Install Renoise (Demo) on Raspberry Pi

Renoise (Demo)

Renoise is a cross-platform Digital Audio Workstation with a unique top-down approach to music composition known as a tracker interface.

Already known to be a very feature-complete software, version 3 improves on core features such as the native sampler and instrument.

This version is only a demo, you can buy the full version at: https://www.renoise.com/shop
Renoise Demo Restrictions

· No ASIO support on Windows
· Rendering to .wav is disabled
· Rendering/resampling selections is disabled
· Rendering/freezing plugin instruments to samples is disabled
· Nag screens
· As ReWire Master, only the first stereo input bus will be available
· As ReWire Slave, Renoise will occasionally generate a small subtle hiss

To Run from Menu: Menu -> Sound and Video -> Renoise
To run in Terminal: renoise

Fortunately, Renoise (Demo) is very easy to install on your Raspberry Pi in just two steps.

  1. Install Pi-Apps - the best app installer for Raspberry Pi.
  2. Use Pi-Apps to install Renoise (Demo).

Compatibility

For the best chance of this working, we recommend using the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS, which is currently version Bookworm.
Raspberry Pi OS has 32-bit and 64-bit variants, both of which will run on most Raspberry Pi computers, including the Pi 3, Pi 4, and Pi5.
Renoise (Demo) will run on either PiOS 32-bit or 64-bit.

Install Pi-Apps

Pi-Apps is a free tool that makes it incredibly easy to install the most useful programs on your Raspberry Pi with just a few clicks.

Open a terminal and run this command to install Pi-Apps:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash

Feel free to check out the Pi-Apps source code here: https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps

Install Renoise (Demo)

Now that you have Pi-Apps installed, it is time to install Renoise (Demo).
First launch Pi-Apps from your start menu:

Then click on the Multimedia category.

Now scroll down to find Renoise (Demo) in the list.

Just click Install and Pi-Apps will install Renoise (Demo) for you!

Pi-Apps is a free and open source tool made by Botspot and other contributors. Find out more at https://pi-apps.io