Multisample handling and instrument text display

Ideas & suggestions
1

Load multisamples in Sample window (and directly from Sample window) in a collapsable way. All sample contained inherit same mod assignment. Maybe you can go in and change them after the fact, but I don’t care about that so much.

Sample window:

+MoogSquareOsc Mod 01
+MoogSawOsc Mod 02
|-MoogSawC1 Mod 02
|-MoogSawC2 Mod 02
|-MoogSawC3 Mod 02
|-MoogSawC4 Mod 02
|-MoogSawC5 Mod 02
|-MoogSawC6 Mod 02
|-MoogSawC7 Mod 02
□ MoogNoise Mod 03

(+: multisample, |-:child sample, square: normal stuff.)

Reasons being, multisamples would most often be treated as a single osc/sound anyway so make loading and unloading faster (test/replace/try again), mod assignment easier, stuff looks cleaner, encourage multisample reuse, makes using multiple sets of samples kind and friendly and less mind-boggling to look at. I hope.

(Yeah, I guess every other person already thought of this stuff up there^.)

Also, text notes. Instrument usage tips, helps, description, shouts, copy info, I made this, general blah… would be nice to dislay this in the sample or browser window or somewhere? (OK, already exists.)

2

It’s being discussed over here (well, basically everyone agrees it’s a good idea).

https://forum.renoise.com/t/some-kind-of-sections-groupings-for-samples/43521

Also, text notes. Instrument usage tips, helps, description, shouts, copy info, I made this, general blah… would be nice to dislay this in the sample or browser window or somewhere?

There’s a tool for that:

http://www.renoise.com/tools/instrumentinfo

Works as a tool within Renoise 3, and supported/integrated into Redux (will be in Renoise 3.1 too, of course)

3

How weird, I had the exactly same idea on my mind just now! Perhaps I saw your topic earlier, but don’t think so. :stuck_out_tongue:

Anyway…

Perhaps the instruments & samples could be color-coded as well, preferably synced with the track-color? Or at least having that as an option, for instance if they aren’t being used on multiple tracks.

4

+1 to this!

Just a simple grouping of samples would be great as it’ll fit the current mod-chain / fx-chain structure well, and making multi-timbre instrument faster.