The API render function can indeed render across several patterns. I see no big reason not to script it. Let me have a go…
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The API render function can indeed render across several patterns. I see no big reason not to script it. Let me have a go…
Wow looking forward to this.
I though about scripting it
then i said myself - if it would be possible, somebody have done it before
so i didnt learn LUA…
Thank you Joule!
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Questionmarks below. Let me know if I should fix these:
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Mutes sends when rendering. Should affected sends be left unmuted? (otherwise the result will be silent when a track has a “mute source” send)
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Should any track OFF states be temporarily un-OFFed while rendering?
PS. I just tidied up the code a little bit. No need to redownload…
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If it’s really important, I could make a GUI for it. That takes twice the time though 
Works flawlessly here. Great job joule!
+1
nicely done!
The way I thought about this (although this isn’t massively important by any stretch) is because you can make arbitrary selections of tracks in the pattern matrix i.e.
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I would’ve built at the end of the song the selected patterns (with cleared unused tracks.) Then render those patterns out i.e.
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But I tend to think about things the slow tedious silly overly complicated way 
I’ve tried programming a crude hacky untested example of this…
…would freezing options make sense with matrix slot rendering? B) Have the selected slots rendered to separate wav’s , have these .wav’s inserted in the concerned patterns replacing the old note-events, have any track fx muted for the duration of the freezed slot. It would be like the render to slice tool, but work on matrix selections instead of pattern editor selections 
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You mean fill any “holes” in a non-consecutive selection with empty patterntracks, so that reverb/delay tails are heard? Yeah, It’s possible but quite specific and hackish. If you want it to be totally predictable you’d have to temporarily edit the song data, which doesn’t feel very good to me.
(Remember it’s not enough to just temporarily replace a sequence to an empty one, since other things might happen in other selected tracks at the same time. So you have to copy patterntracks to a temporary sequence in a relevant manner…)
joule.no0b.RenderSlotsToSample.xrnx
Questionmarks below. Let me know if I should fix these:
Mutes sends when rendering. Should affected sends be left unmuted? (otherwise the result will be silent when a track has a “mute source” send)
Should any track OFF states be temporarily un-OFFed while rendering?
PS. I just tidied up the code a little bit. No need to redownload…
Nice work dude! For some reason it gave me pure silene when I rendered a few consecutive patterns in my latest track. At first I thought that it can’t handle the *Instr. Macros and a Dub Delay VST that were in the effect chain but on the 3rd attempt it rendered successfully. Still baffled about the silenece thing.
Keep searching for errors and report! The most common “unexpected” behavior I’ve found is that tracks may be silent if you route 100% of them to a send. I guess that’s how it should work, but it can easily fool you.
You mean fill any “holes” in a non-consecutive selection with empty patterntracks, so that reverb/delay tails are heard?
No sir, I wouldn’t take it to that level.
I like to buy a coffee for people who cares sharing their work like that. Where are your paypal “buy me a coffee” button, generous guys like joule, Danoise, dBlue. ? You’re always there with your mighty solutions…
A “thanks” shout.
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Hey guys,
So, I’m attempting to map Joule’s “render slots to sample” to a key command, but the tool/function does not appear as an option in the “Keys” section of preferences even though it does appear as an option when I right click in the Pattern Sequencer. Is anyone else having this issue?
I’m currently using Renoise 3.4.2
Yeah I think I might’ve had to add the keybind myself… Do you have access to the scripting terminal enabled?
Or perhaps @joule would want to update with a keybind added for future users as well
I do not have access to the terminal enabled. How would I do that?
Click on the thread link, not the Google link 
After saving the changed config.xml you may need to restart renoise to have the true value register. At least I believe I did
Then you can open up the lua files for various tools, alter code, add keybinds, etc
Awesome … I’ll give this a go tomorrow
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