Repeater Device

Tips & Tricks
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Renoise 2.8 has some great visual updates.

I’ve been experimenting with the Repeater Device as a visual aid of sorts,
I don’t know if I’ll actually integrate it in my workflow, but its been fun so far.

What can you do with the Repeater Device visually ?, well, lets see…
you have some blocks and it blinks, that’s enough for me to lay down something significant and sequence it.

Empty Instrument Slot > Velocity Tracker > LFO reset > Repeater Device: Mode  
Empty Instrument Slot > Velocity Tracker > LFO reset > Repeater Device: Divisor

So far I’ve been able to have some sort grid based standard rhythmic palette tracker blinking thing,
something along the lines of…

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-32LPB  
== ===1 ===2 ===4 ===8 ==16 ==32 ==64 =128  
01 -128 --64 --32 --16 --08 --04 --02 --01  
03 -384 -192 --96 --48 --24 --12 --06 --03  
05 -640 -320 -160 --80 --40 --20 --10 --05  
07 -896 -448 -224 -112 --56 --28 --14 --07  
09 1152 -576 -288 -144 --72 --36 --18 --09  
11 1408 -704 -352 -176 --88 --44 --22 --11  
13 1664 -832 -416 -208 -104 --52 --26 --13  
15 1920 -960 -480 -240 -120 --60 --30 --15  
17 2176 1088 -544 -272 -136 --68 --34 --17  
19 2432 1216 -608 -304 -152 --76 --38 --19  
21 2688 1344 -672 -336 -168 --84 --42 --21  
23 2944 1472 -736 -368 -184 --92 --46 --23  
25 3200 1600 -800 -400 -200 -100 --50 --25  
27 3456 1728 -864 -432 -216 -108 --54 --27  
29 3712 1856 -928 -464 -232 -116 --58 --29  
31 3968 1984 -992 -496 -248 -124 --62 --31  
33 4224 2112 1056 -528 -264 -132 --66 --33

I haven’t yet tried but my guess is its probable to do some sort guitar tab type blinking sequence thing,
something along the lines of…

E F f G g A a B C c D d E F f G g A a B C  
B C c D d E F f G g A a B C c D d E F f G  
G g A a B C c D d E F f G g A a B C c D d  
D d E F f G g A a B C c D d E F f G g A a  
A a B C c D d E F f G g A a B C c D d E F  
E F f G g A a B C c D d E F f G g A a B C  
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 +

Its limited by the Repeater Device visuals of course, but I hope you get the idea…

The thought of a meta-user-customizable-visual-device that you could place in the middle screen (like the Ext. Editor of LFO and Instrument),
limited to 4 tracks ? would be cinnamon buns.

Just a fun question, not really meant as a feature suggestion…
So yeah, blinking blocks or blinking grids, what would you do ?

2

What?

3

wandering off now… youtube: Michael Caine - Blinking

:lol: I’ll try and post and xrns instead…

4

Please do :)

(The Repeater device is my creation, by the way, so I’d love to see what interesting stuff you’re doing with it)

5

blink.xrns

Stay on track “blink”. On track blink, there are 4 Reapeater Devices, renamed at their appropriate matching rhythm for each instrument.

1st Device: “drums”
2nd Device: “melody 1”
3rd Device: “melody 2”
4th Device: “melody 3”

The Repeater Device looks something like this…

8 columns, 4 rows

1/1 --- --- --- ---- ---- ---- --128 -  
1/1 1/2 1/4 1/8 1/16 1/32 1/64 1/128 -  
1/1 1/2 1/4 1/8 1/16 1/32 1/64 1/128 T  
1/1 1/2 1/4 1/8 1/16 1/32 1/64 1/128 D

And this is the chart I’m using to keep track of rhythms at 32LPB.

The chart is to be read like a multiplication table.

Example: 3/16 = 24 lines, or 1/4 = 32 lines

== ===1 ===2 ===4 ===8 ==16 ==32 ==64 =128  
01 -128 --64 --32 --16 --08 --04 --02 --01  
03 -384 -192 --96 --48 --24 --12 --06 --03  
05 -640 -320 -160 --80 --40 --20 --10 --05

When the Repeater Device blinks, its suppose to correspond to the chart and not the device itself,
However I am not using the “free” column of the device.

1st Device: “drums” is blinking 1/8 and 1/16T = 1/8 and 3/16
2nd Device: “melody 1” is blinking 1/4 = 1/4
3rd Device: “melody 2” is blinking 1/4, 1/16T, 1/8T = 1/4, 3/16, 3/8
4th Device: “melody 3” is blinking 1/4 = 1/4

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Haha, cool. Very creative :)

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xrns_blink_keyzones

Same principles and track used on post #5.

This time I’m using the Sample Keyzones instead of the Repeater Device after discovering that
you could write notes in the Sample Keyzones via drawing 1 sample at the lowest sample rate and bit depth (to save memory).

It looks like some sort of stock market graph.

  1. got to track “Blink”
  2. go to instrument “Blink”
  3. go to Sample Keyzones
  4. press play
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Nothing new as far as what is mentioned in this thread, just gave it more of a visual - to reiterate: repeater device as multi purpose visual.

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This mockup was suppose to be for pattern zooming but found myself finishing it with this mind.

The thing with pattern zoom is that, even if I zoom and see everything I’ve laid down pattern wise, there is yet another layer of scanning such as music theory and synthesis/sample mangling motives.

I know this is on Tips & Tricks but I figure I’ll add one last mock-up and hammer the last nail in the coffin.

In a way, if something like this was possible, then it would be equivalent to Minecraft for sequencers, not that I’ve played the game, just watched some YT videos.

A user can create his/her own blinking sequencer. In this example, I’ve made a pseudo show piano roll tracks, show total sources, and a bit of note interval analysis.