Here goes upload of new tool which is Processor - bass/riff/arpeggio harmonic processor.
Script rewrites your riff or arpeggio or basically anything over new chords.
Here is situation: There is harmony defined by yourself or by other three harmony friends - Premier, Progressor and Pathfinder. While it is defined it’s good to lay up a bass line to chords. This may be tedious. Bass line is repetitive riff, sequence that transposes over new chords with modulation - minor to major and so on. Where Progressor track is given (or plain track of chords written like Progressor track) it is enough to set up bass riff over first quarter of pattern or several lines. Make the bass working with chords - so mainly first, fifth and third (however Processor harmonizes all functions, well sixth may be odd sometimes, but who’s gonna play sixth on bass?). Bass riff may be few Progressor chords long and going right with the chords - transposing if longer than one chord. While it is ready - switch Processor. Describe track with chords and riff. Describe pattern in which the riff residues also line in which it starts and ends. Then describe first pattern and line and last pattern and line of continuous paste. Then click on “Replicate”. Script will wrap off the riff along all lines and chords. And it will do it right.
Cheers and have fun.
PS. Any questions and debug error and so on issues - let me know here I will fix it as soon as.
My quick two cents Laffik is that Djeroek has a track with anything other than 3 or 4 note columns visible to produce that error? Your script seems to be wired for either a 3 or 4 visible note columns in the track.
I’ll just point out for you line 129 of main.lua. It reads:
Is it good now? I’ve noticed that Renoise doesn’t pop up with variables declarations missing - it passes on day but fails another day. If it were consistent there wouldn’t be error.
Here goes. Bugfix. Different sizes of riff range allowed and also backscan for chord starting before riff selection range. It should solve your errors Dj Eroek.
Thanks for the quick updates , don’t think I’m using it correctly or am understanding what it should do, wouldn’t mind a step by step description or demo song if possible B) . Tooltips would be handy, you know the little text pop ups when you hover the mouse pointer over a parameter input box
Anyway, I tried some stuff and while having the gui open, opened up another vsti on a different track, then when using the tool again got this;
C:\Users\pluge\AppData\Roaming\Renoise\V3.1.0\Scripts\Tools\com.Laffik.Processor.xrnx\main.lua’ failed in one of its notifiers.
Please contact the author (Laffik) for assistance…
main.lua:158: attempt to index field ‘?’ (a nil value)
Something tells me you have no chords along with riff in neighbouring track?
Processor has to get your riff on one track and chords for this riff in other track in the same pattern parallelly and playing simultaneously with the riff. If there’s no chords Processor crashed. Now it just exits:
Place chords progression on one track - it may be Progressor chords or Progressor-like-looking chords - best are 3 voice polyphony so something like G-4 B-4 D-5 in three note columns in one track, and other chords like this.
In next track in the same pattern and starting with the chords make riff/arpeggio/bass line/passage - something that works on chord(s) of neighbouring track (voices of a chord - 1st, 5th, 3rd, and also 2nd and 4th are OK. - however 6th and 7th doesn’t work very well due to chromatic mode of Processor)
Riff may be one or few chords long - as long as few chords in track with chords passing by, adjusted to chords tonally.
Run Processor
Define (controls respectively) track number with chords line, track number with riff, pattern number with riff, start and end lines of riff in pattern, paste start pattern and line, paste end pattern and line - these last two describe where to continuously paste the riff. (There also must be chords written in chords track - these are chords that Processor will be matching your riff to)
6 Click on Replicate.
Done.
Processor will repeat your riff in paste range adjusting transposition and chords mode to your chords in track in paste range.
Thanks for the info, will try and see if I can make it work …not that theoretically inclined, that’s why I like progressor, being able to run it on anything and see what works through playing with different gui values. Stuff like pathfinder is too hardcore for me, this sounds workable, not too complex .
. One column in a track featuring a simple repeating bassline.
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