yeah, that would save a lot of pattern slots.
I would also like to have one of those barloops thank you!
Another vote for a bar-loop command; this would be very useful.
A nice and flexible way to implement this would be a command that jumps back x pattern-starts, for y repeats.
If the command were ZExy, then ZE03 on the last line of a pattern would mean “jump back to the start of this pattern for the first three times this marker is encountered,” causing Renoise to play that pattern a total of 4 times, before continuing. ZE17 would jump back to the start of the previous pattern, playing a 2-pattern loop for a total of 8 times.
Of course, if you put that somewhere in the middle of the pattern instead of the end, it wouldn’t give an integer number of pattern-repeats, and that would enable other kinds of messing around. E.g, you could repeat the previous pattern and the first two bars of this one twice, then get three bars through this one on the third repeat, before finally playing all the way through.
This does limit you to start-of-pattern and to 16 repeats of a 16-pattern sequence, but there’s only so much you can pack into this format. Besides, even that much of a multiplier would be a significant boost.
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