Audio Effects

Audio Effects

Renoise currently offers 22 built-in audio effects which can be applied as Track DSPs on any track. These are guaranteed to be included with every Renoise installation. This ensures that songs made using these effects can be played by other people on their setup exactly as you do. However, this is not the case with plugin effects or instruments (VST, AU or LADSPA). These are optional components that have to be installed on a system in order to be played back in a Renoise song.

Below is a list of the current Renoise plugins organised by category, with links to detailed descriptions for each of them:

• Delay
  • Delay
  • Reverb
  • mpReverb

• Dynamics
  • Bus Compressor
  • Compressor
  • Gate
  • Maximizer

• Filter
  • EQ 5
  • EQ 10
  • Filter
  • Mixer EQ

• Modulation
  • Chorus
  • Flanger
  • Phaser
  • Ringmod

• Shape
  • Cabinet Simulator
  • Distortion
  • LofiMat
  • Scream Filter

• Tools
  • Gainer
  • DC Offset
  • Stereo Expander

Tools Devices

The Tools Devices are a small set of utilities which are often useful to "correct" sounds.

Gainer

The Gainer simply amplifies and pans a signal, just like the Pre/Post-Mixer devices. The advantage of having a dedicated device for this though, is that you can apply volume and panning changes at any position in the DSP effect chain.

• Gain: Sets the volume level.
• Panning: Sets the panning of the signal.
• Inverse: Allows you to invert the phase of each channel separately. This should mainly be used to correct wrongly inverted phases in recordings. Playing back the same signal inverted on one channel creates a spacial effect when speakers are very near to the ear, like with headphones, but further away this is barely audible.

DC Offset

The DC Offset device allows you to shift the signal up and down on the DC line. It is mainly used to correct unwanted DC offsets from signals.

• DC Offset: Shift the signal up or down on the DC line. Use the Scopes to analyse the changes.
• Auto DC: When enabled, incorrect DC offsets will be automatically corrected by the device.

Stereo Expander

The Stereo Expander can strengthen or attenuate the stereo effect of a stereo signal. Surround effects can enrich the stereo field of a mono signal by creating spatial effects. This is more audible on headphones than with speakers.

• Expand: Emphasises or attenuates the differences between the left and right channel.
• Surround: Adds a spatial stereo effect to the signal. This will phase-shift some frequencies of the signal on a single channel to create a stereo effect.
• Mono Mix: When using the Expand option to create a mono signal, you can define which part of the stereo signal should be kept. "L+R" will use the average of both channels.