Renoise completely without mouse

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I’m just a megalomaniac when it comes to personal customization lol

Here are a few tools that I use:

:point_up:t6: This one is a God send

:point_up:t6: Personally requested this one.

:point_up:t6: Haven’t explored this one completely but I use to load FX without having to search for them everytime via keybind

:point_up:t6:Can load plugin from a menu but can also keybind any plugin you want to auto load it

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Yeah just look for the grooving in g videos where he goes over the essential hot keys, very good stuff :slight_smile:

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Thanks for provided links!
Value Stepper is known to me, but as for Paketti… it looks like it is not compatible with latest version of Renoise.

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already 've done it :sunny: )

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I’ve seen my value stepper tool mentioned here already but I’d add that the motivation behind most of my other tools is to help a keyboard-only workflow as well (most notably “command_palette”) You can read about all of them in one place in my manual.

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Thanks for neat link, need to observe it in detail!

UPD. Man, this is awesome reminds me VIM editor.
But in command palette i already run into two crashes, trying to deselect selection and jumping to specified sample number. i’m on v3.4.3.

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Thanks for reporting @spacedrone808, command palette 2.0 was a major rework and it definitely is still a bit rough around the edges. However, the errors you mentioned should be fixed now.

Any further feedback is well appreciated as I don’t have as much time to test it myself as I’d like.

Thanks!

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Renoise team should definitely include your stuff in stock version of software.

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i think i have a version of paketti floating around that is compatible with the latest version of Renoise.

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I am curious about this question:

I have heard that in many tracker communities about a mouse free workflow, but as far as I remembered, even trackers in Amiga also supports mouse.

Since my workflow for trackers is a mixture of mouse, typing and midi keyboard, I wanna know why would anyone want to have a keyboard only workflow?

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Speed/efficiency and wrist/hand ergonomics, I’d reckon

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This sounds makes sense at first, but as a developer who have used eclipse before, I have a doubt if full keyboard workflow really more ergonomic than a mouse, for a couple of reasons:

  1. To avoid conflict of the key strokes, sometime you need to assign things like ctrl + alt + y to do a specific function, which stress your hand into a weird position.
  2. For navigation, instead of a point and click, you have to rapidly typing the arrow keys to select a specific cell, which also hurts your finger in a long run.
  3. ergonomic Mouses do exist, and I would definitely invest one of I worry about the postures.

I am not someone who use keyboard only workflow; tell me more about how you guys use this kind of workflow for better efficiency. I don’t want simple answer without explaining like “less switching over devices.” or “read the docs to see how shortcut works.” which are vague, and I want to see your experience and why you ended up ditching mouse, to convince me doing that.

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Consider this:

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Track Point Keyboard

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Nice one, but i’m completely addicted to mechanical keyboard, so that is why it is not an option for me.

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What are you using?

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https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/post/keychron-q6-blue-mechanical-beast-with-brown-tactile-switches-in-really-heavy-metal-casing/

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This is a rabbit hole i am resisting falling down with some considerable willpower lol.

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:drooling_face:drooling…

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There was also this:

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Idk if one can buy it anymore

There’s a review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=iqvHXtp9VSU

I am a big fan of Track Point - Nipple Mouse. Feels very mouse free.

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That’s freaking cool, do the caps have LEDs for use in low light situations?