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<h1>Simple Pianoroll Tool for Renoise</h1>

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Videos on Youtube
- Older ones
Thread on official Renoise forum
Features
Important
Note rendering in piano roll
Install and Update
How to use it
Mouse actions
Keyboard actions
- Nothing selected
- One or more notes selected
Inbuilt additional tools

Videos on Youtube

Showing version 5.3 in action:

Older ones

v2.0:

v0.7:

v0.1:

Thread on official Renoise forum

https://forum.renoise.com/t/simple-pianoroll-com-duftetools-simplepianoroll-xrnx/63034

Features

Piano roll workflow (inspired by FL piano roll)
Mouse support for note moving, scaling and drawing
Mouse scroll wheel support for scrolling through grid or change the velocity of selected notes
Follows Renoise user interface scaling option
Polyphony support (automatically adds and remove note columns, if needed)
Note preview via Renoise inbuild OSC Server
Ghost Track
Many useful mouse and keyboard shortcuts (inspired by FL, Bitwig, Ableton and Reason)
Show several tracker related effects like note cut, note retrigger, delay
Scale highlighting support (None, Minor scale, Major scale, Instrument scale, Automatic scale)
Many useful options to change the behavior for your own taste
Chord detection for playing and selected notes
Chord stamping
Tool Updater support
Step sequencing via computer keyboard
Histogram for note property manipulations
Basic MIDI Input support for playing (no recording yet)
And more...

Important

To improve mouse handling, please disable mouse warping in Renoise preferences. This also fix the jumping mouse cursor. There is an option called "Mouse warping compatibility mode", if you still want to use mouse warping in Renoise. It will disable some internal functions, where disabled mouse warping is needed.
For note preview, you need to enable the OSC server in the Renoise preferences. Be sure, that protocol and port are correctly set for both the OSC server and the piano roll.
The key combination <kbd>alt + shift</kbd> is a default shortcut to change the keyboard layout on Windows OS. It is recommended to switch this off or change the keyboard shortcut to avoid problems. <br>See following for more details: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-disable-the-windows-10-language-shortcut/030016c9-bfed-48d9-8e4f-7d1030ced338
Renoise have a 12 column limit per tack. So when more than 12 columns are needed, then some notes will stick in the current position. A hint should be displayed in Renoise toolbar.

Note rendering in piano roll

It supports different note column effects, and it will also use different note colors, when more than one instrument was used in the pattern.

Note overlapping

Note cut fx

Note retrigger fx

Note delay

Note delay for note off

Different instruments in one pattern

Install and Update

Download the latest version from official tool page:<br>https://www.renoise.com/tools/simple-pianoroll

Alternatively, you can download the latest build and install it by dragging the file onto Renoise (beta build):<br>https://ryrun.github.io/com.dufte.SimplePianoroll.xrnx/com.duftetools.SimplePianoroll.xrnx

Tool updater is supported, so when a new version is released, it should show you an update prompt.

More information about how you can install and update Renoise tools:

How to use it

General

Everyone who is familiar with a piano roll, can use it right away. It's heavily inspired by FL, Bitwig and Reason. DAW's which I've used in the past. Most common keyboard shortcuts of these like <kbd>ctrl+b</kbd> or <kbd>ctrl+d</kbd> for note duplication are working here, too.

Eraser sub mode

When you hold the mouse button on note deletion and move, you can remove others notes, too. It will internally swap to the eraser mode, you can see in the toolbar, where the pen tool icon swaps to “X”.

Open the piano roll

There are several ways to open the piano roll. It's possible in the pattern view, matrix view, mixer view, instruments pane and also via main menu.

Pattern editor

Matrix view

Note preview

With the help of Renoise's OSC server it is possible to play the drawn as well as selected notes. You can also use your computer keyboard to play notes. The keys are the same as on the Renoise Tracker. With the preview tool you can scroll through the pattern and play all notes at the respective position. By default, the OSC server is turned off, so you have to activate it first. Furthermore, the protocol and the port number must match the settings of the Pianoroll tool. After that it should work immediately.

Timeline bar

With the timeline bar it is possible to set, move or remove loop areas. To draw in a loop, simply hold down the <kbd> ctrl</kbd> key and mark the desired area with the left mouse button pressed. If the <kbd>shift</kbd> key is pressed, the loop area can be moved. While the song is playing and the play point is outside the loop on the right, it will be moved back into the loop automatically. Double click removes the current loop. Single click sets the editor cursor positions.

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Install / Use

README