I’m new to renoise and I think i’m missing something with the pattern sequencing especially with effect.
I understand the effects commands but everytime I type something with my computer keyboard in the pattern effect section it skips to the next line so i’m force to go back up with the arrow and entering another letter or number and so on.
I doubt this is the way to edit pattern effects, i discovered the right clic method to insert a value, but for sample offset and somme other effects ( that i’m really interested in ) I cannot right clic anywhere.
anyone can help me ?
maybe i missed something in the tutorials, but after 3 hours of research i’ve decided to post
This is the way pretty much all trackers work. The cursor doesn’t (edit: I typed “does” at first, d’oh!) move from left to right as you type, like with a text editor for example. You can stop the pattern from moving down each time you type a letter/number, but you will still have to manually move the cursor left and right to reach the other values.
Personally I just leave editstep on 1 most of the time and perform the extra arrow key movements. You’re gonna be using the arrow keys a whole lot anyway, so one or two extra keypresses doesn’t make much difference to me.
You can build up a nice little rhythm while entering pattern commands too.
Dblue explains things as they are, but you do make a valid point about a, to beginners, very illogical way of typing. At least from a text-editors point of view. I’m starting to think that a toggle-button for “editstep down” & “editstep right”, as that would make it simpler to enter fx commands & chords.
Then I think, there’s enough buttons and settings…
But I think this could be useful, especially with newbies in mind! Renoise have already changed the way we think of trackers, this would be a quite unique setting, quite easy to implement.
My main problem is I am an north american french frog, so sometimes I miss some point when I read technical stuff.
I’m pretty sure there is way to implement something more friendly for entering data in the sequencer but to be honnest, I love to ride non-user friendly software ( sorry if you think renoise is friendly, I come from ableton live platform and from my point of view its not
I dunno, its fun to figure out how things goes and after showing your mom how brilliant you are .
I know a lot of people that did try renoise and left the building after 3 hours.
Its my third day now in renoise, i’m not sure I have sleep in the last 48 hours, this thing is awesome.
Hopefully it’s only your point of view… if there are plenty more of where you came from… i think someone else should take my job.
Well my job is not to make Renoise user-friendly, but at least to change the high curbs into a raising platform for the walking impaired if you know what i mean.
Putting a lot of stuff into this same 1024*768 area with as less pop-ups as possible ain’t exactly easy to do this in a user-friendly way (just covering Taktik’s back here, not my own).
But i’ll promise to create some more beginners content in the future.
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