New Tool (3.3): Drawtomator

Renoise Tools
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> Download Drawtomator Tool

Wouldn’t it be nice to just draw something and that would drive some musical changes? The Drawtomator allows you to do this by assigning effect parameters to the X and Y axis of your drawing.

When you’ve finished drawing and released the mouse button, this is detected by the snapback feature of the XY Pad. This means it’s possible to accidentally cancel the drawing by going to the Finish Corner. If you need to use the values of a corner in your drawing then you can change the snapback point to another with the Finish Corner option.

The Drawing Colour option lets you choose from three different colours available from the Theme that’s being used. Useful since some can be hard to see, or if you just like the change in colour.

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Interesting concept thanks for sharing

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What is this magick? Cool stuff! :sunglasses:

Would it be possible to somehow ‘dump’ a shape gesture from the tool into envelopes for the automation editor?

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It’s not good for graphical automation, cos it’d need to continually write the drawing across the song’s patterns. None of the lengths are going to match up well there. The ideal candidate to dump into is the custom envelope of the LFO, but we don’t have access to that via the API.

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With a bigger “drawing” area,It would be better

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This is such a forward thinking concept; it goes a long way towards making
in-roads to a more expressive more playable computer.

Thank you very much @Achenar !

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Thanks @Achenar good job!!

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That just looks cool, when U have pixelgraphics behind XY-pad
Very very interesting consept
Keep up the good work !!!

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v1.1

  • Uses os.clock to get exact record/replay time
  • Replay interpolation mode
  • Better line drawing between points
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This update takes the proof of concept of the Drawtomator tool and turns it into something useful for Renoise songs instead of just a fun gimmick.

v1.2

  • Button to set Replay Speed so drawing fits in pattern
  • Button to create graphical automations from drawing
  • Raised Replay Speed limit, allows 3 decimal places
  • Replay Interpolation permanently on and option removed
  • Fixed: Destinations reset when tool is selected from menu again
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This update adds two major new features enabling the creation of two drawings at once with a gamepad’s analog sticks.

v1.3

  • Dual drawing mode
  • Button to insert a Doofer, allowing the tool to be MIDI mapped
  • Detect existing MIDI device in song
  • Real-time updating of track and device names
  • Accommodate 3.4 bugfix for BPM/LPB effect command/automation conflict
  • Fixed: Keep targeting selected devices when track order is changed
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