Also, I could add the functionality to SliceMate. That tool lets you slice samples from within the pattern editor, essentially moving the slice workflow into the tracker. So I think it makes sense to have this functionality there as well.
Gave it a try. Sounds like a good idea, but requires manual slicing. The Waveform editor helps a lot slicing samples and then automatically places them into a phrase, from where it’s just a matter of copy/paste to place them into pattern editor (which is what I intended to do).
That being said, I have encountered another weird behavior with SliceMate. Everytime I insert a slice using its GUI, it transposes the sample -12st, even after prior resetting to 0. But I tried it on the 1 minute long loop so maybe it has something to do with the internal editor limitation?
“Slices to Pattern” is the one I was thinking of (thanks dblue):
https://forum.renoise.com/t/new-tool-2-7-2-8-slices-to-pattern/31593
@Medito: that tool requires you to set the beat-sync of the first sample - so, could be a limitation for you if you need > 512 lines ?
I’ll give it a try. I work with the 512 lines limit on my mind so that’s ok 