XG2003
January 6, 2014, 10:06am
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Carbonthief:
I’ve seen you complain about the pattern matrix several times now, I have to ask: what precisely is “bad” about it to you? It just seems so weird to me, because it was one of the biggest draws to Renoise for me. Of all the trackers I’ve used Renoise has the most intuitive easy to use pattern matrix hands down. If I write a drum loop, in mere seconds I can clone it, and then drag the bottom down as far as I want it to be, and then any changes I make will be applied to all the clones automatically. I can move patterns around easily, I can middle click to mute a pattern without having to mute the whole track (useful for arranging parts, sometimes muting a part makes it sound better and it’s easy to experiment with that in the matrix). All in all the pattern matrix has saved me mountains of time, and I can’t possibly fathom what complaint someone could possibly have about it.
In other trackers block chords would be a huge pain in the ass, but Renoise lets you have multiple note columns in a single track, and it will still represent only one box in the pattern matrix keeping it easy as ever to arrange that part.
Other than it simply being different from buzz, what is it you don’t like about the pattern matrix?
You haven’t used Buzz, obviously…
Watch this, and read this thread:
Here are some of my ideas. Terminology in bold.
Basics
First of all, the main parts of the arranger will be a time ruler and multiple trackstrips.
It’s enough to describe what a trackstrip should contain.
A trackstrip will have two parts, the trackheader and the trackcontents.
This is much like in the patterneditor, and as in other sequencers with similar arrangers.
The trackheader will show trackname and other relevant information.
Trackcontents will show clips with trackdata.
Up to thi…
I have explained in HUGE detail what is wrong with the Pattern Matrix. If you haven’t used Buzz’s Sequence Editor, you don’t know what you’re missing, and have grown accustomed to doing things the difficult way, yet you think it’s perfect!