Interesting - think I’d have to try this out, because I imagine jumping back seems like it would be counter-intuitive
But perhaps not?
This is actually the behavior I’m used to from other trackers (I don’t know if all or just some). It’s highly intuitive imo I think most oldschool trackers would argue that when cursor is in the volume column, shift-tab should go back to its note column and NOT the previous note column. The native Renoise shortcut is actually going back two steps, from the oldschool perspective.
This way, shift-tab also acts as a quick ‘goto note column’ when fiddling in any of the sub columns. To me, it’s important that the tab shortcut has an optimal behavior. It’s probably the most used shortcut besides arrow keys and play shortcuts. My suspicion is that a lot of Renoise users rely too heavily on navigating with arrow keys (tedious) where tab used to be much more efficient if implemented properly.
Agree with what you say and tools seems to work flawlessly.
My suspicion is that a lot of Renoise users rely too heavily on navigating with arrow keys (tedious) where tab used to be much more efficient if implemented properly.
Probably, yes. I would like to add that we probably all tend to use the mouse a little more than we want or care to admit. Would be nice if we could access ALL areas using just the keyboard (however awkward it might be) - but hey,this is probably worthy of a separate topic
I protest. I had a great deal of difficulty finding these shortcuts because they don’t reference “Better” or “Joule” in the shortcut list, which is a shame.
I think most oldschool trackers would argue that when cursor is in the volume column, shift-tab should go back to its note column and NOT the previous note column. The native Renoise shortcut is actually going back two steps, from the oldschool perspective.