Excellent update! Not tried everything yet, but will get through it in the next day or too (and get on with editing In:Depth!)
OK, a few ideas/observations…
It took AGES to load on my IBM Thinkpad; this may be an issue at my end though, so I will get back to you on this one.
The live triggering of patterns is amazing. How about being able to set a list of patterns to trigger, instead of just being able to choose the next one. Some guys make super fast music with mad fast pattern scrolling, so being able to choose a load of patterns in advance would be more flexible; maybe a numbering system, with a right click removing the pattern from the list…
LOVE the little line that follows pattern position when playing, in the Pattern Sequencer. How about having it stay where it is when the pattern stops playing, instead of vanishing like it does now…
That is about it for now. More when I think of some!
Great work on this update! I can see where it is all going now.
the different blocks in the picture are equivalent of Renoises patterns. In sequel these blocks have different colors each, and in another section (not shown in screenshot, you set the order of those colors If I remember correctly)
What you can still see in the picture on the left side is the amount of ‘steps’/time it takes before a highlighted block gets triggered. Right now in Renoise the next pattern always plays after the other pattern either has finished or right way with right mouse clicking.
Would be nice to have options similar to Sequel and be able to trigger the next highlighted pattern after set amount of bars/steps
edit:
seems like I wasn’t quite right on the blocks representing something similar as one pattern, actually they could be more then one pattern, which would be cool to have in renoise. The ability to select more then one pattern and have it represented as 1 block in an arranger page/section.
Keyboardmag says the following on the arranger in sequel:
“The Arranger Page (shown above) presents 16 buttons that correspond to 16 sections defined in the Arrangement track, similar to the Play Order track in Cubase 4. Clicking on one of these buttons starts playing the associated section, either instantly, or on the next specified rhythmic division (e.g., next beat, next bar, etc.). Even better, the sections in the Arrangement tracks can overlap: For example, you could have an eight-measure section, but have four measures within that as a separate section, two measures within the four-measure section as another section, and so on. I just wish you could trigger the Arranger page pads from MIDI note data.”
You know that you can still use those loop-nodes in the sequencer to define loop-blocks right?
At least you can define a quick loop-block and queue it, then when Renoise changes to the new queue, rearrange the other patterns, then select a new block and queue that one.
