Changing song position with midi or osc

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1

Hello
I want to usemy controler to increment or decrement the playhead position within the Edit window,
Ifound this topic :

But it does not seem to work anymore ( attempt to call field ‘tool’ (a nil value))
Does anyone can help me ?
PS: i don’t find the option on the midimapping

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2

How did you attempt to run the code?

I think any reference to renoise:tool() has to happen in the context of a tool being installed.

The other code works fine in the dev editing window for me.

3

I have this working.

1: Copy GlobalMidiActions.lua to you scripts folder if it’s not already there
2. Add this code at the end:

add_action("Navigation: Increment edit pos",
function(message)
  if message:is_trigger() then
    local pos_queue = renoise.song().transport.edit_pos  
 pos_queue.line =   pos_queue.line + 1
 renoise.song().transport.edit_pos = pos_queue  
  end
end)

3: Start Renoise, hit ctrl+M (or option + M on mac, I think) to bring up the MIDI mapper.

4: Look under “Navigation” for “Increment edit pos” and map it to some MIDI command.

You can do the same to move the edit position the other way.

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Ok thank you very much I’m tottaly new to Lua, and don’t understand a thing.

If i put it in the root of the script folder, it keep saying:
Script Error
GlobalMidiActions.lua:10: attempt to call field ‘tool’ (a nil value)

If i put it under Tools it don’t do anything

I use the last version of Renoise

5

Use the exact code I posted. This is not a tool, so the code can’t reference the tool API.

6

Ok i understand, but where is this file
If i create only it with only your script addactionis not declared

I found it sorry

Thank you very much

7

May be more, what about changing column position ( vol , pan , … )
I tried “pos_queue.column” but not working

8

Well this gets more complicated as you need to look at the Renoise scripting API, but I believe it’s all doable.