Exactly!
And i think that the input of a lot of users shall take care that the changes won’t go too much astray from what people want. The software is made for you guys so your input sincerely counts, we just cant make everybody happy though so everybody has to agreee with some compromises or even sacrifices here and there on their own personal area.
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Ofcourse, that is why the poll so it will be visible what the thoughts on this subject are.
I feel renoise is very democratic so…
There exist my old mockup for instrument redesign with nodes:
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I think something like this could solve problems under current design.
I hope for a future option to expand the instrument box in the middle panel; since the XRNI structure is going to change iand become more complex, it is highly probable that an advanced set of features will be made avaiable in an expanded view in the middle panel; with the current set of features, I feel like the new layout is an improvement because it let’s you have a glance at both the instrument editor and pattern editor concurrently
I feel the new layout is a mixed bag: I lose the ability to edit my DSP chain and edit my instrument envelopes at once. (In my workflow, I tend to isolate instruments to tracks, and the dsp effects are intended for that one instrument used in that track. So in my mind, the instrument envelopes and the dsp chain are tightly coupled and should be editable at once.) But as you said, I gain a new pattern-ed + instrument-ed view I never had before so I’ll see what that brings to the table…
i think its just a matter of getting used to the new design,you cant please everybody,and changes will come when you change/rebuild something
i kind of like the new way,but yes it sure needs some getting used too 
Catch 22 for me really,leaning slightly more towards the way it was.The huge downside to it is the way the instrument editor has changed imo.I liked being able to see all the samples directly pinned underneath an instrument in the sample bay and also the envelopes are now squashed into the bottom making it feel very cluttered.I do like the new additions though!!I would prefer just and extra tab beside the instrument editor instead of the editor being squashed down the bottom.Anybody else feel like this???
1up!
Add current selection to instrument (drums)
Add current selection to instrument (overlapmode (all samples on top of eachother, all across the whole keyrange)
Add current selection to instrument (sample per octave or whatever)
I just can’t understand one thing, why while scrolling instrument box it affetc scrollbar, but not move for one sample forward or backward, as it was?
It is think that i have used all the time, and i think it’s much more cool, than scrollbar and then press on needed sample…
Don’t know, but please back the scroll function in this box as it was!
yeah, also would rather have the scrollwheel go through the samples as it would speed up workflow, luckily you can still scroll through the samples in the sample editor window. Check next to the ‘auto-select played’ toggle.
Oh, thx man!
But still, if we want to make bottom side of renoise more useful… 
I think it’s better to bring scroll as it was back
You can also just use middleclick and then use the keyboard arrow keys 
I find it more weird because it does through the Instruments and not through the Samples.
Can we please have the same action in both areas! I do not like this discontinuity between very similar parts of Renoise.
On that note it probably should in the DSP list as well. So, assuming Focus is set, you could scroll down with the mouse wheel till you find DSP and hit Enter.
And Disk Op.
Just reinstalled Windows so haven’t got any VST installed to check that window.
All these windows should behave the same! The fact is it seems that Instruments is actually the odd one out.
How about a Preference to have ALL either just scroll, or scroll and select?
This should probably/maybe be it’s own thread as has little to do with original topic…
kazakore
Totally agreed with every word!
The only thing that bothers me is that the sample/instrument envelopes for pitch, etc is now very small. I have no issues at all with the tabs/placement/structure being changed but the size is unfortunately very small.
+1
would it be possible to bring back the “generate drumkit” button? I’m really missing this in my workflow. now I have to do it all manually. or am I missing something?
edit: nevermind, found it. still miss the samples box right under the instrument box like it used to be.
crtl+D or use the button on the left upper side in the sample-keyzone-editor there you can choose for only white keys & first one per oktave… and you can directly drag and drop them to the zones…
I voted against new instrument tab. I wrote about it in this topic Plugin Grabber And Instrument Window Ideas & Suggestions