Paste a reverse on to the end of a sample.

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Hi,

I’ve been trying to hack the symmetrical waveform code by user toblerpone into pasting a reverse on to the end of a sample.

local function make_symm()

  -- Sample properties.
  local buffer = renoise.song().selected_sample.sample_buffer
  local smp_len = buffer.number_of_frames
  
  -- sample length odd or even
    local smp_mid = smp_len
  local sel_channel = buffer.selected_channel
  
  -- Determine which channel(s) to process.
  local first_channel = sel_channel
  local last_channel = sel_channel
  if sel_channel == renoise.SampleBuffer.CHANNEL_LEFT_AND_RIGHT then
    first_channel = 1
    last_channel = buffer.number_of_channels
  end

  -- Process.
  buffer:prepare_sample_data_changes()
  for f = 1, smp_mid do
    for c = first_channel, last_channel do  
      buffer:set_sample_data(c, smp_len - f+1, buffer:sample_data(c, f))
    end
  end
  buffer:finalize_sample_data_changes()  

end

This code nearly does what I’m after, but it overwrites the second half of the sample. I’m struggling to double the amount of frames in a sample.

I tried to use part of It-alien’s ‘add silence’ code, but I couldn’t work it out.

Ultimately, I’m trying to create a tool which goes through every sample in an instrument, adds a reversed tail, fades out the tail and then sets note-off properties to ‘continue’. This would save me loads of time when chopping up my breaks!

I know there’s sample slicers which kind of do this, but I prefer using individual samples rather than pingpong-looped slices.

Thanks for any help!

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I’m pretty sure that you can’t change the sample length in the API - “property ‘number_of_frames’ is read only”.

  1. Save all frames to a lua table

  2. Do what you want in that table.

  3. Create a new sample with sample_buffer:create_sample_data() (overwrite the old one, if you want to).

  4. Copy all frame values from lua table to the new samples “sample_buffer”.

You might want to store/restore slice markers (and other properties?), if you need them.

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Thanks very much for the reply, Joule!

I think I can use your steps to understand what It-Aliens code is doing now.

Cheers!