It will display information regarding to the current operation.
For example, in mix mode it will display track name, song position, volume, pan etc, while in pattern edit mode it will show current track (number and name) instrument (number and name), octave, song position etc.
Unfortunately I do not have a working camera or video camera to give some demos.
The only thing I would ask is make sure you know exactly what you are getting it for.
My own story is this:
I was using other music applications for which the AlphaTrack was very useful.
I moved across to Renoise and AlphaTrack didn’t work
I wrote the tool to intergrate the AlphaTrack into Renoise
Since learning the keyboard shortcuts I haven’t really used the AlphaTrack much (or any other of my midi controllers) as I can get my ideas down faster with the computer keyboard.
I don’t want to dissuade you from purchasing either, but make sure you know what you are expecting to get from it. Personally it was more of a ‘stepping stone’ from other DAWs to Renoise.
For example, ‘good’ uses would be things such as:
Mixing (I don’t do much of this)
As a ‘remote control’ (The feedback is great for this as you don’t need to see the computer screen - I just don’t have that much space!)
Note that the tool will still be updated even if I personally don’t use it much.
Better late than never. I just got the alphatrack (after burning two presonus faderports) and I’m enjoying your tool, mxb!
There’s one thing nagging me, but this has more to do with Renoise itself. It really bothers me that postfx faders are not automatable. When mixing, you would really prefer to control postfx faders instead of prefx faders, wouldn’t you say? Prefx automation would affect compressors, gates, signal followers et c.
Anyhow, I replaced every occurance of “prefx” with “postfx” in your tool, for mixing purposes. Could you provide any guidance on how to make the movement of the postfx fader more ‘linear’ to what is shown on the screen in mixer view?