I think it would be helpful, if you could generally switch any Renoise native dsp parameter which uses percentage to dB, by right-clicking on the value display.
For example a common scenario:
For composition, I quickly inserted a reverb, so as an insert. it has 48,4% wet amount. Now I wanna put it into a send. But the send device send knob is using dB. So I need to convert that 48,4% to dB first, which is-6.303093dB. So obviously, I cannot calc this easily by mind. Well, maybe you? So, simply a switch, leaving the default untouched.
At least for the send device + gainer, this would be veryconvenient.
Make valueboxes act like a calculator in general, allowing inputs like:
32 + 16
“*1.5” (multiplies current value by1.5), “/10” (divides current value by 10), “+16” (adds 16 to current value)
I did a stupid LUA hack for tool valueboxes that will at least allow inputs like “16 + 12”, and it’s quite convenient in some cases. Trackers deal with numbers, don’t they?
tonumber = function(val) -- allowing user inputs like "32-8" (while disregarding nonsense input)
local func = loadstring("return " .. val)
if func then
-- 0.111 stuff, ad hoc to deal with calls to unknown variables in loadstring
local f_env = { }
setmetatable(f_env, { __index = function() return 0.111 end })
setfenv(func, f_env)
val = func()
return (val == math.floor(val)) and val -- filtering the 0.111 stuff
end
end,
So, simply a switch, leaving the default untouched.