v 0.58 upgraded the Preset button random search method
A simple tool that suggests a random instrument and a random effect plug to load. Also when a plugin instrument is loaded and makes its presets available in renoise you can select them at random using the Preset button which will have turned green.
Find some of your old forgotten favourites.
Dig yourself out of creative slumps!
Unearth those demos you forgot to uninstall!
Keybinding:
Global:Tools:~ Random Plug
menus:
Tools:Ledger`s Scripts: ~ Random Plug
Instrument Box :~ Random Plug
-V0.59 Added:
When the sampler is focused with a selected fx device chain, the plug will load the effect there instead of to the main track.
v 0.57 Added a Preset button next to the instrument slot selector. If a plug has presets that are selectable in renoise then the button will turn green. Press to load a random preset (same function as included extra shortcut)
v 0.56 Fixed a bug that could cause an error when a new song opened when tool was open still
v 0.55 GUI Added instrument slot selector, and extra status messages
v 0.54 GUI enlarged a bit
v 0.53 improves random selection functions to maximise variation
v 0.52 Fix to make random selection better when opening the GUI multiple times quickly
-- random number
--get os.time() as a seed
local t = os.time()
--as os.time() updates slowly we multiply it by random number (502) before
--passing to randomseed
t = t * math.random(1,502)
math.randomseed(t)
--get random number based on os.time()
local ran_num = math.random(1, num_available_insts)
v 0.51
-Plugin GUI now opens on loading
-Newly loaded track devices now become the selected device
--random number
--get os.time() as a seed
local t = os.time()
--as os.time() updates slowly we multiply it by random number before passing to randomseed
math.randomseed((t * math.random(1,500)))
--get random number based on os.time()
local ran_num = math.random(1, num_available_insts)
Having another scripting burst at the moment trying to get my plugins all sorted at the same time. Between this tool and the new Tagged Plugin Tool, I’m finally getting more on top of the VST folder! Also with using the windows search app:
Pretty handy to weed out folders containing vst doubles/ stuff to delete. You can just type in the vst name and the extension: dll and get all instances/ folders. Great search prog to use generally.
Also, I see you linked to my profile posts, but if you want an easier list to dig through, I’m still updating this thread as I go along:
Not common that plugs have presets available to the host, but added a random preset button for when they do. It turns green when presets are available.
v 0.57 Added a Preset button next to the instrument slot selector. If a plug has presets that are selectable in renoise then the button will turn green. Press to load a random preset (same function as included extra shortcut)
Nice tool! Is there something similar for randomly selecting a sample? It would probably need to let you categorize the samples though to make the most use of it so you don’t end up getting a loop vs one shot or a related selection.
Sample selection like you say would be a lot more tricky if you want categorisation.
I did make a suggestion for a native feature that that simply chooses a sample to prehear in the selected renoise directory. Still would be very handy I think:
Mine is saying this…
‘C:\Users\Alexa\AppData\Roaming\Renoise\V3.4.1\Scripts\Tools\ledger.scripts.RandomPlug.xrnx\main.lua’ failed in one of its notifiers.
Please contact the author (scripts) for assistance…
main.lua:324: attempt to index field ‘?’ (a nil value)
stack traceback:
main.lua:324: in function ‘get_random_instrument’
main.lua:597: in function main.lua:596
It seems to load Effects okay but it can’t seem to load Instruments
