Remember Sync Setting In Samples When Imported

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@Jonas

Indeed, why isn’t that possible right now!?

Here’s a thread I started back in 2007, haha:

Load Instrument From Song

Maybe this has already been mentioned before in another thread, I’m not sure. Trying to find things with the forum search can be a bit of a pain in the ass sometimes, especially if the thing you are looking for is quite generic/ambiguous. Anyway… Currently (in v1.8) it is possible to load samples from within other songs by expanding the song in the disk browser, like so: [image] But it just occured to me… why can’t we also do this with instruments contained within the song? It would be aweso…

I seem to recall something being discussed a bit more recently than this, but I’m not really sure at the moment.

Anyway, I assume the problem stems from the fact that there would have to be some XRNS unpacking in order to access the instrument data, which might be a bit slow?

Edit: Ah, no, of course… it’s because the Song XML would have to be parsed first. The samples are easy to get to because they’re stored separately inside the XRNS.

Seems like this is something that can only really be solved by updating the XRNS file format itself, to provide easier access to the various components of a Renoise song - PatternData.xml, InstrumentData.xml, etc.

In the meantime, I wonder if some meta tag within the WAV/FLAC format could be used to store the beat sync value, and a flag whether it’s enabled or disabled?

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