Progress report: I’m dabbling with the copying of automation data, and have decided that this in itself deserves to be a standalone tool.
Edit: a few days of hacking, and here is the result:https://forum.renoise.com/t/new-tool-3-1-automate/48757
Doesn’t mean that I’m dropping the original idea, though. Actually, I just came up with a name for that: Untangle
As I’d imagine it now, operation would be really simple:
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Load some song
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Bring up the tool and ask it to process
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Tool will highlight a bunch of things in the matrix that it thinks represent a problem (which ones are based on your criteria a.k.a. preferences)
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Go to any of those places and check the tools description of the problem + possible solutions
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Fix things manually or ask the tool to perform the procedure for you
The last step, well I’m a little cautious there. I think it would be quite cool if a tool could suggest strategies, as well as use brute force.
And then it could also develop over time, like a mini “tips and tricks” section embedded in the tool itself.
But many ideas I presented in the OP now seem more like added “niceties” when compared to this essential workflow.
Figuring out what those rules (your preferences) are, is of course the next step…