Hi everyone, just signed up last night and having got Renoise a few days ago and I am in love already! I used cakewalk sonar beforehand, which costs a packet more, and this mops the floor with it!
Anyway, One thing that crossed my mind:
Say I have written a song, but there are no drums, and I want to place the same pattern on a lot of the tracks… so… copy and paste? That’s fair enough, but what if I have hundreds of tracks (yeah i know, lazyness speaks!)
Maybe I’m being daft and there is already an easy way of doing this, but I thought it through and came up with this…
So I make a new blank pattern, and place my drums on there. I then scroll down the pattern sequencer, and select every pattern on which I want my drums to appear. Then I return to the new pattern i made, right click on it, and in my head I’m visualising something that says “Insert current pattern within selected patterns” or something like that, and you’re done!
I think there might have to be some sort of setting to adjust to decide what happens if you are merging to a pattern where there are already notes where the new pattern is supposedly going to end up (eg. Overwrite overlapping notes, Overwrite entire column, Keep original notes (think about this last one, could be really powerful).
Of course you could build up drum patterns and such quite nicely. Say I have 32 patterns (which are all unique), I can put a bass drum pattern on 1, 5, 9, 13…, and a different bass drum pattern on all the others, then i can alternate a couple of snare patterns on the next track along, perhaps a cymbol on 8, 16, 24, 32… You get the idea.
I’m guessing this has already been suggested probably, but let me know what you think. And if there is actually a decent way to do this in Renoise already, I would be very happy to hear it 
Cheers
