# Renoise

9 Hacker News commenters recommended Renoise and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as an affordable, customisable tracker-style DAW for electronic music that works well. Some find it feature-packed to the point of being overwhelming.

## Why people recommend it

- Affordable for a DAW (3 comments): "it's rather customisable, reasonably priced and just works great as a daw for electronic music." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431763)) "Shout out to Renoise for being affordable and you get a whole versions worth of updates" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46125791)) "its really cheap for a DAW and amazing tracker" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152547))
- Excellent tracker workflow for tracker users (2 comments): "ended up with Renoise because I'm a tracker guy after all long term" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908290)) "its really cheap for a DAW and amazing tracker" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152547))

## What people warn about

- Compromises versus built-in VST samplers (1 comments): "there's usually some compromise like using the tracker/vst's built-in sampler instead an integrated instrument" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155824))
- Feature-packed, overwhelming for some (1 comments): "a bit too feature packed for some people" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155506))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [FastTracker II](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fasttracker-ii.md): 8 recommend
- [Orpheus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/orpheus.md): 7 recommend
- [ScreamTracker](https://hackerapproved.com/p/screamtracker.md): 5 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.renoise.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Renoise", https://hackerapproved.com/p/renoise/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).