IMPORTANT
- Requires Renoise 3.3
- This is an early version of the tool and you may encounter errors. Use at your own risk. Please report any bugs in this thread.
- Do not change/automate the Hydra device in the FX Chain. This will give errors and prevent the tool from working.
- If you delete things in an instrument that are used by this tool and the warning tells you to undo this immediately, it’s not kidding. If you don’t then you may get errors and the tool might stop working.
This tool allows you to control the movement of two slice markers while re-triggering the sample. Playback normally only cares when the starting marker moves, but the Rx makes it also respond to the end marker.
Press the ‘Set Markers’ button and the tool will install the following things into an instrument: a small repeating phrase, a new fx chain with three devices, and two slice markers at the Origin points (you can set these before hitting the button). Either the tool GUI or the FX Chain can be used to alter the various parameters and they will update each other to any changes made.
Note that markers will stay at least one sample apart and cannot pass each other.
- Auto Reset - The same as on a regular XY Pad, this will cause the values to move back to the center when the mouse button is released.
- Follow Mode - Causes the GUI sliders to move together when one of them is used. This also applies to the XY Pad, but you’ll find using it is ‘quirky’ with this on.
- Instr. Link - Links the tool GUI with the Instrument Selector so that changing one will change the other. Disabling this will allow you to work on one instrument in Renoise while controlling another with the tool GUI.
- Origin - The marker’s central point on the waveform that it will move out from. Pressing ‘Set Markers’ again will set new Origins at the current marker positions.
- Range - How far the slice marker can move to either side of its Origin point. Changing this will alter the accuracy of the sliders/XY Pad.
- Sliders - The first number shows the Offset (how far the marker is from its Origin), while the second number is its exact sample value on the waveform. You can click on these numbers and enter new (valid) ones.
- Slice Size - The amount of samples between the two markers. The option to the right can be used to set the anchor point for any changes to this value.
(In the fx chain, the XY Pad’s Min and Max sliders function as the Start and End sliders of the GUI)
Other Cool Stuff
- The devices in the FX Chain allow the slice markers to be automated via macros and meta-devices (see the video).
- There’s no save files. Everything is calculated from the available data. This means any songs or instruments that make use of this tool will work for anyone that has it installed.
- You don’t have to use the provided phrase. You can delete it or create your own one with different effects (e.g. try varying the Rx value or adding backwards commands).
- Slices have their own loop points which you can move to create loops within loops. Changing the loop type can also have different effects that will be apparent on small slices.
- Two slice markers means there’s actually two slices. Although the second one isn’t used by default, you could create a phrase that does, which is useful because it’s changing length in response to the first slice.
Limitations
- Playback can stop when trying to move markers past each other by clicking and dragging them with the mouse.
- It’s possible for the user to cause an issue by crafting a fake Rx instrument - i.e. placing two slice markers, creating an FX Chain called ‘Rx Markers’ and inserting the required devices. So please don’t do this.
Nothin’? I am so loving the possibility of this tool - hope it gets updated again!
even though many don’t know it yet - the ability to manipulate samples like this is so important.
