Renoiser is a tool that let you copy music patterns and sound effects between cartridges.
When you copy music patterns all required sound effects is copied along, so the song you paste in another cartridge is complete and sound identical to the source song.
You can also move sound effects within a cartridge, and when you do that the music patterns that use those sound effects are updated so the songs remain the same.
It is also possible to move your music patterns around if you'd like.
Easy to copy songs between cartridges, complete with sound effects and instruments
Copying a song is as easy as loading the cartridge with the song you want, copy it, load the cartridge you want to paste the song into and then pasting it. Now all the patterns, sound effects and instruments are copied along.
Reorganising your sound effects and instruments
Moving sound effects and instruments around is as easy as right clicking the two sound effects you want to swap places and voilà!
Reorganising your patterns
And moving a song is as easy as selecting it, type + or - on your keyboard and watch it move!
Please note!
You need to download the cartridge and run locally for it to work since it needs to load the cartridges you have stored locally
Manual
Quick start
- Download the pw_renoiser-x.p8.png cartridge
- Place it in the same folder as the cartridges you want to edit
- In PICO-8, go to that folder using cd in the command line interface
- load pw_renoiser-x.p8.png
Song graph view
In the song graph view (keyboard 'q') you can see all the songs in a cartridge, which patterns are in which songs and the loop points. You can also see which sfxs are used by the song, both the actual sfx but also which sfxs are used as instruments in the song.
- change selected song (joystick up/down)
- listen to song (joystick ❎ or left click on a pattern)
- copy a song (keyboard 'c')
- paste a song (keyboard 'b')
- delete a song (keyboard 'd')
- swap two sfxs (right click two sfxs)
Sound effects have four different background colours in this view
- green background means that the sound effect is used as an instrument in the selected song
- purple background means that the sound effect is used by a pattern in the selected song
- blue background means that the sound effect is used by a pattern, but bot the selected song
- brown background means that the sound effect has notes but is not used by any pattern (might still be used from code)
Patterns view
In the pattern view (keyboard 'w') you see all the patterns in the cartridge all at once. Hover the mouse over a pattern to see which sfxs that pattern use. In here you can
- copy a song (keyboard 'c')
- paste a copied song (keyboard 'b')
- delete a song (keyboard 'd')
- move a song (keyboard + and -)
The patterns have three different colours in this view
- blue means that the pattern is a part of a song
- light blue means that the pattern is a part of the selected song
- dark blue means that the pattern doesn't have any sfxs and is not considered a part of a song
Sound effects view
In the sound effects view (keyboard 'e') you see all the sound effects in the cartridge.
In this view you can
- highlight a sound effect (left click on mouse, or up/down/left/right on joystick)
- swap places for two sound effects (right click on two sfxs, or highlight a sound effect, press 'f' highlight another and press 'f' again)
- listen to a sound effect (left click a sound effect, or highlight and press ❎)
- delete a sound effect (highlight and press 'd')
- copy sound effects into another cartridge (keyboard 'c')
- paste sound effects from another cartridge (keyboard 'b')
Copied patterns view
When you've copied a song you can see it in the copy pattern view (keyboard 'r'). You can also listen to the copied song from here, even when you've loaded another cartridge.
Copied sound effects view
When you've copied a song, or if you've manually copied sfxs, you can see and listen to them in the sound effects copy buffer (keyboard 't')
Release history
0.1.2 (pw_renoiser-2.p8.png)
- Added keyboard shortcut to reload the current cartridge ('k')
- Fixed bug in pattern mini visualisation where blank channels would not show up as blank.
0.1.1 (pw_renoiser-1.p8.png)
- Removed last references to respriter
0.1.0 (pw_renoiser-0-p8.png)
- Initial release
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respriter is a tool that you run in PICO-8 that let you edit other p8 cartridges
With this tool you can move sprites around and have the map updated to point to the new location of your sprites, so it isn't ruined. Sprite flags are moved along with the sprite pixels.
It is useful for when you want to move sprites around in the sprite bank so related sprites are next to each other, for example.
So you can turn an unplanned and unorganized bank into a more organized one
And your map will still look like this:
Respriter will also move the sprite flags when you move the sprites.
You can write protect parts of the sprite bank if that memory is used for the map, or you can work unprotected if you really want to
It is also possible to define where your map data is stored. If it is the full 128x64, shared 128x32 or some custom rectangle anywhere in the 128x64 space
If you work often in the same cartridge you can save the cartridge, map rect and all the other settings in a workbench and load them later. When you load a workbench you load the cartridge for that workspace and also all the settings
You need to download the cartridge and run locally for it to work since it needs to load the cartridges you have stored locally
quick start
- download the respriter.p8.png cartridge
- place it in the same folder as the cartridge you want to edit
- in PICO-8, go to that folder using cd in the command line interface
- load respriter.p8.png
release history
0.3 beta (pw_respriter-5.p8.png)
- added workbenches
- added saving of state in custom map rect mode so the camera isn't reset every time it is opened
- fixed mouse cursor bug when exiting custom map rect
- fixed tutorial where right-click was used but it should read left-click
- fixed tutorial text that still referred to the app as "tilemover"
0.2.1 beta (pw_respriter-4.p8.png)
- added visualisation for where map and sprite memory overlap
- made the map memory protected from edits
0.1.2 beta (pw_respriter-2.p8.png)
- the tool now accept pw_respriter-x as filename of the tool since that is what it is called when downloaded from the Lexaloffle BBS. This should fix the issue where a downloaded cart would report an error when opening the "load cart" screen.
0.1 beta (pw_respriter-0.p8.png)
- initial release
