Configs

The Configs menu handles the general configuration of Renoise.

"GUI" takes care of the Graphical User Interface you're working with,
"MIDI" handles the MIDI settings,
"Audio" is the section for everything that deals with your soundcard(s),
"Misc" (miscellaneous) deals with everything that doesn't below anywhere else (you'll find the VST setup here), and
"Keyb/Mouse" takes care of the things you can do with your keyboard and mouse.

Screen displays (from top-left to bottom-right)

GUI (Graphical User Interface)

• Hide 0's in effectcolumns

  Enables/disables the display of unused effect commands.

• Framework

  Enables/disables drawing of frames in pattern editor.

• Positionnumbers format

  Choose hexadecimal or decimal pattern line numbers here.

• Highlight every x Lines

  Sets how often line highlighting will be displayed. 4 is recommended for standard 4/4 measure.

• Pattern font

  Choose your favorite pattern font here.

• ColorSettings

  Choose your favorite colors for the GUI here. All interface parts are selectable via the bottom fields, and for all parts you have the three RGB (red/green/blue) sliders with values from 0 to 255.
  Saving your favorite theme is possible by selecting "Skin" in the DiskOp menu, entering a name on the right side of it and clicking "Save".

• Knob shade

  Amount of 3D shading effect (on buttons)

• Body shade

  Amount of 3D shading effect (on panels)

• Antialias

  Amount of smoothing of font edges

• Full Screen Resolution

  The screen resolution Renoise will use when switched to full screen mode

MIDI

• MIDI Input

  The available MIDI In Devices/drivers for devices like MIDI keyboards etc. are automatically detected during the startup of Renoise. Choose your favorite one here.

• Rec Note Off/Velocity/Prg Change/Controller

  These options define what kinds of MIDI signals Renoise should "listen to". "Note Off" is the signal of a tone being cut, "PrgChanges" are signals of changes of MIDI banks, programs etc., "Velocity" stands for the impact with which the key on the keyboard was hit, and "Controller" represents MIDI Controller messages.

• MIDIClock Slave Settings

  • In Device

    The MIDI In Device handles all incoming MIDI signals. The list of available MIDI Out Devices is created during the startup of Renoise. Choose your favorite one here.

  • Offset

    Offset is the amount of time added or subtracted from the time values of the MIDI signals this device/driver handles. Adding or subtracting time to/from MIDI signals can be useful to compensate delay of machines or such that results in heavy signal transfer.

  • Thru

    This setting defines if there should be a MIDI Thru Device/ driver, and if so, which one.

• MIDIClock Master Settings

  • Out Device

    The MIDI Out Device handles all outgoing MIDI signals. The list of available MIDI Out Devices is created during the startup of Renoise. Choose your favorite one here.

  • Offset

    Like with

  • Clock

    Toggles if Renoise sends Master Clock MIDI messages.

  • Start/Stop

    If enabled, Renoise sends MIDI Start/Stop messages to other devices. Use this if you have a MIDI Slave sequencer.

  • SPP (Song Position Pointer)

    Toggle this if you want to send out Song Position Pointers while moving to a different song position in Renoise

  • MMC (MIDI Machine Control)

    MMC uses System Exclusive messages ("SysEx") - several specific SysEx messages were defined in order to implement MMC to send messages such as start, stop or continue to MIDI Devices.

Audio

• Autoplay Samples after loading

  Defines whether or not a sample is played after loading it into the Instruments editor.

• Autoplay Song after loading

  Defines whether or not a song is played after loading.

• Autosave Backup

  IF Renoise crashes, it tries to save the current song. This option though additionally gives you the possibility to save the current song every X minutes.
  

• CPU Usage

  Provides a way to optimize CPU usage on slower CPUs as Renoise program can be very CPU intensive. If you have a slower machine you can lower this value but beware, it will lower audio quality! Check Requirements for other CPU optimizations before you do this.
  

• Device type/device - Direct Sound or ASIO

  If using ASIO your sound card must support it and your drivers must be properly installed. If you don't have ASIO, select Direct Sound which is not as good as ASIO but works on most audio cards. The latest DirectX version should be installed though.
  If you don't know what ASIO is, look it up in the Glossary section.

• Outlatency in ms / Samplerate

  Latency should be as small as possible to give a smaller "gap" before sounds start playing when a key is pressed. However, if it is too small and your CPU or operating system cannot handle it, it may sound "broken" and you will have to increase the latency. Frequency also decreases CPU usage but don't go below 22050 Hz because sound quality drops rapidly. However, all rates supported by your audio card will be listed here. 44100 is CD quality sound, 48000 is DAT (digital audio tape) quality. If you wish very low latency times solution is ASIO and/or fast CPU.

• Limit to stereo In/Out (only with ASIO configuration)

  Some ASIO soundcards have separate drivers for "stereo only" mode. Use this option to enable this driver.

• Processing buffer size

  Using lower values will give you (especially with ASIO) lower audio latencies: Use at least your audio latency/2 as process buffer size when using ASIO to get a more stable and click free output. A smaller process buffer will produce more CPU overhead (since the CPU has still to switch the buffers), so you should just try out settings that are the best for your configuration. We recommend the setting of 128 samples for ASIO and the setting of 512 samples for the Direct Sound.

Misc (miscellaneous options)

• Show track names in scopes

  Sets what will be displayed on the track scopes - track names or track numbers

• VST path

  Click this button to choose your system's VST path. Often it is "C:\Programs\Steinberg\Vstplugins". With the "Rescan" button you can rescan your system's VST path to find new VST plugins. This can be useful if you installed new ones while Renoise was running.

• Space Rec./Stop mode

  In FastTracker2 mode Space toggles record mode and stops song playback. In Renoise mode space only toggles playback of song (use ESC to toggle edit/record mode in both modes).

• Default Trackmute mode

  There are two ways Renoise can interpret a "Mute" command you send. The first one is the (real) "Mute" way which turns the sound of the channel down in the mixer. This mode will abruptly "kill" all sound coming from this channel.
  The second way is to interpret a "Mute" command of a track as a "Note Off" command. This will result in the sound that the channel (with all its effects and DSPs) makes with no more notes on the track played and (if currently playing) the current note being halted. The second way doesn't sound as harsh as the first one and will produce some "after mute sound".

Keyboard/Mouse

• Shortcut names

  These names represent the function you can define keyboard shortcuts for.

• "Current assignment" bar

  This bar shows what keyboard shortcut is currently assigned to the marked shortcut.

• "New assignment" bar

  The bar below the "Current assignment" bar shows the new shortcut assignments you do.

• Clear/Assign

  By clicking on "Clear", you delete the current shortcut assignment for the marked shortcut. By clicking on "Assign", you change a current shortcut to a new one displayed in the "New assignment" bar or (if there was not assignment for this shortcut) create it as new one.
  

• Repeatrates

  • Doubleclick sensitivity (ms)

    Defines how fast two mouse clicks have to come after each other to be interpreted as a "double click" by Renoise.

  • Left click repeatrate (ms)

    Defines how long you have to press the left mouse button to retrigger it continuously.

  • Left click repeatrate (ms)

    Defines how long you have to press the right mouse button to retrigger it continuously.

  • Keyboard repeatrate (ms)

    Defines how long you have to press a key on the computer keyboard to retrigger it continuously.

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