New Tool (2.8) Epic Arpeggiator 3.0

[vvoois (vV)]

@mightybomb

Tried to instal this but somehow fucked up my Renoise 2.8.1

Every time I start Renoise now on my Mac this is what I get a bunch of error messages:

1. Installing…
   Non-destructive installation of
   com.renoise.EpicArpeggiator.xrnx
   will be executed…
   Please close the tool now if it is still open!

2. Summary
   Summary of file-backup:
   Preferences:fail.
   Epic Arpeggiator pattern presets:fail.
   Epic Arpeggiator envelope presets:fail.

3. No such file or directory
   check your folder access rights or start Renoise with priviledged rights

4. Problem
   Could not restore backupped preferences!
   Please review your preferences and manually copy
   the contents back to the tool its root folder

I tried to uninstall Renoise and updated to 2.8.2, but problem remains

No, Renoise itself has nothing to do with this. This problem occurs if you are a first time user. Greyfox had the exact same issue.
Go to Help → Show preference Folder, then go to the scripts/tools folder, then continue my advise from post 58:

New Tool (2.8) Epic Arpeggiator 3.0

Public RC2 for both Demo and Registerred version of Renoise 2.8.1 Currently residing at intermittend release 2.93 I have attached the latest revision of this tool, you now must have Renoise 2.8.1 installed to be able to run this latest update. Just an advise here, they aren’t mandatory: Save your song prior to executing / dropping the safe installer in Renoise if you haven’t saved your song yet. Close the tool if it is currently opened, before dropping the installer onto Renoise. You can a…

I have my two week holiday starting next week, i’m going to put a fix for this in my todo list.
I should have fixed this long time ago but so far private time the past year was barely enough for me to eat, sleep and go to the toilet/bathroom

[Monsieur_Baguette (kaneel)]

EDIT/ STUPID ME.
I never upgraded to 2.8.2

[vvoois (vV)]

@vV

No, Renoise itself has nothing to do with this. This problem occurs if you are a first time user. Greyfox had the exact same issue.
Go to Help → Show preference Folder, then go to the scripts/tools folder, then continue my advise from post 58:
http://forum.renoise…post__p__286877

I have my two week holiday starting next week, i’m going to put a fix for this in my todo list.
I should have fixed this long time ago but so far private time the past year was barely enough for me to eat, sleep and go to the toilet/bathroom

Note the above trick does not work on Renoise 3.0 since the plugin is completely not compatible to 3.0 (and it is a hell of a lot of work to manually adjust EA to work with Renoise 3.0)
I’ve tried to get the installation fixed on 2.8.1 and 2.8.2 on OSX, but for some reason the os.move() command doesn’t seem to get access to “write” to the tools folder.
I can still try to see if a chmod on the tools folder resolves this, i’m not sure if i can do an os.execute("sudo chmod "…toolpath) with the usual access parameters from within Lua on OSX. It is however frustrating that these options do not work cross platform.

[line47]

I just tried to installcom.renoise.EpicArpeggiator_Rns280_V2.93.xrnx on a clean install of Renoise 3.0 (MAC) and got the safe installer dialog.

Will this version work with 3.0? I did not have this tool previously.

[vvoois (vV)]

I just tried to installcom.renoise.EpicArpeggiator_Rns280_V2.93.xrnx on a clean install of Renoise 3.0 (MAC) and got the safe installer dialog.

Will this version work with 3.0? I did not have this tool previously.

Unfortunately this tool or at least the instrument arpeggiator part of it will not work on 3.0. The whole instrument API changed so much it requires a reasonably amount of changes. Some of them can be done in not too much amount of time, but i need to add more sanity checks regarding availability of the amount of pitch modulation configurations (how many sets are used) and then also check the used range limitations. Suppose desire to support phrases (import and export) is a most welcome addition as well.

So far time has not been on my hands lately. (Family and work demands)

You might be able to get the the pattern editor part working (only for the main pattern editor) if you change the API code version to 4.0 in the manifest.xml file inside the xrnx folder, but the instrument pitch arpeggiator will fail.

[Vojeet]

Will this be updated anytime soon?