Hi. @danoise gave me permission to update the Sononymph tool, since I started tweaking and improving the abandoned alpha version.
one of the most major changes for this is that if you run “Search in Sononym” with Sononym not open, it’ll open for you. Just like you’d expect it to. Same with the Midi Mapping for “Transfer from Sononym” (see below)
So, here it is.
com.renoise.Sononymph_V1.1_fix1.xrnx (336.6 KB)
This has a lot of improvements, such as it has a way of auto-detecting + detecting macOS, Windows and Linux paths to Sononym, and also is no longer hardwired to a non-functional query.json link - and lets you pick based on the version you’re running.
So usecase: If you were using Sononym 1.5.5 and Sononymph was connected to that, and then you moved to 1.5.6 - you can click on Detect to get a dropdown menu to select the desired version from:
and there’s also midimappings + keybindings for direct import from Sononym selection - so, you could set up a Midi Controller Button in Midi Mappings, and select a sample in Sononym, press the button, hey presto, it’s in your Renoise song.
I’ve also added “Create New Instrument” “Load to new Sample Slot” - so it no longer overwrites the selected sample/instrument, but instead creates a new one.
I’ve also tweaked the layout and design a bit.
i’ve also added the missing cLib feature which was to detect files in Linux.
The next step would be to remove vLib library altogether, strip it down and push it into Paketti.
While I’ve been reading the previous thread ( New Tool (3.1) Sononym Integration (PREVIEW) ) - and appreciate the ideas thrown by @Jonas for instance, the query.json is limited to a single sample. If query.json eventually contains multiple samples selected in Sononym, I can then modify it to “randomly load from selection in Sononym”.
Any ideas, feedback, questions, bug reports appreciated, thanks!
Sorry it’s taken so long to do a “proper release”.
EDIT: so on my todo-list are three things
- remove vLib use but retain the dialog as fully identical
- remove xLib use but retain the whole app as fully functional.
- make a PR of it to Sononymph v1.10 by esaruoho · Pull Request #171 · renoise/tools · GitHub
- get PR merged
- Slam Sononymph to Paketti and be done with it
ok, vLib has been removed. the end result was pretty similar - the dropdown arrow on the Options looks different, otherwise it seems quite alright.
xLib has been removed, too.
also, i’m seeing that most of “About Sononymph” is fully outdated (I’ve fixed Sononymph to start up Sononym if it’s not already started, for instance), so I’ve removed the dialog altogether and put the buttons into where “About Sononymph” was.
