Renoise was originally based on the code of another tracker called NoiseTrekker, made by Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius (Arguru).

Over the years the development team has grown to distribute the tasks of testing, administrative, support and web duties among several people.

[3] Renoise currently runs under recent versions of Windows (DirectSound or ASIO), Mac OS X (Core Audio) and Linux (ALSA or JACK).

[7] The Signal Follower analyzes the audio output of a track and automates user-specified parameters based on the values it generates.

It enables Renoise users, via an external frontend, to convert native songs into regular MIDI files (.mid) and thus exporting their work for use in conventional piano-roll sequencers such as Cubase or Reason.

Almost any aspect of the program, except realtime audio data mangling, can be scripted using the native Renoise Lua API.