automatron

Basic usage

1. Focus the automation tab
2. Find a nice parameter to automate (hydra input is a perennial favorite)
3. Automation context menu > automatron... or Tools > automatron...
4. Bang upon shape images or keyboard to create automation data

All Features (bold indicates new in version 6)

20 shapes:

• ramps, circle quadrants, square, trapezoid, triangle, vee, sine, stair, cosine, on, off

Attentuation:

• Control the baseline and scale of inserted automation

Step length:

• Control the length of inserted automation

Input divisor:

• Insert multiple copies (in time) of an automation into a single step

Pattern effects:

• Fade In: Attenuates existing automation so that earlier automations are lower
• Fade Out: Attenuates existing automation so that later automations are lower
• Zero Odd: Lowers every other automation point (starting with the first)
• Zero Even: Lowers every other automation point (starting with the Secon)
• Max Odd: Maxes every other automation point (starting with the first)
• Max Even: Maxes every other automation point (starting with the Secon)

Keyboard input:

• qwerty, asdfgh, zxcvbn, etc... Map to inserting shapes in an obvious way
• ctrl-`: Max step length
• ctrl-1, ctrl-2, etc... Set step length
• ctrl-z, ctrl-y: undo/redo from within the tool
• arrow keys: move through pattern a step at a time (ctrl: line at a time)
• f9, f10, f11, f12: Jump to quarter-pattern (as in regular renoise)