New tool (3.0): Instrument Info

The instrument in Renoise 3 has a feature which is well and truly hidden:

It supports comments and tags, both will be saved along with the instrument just fine.

It’s just that we don’t have any way to view or edit those comments or tags - until now!

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The tool is simple to use - drag to install the xrnx, then right-click any instrument to view/edit

(the dialog will automatically update as you switch between instruments)

You can enter multiple tags in one go by separating each one with a comma

Edit existing tags by clicking them twice (once selected, hit DEL to remove it quickly)

Edit: the tool download is now on the official tools page:

http://www.renoise.com/tools/instrumentinfo

awesome, thank you!!

Info showing as tooltip on long mouse over would be ideal!

Thanks!

And of course the ability to search by tag … but yeah, I presume this is an in-development feature that might get expanded in newer versions?

Mouse over to see this information would be an excellent native implementation :slight_smile:

But how about instrument “stats”, more keybindings?

Very nice, thanks

Hm maybe very useful would be a list of optional descriptable fx chains that are load able just by double clicking, for example:

Retro synth brass

Desc: 80s synth brass

Fx 1: chorus and tube for analog touch [load] [x]
Fx 2: phased and filtered [load] [x]
Add new [+] (selecting fx chain file…)

Very cool!

Now all we’re missing is presets! :dribble:

Nice! It means you can hide jokes and sexy ascii images when sharing instruments B)

Nice! It means you can hide jokes and sexy ascii images when sharing instruments B)

Rather, this tool will enable you toshowthem :blush:

And of course the ability to search by tag …

Hey, this would be easy for the tool to do - as long as those instruments are loaded into the song/memory.

I am currently building quite a sample library using songs as the “container format” - and being able to compare/cross-reference tags here would be really useful.

I think the only substantial benefit to a native implementation is quickly searching across files in the file system. But for now, just being able to add these comments/tags and knowing that they will become even more useful in the future is good :slight_smile:

Simply USEFUL.

BraVoMan!!!

We have (PLUS) preset informations now…

You look ahead.

thank you