Trackers for Live Performance

The tricky thing with V2 is you’re only changing the patch you’re editing when you change patch with the gui, or in Renoise’s instrument settings. To sequence that patch you have to send a MIDI prog change on the channel you want to sequence it with. The tip that made it all make sense to [...]

“MIDI Input can now be routed to individual instruments and tracks”

This is probably the most important update for me. I bought Renoise recently, and love it, but not being able to trigger drums on one midi device while playing keys with another drove me crazy. Glad that is all sorted out now!

Yeah, that kind of MIDI assignment is long overdue, but now we got it and it’s really powerful too (chained instruments, oh my!!). Looking forward to spending the next two days figuring out how to integrate it into my next performance.  Oh, and btw: you’re using the Farbrausch VST? I think that’s the only plugin [...]

Heh, I only have the choice of that under Themes ¬¬ (Sandbox is also listed if I look at Premium Themes.)

Hey Andy – yeah, nice! Thanks for the post! Oh, and … something odd going on in your header? You actually shouldn’t be able to select the CDM template! :) (and it causes problems, because it won’t work on your blog!)

@Dar: “when using the “scene launch” buttons to jump patterns” You do know that you have many options to control this? You can specify that you want to switch instantly, schedule the pattern, toggle start/stop etc…Check out the Duplex manual (there’s a link on the tool page) to learn the available options, and how to [...]

A little update for anyone following this, I recently picked up a Launchpad. After trying to install the Linux drivers I encountered some errors with liblaunchpad (I’m still trying to resolve them). In Windows, Launchpad/Duplex control over Renoise seems to be solid overall, but it’s unpolished. One problem being, when using the “scene launch” buttons [...]

Interesting, mixing is definitely a start. Look at what Hitori Tori does. It seems to me (if I’m not completely mistaken, his videos confuse me into submission) that he plays all of his tracks linearly, and modifies parameters here and there.

Duplex has opened the floodgates.

Class devices, you’re covered. Other devices do indeed require drivers.
That’s great to hear about the Novation, though. And their newer keyboards are class-compliant.

From the aforementioned link, “This patch will be going upstream with the next linux/alsa release.”

Ah, ok. I’ve felt a similar pain with Novation’s Remote 25SL (MKI): it’s completely useless under Linux, except for the keys (which feel great). I had another problem with my M-Audio Fasttrack not working under Linux so I posted on the linuxmusicians forum. One of the users personally wrote me a kernel patch. Shame on [...]

Yep, it sends MIDI signals — but it’s a USB device. So it needs drivers. Novation didn’t write a class-compliant MIDI device for the Launchpad, only Windows and Mac drivers. That means Linux can’t talk to it. Somehow, whoever wrote that driver actually worked around the problem and did their own for ALSA. ;)