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Esa Juhani Ruoho a.k.a. Lackluster - the creator of Paketti
@esaruoho.bsky.social
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Tracker at heart. LUA-scripter by need. Check out http://patreon.com/esaruoho and https://lackluster.gumroad.com/l/paketti or http://lackluster.bandcamp.com/ if you like.
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Feature: Double Phrase LPB, Halve Phrase LPB, Double Double Phrase LPB, Halve Halve Phrase LPB.

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December 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
esaruoho.bsky.social
Feature: Pattern Sequencer: Delete All Above / Delete All Below / Delete All Above & Below - this will work with current Pattern, or a selection of Patterns in the Pattern Sequencer.

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December 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
esaruoho.bsky.social
Improvement: Sononym Linux version path detection for query.json has been improved with failsafes for "if hardcoded link didn't work" -> it'll then consider the appPath and try to find query.json in another way. Hopefully this helps.

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December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
esaruoho.bsky.social
Improvement: Groovebox 8120: Added Global Beatsync Lines dropdown (16,32,64,128,192,256,512) for setting all 8 instruments + selected sample to Beatsync x mode.

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December 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
esaruoho.bsky.social
Feature: Midi Select Track 01...32 - these are triggers that let you select Track 01 to 32. So one Midi Mapping per each Track. If no track is found - then it errors out in the status bar, keeping the user safe from errors.

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November 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Feature: Mono/Pan Cycle for Selected Track, and for Master - these cycle through Mono L+R and then PostFX Hard Left -> Hard Right -> Center, then without Mono L+R and only PostFX Hard Left -> Hard Right -> Center. So, 6 steps in

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November 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
esaruoho.bsky.social
Improvement: Stem Slicer now has an option to never render silence - instead skip them

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November 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
esaruoho.bsky.social
Improvement: Select Next / Previous Phrase, Select Phrase 01...16 now have a version that does push you to Phrase Editor, and a version that doesn't, each.

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November 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Improvement: Wipe & Slice: Random Slice Distribution / Running Slice Distribution will now automatically notice if there are more than 119 slices, and default to using `0Sxx` to trigger the slices - this enables you to have 128-256

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November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
esaruoho.bsky.social
Feature: Select Next / Previous Phrase, Select Phrase 01...16 added as global shortcuts with "no phrase" protection if Instrument has no phrases.

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November 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
esaruoho.bsky.social
Improvement: Wipe&Slice: Random Slice Distribution / Running Slice Distribution. These will spread the existing slices to the pattern equally, or equally+randomly.

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November 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
esaruoho.bsky.social
Feature: Remove all Repeaters - this will cleanly remove all Repeaters from the song, all tracks.

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November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
esaruoho.bsky.social
Improvement: Added "Song Frame Calculator Toggle" as a toggle with a checkbox, to Main Menu: Options.

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November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
esaruoho.bsky.social
Improvement: Added Default / Precise interpolation for Experimental Render and also Render Pattern or Render Selected Track. They're in Paketti Preferences.

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November 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
esaruoho.bsky.social
Improvement: Paketti Dynamic Views now has a total of 9 Dynamic Views, split across three dialogs (1-3, 4-6, 7-9). The reason is that I've added Edit Mode, Play, Pattern Follow and Metronome controls. You can even use these to

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November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
esaruoho.bsky.social
Feature: Order Notes Across Track Across Patterns - this will reorganize the notes for the Track across all patterns. Also a Phrase version is available.

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November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
esaruoho.bsky.social
Improvement: When importing a .txt file into Renoise, eSpeak would open up and, render the .txt file content to a wavefile, but leave the textfield without an update. Now it correctly updates it to the .txt file content.

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November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Improvement: Introduced a toggle for modifying Select Specific Track behaviour - if the toggled is set to On, then pressing Select Specific Track 01...16 will actually find out the nearest Instrument, and select that Instrument, in

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November 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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holy shit (timestamped for the song)

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How to Make an Orchestral Template in Renoise
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November 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Improvement: Paketti "OldAbout" removed from Paketti Manual - stored elsewhere in my Paketti Obsidian vault and hopefully will provide more food for thought for pushing out updates to the manual faster

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November 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Improvement: Added SubColumn aware versions of Write Values/Notes Ascending,Descending,Random - depending on if you're on Delay, Volume, Panning SubColumns, it'll write to those. Also follows selection.

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November 23, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Improvement: Added "Append" feature to User-Defined Sample Folders Loader Dialog - this adds random samples to the current Instrument instead of adding new ones.

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November 23, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Feature: Impulse Tracker Capture Marker Position (CTRL-F7) - this lets you mark a specific pattern row, and the Impulse Tracker F7 "play from line" will start from that pattern row on every F7 press. And if there's no Marker

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November 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Update: There's been a bit of a dearth of updates, mainly because I've been getting all my ducks in a row - i.e., moving all Paketti Todo lists, Notes, snippets of ideas, "other tools to look at" etc into Obsidian. It's a big

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November 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Improvement: Groovebox 8120: If your track is set to 5 steps, then the correct (05) will be highlighted - without needing the user to manually click on 05 to highlight it on opening the dialog.

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November 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM