It would also be great to be able to highlight the selected instrument in the pattern matrix and pattern editor so it would be easy to spot.
Would something like this help?
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I’m in the same boat. Using my own recorded samples and not wanting to repeat them in different songs.
I wrote a Ruby script to run through a folder of xrns files and grab a list of samples used and write out a text file. I didn’t care about regular instruments so I had to keep adding exclusions to make the results more readable.
It was a clunky way to approach it but it did help me keep track of some things.
Ruby was faster for me than trying to use Lua in a tool, but that would be a better way to go about it.
updated this a bit now (see changes at end of post)
let me know if any probs:
menu entries are in Intrument menu and tools menu (Ledger`s Scripts) and also a shortcut : “Check Times Instrument Used”
Choose instrument you want to check from popup and [UPDATE] button to re-scan / scan a newly chosen instrument
TEXT READOUT
-The top section lists the track indexes which have at least one note of the selected instrument
-The bottom section gives you a pattern/ line breakdown of any notes in the selected track
Also another tool I remembered that could be useful along-side is taktiks Find and Replace:
https://www.renoise.com/tools/patterneditor-find-and-replace
changelog
0.71
–non-sequencer track message updated
0.7
–added joules speed improvements_ _--now when no notes are found in the selected track it will not list Pattern,Line multiple times. It just says:_ _NO NOTES FOUND IN CURRENTLY SELECTED TRACK X`:
–improved instrument popup numbering to match renoises hex numbering
0.6
-code tidy(er)
-added multiline_textfield to contain/ wrap text properly
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Nice one!
Ledger, you seem to be scanning the song twice? If you fix that, I can submit some further optimizations making the scanning a lot faster.
First loop scans all tracks to find the first instance of a note. It breaks/ returns when the first note is found.
Second loop scans the selected track only but gets all notes. <- lower part of text readout
There is a bit of an inefficiency as selected track has the potential to get scanned fully twice, but code seemed neater this way. Also a single string is getting edited as you go along the function. (sidenote: Also just silent updated to 0.62 above to deal with a formatting issue)
Any optimizations would be welcome! In fact if you have an abstracted snippet I could apply, it would probably do me good to finally learn properly the ‘ninja scanning method’ ! 
Updated tool to 0.7
edit:
–added joule’s speed improvements
–now when no notes are found in the selected track it will not list Pattern,Line multiple times. It just says:
NO NOTES FOUND IN CURRENTLY SELECTED ‘TRACK X’:
–improved instrument popup numbering to match renoises hex numbering
Awesome, thanks for making this!The version i treid yesterday didnt work but I’ll give this a go today
Awesome, thanks for making this!The version i treid yesterday didnt work but I’ll give this a go today
Did you get a chance to test this yet. Does it work ok on your system?
this is awesome. Always love your scripts ledger!
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this is awesome. Always love your scripts ledger!
Always appreciate your feedback Rpnz, as being one of the regulars to pop into the announcement threads!
cheers!
this is awesome. Always love your scripts ledger!
Same here. I use them a lot.
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To count the occurances an instrument is used I use a tool Joule made based upon this suggestion thread; https://forum.renoise.com/t/done-tag-sampled-instruments-that-arent-used-yet/37439
Tool to be found a few posts down in said thread. It puts a number in front of each instrument.
Did you get a chance to test this yet. Does it work ok on your system?
Yeah, just tried it! Very nice, thank you so much. Its going to help me a lot!
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Yeah, just tried it! Very nice, thank you so much. Its going to help me a lot!
Good stuff! Not sure what went wrong before, but at least it works now.
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Yeah I’m really grateful for this. I’ve spent a week out of the studio so am putting it into practice now - its very useful!
@midierror , in case you’re interested I just added a new feature to automation-single-slider that shows you all the automated parameters in a song. (All Tracks Included)
Different sort of overview, but reminded me of this thread again.
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Oh nice, looks like a really useful idea - I’ll check it out !