Formula Metadevice - where is it?

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so i was checking this video on YThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7il_wvWxM2A and got to the part with the formula metadevice he called inertia slider. i can’t find it in my browser. where should i look?

thanks!

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is it this one? it’s three years old, i’m not sure if this still works in v3.

https://forum.renoise.com/t/dead-dog-renoise-competition-round-23/33843
(unhide the spoiler in the the first post)

Edit:
Hm, I tried and couldn’t make the above code snippet work, but this simple version seems to work for me:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<FilterDeviceClipboard doc_version="0">
  <DeviceSlot type="FormulaMetaDevice">
    <IsActive>true</IsActive>
  </DeviceSlot>
</FilterDeviceClipboard>

Anyways, be careful with it. Check that thread, people had a bunch of problems with it. After all it’s not officially available.

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i’ll stick with the musical application that i found of the a similar enough effect. i’m aware that there are a lot of renoisers who know code and speak it but I’m not one of them :badteethslayer:

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i’ll stick with the musical application that i found of the a similar enough effect. i’m aware that there are a lot of renoisers who know code and speak it but I’m not one of them :badteethslayer:

Haha. Well, all you got to do is copy the xml (Ctrl-C) and paste it (Ctrl-V) in the focused devices section of renoise. But then again, you’d have to program the formula device itself. So yeah, if you found something else that works, just do it! :drummer: (TBH I never used the formula device outside that DDRC competition…)

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I Made a doofer containing a pasted in formula device (with the infamous power inertia), and saved the preset. To use it, I load up the doofer, move the device where I want it, and then delete the empty doofer. Hm, maybe a tool that adds a device where you like it straight away would be useful.

The formula device is very powerful in terms of automation. Coding with it isn’t that hard, lua is a straight away language, an possibilities are limited anyways.

For example I just used it in an instrument (or rather a hydra and one formula device per sample), to map crossfading multiple samples in series to my mod wheel, with very simple code. I don’t think that would be possible with more than 2 samples and the other metadevices. It will also allow lots of other stuff, remapping parameter ranges and such. Well…it can’t really do more then have up to three parameters, and mangle them with optionally some song variables (like tempo and such) to control another device’s slider.

I’m sometimes driven silly when I see people using such devices or scripting in other progs to actually make formulas that drive automation in fancy ways without any real input. Huh…that’s not what I’d like to dabble with. Just in case you thought it is only used to control things by experimental math - I rather see it as a tool for specialising automation things, or make it controllable in a higher extent, but still have the relevant input manmade (recorded or deliberately sequenced) in the first steps of those chains.