New Tool: Sample Knife

[mogue]

The Sample Knife is bunch of tools for cutting in the sample editor.

The extension includes:

• A status of your selection length in seconds (press ! to refresh sadly)
• Four buttons for nudging selection without changing it’s length.

• Fast buttons ("<<" and “>>”) will skip selection start to end or end to start.
• Slow buttons will nudge by a given amount of samples (1000 default - set in the valuefield above).

• Three basic cutting options:

• Hard Cut - Cuts the selected part to a new sample and leaves the unselected parts joined.
• Cross Cut - Cuts from start of sample to selection end to a new sample. Leaves a copy from selection start to end of sample.
• Split Edges - Cuts from start of sample to start of selection to a new sample. Deletes selection. Leaves a copy from selection end to end of

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Any ideas and comments would be appreciated.

[rhowaldt]

nice one. will try it out. might be useful to combine this one with the beatslicer?

when i read the title, the first thing i thought was ‘random cuts!’. this would ofcourse only be useful on certain samples, but it is a nice feature i think. if you cut a complex drumloop up at random and play with the pieces it can get you some strange and wonderful results.

[bystrano]

Great tool, thanks!

If you want to make the selection status update automatically, just add this at the end of the show_main_gui function in gui.lua :
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function update_gui()

if not (range == renoise.song().selected_sample.sample_buffer.selection_range) then
range = renoise.song().selected_sample.sample_buffer.selection_range
statustext.text = math.floor((range[2] - range[1])/44.1)/1000 … " sec"
end
end

renoise.tool().app_idle_observable:add_notifier(update_gui)
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[Jonas (Djeroek)]

Johann also made a selection tool for the sample editor, check it here:

New Tool: Selector

[center] [image] Selector (Changelog)[/center] 1.) The upper part shows information about the current selection/sample, 2.) The middle part allows you (with either selection or loop), to set the size, add to size, subtract from size, or move to left/right by frames, seconds, % of selection, % of loop, % of preset or % of sample, defining the anchor point (the point that stays fixed, while the other end gets moved to accomodate the new size) as outer left, inner left, center, inner right, oute…

[taktik]

Cut with style! Looks great.

Checks to “renoise.song().instruments[].samples[].sample_buffer.has_sample_data” are missing right now. Tool causes and error when opened on an empty sample.

std::logic_error: 'can not access properties of a sample buffer with no sample data.'  
stack traceback:  
 [C]: ?  
 [C]: in function '__index'  
 [string "do..."]:36: in function <[string "do..."]:35>  
 .\gui.lua:138: in function <.\gui.lua:13>  

And one of my favorite nit picking: renoise.tool():add_menu_entry { name = “Sample Editor:Sample Knife” } -> name = “Sample Editor:Sample Knife…”

A small gui cosmetics proposal: Renoise supports part of the unicode symbol set in its GUI, so you can use text = “◂”, text = “▸” for the buttons.

[taktik]

@Bantai

PS gif/jpg/png support someday?

Planned, yes. But BMPs do the job just fine for now in buttons. Plain black is used as transparency color.

[s-n-s]

thanks will test this out