Instruments

Instruments

Instruments in Renoise can produce sound that is created from three separate sources: samples, plugins and MIDI. Any combination of the three can present within an instrument. The values used for the properties below affect all of the sounds produced by the sources.

Instrument Properties

• Volume: The instrument's volume.
• Pitch: The instrument's pitch, in semi-tonal increments.
• Scale: Forces note playing and recording to conform to a chosen scale by making restricted notes (shown as green on the keyboard) play as desired notes. When a scale is selected, an additional option to left of it will appear for choosing the scale's key.
• Quantize: The time resolution of quantization. Choose from Line, Beat or Bar.
• Mono: Restricts the instrument to playing or recording only a single note at once. Simultaneous notes in the Pattern Editor will still be played, however.
• Hold: When enabled, Note-Off (key release) messages are ignored and the instrument continues playing. This is incredibly useful for triggering samples from devices that are not traditionally 'held down' e.g. drum pads.

Options

• - Opens the instrument editor in a completely separate window, which can be moved around and resized. There are also additional button at the window's top right corner for minimizing, maximizing and closing. Clicking "Attach" will reattach the window to the main interface.
• File:3.0 scopesspectrum.png - Selects whether to show Scopes, Spectrum or nothing in the instrument editor. This will be open or closed independent of the Pattern Editor.

Track Selector

Unless the Instrument Editor has been detached, this option will be present at the bottom left of the interface while working in the Sampler, Plugin and MIDI tabs, allowing you to select a track to play sounds on without having to move back to the Pattern Editor.