Simple Pianoroll

A simple piano roll for Renoise with many useful shortcuts. Just right click in the pattern editor and choose "Edit with Pianoroll ...". Its also possible to map this to a keyboard shortcut.

More Information / How to use it / All shortcuts:
https://github.com/ryrun/com.dufte.SimplePianoroll.xrnx/blob/master/read...

Features

• Piano roll workflow (inspired by FL piano roll)
• Mouse support for note moving, scaling and drawing
• Mouse scroll support for scrolling through grid
• It supports Renoise's native HDPI support
• Polyphony support (automatically adds note column, if needed)
• Note preview via Renoise inbuild OSC Server
• Ghost Track
• Many useful keyboard shortcuts (inspired by FL and Reason)
• Can display notes with note cut effects and delayed ones
• Scale highlighting can be changed (None, Minor scale, Major scale, Instrument scale, Automatic scale)
• Many useful options to change the behavior for your own taste
• And more...

Update history

17.10.2021 v2.4:

• feature: change note delay via mouse, during dragging press and hold alt key
• feature: add option to disable alt key note remove, so note delay via mouse is easier to use
• feature: add option to disable keyboard handler
• improved: add fake alpha blending mode for note velocity shading
• improved: add option to change the click area size for mouse note scaling
• improved: reducing piano roll refreshing during mouse actions, so feels abit smoother
• changed: shortcut to ctrl only for deselecting individual note
• fix: add note offs, when pattern size get increased during opened piano roll
• fix: sometimes hidden velocity values for short notes during note changes
• fix: sometimes changed pattern size wasn't rendered correctly

13.09.2021 v2.3:

• feature: mute and solo button
• feature: new shortcut for easy switch to mixer view
• feature: new shortcut for fast open/close of plugin editor window
• improved: update vel, pan and dly controls, when just one note is selected and changed outside piano roll
• fix: click event, moving overlapping notes

30.08.2021 v2.2:

• feature: new keyboard shortcuts for select, pen and preview (f1,f2,f3)
• improved: alt key switch to select mode, when pen mode is active
• improved: mouse notes duplication for short notes
• changed: disable follow player, when editing
• fix: rectangle selection now only select notes inside rectangle
• fix: prevent notes duplicate with mouse, when in pen mode
• fix: panning humanizing error

26.08.2021 v2.1:

• feature: new duplicate shortcut, hold shift and drag selected notes with mouse to duplicate them
• improved: note rendering speed for mouse actions
• fix: allow selection and deselect on disabled pattern buttons (when you edit shorter patterns)
• fix: reset scale issue
• removed: note hint feature (will be added back later)

23.08.2021 v2.0:

• feature: add mouse support for note movement, scaling and drawing
• changed: rectangle selection needs now just one click
• changed: better visual presentation for patterns which are shorter than grid width
• changed: shortcut for deselect notes
• fix: redirect non handled key combos to Renoise

04.08.2021 v1.9:

• feature: "hacky" scrollwheel support for grid and piano keyboard scrolling
• feature: add keyboard shortcut page down / up for scrolling vertically
• feature: show current track name and color above the piano keyboard
• improved: show current selected or detected scale under the piano keyboard
• changed: window width will be stable, doesn't jump between pattern length width's
• fix: dont allow to change ghost track to group type
• fix: several smaller fixes

26.07.2021 v1.8:

• feature: add little transport buttons (play, loop and stop)
• feature: add note row highlighting, when note is playing and preview
• feature: add display support for Qx fx command
• improve: add AZERTY keyboard mode
• improve: add shading settings for piano roll
• changed: remove playing note highlightings, when playback stopped
• changed: note click audio preview can now be hold
• fix: default value for display time of key info bar
• fix: render retrigger effect on line 1 and when note length shorter 1
• fix: wrong note highlighting, when note was shorten with cut effect
• fix: broken centering of the grid
• fix: crash when note instrument value is not valid

11.07.2021 v1.7:

• feature: add "Edit with Simple Pianoroll ..." to pattern matrix context menu
• feature: keyboard status info bar (to show current used key combos + action)
• feature: add key repeat support (helpful for moving or transposing notes)
• feature: new shortcut to change note length of selected notes (ctrl + left/right)
• feature: add note rendering support for retrigger effects (Rx)
• enhanced: change key action on release to on pressed, so shortcuts work more fluidly
• fix: set note length via shortcut was sometimes not possible
• fix: paste cursor for copy / cut and paste
• fix: try to fix stuck notes, when using shortcuts
• fix: visual state of pen mode state
• fix: bad "00" volume value, when changing note sizes
• add more information's to the osc client settings

24.06.2021 v1.6:

• feature: audio preview mode: play notes on step with mode or new shortcut (ctrl+shift + click on a free spot)
• fix: hide non used piano roll grid elements for patterns shorter than grid width
• fix: when select all notes on a specific step, even select non visible notes above and below grid
• fix: also process notes above and below the piano visible grid
• enhanced: add option to disable note preview during song playback for new notes or when notes get clicked or changed
• enhanced: refresh key modifier states, even when tool window is not in focus
• enhanced: use official Renoise icons for same functionality (vol, dly, pan column on / off)
• add prompt for reset to default button
• toggle piano roll visibility via keyboard shortcut

23.06.2021 v1.5:

• feature: add automatically scale highlighting (currently only major scales, works also for minor scales)
• feature: add instrument scale highlighting (currently only major / minor supported)
• feature: add customizable scale highlighting: None, Major, Minor
• feature: add simple note hint function to show octaves and fifths of selected notes (can be disabled)
• feature: add follow play cursor, when pattern length is greater than grid width (can be disabled)
• feature: add some new options to change special note column behaviors
• feature: add a small help / feedback button to preferences
• feature: add a different keyboard rendering style: "list"
• change: fillPianoRoll function now process all notes in a pattern, not only the visible ones
• change: set last selection play cursor, when play from mouse position was used
• fix: sometimes wrong note properties, when selected
• fix: sometimes wrong rendering of note cut effects

06.06.2021 v1.4:

• feature: change note button rendering (now possible to see note cut effects and delayed notes)
• feature: add velocity shading for note colors in piano roll
• fix: corrected random number gen for humanizing function
• fix: corrected humanizing for delay
• fix: allow changing ghost note state for selecting notes via ghost note button
• fix: corrected click events for overlapped notes
• fix: corrected max delay value for delay input field
• fix: allow lowercased hex values on input fields
• several minor fixes

24.05.2021 v1.3:

• bugfix: disable grid size step settings (not ready yet)

23.05.2021 v1.2:

• add preferences, so some grid and OSC settings can be changed now.
• Vel, Pan now works with Renoise special Hex values like Z8, R4, and so on.
• New shortcut to play from mouse cursor (CTRL+Mouse click on a free spot)
• Some fixes

16.05.2021 v1.1:

• add ghost note drawing / handling
• new shortcuts for play selection
• some minor bugfixes

15.03.2021 v1.0:

• new match note value shortcut (alt + n)
• fix stuck notes when using QWERTY notes play
• several smaller fixes