i’ll have a think about how different pattern lengths and switchups could be read, and tested. in this, the “oh no, i forced cue markers on you when you rendered the wavefile on renoise” would help me somewhat. i’ll have a little think.
i guess i could do something like, play a different length beat at. different bpm.
maybe even experiment with different bpms in the pattern. i think i could probably figure out a usecase and do a test. it could be fun.
While I haven’t updated this thread for 24 days, I’ve created dozens and dozens of new features, tweaks, improvements, etc. but.. here’s Paketti in use:
Traum Schallplatten released V/A: Tour de Traum 30 on the 5th of December.
My track Spindrift is on it.
It’s made with Renoise / Paketti.
It uses the Paketti Gater to create the chord retrigs + gates + pan fluctuations, the Paketti PCM Single Cycle Writer for creating chipsounds - including the LFO “Wavetable” Modulation, Paketti ChordsPlus for isolating the lowest notes to a new track for bassline, the main beats are made with Paketti Groovebox 8120, the Paketti HyperEdit is used for creating looping automation for the last instrument that’s added into the mix (with delay + reverb automations just drawn in using the Renoise Canvas), and the usual shortcuts for opening new Track DSP Devices into the tracks.
The track has been arranged using the usual “Copy Unmuted Tracks Above” / “Copy Unmuted Tracks Below” - which allows for quick arranging. I squeezed the track down from 12 minutes to around 6-ish minutes. And tried to get the kick going by layering i think 5-6 kicks (as the Groovebox 8120 will load a maximum of 960 samples, spread across 8 instruments (120 samples each). All the pads are created with the Paketti Single Cycle Waveform Writer, set to Unison Generator mode, so the 2 (Wave A / Wave B) samples are rendered 4 times each to get a maximum of 8 samples, and then wavecycle offset and finetuned and pan offset to get a wider variation of sound)
Oh, and the reverse cymbals are placed automatically by “Place Sample to End at Pattern End”, just so you just pick a sound and place it and it’ll function as a riser.
I believe one more feature is the “Turn tracks patterns into aliases” - if the tracks have identical data, then I just dump it into aliases, so if I fix the original track content, the aliases correct accordingly.
So, yet another Paketti joint, leading me into developing Paketti onwards and forwards by, ya know, simply using it.
here’s a little re-jig of the ALT-L which comes originally from ImpulseTracker.
now it selects the current column, be it effect or note column
then selects the whole track
then the whole pattern.
there’s plenty more features being added but this is easy to mention so there it is.
here’s something new related to the paketti clipboard. it’s called inverse cut + restore.
Hey Esa,
I am still getting this strange behavior when I install Paketti. Whenever I load an instrument or sample It loads a parallel sample or instrument on the next instrument slot down. It also includes these macro settings which I did not create. I am not sure if anyone else is having the same problem. Maybe a linux specific issue? Thank you for your help.
Check paketti preferences
@Sinatra - would be delighted to talk about which shortcuts are still missing, since i’m constantly looking for more ideas and more features / workflow improvements.
thanks!
ok, so this is the feature AutoSamplify, which, when you load a sample from Disk Browser, or drag a sample in, it will create a duplicate copy, add the Paketti macros, and add the Paketti Sample Loader settings.
i’ve set it to be set to Off by default, but if you’re seeing it, then please hit Paketti Preferences,
and disable both Enable Monitoring + Pakettify.
hope that helps. @Nalma1
i do want to eventually do it the right way - i.e., once Disk Browser doubleclicking is exposed via the API - I can do it the right way instead of this “oh, a new sample → let’s turn that into a new instrument and inject the Paketti XRNI default settings”.
i know i don’t post very often, but this might be fun for you.
i basically got given some automation curve math by a friend, modified it to write to automation, then took a look at automatron , another abandoned v2.8 only tool, mashed them together, then adapted it to have +/- control over 1x to 8x.. and when i showed it on the Paketti discord - one person asked if i could make it write to the lfo custom waveform.
well, the answer is yes.
and this is.. some stuff for sure now.
and this is how it works with automation.
enjoy.
Very cool, but fyi automasher & automatron still work and will auto-update without issues in the latest Renoise!
This is really awesome. Thanks Esa.
Sure. But I think we have gone through this several times without results.
What I am looking for, is a way to assign keyboard shortcuts for the previous (left)/next (right) arrow buttons in the preset selectors. This does not exist today. You have to use your mouse, and aim for those tiny arrows.
Thanks! I appreciate your work and efforts.
thanks, unfortunately this’ll need to be looked at once the API allows for it. maybe in the future. could you request this in the The Api Wishlist Thread , please?
here’s another nice idea - a block loop that follows you
made the note switch dialog update dynamically when adding more notes.
now you no longer need to go to the next track and previous track, to get the newly added notes.
Paketti Follow Pattern Page Toggler:
btw i was sent this, seems fun!
Hi Esa,
I have two questions about paketti:
BPM&LPB:
„Write Current BPM&LPB to Master Column“
I use this a lot and it is super useful - my question
About this is:
In the Renoise Preferences / Keys I searched for that
Command to assign a shortcut - but I couldn’t find it.
Is it maybe another name ? I searched for bpm, lpb etc.
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The other one is about splitting notes -
Like in Ableton - command+E+dragging the mouse up
Divides selected notes into even parts:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Se4ZXOCrRfQ?feature=share
At the moment I am doing a workaround by exporting a midi
Clip from Ableton to Renoise and playing with the Renoise tool:
„Place notes evenly“ with a dummy track to get the corresponding
Delay values and the adjust the delays for eg. a drum fill.
My question is:
Is there already a function in Paketti that does exactly this which
I´m maybe missing ?
Thank you,
ollie
Improvement: When searching Preferences → Keys for Write Current BPM&LPB to Master Column — the exact name shown in the menu — nothing came up. The keybindings used a shorter internal name that didn’t match. Three new keybindings now exist under Global, Pattern Editor, and Mixer scopes, all named Write Current BPM&LPB to Master Column — matching the menu entry word-for-word. The original Write BPM/LPB to Master keybindings are untouched alongside them.
– please check the github for newest build.
the other requires me to watch a video, if you wanna DM me some examples of how you’d like this to look like on a pattern (maybe shoot me a xrns as an attachment), i can study it and do it much faster.
