Instrument Selector

Instrument Selector

The instrument selector in Renoise organizes all available insturments and samples in a song. Unlike in other sequencer, an instrument in Renoise (like for example a piano sound) is not not necessary bound to a track: you can play the piano instruments on any track you want. In case of sample based instruments, even on multiple tracks simultaniously. Thats why the insturment selector also plays such an important role in Renoise next to the tracks.

What is an Instrument in Renoise

An instrument in Renoise may be one of the following, or all together:

• one or multiple audio samples, possibly layered and modulated in the Instrument Editor
• a plugin instrument (VST or Audio Unit) as set up and loaded in the Instrument Settings
• a MIDI instrument (VST or Audio Unit) as set up in the Instrument Settings

Overview

Above you see two lists: The upper numbered list is the list of instruments, the list below a list of samples that may be loaded for an instrument. In case of an plugin or MIDI instrument, the sample list will be empty.

The separator line between the sample and insturment list can be dragged with the mouse, so you can make yourself more or less space for the list of samples.

The selected instrument in the list is the one that is currently played back and recorded when editing or recording notes into patterns.

On the left of the list are some common and often used operations:

• +/- : Add or remove an insturment to/from the list
• Cut: Copy, the remove an insturment
• Copy: Copy an insturment to the clipboard (to paste it later on)
• Paste: Paste a previously copied insturment (for example to duplicate it)
• +/-: Add or remove a sample for the currently selected instrument