The Tools

[carmazine]

@mxb

I don’t disagree with you and I can see you point.

However, after much experience with the development of Renoise tools, the chance of a tool crashing Renoise is very remote, and unless the tool is written deliberately badly, there will be no performance impact to have it installed (they only use cpu when in use).

I’m not trying to persuade you into using any tools, hopefully just clearing up any potential misconceptions.

Sure, thanks for the clarification. I want to add that if I will need some feature that is provided by some tool I will not hestitate to try it neither whine there is no native solution for my needs. I take a lot of time to get used to new features i.e. even now I’m not using pattern matrix since I’m very used to 1.5.2 workflow I developed a few years ago On the contrary, track grouping fits this workflow very well so I’m using it all the time.

@ carmazine: you’re missing out on a lot of cool stuff!

This may be true. My opinion is backed by the fact that my current needs are fullfiled with vanila renoise with vstis and/or rewire reaper. When I will feel that I need more I will surely check the tools page (maybe someday I will buy hardware synth and use it with Guru? This stuff look pretty awesome).

[Cas]

@eeter

One thing I really don’t like about the way tools are organized at the moment is that LOTS of cool ones don’t end up on tools page. The more new tools pop out on the forum the harder it is to find and notice them. There’s probably a great amount of tools that I have missed because there is no well organized way to browse them.

For me the number one reason is that I first have to make two images to put tools on the tools site. And I think that is a legitimate request, it’s just not really my thing (I like graphics but look at the AwesomeSawce picture and see what mangling screendump crops does to the value of the tool )
Reason two is probably that the development happens on one PC and it’s almost kind of cumbersome to do the whole packaging => uploading to tools page for every minor change (which might be useful for others as well). Again, here the team behind the Renoise website is probably really providing the best they could for the website.
Reason three is that I’m almost afraid the users of the Tools page are sometime going to get annoyed with me posting so many, so small tools (and let’s be honest the one is more “merchantible” than the other).