Best what you can get is native implementation.
com.duftetools.SimplePianoroll V3.3 (for Renoise 3.3 / 3.4)
Another update with a bigger new feature and some changes and fixes. Please note, preferences is now in the bottom right, but also can be accessed via main menu.
Histogram
It can be used to add randomness to volume, panning, delay and even pitch but with alot more control. It’s inspired by Bitwig’s histogram feature, which i’m find extremely versatile. You can affect the amount of randomness and how the values should be changed. In pitch mode, you can turn rhythmic note patterns on a specific note to “random melodies”. Pentatonic sub mode is an easy go for that.
The histogram can be accessed in the top bar next to the delay controls. Jut select some notes and hit the button to manipulate them.
I’ve removed the old humanizing buttons (“H”), because its not needed anymore. Hope you like it.
Made a little video to show you, how you can use it:
All dialogs are non modal now
I’ve changed all dialog’s to non blocking ones. I hope it doesn’t break anything. It feels much better, when I’ve used the histogram and see the note changes instant.
Full changelog:
- feature: new histogram to manipulate note properties (vel, pan, dly and pitch)
- improved: change modal dialogs to non modal ones (scale select, histogram, preferences)
- changed: reorder note property controls in the top bar, so it’s more tidy (instrument, length, vel, pan, dly)
- changed: move preferences button to the bottom right
- changed: bring back the old switch to ghost track button next to the select box (more convenient to use)
- changed: set follow player only back, when it was automatically disabled for editing actions
- removed: old humanizing buttons (not needed anymore)
- fix: wrong notes shown of ghost tracks with more than one column
- fix: nil errors when preferences was opened via main menu, when piano roll wasn’t opened before
- fix: bad note off state of notes
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Awesome
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I don’t hear anything when clicking the piano keyboard, adding notes or moving them, which box do I need to check to hear the note I’m clicking/handling?
You have to open options and connecting to server or something like that. You will see it
You need to enable the OSC Server in the Renoise preferences. Then just check, if Renoise and the Pianoroll Tool have the same settings:
got it working, thanks!
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Big Thanks for this Tool.
It works perfectly, very natural and its great to use it with keyboard shortcuts.
Thank you so much, keep it alive 
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Hello,
I just tried and select Instrument scale.
Need to uninstall tool and install again.
Git version on linux.
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I’ve pushed a new build to github. Please test it. You can download the xrnx from github here.
Edit: I did another push. I made changes to the index in the past. Wasn’t corrected for this scale mode. Should work now.
seems to be stable now.
but if you select any scale in instrument/ not minor or major/ in scale highlighting is C-Major.
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Did you downloaded the latest version from github? I did two changes. It should atleast change the scale, when you trigger a refresh via scroll wheel or reopening the piano roll.
There is still a little bug, where it doesn’t refresh the piano roll, after switching the scale in the instrument. I’ll check this later and post here a small update, so you can test this again.
Edit: @martblek It should work now, when you switch the instrument in the piano roll, too. And when you change the scale from the instrument.
Could I suggest a tiny feature enhancement (and feel free to ignore this if it’s a bad idea. )
When duplicating a note(s) you hold shift then click and drag. Absolutely cool.
But how about allowing a retrospective shift? For the times when you decide it should have been a duplicate after you’ve already started moving notes around. For example, click and drag some chords, and then press shift (after the fact), for the duplicate function behaves same as if id pressed it beforehand. Hope that makes sense. [and in no way am i suggesting changing the main behaviour, only adding an alternative method to it]
Is that possible?
Many thanks!
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I know what you mean. Bitwig and Ableton does this. I’ll put this to my todo.
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can your tool import/load midi files? that would be a great solution for the bad midi-import natively!
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Nope, it’s just a pattern editor now. I think we as users should ask @taktik to improve midi import in future updates.
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bummer. we’re asking this for 5 years now.
What are your wishes for a midi import? I currently dont need midi import at all.
com.duftetools.SimplePianoroll V3.4 (for Renoise 3.3 / 3.4)
Small update with some fixes and basic midi in support for playing. No midi in recording yet, but its working with the step sequencing feature.
Full changelog:
- feature: add basic midi in support for keyboard playing (no recording yet)
- improved: better secondary dominants detection
- fix: some cases of hidden notes
- fix: wrong scale, when instrument scale highlighting is used or changed
- fix: nil error when instrument scale highlighting is enabled
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