I’m pretty new to Renoise, and am loving it so far. I have one thing I’m having trouble figuring out, though.
I use a Roland Apro controller keyboard, which lets me easily change the channel of the keys, but not the knobs and faders (it’s possible, just cumbersome). I’m having trouble figuring out the right way to control the macros for each individual instrument from my keyboard as I’m playing. If I MIDI learn the Macros, then they are “always on”, but I only want to be controlling whatever instrument I’m playing at that moment, and leave the others unchanged. If I use a button on my keyboard to select the instrument I want to be playing, I want the same knob to now control the macros for_that_ instrument, instead of the one that was previously selected.
I thought maybe xRules might let me do it, but it’s not built in. I’d have to code that myself, unless I’m missing something obvious.
By using mapping buttons to select each track, and then using the “Track DSP” mapping and the “Instrument Macro” (one per track, each assigned to a different instrument), I’m able to get the best of both worlds - I can just change my midi channels of my keyboard to play the different instruments, but I can select and record automation for the other instruments completely independently.
Yes that would work. Maybe I am a bit spoiled working with ReaLearn in Reaper where you can switch mappings independently depending on which track or plugin you select making it possible to use a single midi mapping preset. Was wondering if there was any sort of conditional midi mapping like that in Renoise. For now I will just use other channels Thank you!
Thank you for this solution! The mapping works but does not seem to record automation when moving the slider. I have record automation enabled for midi mappings. Am I missing something?
the way this works, is, ANY parameter you have selected, if you’ve got EditMode on + Follow Pattern on, it’ll actually write to the automation envelope directly. so just select a parameter, tweak the knob and go. that way you have a single knob that always modifies the selected parameter envelope. and if no envelope? it just creates the envelope.
it’s pretty handy.
what i think i could do, is something like this: make a modification of the macro mapping that also, when “Record to Automation” is enabled, writes to the playhead. it’s a good idea, so i’ll do that.
ok, it’s in Paketti now. check it out from my github.
Wow thanks so much Esa. That was incredibly fast. I did test it and I am not seeing any automation recording when I move the macro. Am I missing something?
this is used so that when you tweak the Write knob for a macro, ..
wait.
ok, so the way i’ve written it up is that it’ll hit the *Instr. Macros` device - if you can throw me a xrns example htat doesn’t work with the script currently, i’ll have a look and pretty surely figure out what’s going on and what should be going on. the instr macros device is used so that the macros are exposed as automatable, so the automation is affecting the macro keys of the instrument.
if there’s a different usecase, please do give me some details and i’ll work it out.
p.s. just in case, here’s what the midimappings look like:
Hey Esa, yes I mapped the Write ones, however I was expecting to see the automation in the pattern and didn’t have that envelope switch on. That is required for it to work or Is it possible to record the automation in the pattern? I am using inst. macros effect.
Also how do I actually “select” an effect for the automate any parameter option you mentioned.
yep, so, so far the macro has been writing to either macro only, or to automation envelope, not to pattern effect column. i guess i could modify it so it writes to effect column, that could be wild.
the automate-any-parameter needs for you to have the lower frame open in automation, and a parameter (automation envelope) selected. then you just draw to it.
also, you might get a kick out of the Parameter Editor - which will show you all the parameters of the selected device like this:
and if you enable Automation Sync - then you can just start drawing parameters (increases,decreases) and it’ll automatically create automation envelopes and write to the automation frame.
Just tested it and it indeed works I am new to renoise and didn’t know about the redirect to envelopes setting. I do enjoy step editing automation from time to time so being able to record it into the pattern would be cool but this is amazing. Thank you!
I like how it is recording in the pattern but I’m not sure I prefer it recording when not in edit mode. Makes it a bit too easy to mess things up when I’m trying out ideas before recording so I think for now I’ll use the previous version. I also see that when pressing undo it erases one point at a time. Any chance it can undo the whole take? Obviously no obligation. I really appreciate you making this possible.
I will need to look at undo stuff but i Fear it might not be simple enough to be made workable. But i do wanna study how undo works in scripting and see if i can group undos somehow
Works perfectly! thank you for adding that flexibility. This makes it so I can switch instruments and use my midi controller to use a single mapping to jam with my instrument’s macros seamlessly.
