New Tool (3.1): Spotlight Solo (Dec 2017)

Renoise Tools
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Got round to putting a GUI to a couple of shortcuts I had with a bit of extra functionality:

Spotlight Solo:

https://www.renoise.com/tools/spotlight

Designed as a helper when you are mixing and want to zoom in on the details of a particular track, as an alternative to full solo.

GUI has:

  1. [BPM Buttons]
    to speed or slow the BPM by 30. The original song BPM is shown in the text above.

  2. Track selection popup
    choose track you wish to solo

  3. [Spotlight Solo button]:
    adds (~ minus13DB) “Mixing Gainers” to all but the selected track to pull down the volume, so you can focus on the current track but keep it in context with the rest of your song.
    This allows you to focus in on transients /EQ/ delay decisions with less masking from the other tracks.

-The tool updates/ auto solos, as you navigate around tracks.
-All settings are automatically reset when tool is shut (<< this is where to watch out for bugs).

Menu:
Tools Menu: Ledger`s Scripts:Spotlight Solo

Shortcut:
Spotlight Solo

Specialised Shortcut:
Spotlight Solo Start Active + Toggle Solo

Opens the gui with ‘Spotlight Solo’ function enabled, the same shortcut then toggles ‘Spotlight Solo’ button on and off

Changelog

changelog:

0.52

  • Added a new shortcut that opens the gui and then toggles the spotlight function on and off. To close gui again use [X] button or main the shortcut_

0.51

  • fixed max BPM bug (at its limit +30 button would try and set bpm above 999 and fire error)
    tool updates faster when changing track via popup now
    when song is saved, tool becomes reset so its mods are not saved with song_
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version 0.51 in first post:

Added a notifier so that when you save the song and the tool is active, the tool will automatically reset so no changes are saved with your xrns (i.e. not saved with “mixing gainers” or changed BPM)

–fixed max BPM bug (at its limit +30 button would try and set bpm above 999 and fire error)
–tool updates faster when changing track via popup now
–when song is saved, tool becomes reset so its mods are not saved with song

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Added to tools page:

http://renoise.com/tools/spotlight

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0.52

http://renoise.com/tools/spotlight

Added a new shortcut that opens the gui and then toggles the spotlight function on and off. To close gui again use button or the main shortcut

Specialised Shortcut: Spotlight Solo Start Active + Toggle Solo

Opens the gui with Spotlight Solo function enabled, the same shortcut then toggles Spotlight Solo button on and off

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(0.53 only in this post for now)

ledger.scripts.SpotlightSolo_V0.53.xrnx (5.3 KB)

v 0.53

  • Menu entry added to the DSP Lane
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