I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, but this post has inspired me to dedicate a topic to it.
The feature is purely cosmetic - an organizational, workflow improvement in the UI. While I have an example for the instruments pane, the samples pane in the instrument editor would benefit greatly too (you can easily amass a hundred samples in a piano, violin, etc.).
In the same way that groups are used on tracks to improve managing similar instruments, we can improve the situation with these panes.
Key features:
- completely optional
- nameable
- collapsible
- transparent to the rest of renoise (the instruments keep their ids and the folder doesn’t have one)
- playing indicator, would blip if any folder member does (not all that important)
- nestable (would be great, but wouldn’t mind limitation of one level)
Examples:
Instruments Pane:
Instruments Context Menu:
