Inbuilt Renoise Calculator

If you a bit like me (me being not very maths savvy) , you probably find you self getting mircosoft calculator out from time to time work out pattern lengths ect . Having just had to do this , it dawned on me what a cool little feature it be to have an inbuilt calc within renoise . Nothing to complex just the standard plus , minus , times and divide .

I’m sure it’d very easy to implement and it’d save me a little bit of time when I’m working out long patters …

what’s confusing about pattern lengths?

I think this is good idea. :0)

At the beginning this is a useful tool, but the more you work with Renoise, the less you need the calculator.
If it is to convert Hexadecimal to Decimal numbers, then you can toggle a switch in the preference to make Renoise show decimal line numbers instead.

Noticing your desired calculator features, most likely not for this reason, but nevertheless a remark to make for future readers.

I sometimes had trouble when I need a half or a quarter of a hex number to type in. Maybe there could be a keyboard shortcut to, say, halve or double the highlighted hex value instead?

Dividing by 2 or 4 is not the biggest problem:
16/2 = 8
16 / 4 = 4

0 -> 0
4 -> 4
8 -> 8
12 -> C
16 -> 10

Dividing by 3 on the other hand might work quite confusing.
You should not work with blocks 16 lines but with blocks of 12 lines where 0C should actually be seen as 10.

agreed

I use Music Calc from Jeskola Buzz.
This small tool calculate BPM into bar and tick length and into frequency.

It’s freeware
http://www.uploader.pl/?d=65569FA61

I think instead of calculator renoise should have features that take away your need for calculator. We should think what are the common places you need calculator for, and how could it be done so you wouldn’t need it.

Get a real, physical calculator with hex mode… They are cheap and easy to come by. I have mine handy all the time for my sessions in reaktor :)

What’s confusing to me is how the MIDI program numbers are in decimal in the MIDI properties of the instrument settings and hex when you are doing program changes in the tracker. I have to use a calculator because I can’t convert to hex in my head that fast.

Just learn this table from the back of your head:

  1. 16
  2. 32
  3. 48
  4. 64
  5. 80
  6. 96
  7. 112
  8. 128
  9. 144
  10. 160
  11. 176
  12. 192
  13. 208
  14. 224
  15. 240
  16. 256

And know the values of A to F in your mind (10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15)
For Renoise, you don’t need to know more about hex than that.

Two examples of quick calculation:
7C =
(7x16 )+ 12
112 + 12 = 124

DA =
(13 x 16) + 10
210 + 10 = 218

Vice Versa:
163 to hex → which figure in the table fits? → 10x16:
160 = $A0
163 - 160 = 3
$A0 + $03
163 = $A3

37 to hex-> 2x16 fits which is 32 ($20):
37 - 32 = 5 so 37 dec = $20 +$05 = $25

I know this thread is old, but if you have a mac, the calculator has a built in hex mode if you change it to “programmer” in the view options. It’s quite handy :)

maybe someone could officially update the hex to dec converter tool

W7 calculator does hex conversions too. I had a look at it first time in my life yesterday and was actually surprised by the amount of stuff it can do.