{"slug": "renoise", "name": "Renoise", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "", "recommenders": 6, "commenters": 9, "warners": 0, "score": 6.029, "rising": -0.64, "first": "2025-11-03", "latest": "2026-08-02", "why": "the main DAW I use these days (Renoise) is so traditionally minded", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 6, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "the main DAW I use these days (Renoise) is so traditionally minded", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "renoise.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.renoise.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Renoise"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 786412402, "item_id": 49150775, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150775", "by": "piperflatline", "date": "2026-08-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Renoise is pretty cool", "excerpt": "Love FT2! I did some PlayStation/N64 soundtrack stuff (known if you know) and released a few \"albums\" with it back in the 90s (essentially unknown). These days I use FL Studio but I'm always wanting in many ways to go back to tracking. Renoise is pretty cool but I do miss FT2, and yeah as someone mentioned there's also MilkyTracker. Annnnnnd... now I want to go track something.", "context": "", "use_case": "tracker music", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2"}, {"id": 785518210, "item_id": 49094888, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094888", "by": "mhd", "date": "2026-07-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "There's also Renoise, which tries to marry the contemporary DAW with a tracker-style timeline.", "excerpt": "There's also Renoise, which tries to marry the contemporary DAW with a tracker-style timeline. https://www.renoise.com", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "User Interfaces of the Demo Scene"}, {"id": 782532643, "item_id": 48908290, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908290", "by": "yowlingcat", "date": "2026-07-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ended up with Renoise because I'm a tracker guy after all long term", "excerpt": "First of all, it's so cool to see you on HN and creating this. I'm not sure how much the HN community is aware of this, but JUCE is the standard for cross platform music plugin development and needs to work efficiently in hard realtime settings. Many of my favorite plugins are JUCE based (such as the Valhalla stuff) and I'm a huge fan. Tracktion is a great DAW as well that I got a lot of mileage of in my younger days", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "Tracktion", "story": null}, {"id": 748854610, "item_id": 46803413, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46803413", "by": "shams93", "date": "2026-01-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "bitwig, renoise and reaper all support linux for those who want or need commercial audio applications on linux", "excerpt": "This is a nice resource. Personally I use linux vst plugin on bespoke synth. But bitwig, renoise and reaper all support linux for those who want or need commercial audio applications on linux. With pipewire and new kernel changes everything is coming together for linux to perform much better than windows + asio.", "context": "", "use_case": "commercial audio on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "Native Linux VST plugin directory"}, {"id": 742908208, "item_id": 46431763, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431763", "by": "hardwarepirate", "date": "2025-12-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i can recommend renoise", "excerpt": "i can recommend renoise, not sequencer, but a tracker, used for creating demo tracks (the music in cracks) or genres like breakcore, jungle, edm. venetian snares uses it after he used cubase in the 90s/00s. it's rather customisable, reasonably priced and just works great as a daw for electronic music. https://renoise.com/download it even comes with a demo and it's own vst for other daw'.", "context": "", "use_case": "electronic music production", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["tracker music", "commercial audio on linux", "tracker music software", "electronic music production", "music production"], "compared": [{"slug": "fasttracker-ii", "name": "FastTracker II", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094151", "title": "Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093434", "title": "User Interfaces of the Demo Scene", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883305", "title": "item 48883305", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165792", "title": "Time Is Different", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46800737", "title": "Native Linux VST plugin directory", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556210", "title": "Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 786412402, "item_id": 49150775, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150775", "by": "piperflatline", "date": "2026-08-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Renoise is pretty cool", "excerpt": "Love FT2! I did some PlayStation/N64 soundtrack stuff (known if you know) and released a few \"albums\" with it back in the 90s (essentially unknown). These days I use FL Studio but I'm always wanting in many ways to go back to tracking. Renoise is pretty cool but I do miss FT2, and yeah as someone mentioned there's also MilkyTracker. Annnnnnd... now I want to go track something.", "context": "", "use_case": "tracker music", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2"}, {"id": 785518210, "item_id": 49094888, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094888", "by": "mhd", "date": "2026-07-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "There's also Renoise, which tries to marry the contemporary DAW with a tracker-style timeline.", "excerpt": "There's also Renoise, which tries to marry the contemporary DAW with a tracker-style timeline. https://www.renoise.com", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "User Interfaces of the Demo Scene"}, {"id": 782532643, "item_id": 48908290, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908290", "by": "yowlingcat", "date": "2026-07-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ended up with Renoise because I'm a tracker guy after all long term", "excerpt": "First of all, it's so cool to see you on HN and creating this. I'm not sure how much the HN community is aware of this, but JUCE is the standard for cross platform music plugin development and needs to work efficiently in hard realtime settings. Many of my favorite plugins are JUCE based (such as the Valhalla stuff) and I'm a huge fan. Tracktion is a great DAW as well that I got a lot of mileage of in my younger days", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "Tracktion", "story": null}, {"id": 754942644, "item_id": 47183915, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183915", "by": "bandrami", "date": "2026-02-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Renoise", "excerpt": "Let me amend that: one of my vendors has a new diffusion-based noise-reduction plugin that's pretty good though the resource usage is still too high. I imagine that will come down as they improve it. And that's pretty cool. But it didn't come out any faster it's just that it uses diffusion in the plugin itself. But docker was a much bigger impact on the software we use at work than AI has been so far. I was even tryi", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Time Is Different"}, {"id": 748854610, "item_id": 46803413, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46803413", "by": "shams93", "date": "2026-01-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "bitwig, renoise and reaper all support linux for those who want or need commercial audio applications on linux", "excerpt": "This is a nice resource. Personally I use linux vst plugin on bespoke synth. But bitwig, renoise and reaper all support linux for those who want or need commercial audio applications on linux. With pipewire and new kernel changes everything is coming together for linux to perform much better than windows + asio.", "context": "", "use_case": "commercial audio on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "Native Linux VST plugin directory"}, {"id": 744972880, "item_id": 46560805, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560805", "by": "nick__m", "date": "2026-01-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "renoise use that convention", "excerpt": "renoise use that convention https://files.renoise.com/manual/Renoise%20User%20Manual.pdf (page 38). I used psycle modular music in 1999 and I know that it was not the first tracker-like software to use that convention but it's as far as my memory goes.", "context": "", "use_case": "tracker music software", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear"}, {"id": 742908208, "item_id": 46431763, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431763", "by": "hardwarepirate", "date": "2025-12-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i can recommend renoise", "excerpt": "i can recommend renoise, not sequencer, but a tracker, used for creating demo tracks (the music in cracks) or genres like breakcore, jungle, edm. venetian snares uses it after he used cubase in the 90s/00s. it's rather customisable, reasonably priced and just works great as a daw for electronic music. https://renoise.com/download it even comes with a demo and it's own vst for other daw'.", "context": "", "use_case": "electronic music production", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need"}, {"id": 738354368, "item_id": 46147148, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147148", "by": "hrnnnnnn", "date": "2025-12-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Renoise just added support for a programmatic sequence generator called pattrns.", "excerpt": "Renoise just added support for a programmatic sequence generator called pattrns. https://github.com/renoise/pattrns", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "How to Synthesize a House Loop"}, {"id": 732880816, "item_id": 45805051, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45805051", "by": "officeplant", "date": "2025-11-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the main DAW I use these days (Renoise) is so traditionally minded", "excerpt": ">It's been announced that AI-generated music is already starting to top charts It's not hard to be slop with slop. If we're being honest here. > Every DAW will bake them in And this is when my love of music will finally start to die. Living long enough to see DAWs elevate the common hobby musician into developing a skillset, only to give in to the AI hype cycles and kill the soul of creativity. But at least the main ", "context": "", "use_case": "Music production", "switched_from": "", "story": "The MP3.com Rescue Barge Barge"}]}