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

Dragging notes currently not possible, please use arrow keys.

• Piano roll workflow (inspired by FL piano roll)
• 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

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

21.02.2021 v0.9:

• render odd bars darker
• simple mute / unmute notes (alt+m / alt+shift+m)
• add own QWERTY playing for piano roll
• allow words bar and beat for note length input
• some fixes

19.02.2021 v0.8:

• new shortcuts to set note length (ctrl + 1..9)
• new shortcuts to double or halve note length (ctrl + 0 / ctrl + shift + 0)
• bugfix: wrong current instrument when pattern is empty

15.02.2021 v0.7:

• block loops are now visible in piano roll
• invert selection (new shortcut)
• quick chop (new shortcut)
• enable / disable note preview button
• pen mode button
• single note can now be deselected via ctrl
• scale (dbl/hlv) can now be used on selections
• notes can now be selected via piano keyboard control (using ctrl and click one of the keys)
• several fixes

08.02.2021 v0.6:

• copy, paste, cut shortcuts
• fix for note overlapping
• simple humanize button for velocity, pan and delay
• ghost track
• some changes, so it can be uploaded to the official tool page
• show some hints in Renoise statusbar when doing some commands like cut, paste and more
• some more fixes

03.02.2021 v0.5:

• new duplicate notes shortcut (ctrl+b)
• move selected notes left / right
• added a timeline
• improved volume / pan and delay column controls, values can now be set for selected notes
• piano roll correctly refresh now on undo or when the pattern get changed outside the piano roll
• there are now better undo descriptions for several cases
• many bugfixes

28.01.2021 v0.4:

• improved readme on github with more infos about possible mouse and keyboard actions
• improved piano roll rendering dramatically (Renoise Viewbuilder bug?)
• improved centering piano grid for patterns with notes
• add shortcuts to transpose notes in scale (currently A minor / C major hardcoded)
• add selecting notes via rectangle selection
• add ctrl+a for selecting all visible notes
• scrolling vertically is now possible with keyboard
• several bugfixes

26.01.2021 v0.3:

• add buttons for quickly change note length
• automatically add and hide columns
• fix broken note off handling, when deleting notes
• add current version number to main window