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 …
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.
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.
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.
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
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.