Maybe this has been mentioned before, but what about a help system in Renoise? First idea would be that when the mouse hovers over a button for so long, tooltips or a message in the status bar would list it’s shortcut key (combination).
Or there could be extended tooltips, for things like the MetaDevices and so on, explaining it’s use with a few words.
This, along with the color coding of the pattern data that someone else suggested, would help alot.
To have it a bit elegant, you could disable the tooltips, etc when playing.
there’s one problem i face with tooltips on windows… ever tried running milkdrop (winamp) in desktop mode? try that, and hover your mouse over something that will pop a tooltip. you see the graphics freeze for a while? it happens in not just winamp but other apps i can’t remember - and sometimes it screws the audio a bit.
well i don’t really know what’s wrong, but uh, i hope it doesn’t happen in renoise.
