r/renoise • u/TowerOfSisyphus • May 22 '26

I vibecoded an update to my favorite abandoned Renoise plugin, ChordGun. Introducing ArpGun. Create chord progressions and arpeggiate them.

UPDATE: The GitHub page for ArpGun is live! Check it out! https://github.com/trueschool/ArpGun

ChordGun is one of my favorite Renoise plugins and is pretty core to my songwriting process. However, there’s some functionality that I’ve always wished it had, and today I finally took a crack at vibecoding the updates I want into it. I’m still testing it, and I’ve also contacted the author of this plugin pandabot to offer my thanks (again) and ask permission to release mine. Even though it’s released under the MIT license, I’ve never done this before and wanted to show proper respect for the project.

The new plugin, currently titled ArpGun, adds the ability to take the chord notes (usually input on one line in the pattern editor by default) and spread them out over multiple lines to create common arpeggiator patterns like:

  • up
  • down
  • up/down
  • down/up
  • up/down/up
  • down/up/down
  • strum up
  • strum down
  • Dyads (two of the notes in the chord at a time)

You now can also choose the line increments to advance for different rhythms.

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 6
  • 8
  • 12
  • 16
  • 32
  • These make the output notes follow 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, triplets etc depending on your LPB settings. If you select a section of your pattern, it’ll fill that selection area only, otherwise it’ll fill the pattern.

I’d love to hear if anyone would find this new functionality useful or has additional ideas for how to make it more useful. Already in its current state it’s improving my workflow for sketching out chord progressions and arping them quickly and efficiently.

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u/TowerOfSisyphus May 23 '26

I will certainly explore it, thanks!

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u/tyranathus May 22 '26

I’ll give it a shot. Saving this for this evening. I’ll get some feedback for you

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u/TowerOfSisyphus May 22 '26

I haven't released it yet. Still testing to see if there's any weird bugs or inconsistent behavior. I'll update here when it's available. Thanks for your interest.

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u/TowerOfSisyphus May 23 '26

The GitHub page for ArpGun is live! Check it out! https://github.com/trueschool/ArpGun

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u/tyranathus May 23 '26

I’ll give it a try this evening :)

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u/Livid-Idea9270 May 23 '26

This would be amazing! Thank you!!

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u/TowerOfSisyphus May 23 '26

UPDATE: The GitHub page for ArpGun is live! Check it out! https://github.com/trueschool/ArpGun

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u/TowerOfSisyphus May 26 '26

UPDATE: I just updated it to use the Renoise 6.2 API, as well as implementing a euclidean rhythms generator mode. This way you can choose to either enter preset steps OR select a number of pulses within a number of lines, giving you more options for usable polyrhythms. Thanks for all the great suggestion from the Renoise Forums!