Renoise: A tracker-inspired DAW

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Renoise: A tracker-inspired DAW

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I'm having a lot of fun going through Renoise's tutorial, it's a DAW but instead of using a piano roll like most, they work with a tracker interface, which is more similar to how old games did it, but still lets you use modern instruments and all sorts of vst plugins like modern DAWS do (Cubase, FL studio & co).
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They have a linux version, and while I had a bit of a "linux audio" moment, it seems installing pipewire-jack and launching it with "pw-jack ./renoise" did the trick for me (kinda...). I wished they took the time to do this properly and use pipewire or pulseaudio at the very least, but having tried to look at the documentation for the newer subsystems, I don't blame them too much for going vintage on this. :akko_nope:

Anyway, you can find it at https://www.renoise.com :akko_fistup: It's paid software, but really affordable, and they have a demo with almost no limitations you can use as much as you like
 

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