1.10 Applying Effects....................................................................................6 2.1.11 Lower Status Bar...................................................................................6 2.2 Guide Yourself Through the Interface: Tooltips...............................................6 2.3 Renoise Work-flow: Learning the Keys............................................................6 3 Setting Up Audio Devices.........................................................................8 3.1 Default Setup..................................................................................................8 3.2 Audio Preferences...........................................................................................8 3.3 Audio Setup on Windows.................................................................................9 3.4 Audio Setup on Mac OSX...............................................................................10 3.5 Audio Setup on Linux....................................................................................10 3.6 Latency & Sample Rates...............................................................................11 4 Setting Up MIDI Devices.........................................................................12 4.1 Default Setup................................................................................................12 4.2 Monitoring MIDI-IO........................................................................................12 4.3 MIDI Preferences...........................................................................................13 4.4 Device Setup.................................................................................................13 5 Introduction To Redux............................................................................15 5.1 Compact Mode..............................................................................................15 5.1.1 Interface Controls.................................................................................15 5.1.2 Loading & Saving Presets.....................................................................15 5.1.3 Instrument Properties...........................................................................16 5.1.4 VU & CPU Meters, Help and Preferences...............................................16 5.1.5 Keyboard...............................................................................................16 5.1.6 MIDI Controllers....................................................................................16 5.2 The Full Editor...............................................................................................16 5.2.1 Disk Browser.........................................................................................17 5.2.2 Keyboard...............................................................................................17 5.2.3 MIDI Controllers....................................................................................18 5.2.4 Phrase Controls.....................................................................................18 5.2.5 Lower Status Bar...................................................................................18 5.3 Guide Yourself Through the Interface: Tooltips.............................................18 5.4 Redux Work-flow: Learning the Keys............................................................18 i Renoise 3.1 User Manual Table of Contents 6 Disk Browser.........................................................................................20 6.1 Load & Saving Files.......................................................................................20 6.2 File Type Selector..........................................................................................20 6.2.1 Supported Formats For Song Importing................................................21 6.2.2 Supported Formats For Sample Importing............................................21 6.3 Folder Panel (Renoise only)...........................................................................21 6.4 File Panel.......................................................................................................22 6.5 Resizing The Interface (Renoise Only)..........................................................24 6.6 Loading Multiple Entries at Once...................................................................24 6.7 Navigating the Disk Browser with the Keyboard...........................................24 6.8 Importing Raw Audio Files (Convert Any File to Audio Sample)....................25 7 Transport Panel.....................................................................................26 7.1 Song Controls................................................................................................26 7.2 Song Parameters...........................................................................................26 8 Track Scopes & Master Spectrum............................................................28 8.1 Track Scopes.................................................................................................28 8.1.1 Mouse Operations.................................................................................28 8.2 Master Spectrum...........................................................................................29 9 Instrument Selector...............................................................................30 9.1 Resizing The Interface...................................................................................30 9.2 Instrument Options.......................................................................................30 9.3 Moving Instruments......................................................................................31 9.4 Shortcuts.......................................................................................................31 9.5 Instrument Properties...................................................................................31 10 Playing Notes with the Computer Keyboard...........................................33 10.1 Note Off.......................................................................................................33 10.2 Octave Settings...........................................................................................33 10.3 Note Velocity...............................................................................................34 10.4 Computer Keyboard Limitations..................................................................34 11 Tracker Interface.................................................................................35 11.1 Columns......................................................................................................35 11.2 Lines............................................................................................................36 11.2.1 Lines, Beats and Pattern Resolution...................................................37 12 Recording and Editing Notes.................................................................38 12.1 Edit Mode....................................................................................................38 12.2 Entering Notes Step By Step.......................................................................38 12.3 Live Recording (Renoise Pattern Editor Only).............................................39 12.3.1 Real-time and Manual Quantization....................................................39 12.4 Polyphonic vs. Monophonic Recording........................................................40 12.5 Entering Chords with the Computer Keyboard............................................40 ii Renoise 3.1 User Manual Table of Contents 13 Pattern Editor......................................................................................41 13.1 Track Types.................................................................................................41 13.1.1 Tracks.................................................................................................41 13.1.2 Group Tracks.......................................................................................42 13.1.3 Send Tracks........................................................................................42