This tool is to help automate the process of creating a Renoise instrument directly from sounds from a piece of MIDI capable hardware, such as as a synthesizer.
For example, I have a Korg Volca FM, which can make some interesting sounds. To make a Renoise instrument from these sounds, I have to record samples at various notes/octaves, normalize the sample volume, remove leading silence, and map the sample to a key zone.
This tool does all of that for you automatically and hands free. It starts recording a sample, sends a MIDI signal to your device to have it play a note, and processes the sample. Repeat for as many octaves and/or notes as you want.
Demo
This demo is slightly outdated at this point, but it still gets the general purpose across.
I am a little confused, because the tool does this already (mostly).
Copy and pasted from the README, because I am lazy:
This tool maps recorded notes in the following fashion:
For each recorded note, map it to its base note up to the next recorded note.
Extend the mapping of the lowest recorded note to C0.
Extend the mapping of the highest recorded note to B9.
If we sample the following notes:
C4, E4, G#4
They would be mapped in the following way:
The C4 sample would be mapped to C0 - D#4
The E4 sample would be mapped to E4 - G4
The G#4 sample would be mapped to G#4 - B9
This makes sure that there are no notes on the keyboard that are silent.
The only thing I can think of thatās different is your mention of pitching down - are you looking for a way to map, for example, a C4 sample to the range of, say, A3 - E4 (with C4 being the base note of that mapping), instead of the default C4 up to the next sampled note?
Added the ability to do CPU heavy sample processing tasks in the background so that Renoise doesnāt completely hang up when they are done.
Added the ability to change mapping styles for keyzones, the new options are up, middle, and down. See the README.md in the github repository for descriptions, but itās basically what @EatMe suggested.
Along with the new features, the GUI is in general more neatly organized.
Would adding velocity layers be possible ? Even something very coarse with three stages like low, med, high just to achieve some degree of dynamic response.
I primarily use my USAMO box/plugin for midi and would also love to use this tool with the Silent Way plugin in order to capture old pre-midi gear and random CV stuff. The ability to select an instrument/plugin or a hardware midi box would be very very handy but I imagine that would be a lot of work ?
Velocity layers are possible for sure, Iāll get around to that soon.
Iām afraid Iām not really familiar with the other tools/USAMO/Silent Way and donāt know how they work or how I would test the functionality if I ended up implementing it, so I canāt commit to that one.
If anyone reading this does know how they work, Iād be perfectly open to a pull request on the github repository if someone did graciously decided to implement it.
one of my fav things about renoise is this tool. itās a lifechanger, i donāt have any decent workspace so this tool lets me grab what in need from the trusty korg x5dr and play without a mass of cables everywhere.
