It was in a project with send tracks, I think I moved the cursor into the send channel, then pressed the midi keyboard key and the notice popped up. Will try tonight with the test build, cheers.
com.duftetools.SimplePianoroll V5.3 (for Renoise 3.5)
Just pushed v5.3 to the tool page. This version comes with a brand new tool panel. Some functions were already available as keyboard shortcuts (some I even forgot about myself 
), but now theyâre just one click away.
On top of that, Iâve added a bunch of new little features to make working in the piano roll even easier.
I also made a new YouTube video to showcase the piano roll and some of its new features, since the last one I uploaded was from version 3.9:
New Features
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New Tool Panel with quick-access buttons for selection, note manipulation, and more
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Quick Arp: instantly create arpeggios from selected chords
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Fit to Scale button for fast scale adjustments
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Legato Note Tool for quick note length adjustments
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Note Glue functionality
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Paste with Current Instrument option
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Pitch Flip, Reverse Notes, and Odd/Even Note Deselect tools
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Monophonic Reduction and Topmost Note Selection
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Ctrl + Scroll zoom on the piano roll grid
Improvements
- Refined lasso selection and loop detection
Bug Fixes
- Some smaller fixes here and there
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Amazing stuff toimp!
Trying out now, did run into a bug when playing with the new âQuick Arpâ button. Just Apply Arp on standard settings to Track 1 here:
Piano Roll Arp Bug - Copy.xrns (3.4 KB)
EDIT: It seems to be something to do with the note-offs in the track, I deleted them then stopped getting the warning.
Please contact the author (dufte (toimp)) for assistance...
main.lua:3167: attempt to index a nil value
stack traceback:
main.lua:3167: in function 'quickArp'
main.lua:6539: in function 'executeToolAction'
main.lua:11346: in function <main.lua:11345>
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Wow, this looks very useful, will try to use it (aka not forgetting about it 
). This from a proven piano roll hater. You just convinced the last 1%. Thanks for this tool!
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Looks like Quick Arp couldnât handle gaps 
I hadnât tested that case, but itâs fixed now. Iâve uploaded a test version in case you want to try it again.
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Quick Arp set to 2 seems to be fixed for that song example, but applying 4 or 5 are not, aswell as some other higher nums.
Please contact the author (dufte (toimp)) for assistance...
main.lua:3228: attempt to index a nil value
stack traceback:
main.lua:3228: in function 'quickArp'
main.lua:6561: in function 'executeToolAction'
main.lua:11368: in function <main.lua:11367>
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Alright, should be fine now, I hope. Just made another test build. Thx for the bug report.
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seems to have done the trick, no errors now!
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Reporting what appears to me to be a bug.
Whenever I use my mouse to move a note up, down, left or right the global âfollow players position in the pattern while playingâ function is disabled.
Itâs not really a bug, more like a feature. Itâs happened to me a few times when moving notes, I wasnât finished yet, and suddenly the active pattern switched. I think this could happen even more often when you zoom in a lot, since it auto-scrolls at the bottom, which can be pretty confusing. Back then I actually added a feature request from another user here on the forum: when you close the piano roll, it should restore the last active state of âfollow playerâs position in the pattern while playing.â Meaning, if you had it enabled, then you open the piano roll, move notes (which disables it), and then close it again, the option should go back to the previous state.
Ah, I see, okay Iâve got that button mapped now so I can just turn it on or off again when I want to. 
I could also add an option so the piano roll never affects âfollow player.â It wouldnât be much work to add, if you think itâd be useful.
That would be a cool option.
Iâve made the option visible that pauses player follow while editing notes.
Itâs enabled by default, but now you can basically switch it off.
Not sure if itâs useful for you, since it can lead to some confusing situations as mentioned.
Just download the latest test build.
com.duftetools.SimplePianoroll V5.4
Iâve just pushed v5.4 to the tool page, mainly a bugfixing release, but with some small improvements too.
Improvements
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Timeline marker visibility improved when zooming out
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Increased maximum horizontal zoom for the grid (up to 4x)
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Tool panel icon updated (replaced gear emoji with folder icon)
Bug Fixes
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Fixed current instrument selection when pasting notes
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Fix clamp note offset when centering piano roll view
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Fixed legato note scaling when no next note exists
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Fixed arpeggiation when using last played note properties
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Fixed handling of empty notes in arpeggiator
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Added option to pause player follow while editing
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Hi dufte!
Some remarks from me to 5.4 Release.
- When i click with Mouse on the Pianoroll keys they are highlighted in black instead of the defined Highlighting color setting up in Roll config. Think it may be a bug because of the ergonimic downgrade. In Version 5.1 which i use to equal, the behaviour was still as expected. (using Highlight Color)
- The outblend of the 1.1 beat in scale is downgrade the ergonomic for me personally. I like the Highlight as in old 5.1 version more. It may according to choosen theme. I loadup 2 screenshots for you. As you see in 5.4 the 1.1 beat are completely invisible, except when it are in a active playrange selection. 5.1 version doing it better.
- The playrange selection in the Rollwindow with STRG-key is still clunky and unusable slow! The moving playrange selection with Shift-key works much better.
happy tracking 
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About point 1, it looks like thatâs coming from your theme. In your comparison between 5.1 and 5.4 youâre actually using different themes. My guess is youâve set the button highlight color to black in your theme. In the piano roll tool Iâm not using the secondary button color yet, so it just falls back to the theme colors. I can fix that though. Same with the â1.1â bug in the timeline. Looks like the text color for the âBoldâ style is set to black? Since Iâm only switching between text styles there, the theme colors kick in as well. I can fix that too. About the timeline looping thing: I donât like it anymore either, I want to rework that.
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âŚto point 1. and 2.
I crosschecked it again and you are right. Its because of the themefile. Sorry for this missinfo from my side.
Yes both of this values are still black in my themeâŚ
#selected Button Back = #000000
#Strong Body Font = #0c0c0c
to point 3.
Good to hear that mate. Iâm looking forward to it.
happy tracking
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Finally got around to try the new version for Renoise 3.5. Pretty cool! Thanks a lot for the tool, I can see how this will be useful to me for sure. One thing I cannot figure out is how to delete a note with the mouse though (I know I can use the delete key, but it would be nice to also have an option to delete with the mouse). And I also donât understand what âShow optional editing tools in context menusâ in the setting does (which context menus, where?). And finally, there are some shortcuts related to simple piano roll that I am not sure what they do (about showing analyzers), since they do nothing once I assign a shortcut to them and run it.
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right mouse click