I am a flash developer by trade and have been a little bored at work lately. So I built my own flavor of the Renoise track generator entirely in flash. This version allows for chords and has a preview of the generated track.
I’ve been playing with this for a half hour. I think it’s quite cool. The horizontal interface is interesting. I think the higher-ups in the Renoise development hierarchy should be looking at it, at least for ideas.
I have a three suggestions if you are interested in working for free, i’ll even throw in some ingratitude at no extra cost!
Reset Button: I know I can reload the page. But a reset button is more intuitive.
Tweak option: Let’s say I generate a good melody but there are a few errors I would like to correct by adding a few extra orange slots, removing a few orange slots, or I want only 3 or 4 of the orange slots randomized but want to keep the rest. To do this without destroying the entire track I need a [Freeze] button. When I press the freeze button all notes turn blue. I can then click on the notes I want to tweak. Blue notes don’t change, the rest works as expected.
Stand-alone version: I used curl and already downloaded it. However, in order to play with it I need to drag it into a browser window. It would be nice if you could package the swf into an executable. And by executable I mean something that plays on my OS X machine, too.
I have made some of the changes you have requested. You can download the standalone versions and reset the workspace. I am afraid the tweak option would confuse the heck out of most people and I cannot figure out how to add it gracefully.
I think the mac version will work, but I haven’t used a mac in 5 years. The application and the sample folder have to be in the same parent folder.
The timing is strange because flash will not fire events at precise intervals. It will only fire an event on frame refresh. If you have a slow computer with low frame rates the timing is much worse.
Luxveritas, thank you for sharing this utility with us. This appeals to me since I’m a bit heavy with randomization schemes in my compositions. I sort of wish it could support patterns longer than 64 rows.