Hidden controls and keyboard modifiers?

[Experiment101]

Are there any other "hidden controls" in Rytmik Ultimate, besides the ones listed below?

Mouse-click actions

• In song mode, when the "copy"-option is enabled, you can use the right mouse button for moving clips instead of copying.
  
• In clip edit mode, you can CYCLE through POLY/WIDE effect modes with left or right mouse to cycle in either direction.
  
• You can click and drag the numbered ruler/bar at the bottom to move around the song editor. (You can also scroll around using the mousewheel.)
  
• You can set position of preview playback by left-clicking into area with the info line - you can see progress bar there when preview is playing.

Double-click actions

• Steam chat integration – double-click on AUTHOR name in song browser opens Steam chat with this user.
  
• Double-click in browser loads song and fills the browser filter.
  
• Double-click on locked song on public cloud just fills the browser filter.

Mouse-click actions with keyboard modifiers

• In song mode, double-click with "CTRL" sets Left loop marker and double-click with "ALT" sets Right loop marker.
  
• Channel linking with "CTRL" also copies instrument settings except pitch. This can be used for easy chords making.
  
• When channels are linked, adjusting instrument settings with "CTRL" adjusts all linked channels.
  
• With "VARI"-mode enabled, if you press "VARI" button with "CTRL", you can set the currently selected instrument value to all notes.

If there are any other "hidden features", I'd love to know about them.

Cheers,
Experiment101

[◢ k r i s ◤]

Steam chat integration – double-click on AUTHOR name in song browser opens Steam chat with this user.

should probably include that this only works if you are already friends with the steam user.

Also, thanks for the share - I actually didn't know about the modifed mouse actions - which honestly sound like they could've been useful to me on some past projects.

Also, might want to make a guide of this to make it more readily available in Rytmik's Steam Overlay for others to see :)

[Experiment101]

Originally posted by kris:

should probably include that this only works if you are already friends with the steam user.

Thanks, I didn't know it only works if you're already friends with the other user. That's good to know.

However, in that case the chat-feature is somewhat useless, to be honest -- because, I wouldn't want to be friends with everyone just to be able to chat with them or give them feedback.

On the other hand, I understand why the Steam chat was implemented that way -- fully unrestricted chat systems always have problems with unwanted messages.

Originally posted by kris:

Also, thanks for the share

You're welcome.

Originally posted by kris:

I actually didn't know about the modifed mouse actions - which honestly sound like they could've been useful to me on some past projects.

Yea, which is why I called them "hidden controls". They are very poorly documented; you have to hunt them down either by experimentation (often difficult to notice the effect they have), or by reading every single message on this discussion board (which is what I have done).

I hope some devs notice my post too; I'd like to hear directly from the devs if there are more of these hidden actions. Or anything else they'd like to share.

Originally posted by kris:

Also, might want to make a guide of this to make it more readily available in Rytmik's Steam Overlay for others to see :)

I'll keep that in mind. Seriously, I have been considering rewriting the entire manual and augmenting it with all the information tidbits I've learned on this forum.

I'm just not sure if Rytmik Ultimate is really the product I want to dedicate a lot of my time to. It's a fun little tracker, but it has some severe limitations.

For example, RU's ability to keep only 255 user-made songs locally bugs the hell out of me; because I usually save multiple versions of a song (both as backup, and as a way to revert changes). So, 255 save-slots is, kind of underwhelming.

I'd much prefer, that each song was saved along with a descriptive filename, to a location I can specify, where I can save as many files as I have diskspace.

All in all, the Rytmik Ultimate "song browser" obviously isn't ment for large scale projects with many revisions. (And personally I have absolutely zero interest in the Rytmik Cloud component of this product. Even the EULA prohibits me from using it.)

Well, we all know the biggest limitations, and could keep ranting about them all day. Going off topic here, so back to the topic at hand. It is what it is.

Cheers,
Experiment101

[MartinLindaCZ]

Hi, thank you for this thread. All these features were added in updates and are noticed in news about updates. But it is good idea to sum it in one place. I think you mentioned all "hidden" controls. But you are not right about user-made local songs - you can save up to 999 of them (it is 255 on 3DS).

[◢ k r i s ◤]

Heads up, a new one incoming :P http://steamcommunity.com/app/375840/discussions/0/133258092245136385/?tscn=1489653529

[Experiment101]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll update the list. And I suppose I'll convert this to a guide aswell.

[MartinLindaCZ]

Added in update 1.6 :
- Added exit dialog for ESC key in song editor.
- Pressing the PASTE button with RMB in clip editor resets the clip or its respective part by pressing PASTE-I and PASTE-P buttons with RMB.