The best Tip when dealing with the Ren is....

Airyck wrote:More tips for the Ren:

Stop the sequencer before you load any new plugins. This alone will minimize your crashing.

Create keygroups of plugin synth parts when possible. Multisampling is your friend, not just for technical reasons but for creative purposes too.

The demo version of Samplit http://www.cdxtract.com/samplit.php lets you autosample 12 keys at a time, save them as almost any format and quickly make a keygroup of your synth sound then unload the synth. This will keep your CPU usage really low which will help with the crashing as well.

I was told by Garth from chicken systems that they are going to be including the Renaissance sampler format in their translator software as well as an autosampler. Once this happens keygroups will be so easy to make... just click, walk away, come back in a few minutes and you have a nice mapped keygroup for your Ren... can't wait. Should be in version 6.1 I was told (at 6.0 right now)
http://www.chickensys.com/products/tran ... n_akai.php

Actually this should already work to an extent.
As If my memory serves me correctly I used translator to convert stuff to mpc4k/z4/z8 format a long time ago and those patches load into my Ren.

Good news though as a translator owner that they will be looking at the Rens native format

foge1 wrote:
Actually this should already work to an extent.
As If my memory serves me correctly I used translator to convert stuff to mpc4k/z4/z8 format a long time ago and those patches load into my Ren.

Good news though as a translator owner that they will be looking at the Rens native format

I'll give this a try when I get back home. I'm in the middle of the desert right now rescuing a friend from a crazy woman and I happen to be without my Ren.

elogical4now wrote:

Better Mouse Trap wrote:

forwerd wrote:Avoid the undo button when possible.

I stay away from the undo big time. I hit it and it erased some **** from last week

Lol !!!

That undo button gonna be the death of me. Gotta learn to leave it alone.

Come on Akai, can you please fix this unreliable undo button?

Am I the only one that has no problems with the undo button? It works exactly like my XL. Works fine for me. *knocks on wood*

foge1 wrote:
Actually this should already work to an extent.
As If my memory serves me correctly I used translator to convert stuff to mpc4k/z4/z8 format a long time ago and those patches load into my Ren.

Good news though as a translator owner that they will be looking at the Rens native format

Finally gave this a go. So I did an autosample using Samplit and saved it as a Kontakt Patch. I then used Chicken systems translator (Akai edition) to turn the Kontakt patch into a Akai Z series patch and it loaded perfectly as a mapped keygroup in the Renaissance!

Keygroups will be sooooooo easy to make now

One last update... If I convert to S5000 format it even converts the looping, the only thing that needs to be done at that point then is just go through and turn looping on for each sample in the Renaissance software (which it doesn't do automatically).