New Tool (3.0): Randomize Notes

Renoise Tools
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Randomize Notes

Available here:
http://tools.renoise.com/tools/randomize-notes

Cheers.

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What an amazing idea. ;)

I would also like to add if you’d have the option to choose prefered transpose shift, up or down. E.g a C# would become a D if the prefered shift is up, and become a C if it’s down. A few more scales would be cool too.

Thanks.

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awesome, will try it out later! +ed for great justice!

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Implemented the idea as “Nearest Neighbour”.

Can someone test the beta, attached?

Well, give me more scales? Code wise, it looks like this:

  
-- Helper structure  
Random.modes = {  
 { name = 'Chaos', notes = {'C-','C#','D-','D#','E-','F-','F#','G-','G#','A-','A#','B-'} },  
 { name = 'Harmonic Minor', notes = {'C-','D-','D#','F-','G-','G#'} },  
 { name = 'Locrian', notes = {'C-','C#','D#','F-','F#','G#','A#','C-'} },  
 { name = 'Lydian', notes = {'C-','D-','E-','F#','G-','A-','B-'} },  
 { name = 'Melodic minor', notes = { 'C-', 'D-', 'D#', 'F-', 'G-', 'A-', 'B-' } },  
 { name = 'Pentatonic Blues', notes = {'C-','D#','F-','F#','G-'} },  
 { name = 'Pentatonic Major', notes = {'C-','D-','F-','G-','A-'} },  
 { name = 'Pentatonic Minor', notes = {'C-','D#','F-','G-','A#'} },  
 { name = 'Pentatonic Neutral', notes = {'C-','D-','F-','G-','A#'} },  
}

Make me some new scales and I’ll add them,

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Seems to work here :)

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New beta version.

  • Added “Random” mode to “Nearest Neighbour”
  • Fixed some GUI glitches.

It would be nice if somone contributed some more scales before I releases this on the tools page.

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Fukit, version 0.3 has been published to the Tools page. More scales to come at a later date, patches welcome.

http://tools.renoise.com/tools/randomize-notes

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heres a link to a webbased program where you can see ALOT of scales

for some reason i cant post images here at my place right now?

http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/

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Great tool! One suggestion: Selection of octave range.

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I would prefer having them handed to me in the Lua format posted above, instead of researching and getting them wrong.

Thanks.

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v0.31:
Nearest Neighbour bugfix.
http://tools.renoise.com/tools/randomize-notes

There was a problem with the way notes were being “rotated” from the bottom of the scale to the top.
Doh.

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v0.4 beta
Added support for a range of octaves.
Please test the attachment and give feedback before I post this to the tools micro site.

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ok, i’m probably stupid or summat but nothing happens when i press “randomize”

put in a bunch of notes and then put rn in record mode and tried most “where-options” but nothing happens… what am i missing here? oO

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Some tips:

Make sure “Where” is accurate. Example:

  • If “Selected”, do you have some notes selected in the pattern editor?
  • If “Track in pattern”, is the cursor in the correct track?

Nearest Neighbour mode:
* Will not touch notes already in the scale (changed in v0.4)

  • Uncheck it, or choose “Chaos” or “Shuffle”

Preserve Octaves:

  • Does what it says
  • If you have “Nearest neighbour” and “Preserve Octave” turned on, and all the notes are valid in the scale, nothing will happen. (changed in v0.4)

Does this help?

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just wondered is this the right "code"for the scales?

– Helper structure
Random.modes = {
{ name = ‘Algerian’, notes = {‘C’,‘D’,‘Eb’,‘F’,‘F#’,‘G’,‘Ab’,‘B’} },

This is the Algerian scale from the link i posted earlier

if this is right i can write them for you

EDIT:dont think this is right,i tried adding them to the randomizer.lua and i get a error

hmmm

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thanks conner! i’ll try it out later on.

it is probs that i had just c-notes in the pattern.

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No that won’t work.

Here is a list of all the note prefeixes Renoise supports.

{‘C-’,‘C#’,‘D-’,‘D#’,‘E-’,‘F-’,‘F#’,‘G-’,‘G#’,‘A-’,‘A#’,‘B-’}

If you make a new scale, you have to pick from the above. No other choices. Don’t forget to add the - at the end.

My music theory sucks, I have no idea what Eb is…

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ok i will try again,maybe there was some note prefixes in some of those i added,that renoise doesent support.

will write here later

EDIT:ok got it working now,i had forgot to put the - at the end.
and some of the scales have prefixes that renoise doesent support

i will make a list of the scales that work,will do that when i have added them in the randomizer,so i can see which ones work out,and which i have to edit.

it will take some time though,because theres alot of scales in the link i posted earlier

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Eb = D# and Ab = G#. It’s just a different orientation of the note reading.

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ok, got it working now! (=

imo, if you are going to use scales then it would be good to have a basenote from which the tool gets which pitches should be used. after all, a scale is just a base note and set of semitone jumps to determine which notes should apply. otherwise it should say “harmonic minor in c” for example, which would be less confusing.

edit: one can of course transpose the randomized notes afterwards to get all the other 11 versions of the scale so it’s no biggie really.

cheers!