I would like to suggest an improvement to the on-screen piano keyboard behavior in Renoise.
Currently, when holding down the right mouse button on a piano key and dragging the cursor left or right across other keys, the originally clicked key remains held, instead of the newly hovered keys being triggered and released naturally.
It would feel much more intuitive if the cursor behaved like a real finger on a physical piano keyboard. On a real piano, when sliding a finger across keys, each key is pressed and released as the finger moves across them. The previously touched note does not remain stuck while the finger moves onward.
Suggested behavior:
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When dragging across the on-screen piano keyboard while holding the mouse button:
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The currently hovered key should become active.
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The previously hovered key should immediately release.
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This should create a smooth “glide” or “finger-slide” interaction across notes.
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At the moment, the first clicked note remains latched while the cursor continues moving, which feels unnatural and limits expressive mouse-based playing. But it is effectively very powerful if you’ve arranged the order of your Samples in the Keyzones Section…. and slide the cursor over the active keys in onscreen Keyboard in the Sample Editor.
I think this would improve usability and make the virtual keyboard feel much closer to interacting with a real instrument. it is for those who aren’t able to have MIDI at there disposal right away once starting in Renoise, plus, also for realy fast note Recording in the Pattern Editor it is obvious a really handy natural addition.