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From Renoise:
Renoise is a sophisticated music sequencer and audio processing application for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. Its a unique all-in-one music production environment for your personal computer. Renoises rock solid stability makes it ideal as a live jamming tool. You can map almost every part of the interface to a MIDI controller, run your guitar through a Line-In Device and distort it with native effects, or just use it as a drum machine; a sampler on steroids. Renoises open API allows programmers to easily extend Renoise. With a few lines of code you can add the features or tools that you always wanted but never dared to ask for. Renoise is based on mod trackers. Mod trackers are characterized by displaying and editing music in an easily understood grid known as a pattern. These patterns are akin to sheet music, but are displayed alphanumerically instead of with musical notation. Renoise boasts full ReWire and Jack support, FX and instrument VST/AU/LADSPA/DSSI plug-in support, automatic plug-in delay compensation, multi-core load balancing, MIDI I/O, OpenSoundControl, audio recording, flexible audio output, graphical & numerical parameter automation, modular parameter routing, and much more. Due to its keyboard driven workflow, it makes the creation of desktop music far quicker than in a traditional MIDI based sequencer. For experienced users, and those who dont necessarily want to be bound to piano roll systems to music, it offers a refreshing approach to composing and is one of the most efficient ways to do so using a computer. Instead of spending hours cobbling beats together with a mouse, why not do it in seconds with just a few keystrokes in Renoise? Whether you are an audio veteran or just starting out, Renoise is a fantastic addition to any bedroom or professional studio. Got laptop? Use Renoise.
What's new in this version: Version 2.7.2 fixes one urgent problem for the upcoming OSX Lion release, and a few other quirks & problems. Mostly Lua scripting related stuff.
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"A different/quicker way to make music"
Version: Renoise 2.0.0 RC2
Pros
VST support with full envelope automation for any setting.
GUI is rock solid and quick.
Tracker style makes notes and rhythms very quick to enter/edit compared to most other sequencers.
Configurable keyboard shortcuts.
Very helpful community.Cons
Can be tricky to use at first for beginners compared to some sequencers (though the forum helps here).
No automated track freezing as yet.
No piano roll may put some off.
Pattern playlist arranger could be improved perhaps.Summary
Having a little experience with standard piano-roll sequencers (Cubase, Reason), using Renoise is a breath of fresh air. It's a bit tricky to get into (notes are entered into a spreadsheet grid-like structure), but once you get the hang of it and get used to all the keyboard shortcuts, composition ends up much quicker than the aforementioned 'piano rollers', at least for me.
I love it to bits so I bought my copy recently, though the demo is fully functioning apart from a couple of things like downmixing to wav. But at least you can save your project to return to it later.
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