(I searched for this suggestion, but didn’t find it. Sorry if it has been suggested before.)
Often I find myself scrolling/navigating back and forth between different positions in the pattern-rows in several patterns’ many tracks. What I’d like to have is a way to quickly have Renoise “remember” these positions and let me just press a key to instantly scroll between them.
In essence, this amounts to placing bookmarks/anchors. Actually it’s similar to the already implemented “remember the different layout/screen configurations” (Global view presets) assignable buttons. However, what I have in mind is not visable buttons, but rather just these two functions:
- Press ctrl+key and the X/Y coordinates of the current cursor position is pushed to the array.
- Press the key and the cursor will automatically jump to the next position of all the existing positions that have been stored in the array.
So if position 1 is located in pattern A and row 128, and position 2 is located in pattern B and row 340 – pressing the key will result in Renoise automatically placing the pattern edit cursor at these locations!
The array itself is limited to, say, a maximum of 10 slots. But if the user has only stored, say, two different positions in this array (i.e. pressing ctrl+key at one location and pressing ctrl+key again in another location), then pressing the key will only switch back and forth between these two locations. With more than two locations stored in the array, it will rotate them - so when reaching the last one it will start over again from the first stored location.
What do you think?