Renoise Tool Spotlight - Simple Piano Roll

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I want to share how great this Simple Piano Roll tool is, which is a tool created by toimp/dufte that allows us to have a piano roll right in Renoise.

The way that this tool works is incredible, and it extends or augments the tracker microediting with a visual piano roll.

Renoise: https://www.renoise.com
Tool: https://www.renoise.com/tools/simple-pianoroll
Manual: https://github.com/ryrun/com.dufte.SimplePianoroll.xrnx/blob/master/readme.md

Contents:
00:00 Intro
02:38 Features
03:50 Installation and Setup
04:48 Renoise Tools Catalog
05:00 Renoise Tool Versions
05:35 Download Simple Piano Roll
06:40 Finding Tool Updates
07:10 Downloading and Installing a Tool Online
07:30 Demo Song and Tool Overview
07:55 Opening Simple Piano Roll
08:15 Preferences Overview
09:51 OSC Setup for Note Preview
10:07 Explaining the OSC URL
11:04 Enabling Renoise OSC Server
11:55 Verifying OSC is working with Note Preview
12:35 Auditioning demo song pattern
13:05 Editing the pattern with Simple Piano Roll
13:16 Toolbar Overview
14:05 Selecting Notes in Piano Roll
15:00 Playing back from Piano Roll
15:25 Using Ghost Track
17:20 Use TAB to switch Tracks
17:40 Use ALT drag to enter notes
18:20 Use arrow keys to move notes
19:00 Changing note lengths
19:20 Doubling and Halving note lengths
19:30 Discovering Volume Editing
19:45 Reading the Manual :)
21:10 Creating a new song and default stuff
23:05 Experimenting with Volume Editing
25:15 Creating another track for testing
26:00 Troubleshooting Realtime Recording with MIDI
28:00 Root cause for trouble was Scroll-lock
28:10 Creating another new song to start over
28:20 Recording drums in real time with MIDI
28:48 Opening drums in Simple Piano Roll
29:05 Re-recording drums with quantize off
29:30 Open non-quantized drums in Piano Roll
29:55 Troubleshooting grid editing timing
30:25 Clearing delay to snap note to grid
30:40 Adjusting note length with properties bar
31:25 Changing volume for all selected notes
31:37 Humanizing Volume and Delay
33:04 Note UI Editing Zones
33:55 Changing Pattern Length to 128
34:20 Showing more notes in Simple Piano Roll
35:20 Using Ghost Track Toggle to switch tracks
36:50 Explaining what we learned
37:30 Increasing contrast of shading
38:00 Pattern block editing in Simple Piano Roll
38:45 Changing Pattern Length back to 64
39:00 Explaining Pattern Block Loop Mode
40:27 Experimenting with Audio Preview Mode
45:10 Clearing the song to start something more advanced
45:15 Using only Simple Piano Roll to make a beat
47:30 Summary
48:00 Outro







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