Copy Patterns Between Songs

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Hi yall

I seem to have done something to a song of mine, and i´m missing a pattern. I´ve got another version of the song where the pattern is intact, and so I´m wondering if there´s any way to copy pattern between songs?

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Open two instances of Renoise, copy from one to the other.

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Hmm, that sounds easy enough, but how do i open a second instance of Renoise? Should probably say I´m on OSX and Renoise 2.8

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Figured it out, just create another instance of the application and launch it. And if anybody else is wondering about this, i found out that you can´t copy from the matrix view, you have to mark all the notes in the pattern and then copy that.

Thanks! :)

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Ah, I posted to the duplicate copy of this thread… d’oh :)

Well, I’ll remove that other thread and re-post my reply here, just for the sake of completeness.

You’ve got a couple of easy options:

  1. Load the song that has the pattern you want to copy. Copy that entire pattern to the clipboard (Ctrl+F4 by default, or use the context menu). Now load the song that is missing the pattern, create a new empty pattern, and Paste.

  2. Open two instances of Renoise and simply copy/paste from one to the other. On Windows you can simply run Renoise twice. On Mac you’ll have to make a physical copy of the Renoise application itself, then open this copy to get a second instance.

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Nice reply :) I think this thread is ready for a (Solved) in the header :)

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12 year necro time.

Sorry, but…

I know we still can’t copy patterns from one project to another, just note information.

This means we have to manually copy all notes for every pattern, which is nearly impossible for some projects.

Is there anything regarding this on the devs’ radar?

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Yes, but at least you can copy all notes including all pattern effect commands of every track of the desired pattern at once. All you need is Ctrl + A, Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V. But copying all the track devices doesn’t work this way.

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Yes, it’s very time consuming. If we could simply copy entire pattern ranges from the matrix view, that would be useful.

Imagine doing this manually to over 30 patterns… Damn.

Renoise has a backup function but no possibility to easily replace stuff from one project to another.

So, let’s say you’re working in a project and you change a synth and drums. After 2h of work, you decide you don’t like the synth but only the drums. So you need to grab the old synth from a backed up version while keeping the drums. Now you have to manually copy notes and devices (since saving the .xrni doesn’t save patterns)… Bummer. Happens constantly to me.

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Definitely room for improvement here. Also a problem for me.

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You could try my method to avoid this. If I’m not 100% sure that I’ll keep drums, synths or whatever, and I need to play around a little more, I simply duplicate the desired instrument (to keep all the settings in case it’s a VSTi) and track. Then I mute the original track and continue playing in the duplicated track with the duplicated instrument (which could be changed anytime). This way I still got the original idea (instrument, settings, notes, track devices etc.) in case I would like to go back, all I would have to do is to unmute the original track. But of course this method doesn’t help for example in case you need to copy stuff from an old project to a new one for whatever reason. But it definitely helps in terms of composing stuff.

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