Website is back up.
just picked up a license the other day, gonna try to get myself back into working in a DAW when i want to flesh out a full tune.
anybody have any favorite resources in addition to the manual for beginners? iām fairly versed with the M8 tracker and i had a good amount of time with the Polyend tracker so Iām not a total novice to tracking but i can tell its gonna be some time before im floating on the keyboard.
https://www.youtube.com/@Achenar has some good tutorials on more advanced Renoise topics, and for trackers in general, thereās the classic Trackers Handbook - Version 0.5
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https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtOoXHZxv0SOpMuzCNqaFGDzB88mPN-IL
More focused on dnb and jungle but there are good tips and techniques in these
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awesome thank you both!
https://youtube.com/@MrZensphere
This guy has some good tutorials. He makes psytrance, but the topics he covers can be used in any genre.
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Hey all
Trying to use an apple keyboard (magic keyboard with numpad, F1-F12 etc) attached to my macbook, to control renoise.
I canāt seem to stop the the F1-F12 applying to shortcuts outside of Renoise, even though Iāve unclicked all the shortcuts in the keyboard options (System Settings). Is there a way to lock the keyboard to within Renoise?
could it be that the F keys need the Fn button to be pressed to be the F keys?
I only encountered that yesterday on my macbook. theyāre multifunction on mine.
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YES! Thanks
Iām getting so hacked off at the moment with general navigationā¦ Iām tired and I donāt really have big enough time windows though 
I just want to be passed this flailing around period and actually navigating with ease
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Its SO SMOOTH once you get everything settled.
Iāve been working with renoise for my current project and itās such a pleasant music making process
The ergonomics are important ehā¦ do use laptop and mouse? External keyboard?
Laptop and external keyboard and mouse.
Tbf tho, I mostly use it to run VSTs with the occasional sample
I need to a get a mouse too. Having problems with pinching the trackpad for zooming - doesnāt seem to work well on smaller samples
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Iāve always used Ctrl+Up / Ctrl+Down to zoom in/out in the sample editor, and Ctrl+Alt+A to zoom all the way back out to the full sample - its super fiddly trying to use a mouse in the sample editor.
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Thanks so much - thatās gold. I felt like I was banging my head against a brick wall last nightā¦ Trying to pinch into a kick Iād cropped from a break to a new instrumentā¦ And it either did absolutely nothing or zoomed me all the way in and was then unresponsivene.
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No problem, the more people using Renoise the better!
Page Up/Down keys also zoom the waveform vertically, for when you need to find those low amplitude start points.
And if you are creating slices, toggle slice mode with Ctrl+G and create a slice at the current sample position with Ctrl+K.
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Are you guys using renoise on a laptop outside the home/studio?
I figured rather than getting a M8 or Polyend Tracker, why not just use renoise on a laptop for portability, especially when you can use the keyboard for most of the functions like you would on hardware
m8 is incredible, but youāve got a point. laptop has a better battery & speakers than m8.
I never use an external audio interface with my laptop renoise / ableton setups (m1 macbook air). makes em super portable n handy.
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I mostly use Renoise on my laptop, not often outside the house though.
I had a Polyend Tracker for a while, but the only thing it really did well was the perform page, everything else was a fraction of other tracker software, for a mobile tracker. I prefer SunVox, itās available on almost any device and is much deeper than the PT, and also has a novel interface to get by without keyboard input.
Iāve considered the M8 many times, and might pickup a teensy to try it headless given the scarcity of them.
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