My Problems With Renoise And The Keyboard

[kazakore]

@KMaki

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Issue: Can’t control the BPM value with keyboard.

• increase +1, decrease -1, Set (focus the valuebox)

Type: Missing shortcuts

Scriptable: Yes

I made a little script to do this, although makes 0.1BPM changes, and it only ever got as far as a 0.0.1 beta release really (got kinda stuck on the GUI side of things and never implemented and tested MIDI control.)

New Tool (2.7): Tempo Tool

First little tool idea that’s been simple enough for me to learn the basics on LUA and knock up myself. Hope you find it useful. Currently, at V0.1, you have two keyboard shortcuts added to Global:Tool as Increment Tempo and Decrement Tempo. The will increase the tempo by a fixed 0.1 BPM. Keyboard repeat is kept so you can keep your finger held down. Due to floating point rounding errors the changes are not exactly 0.1 but think close enough for just about any use. Hopefully to come at some p…

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Issue: Can’t directly focus certain areas. (DSP search, Automation graph, …?)
-DSP List/Search box (This is not so bad. It’s rather quick to use the TAB from the DSP-lane)

Stangle Tab takes you from DSP Lane to the DSP List/Search Box but no number of presses ever take you back to the DSP Lane itself.

-Automation graph. (This is harder. Pressing TAB just rotates focus (maybe logically) between the list and search box. To move to graph you must hit focus next view, which I assume usually is TAB with a modifier).

Tabs should always include the all the parts you may want to, so Automation Envelope area and DSP Lane should be accessible while Tabbing through the area.

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Issue: Focus navigation could be done in a more intuitive way.
-Move focus area left-right-up-down, instead of plain left-right, skipping rows.
-This would not break the current focus movement stuff, if my calculations are correct.
-Current model works, but IMO this model would be better.

Type: Improvement/Feature

Scriptable: No

I setup and use Show/Focus XYZ Area in the rather than use the default method of cycling through them. I also remove Global View Presets as I prefer this method to that one.

Overall a good post although layout might be slightly hard to follow (probably good once printed or copied somewhere.) I have only commented where I can hopefully help in some way to overcoming the problems for your personal workflow.