…or some sort of thing. One instrument to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them. anyway. what i mean is a sort of meta instrument you add other regular instruments to (in the manner that you add samples to a regular instrument). Then you play them all from the same instrument number.
Sort of like a combi patch on a korg or tone mix on a casio or whatever other names it goes by.
Now you can have different vibrato rates, different envelopes, etc. on different samples/oscillators/chips (handy for little synthesis tricks and up to the building of complex soundscapes). And maybe solving some other small problems i run into occasionally. Much more tidy than cloning tracks, right?
or am i missing some functionality of renoise that already allows for some equivalent of this? i know you can play an xrni and a vst and midi all from one instrument number but… what about 2,3, 8 xrnis?
Well, Renoise has instrument chaining, which is more or less what you describe - but it can only be used when triggering/recording notes, so it’s strictly a live performance option.
Try to look in the instrument settings, under “input” - you’ll see that each instrument can be configured to listen to a particular MIDI input. As you are not limited to a single instrument, but can control as many as you’d like, this is a sort of meta-instrument.
The instruments can even be locked to particular tracks (notes will then be recorded into those tracks).
But I agree, the feature you describe would rock (it would be easier to edit those notes after a recording)
Thank you! That’s pretty cool with track grouping. Not exactly what i want to do but very close. (edit: ok, not really that close… but certainly helpful and makes trying to do these things easier. still i want stuff like this to be separable from ‘tracking’- i.e., not song dependent, not .mod but modular, - sharable and easier to use/reuse.)