I used OpenMPT and it's great, and by no means am I criticizing it, but it is a mere toy compared to Renoise.Įdit: almost forgot the plugin grabber. Renoise has sends and multiband sends for better mixing potential. LFO device, (lfo anything) keytracker, velocity tracker, signal follower, all different ways you can modulate any parameter of anything.ġ0.Sends. You insert a slice and it maps the slice to a key without altering the original sample -more and better envelopes, envelopes for everything -in r3 you can now have effects per instrument, before it was just per track, so you can save a renoise instrument with effects in one file, no separate effects chain fileĩ.I'm going to cut short my sampler detailing because it would just take too long, but there's also metadevices. sample slicing, popular for breakbeat manipulation. I don't even have enough space to explain all the different things you can do. Renoise 3.0's sampler blows Renoise 2.8's out of the water. I haven't talked about the sampler yet, but Renoise 2.8's sampler blows OpenMPT's out the water, not even close. Multiple effects columns, you just keep adding until you have all you need. The delay column allows you to have a higher resolution without increasing your lines per beat. OpenMPT you have to use midilearn and record midi data into the pattern editor to automate, and there's a limit to how many things you can do this with in a single track.ĭelay and Pan columns. In OpenMPT you set up the chain outside of the tracks, and it's just not a terribly great way to handle effects.
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In renoise each track gets its own chain. VST effects are kind of weird to use in OpenMPT. In Renoise, you hold alt and click-drag down, for only the drum loop. In OpenMPT you have to copy paste the pattern data. OpenMPT doesn't let you reuse individual parts, you can only reuse everything or nothing at all. And you can just play a chord and it'll add the necessary columns.
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The TLDR is while OpenMPT is a good tracker, Renoise is a good DAW that just happens to have a tracker instead of a piano roll. There are many reasons, especially in R3 which is now in beta, but I'll try to sum it up.