To get over the frustration with the only option available for preenfm3, I wrote a controller tool. And at the same time it was my first approach to lua and scripting in Renoise.
From the available NRPNs I selected the ones I wanted to be visible, added bidirectional communication, a pull option for all parameters. It works, it does what it is supposed to do.
But then I wanted to be able to modulate the parameters via instrument automation. So I used (in my opinion) the simplest option to have the instrument in Renoise. I wrote 2 effects in Reaper jsfx. They also work normally in Renoise, like most other jsfx if you use ysfx. And Iām happy, I can modulate (as much as the pfm3 can handle, which is not much unfortunately) selected parameters that are not normally available in hardware.
I know that preenfm3 is a niche hobbyist project that is already EOL, but I wanted to share the tool.
Why not GURU? Well, the synth definition (I made one too) is about 1000 lines and to have the functionality of this tool I would have to modify it anyway. So as part of learning scripting I wrote the tool from scratch.
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