"When you only have 45 minutes to make music, anything that shaves a minute or two is like an eternity."
Paketti is a workflow expansion layer for Renoise. It closes the gap between the idea you have and the sound that comes out.
Renoise gives you the instrument. Paketti is the other 98%.
8,000+ keyboard shortcuts. 150+ dialogs. 1,000+ MIDI mappings. 701 themes. Dozens of import/export formats. Compatibility across Renoise 3.1 and 3.5 side-by-side.
I've been making electronic music in trackers since 1994 and releasing it as Lackluster since 1997. Every feature in Paketti exists because something slowed me down while I was making a record, and I couldn't keep working until I'd fixed it. The design principle is one sentence: Paketti is about saving clicks.
I've been building Paketti for fifteen years and I ship updates almost every day. I've done forty-six one-on-one calls with Renoise users where I show features and the musician reacts, suggests, and embellishes — features I've shaped in real time from those collisions. Fourteen musicians support me via Patreon to keep this going. Free and open source (GPLv3). Commercial DAW companies optimize for marketing bullet points. I optimize for the next song you want to finish tonight.
"This is by far the most thought out tool ever. Why is this not natively implemented?"
"I genuinely think that I can't use Renoise without Paketti anymore."
"You are essentially writing a completely new framework over the engine."
"Paketti itself deserves a lifetime movie about star-crossed lovers who have obscure script needs."
Paketti is free and open source. If it's become part of your workflow, here's how to keep development going:
- Patreon (recurring): https://patreon.com/esaruoho
- Gumroad (one-time): https://lackluster.gumroad.com/l/paketti
- Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/esaruoho
- Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/esaruoho
- GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/esaruoho
- 1-on-1 calls (workflow evaluation, feature walkthrough): message me on Discord
Full transparency on what support means: https://lackluster.org/support
https://esaruoho.github.io/paketti-manual/
https://github.com/esaruoho/paketti/releases
Discussion, feature requests, and current updates: https://discord.gg/Qex7k5j4wG
https://forum.renoise.com/t/new-tool-3-1-3-4-paketti-a-suite-of-scripts-for-automation-sample-editor-midi-pattern-editor-phrase-editor-mixer/35848/ (note, this is severely outdated, Discord is faster)
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. See the LICENSE file for details.
- Modification and Distribution: You are free to modify and distribute the code under the same GPLv3 license. This ensures that all modifications remain free and open source.
- Credit and Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
- No Additional Restrictions: You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
We welcome contributions! By contributing, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under the GPLv3. Please submit modifications as pull requests to this repository to help improve the tool for everyone.
This script is also available on a donation/pay-what-you-want basis. Feel free to support the project if you find it useful.
For more details, read the full text of the GNU General Public License v3.0.
Thanks to @lpn (Brothomstates) for suggesting that I could pick up and learn LUA, that it would not be beyond me. Really appreciate your (sometimes misplaced and ahead-of-time) faith in me. And thanks for the inspiration.
