How to use renoise

Hi, I’m new to Renoise and DAWs in general.The only thing I used before was Sunvox which has a somewhat similar concept.

But for the last couple of days I tried stuff out, watched videos and read the wiki. But there are still some things I don’t quite understand or couldn’t find out.

  1. How to select a pattern with the mouse? At the moment I click into the pattern list and use the cursor keys to switch patterns. Because I can’t figure out how to switch to a pattern without starting the playback.

Is there a better way to switch focus with the keyboard? Because I find it hard to switch from the track list to the pattern list with ctrl+shift+tab, as it only works with left ctrl and shift (and right ctrl and shift do start playing the song).

  1. How can I start the track from the cursor position?
  2. Is there a way to loop the current pattern only?
  3. Is it possible to edit a note in a track without the cursor jumping to the next position?

Ok, that’s all for now. Thanks for reading. And sorry for my bad english…

-switch focus with key board : ctrl+ tab
-edit note without cursor jumping : set step length ( second number box below pattern
shortcut :, ctrl + nr ( top row NOT numpad )
-play pattern from cursor : shift +space bar

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