I just started using renoise after a long time of using hardware. One of the main benefits of trackers to me is that you don’t have to use the mouse. Just because this makes things a lot easier and you have less chance of handfatiques as well. I was actually pretty amazed when I found out a lot of things in renoise are still fully mouse based. I understand it makes sense for certain things like chopping your samples, but things like selecting your sample in your sample list should be able to be controlled by the cursors on your keyboard. This works much faster and more convenient. Just by clicking on the samplelist once (with the mouse ) you will select that column and from then on you should be able to navigate with the cursors on your keyboard.
You can. I suggest you open the options then read through the keyboard shortcuts in Renoise. There is little need to touch the mouse if that’s your preferred way of working.
Check the “Autoselect played splits” option, then play the specific sample you want to have selected…
Is that fast keyboard action enough?
You only have to assign the samples to keys first, that is currently the only thing that cannot be done very fast, unless you want to abuse the “generate drumkit” button on lead and bass samples or just only require some quick sample editing first.
sounds good but i can’t find “options” in renoise. im not sure if thats what you meant though. can you clearify that please?
Im sorry but i dont understand. I think you don’t understand me neither. The reason I want to be able to use the keyboard (the cursors on my computer keyboard) is to select a sample in my samplelist. This comes in really handy for instance when you have a lot of samples chopped up and you are searching for a specific one (with the mouse you can miss click, with the cursors you can’t )
Sorry for the quick, slightly cocky reply but at work so not best suited to look myself and bit rusty with all the shortcuts myself these days.
By Options I meant Edit → Preferences then look at Keys.
Previous and next instrument in NumPad + and - (plus and minus) by default. If you don’t have a numeric pad you can assign these to anything you want. Also NumPad 1-9 jumps between the 9 instruments visible in the plane. Alt Left/Right will jump through a page up/down in that instrument list.
hope this helps some. Also there is an option to grab nearest instrument, so if you are in a column with only one instrument you can click this (or set it to automatically take it) and not have to scroll through and find the instrument yourself at all.
Cool ! I was searching for this option, but must have looked over it. Thanks it’s much appreciated!