ModLoop Tool of doom!

[Tony_L]

I added some checks to the startup that should prevent such GUI drawing problems in v0.33

[Tony_L]

I just noticed your errors. I’m guessing you were changing samples or something when it happened?

[Neuro_No_Neuro]

Hard to say, brain damage on my end erased a lot of my memories. I’ll say this, though - what I’m generally trying to do to audio files is create granular textures and to get the play head to start from anywhere within a defined region. The defined region often can be shifted by LFO in both position and size.

Like so:

[Tony_L]

As far as jumping around in the sample, I wanted to do something like that, but it won’t work reliably in a renoise lua script the last I checked, because there isn’t enough information about the current position and direction available.

Turning modloop into a plugin is still on my to-do list, which in theory would allow for additional tricks.

[Tony_L]

Lol! For some reason, until this moment, I had not noticed

New Tool (3.0): Loop Control

Yo, Renoise crew, here’s a tool that lets you do sample loop point automation [image] 4939 [Screenshot 2014-04-21 20.27.59.png] It works by creating a doofer that is tied to the loop points of the selected sample. This can be done to multiple samples across multiple instruments. The loop control doofers are contained in a dedicated FX chain within each instrument and numbered according to the sample index. Usage: To create a loop control doofer, select ‘Add Loop Control’ from the sample list…

This code is awesome because using doofers bypasses all of the silly things I struggled with to keep it from crashing when the user is changing focus.

Ok. I’ll probably study this and work on my lua script some more. I still won’t be able to do everything I wanted, but I did want to modulate the loop points of multiple samples!

[Neuro_No_Neuro]

Ah, I see!

All I know is that the last update allows for the start position of the sample playback to now be adjusted, so the sample can be played back from any point.

I’m a pest - knocking on the doors of folks who are so near to “finished” on their Renoise tools - each of their tools now technically ‘can’ do this, they need to be adjusted code-wise, which is difficult. There are three that I know of! Exciting to me

That being said, this technique is for sloppy sample skipping, not exacting or precise sample playback. It’s a textural tool. While there are plenty of fine “repeater” tools; this is for random, glitching audio chunks. Making beautiful ambient drones, pads; spacious clicks ‘n pops, hums. I am drooling over what Renoise seems soon to be able to do natively; I do not use VST/AU plug-ins. I love Renoise’s sound on its own.

No pressure I’m glad you’re looking at it at all.

[Tony_L]

Three loop modification tools? What’s the third one?

[Neuro_No_Neuro]

There’s SMC Tool, Loop Control, and Rx Markers and hopefully yours. Rx Markers so far is the only one that’s adapted to the new Lua availability of the ‘start’ marker position change, but it’s in heavy beta right now.

[Tony_L]

Thanks for the heads up, I have some exploring to do!