A simple but useful tool for the purpose of improving workflow. It will add a send device automatically routed to a new send track - a task i guess some of us execute manually quite often.
Menus & Keybindings:
Keybinding preference is found under Global:Tools:Route to new send.
Menus are found by right clicking the Track DSPs Chain or the Mixer.
Next version:
Same thing for multiband send wanted?
Feedback and suggestions are much appreciated! Or just let me know if you like it
this is an excellent example of a place in which a tool is a better option than a native implementation, imo. great idea for a tool, will check it out later.
Maybe a suggestion. sometimes one would like to add a track to an existing send. I imagine when navigate to “add a new send” a sub-menu opens with possibility to select the send the track has to be routed: “new”, “Send 1”, “Send 2” etc.
But this could also be done with copy/paste existing send devices in the mixer view. So the benefit would not be that high
Selecting an already available send is very simple in the send device itself. But your suggestion is very good from a user perspective, since it would gather the options in one single menu. However I don’t like the idea of having to go one step further into a sub-menu.
Maybe two menus in that case: “Route to new send”, and “Route to (existing) send” with sub-menus. And renaming the tool to “Send menu”. Later on, when better API functions are available, features like “Move DSP chain to (new) send” can be added.
Looks great but could use a few more optimizations.
I’ll give you a case that supplies various errors which are not trapped:
-Create a new song containing no send-channels.
-Add two send devices in track one.
-select the to send channel option in the context menu
-have fun debugging
'C:\Users\vvoois\AppData\Roaming\Renoise\V2.8.0\Scripts\Tools\joule.no0b.RouteToNewSend.xrnx\' failed to execute in one of its menu entry functions.
Please contact the author (joule) for assistance...
std::logic_error: 'failed to instantiate the device 'Audio/Effects/#Send/#Send'. the device is either unknown, or an error happened while initializing it.'
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'insert_device_at'
main.lua:13: in function 'add_send_device'
main.lua:21: in function <17><br>
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I'm a bit mean here because i am trying your tool in an Alpha edition of Renoise. So if simply even rightclicking and selecting the menu option does not fire an error for 2.7.2, then i have not said anything yet, just that you then have to prepare yourself to update this one for the next version.</17>
