New Tool (3.0) Grande Utopia Signal Analyzer

Renoise Tools
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Check the official tools page for download and installation !!!

Today I released a new funky, not too serious, xrnx tool for Renoise called “Grande Utopia Analyzer”. It’s an audio signal analyzer which simulates the famous Focal Grande Utopia EM Hifi speakers:

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The analyzer listens to the left and right audio channels on the master track, and moves the various speaker cones incl. tweeter according to the audio stream’s frequency content. While it’s primarily a fun tool, the analyzer should display the frequency content correctly (approximatively): Sub from 20…80Hz, bass from 80…220Hz, mids from 220…2200Hz, tweeter from 2200…18200Hz.

If one clicks on Dirk Nowitzki, a little fact sheet is shown. Check it out.

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Since the Renoise scripting API actually doesn’t support videos or animated gifs, the biggest problem was to implement the various animations. But I think I’ve found a nice solution which isn’t too hard on the CPU.

Also, it was necessary to insert various signal followers onto the master track: each speaker segment needs a dedicated signal follower - this is unfortunately quite a big dsp chain. Actually I wanted to encapsulate this chain into a doofer device, but the scripting API doesn’t support scripting of doofers - argh !

Further, the analyzer can be persistently enabled / disabled via tools menu and hotkeys:

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IMPORTANT HINT: works also for Renoise 3.0.0, but only in mono mode, because of a bug in the signal follower device. I discovered this bug during the development of this tool, and it was fixed in latest Renoise 3.0.1 release.

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Great work, would have never thought it was possible with the API!

Good to finally learn Yodas height too! :slight_smile:

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for those of you hoping for a piano roll tool - let it be known that this is where the community’s true priorities lie.

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for those of you hoping for a piano roll tool - let it be known that this is where the community’s true priorities lie.

  1. Don’t misuse or hijack this thread for a total different personal topic

  2. This is your personal priority, not the priority of the whole community

  3. Go and write such a tool instead of writing bullshit here, or change to a DAW which supports piano roll. There are plenty.

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What a delightfully bizarre tool. Nice work :slight_smile:

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  1. Don’t misuse or hijack this thread for a total different personal topic

  2. This is your personal priority, not the priority of the whole community

  3. Go and write such a tool instead of writing bullshit here, or change to a DAW which supports piano roll. There are plenty.

sorry, I was only joking haha :stuck_out_tongue:

I love the idea of your tool, one of the best things about the Renoise community is when people design quirky tools like this one.

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nice work Airmann :slight_smile: ,

now please make protracker vu meters script, kbyethnx

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Thanks guys, feedback appreciated !

now please make protracker vu meters script, kbyethnx

You know what: I almost already did that :-)). My first version of the analyzer was such a Soundtracker-like meter - still have the code btw.

Actually I’ve planned to place that stuff beside the speaker images, but then I abandoned that idea, because of Dirk Nowitzki …:slight_smile:

sorry, I was only joking haha :stuck_out_tongue:

I love the idea of your tool, one of the best things about the Renoise community is when people design quirky tools like this one.

Sorry, I totally misunderstood your posting - you didn’t made it exactly easy to recognise it as a joke, though :slight_smile:

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You know what: I almost already did that :-))

almost doesn’t count my son, may the force of nostalgia be strong :wink:

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almost doesn’t count my son, may the force of nostalgia be strong :wink:

:smiley: