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Great news arrived about a week ago when Renoise finished it’s another development cycle. This time the release bears the version number of 2.1 and as most important feature, brings rewire support. Those who are not interested in rewire, including linux users where rewire is not available anyway, won’t be left dissapointed either: amongst other things Renoise 2.1 brings cool new live performance features, which are also extremely useful for arrangement development and idea testing. Real creativity booster in my case. Linuxers are also given JACK transport support, which replaces some (before missing) features from the Rewire support on other platforms.

So I thought to look into the software for a bit and give my opinion about it.

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Pianoteq recently announced the release of Pianoteq v.3, their cutting edge modelling piano synthesizer. Together with the new release came a Linux version. For now as a standalone application with ability to connect to JACK and ALSA midi, but VST version is also planned and probably will be released in future version.

I decided to check out the software and give my opinion about it. Continue reading