Pattern-context pad

This part of the Pattern window gives you control over

• the number of your Sample tracks,

• the number of your Send tracks,

• the content of your clipboard,

• Pattern Undo and Redo functions,

• visibility of Volume, Panning, or unused columns,

• the MIDI Remote Mapper, and

• the WAV Renderer.

Press Add or Sub to add or remove 2 tracks. Adding and removing tracks affects the number of tracks displayed in the (4) Pattern editor and in the (2) Scopes / DiskOp menu. If you need special volume or pan column (compatible with older trackers) you can add them using its checkbox.

Screen displays (from top-left to bottom right)

• Add/Sub (sample tracks)

  Add or remove 2 Sample tracks from the song.

• Add/Sub (send tracks)

  Add or remove 1 Send track from the song.

• Track Move

  Move the currently selected track by one position to the left or right by clicking on the arrows indicating left/right.

• View Vol

  Turns on/off the volume column display for the current track.

• View Pan

  Turns on/off the pan column display for the current track.

• Pattern

  Displays the current pattern number.

• Clipboards

  Selects 1 of the 4 clipboards. If you wish to keep the contents of one clipboard you simply switch to another. When you return to the first clipboard, its contents are preserved.

• Undo/Redo

  Multiple undo/redo function for pattern editor. If you make a mistake you can Undo a few steps back. You can reapply an 'undone' change by pressing 'Redo'.

• Track

  Displays the current track number.

• Hide if unused

  Hides volume and panning columns for the current track if they are unused.

• Hide all unused

  Hides ALL volume and panning columns in the song's patterns.

• Remote Mapper

  Using this option you can assign your external MIDI controllers to any effect slider in Renoise.

• Render to Disk

  Click this button to open the WAV Renderer.

The MIDI Remote Mapper

The MIDI Remote Mapper is a tool you can use in combination with your external MIDI equipment like MIDI keyboard to control Renoise sliders. In record mode the values are recorded into the automation, otherwise they simply change the current value of the slider support for Notes/Pitch Bend. In Learn Mode you need to click DSP slider in Renoise and move the external MIDI controller slowly to the left or down.

Please note that if a MIDI CC message is assigned in the MIDIRemoteMapper, the Edit Mode works differently. Then MIDI CC Messages coming in via MIDI are not any more written into the pattern column but into a Track Automation envelope.

 

• Channel

  Selection of MIDI channel

• CC Number/CC Type

  Selection of CC number (0-127) and type

• Min/Max

  You can set the minimum and maximum values that shall be accepted by the MIDIRemoteMapper here.

• Inverse

  Click this button to mirror the incoming MIDI CC signals at 64.

The WAV Renderer (registered users only)

The WAV Renderer is used to create a streaming file in WAV format out of the song (tracks) you've created so far. You can specify the desired name of the .wav file in the "Filename" bar.

• Interpolation

  There are two modes: Cubic (faster mode - use it for MP3-like quality - quickly renders song into WAV file) and Sync (precise mode, near perfect - use it for mastering quality - this is a must before you want to master a track and burn it on to CD)

• Quality

  Sets the sample rate from 22000 Hz (half-CD quality) to 96000 Hz

• Bit Depth

  Sets a bitrate of 16 or 32 bit. 16 bit is CD quality, 32 bit is for mastering purposes.

• Render Mode

  This sets the mode of WAV Rendering. You can choose between rendering the whole song or all tracks separately into a WAV file.

Nearly perfect interpolation mode (Sinc) may take quite a while to render a song, so be patient. If you don't plan to master a track then fast mode will be good enough though. Mastering a track after it has been rendered is very important to additionally elevate track quality - sometimes mastered vs. unmastered track sound totally different (mastered of course sounds better). However, when doing mastering the sound quality may drop while doing digital data processing. For this reason render at 32-bits and optionally use 96000 kHz and each track in separate file modes. This way you will loose very few digital informations after applying mastering effects which would be much worse in 16 bit mode. When you are done mastering you can safely return track into 16 bit mode and then burn it on CD.

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