Topic: A few ideas/suggestions

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  • #347
    Osofaux
    Participant

    Hi Fritz,

    I’ve put together a few ideas after working more on my setup, tinkering with Podium, and just thinking up stuff out of nowhere. I’m still familiarizing myself with Podium’s terminologies, so hopefully I have got them right. As I was writing them down, I formatted them as they might appear in release notes. Here goes:

    UI
    MIDI IN/OUT monitor shows MIDI message types and values

    ENGINE
    Changes to tempo can be heard in realtime
    Realtime nondestructive quantize on MIDI tracks
    Realtime nondestructive transpose on MIDI tracks
    Count-In for playback/recording

    EDITING
    Event list can be made to show only events for individual tracks/event types
    Event list can be edited similar to text file
    Zoom keeps current position centered

    SETUP
    .POD files may be expanded in list window to display objects

      -Objects may be selected and moved/copied between expanded .POD files in list window and currently opened project
      -.POD files modified within the list window are highlighted until saved
      -.POD files modified within the list window can be saved using right click

    Selected objects may be dropped into containers/folders in same browser window
    “Create Multiple…” wizard under “New” drop down menu
    Aliases may be created for device maps

    OTHER
    New Device Mapping Type : MIDI/WAV Preview Source

      -Input mapping
      -Map links to a specified directory (i.e. “MIDI objects/bass/” or “Samples/drum loops/”)
      -On track with MIDI/WAV Preview map selected as an input, the “Presets” section displays .MID or .WAV files within the directory specified
      -When sequencer is playing, MIDI/WAV file begins playback at the left Loop Range point and continues until the right Loop Range point is reached, unless the MIDI/WAV file completes beforehand, or playback is stopped
      -When suitable MIDI/WAV part is found, it can be imported into the currently loaded project, and drawn into the track with the pencil tool

    I was pretty excited about the preview mapping idea, so hopefully I’m not the only one who will think so! Thanks for listening. πŸ™‚

    Regards,
    Brian

    #3987
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    Hi Brian,

    MIDI IN/OUT monitor shows MIDI message types and values

    What are you referring to as MIDI monitor?

    Changes to tempo can be heard in realtime

    If you change tempo events during playback, the playback tempo changes. What do you mean with realtime?

    Realtime nondestructive quantize on MIDI tracks
    Realtime nondestructive transpose on MIDI tracks

    Sounds like a job for a simple MIDI plugin. Support for MIDI plugins is on the plan.

    Count-In for playback/recording

    On the plan.

    Event list can be made to show only events for individual tracks/event types
    Event list can be edited similar to text file

    The event list could do with some improvements. I haven’t touched it for a long time. I’ll add it to the plan.

    Zoom keeps current position centered

    I assume you mean when using the zoombar sliders at the lower right of the editor windows? When I want to zoom in on a particular point, I use the zoom tool shortcuts (Shift+Ctrl+Alt combinations), click at the point I want to lock on the screen, and drag.

    .POD files may be expanded in list window to display objects

    That will not be an easy thing to implement. There are many links between the objects in a project, so the whole project file needs to be loaded to be able to safely extract individual objects. If you want to extract objects from a project and insert it in another project, I recommend you load the project, copy your desired objects to the clipboard, load your new project, and paste.

    “Create Multiple…” wizard under “New” drop down menu

    What scenarios would you want to create multiple objects for in one go? Copy/paste can get you far.

    Aliases may be created for device maps

    What do you mean with ‘alias’? Why would you like to create aliases for mapping objects?

    New Device Mapping Type : MIDI/WAV Preview Source

    Interesting idea. If I were to implement this, I actually think I would prefer to make it as a VST plugin. Perhaps there are even some loop/beat plugins already available that can do this sort of thing. The plugin editor would have embedded file browsing, and the possibility to drag files onto the host. Storing the plugin preset on the track in Podium, would then retain file path information etc. Anyone else care to comment?

    Thanks for your suggestions,
    Frits

    #3988
    Osofaux
    Participant

    Hi again Frits (sorry I spelled it wrong the first time!)

    Thanks for the quick response. My apologies if some of these ideas seem a bit strange, I’m still learning my way around and finding different ways to do things.

    MIDI IN/OUT monitor shows MIDI message types and values

    What are you referring to as MIDI monitor?

    Ah, I see I got the terminology wrong. 😳 The MIDI indicator. πŸ™‚ I noticed there was some space in the lower right of the arrangement screen that is not used. I remember this coming in handy a few times in Logic Audio, as the transport in that displayed MIDI data coming in and being echoed out.

    Changes to tempo can be heard in realtime

    If you change tempo events during playback, the playback tempo changes. What do you mean with realtime?

    I noticed that the changes in the Tempo Event Properties window are not applied until the “OK” button is pressed. I thought it might be nice to hear the changes as the values are being edited.

    Realtime nondestructive quantize on MIDI tracks
    Realtime nondestructive transpose on MIDI tracks

    Sounds like a job for a simple MIDI plugin. Support for MIDI plugins is on the plan.

    Count-In for playback/recording

    On the plan.

    Event list can be made to show only events for individual tracks/event types
    Event list can be edited similar to text file

    The event list could do with some improvements. I haven’t touched it for a long time. I’ll add it to the plan.

    Great! πŸ™‚

    Zoom keeps current position centered

    I assume you mean when using the zoombar sliders at the lower right of the editor windows? When I want to zoom in on a particular point, I use the zoom tool shortcuts (Shift+Ctrl+Alt combinations), click at the point I want to lock on the screen, and drag.

    Say, that works pretty well. Thank you.

    .POD files may be expanded in list window to display objects

    That will not be an easy thing to implement. There are many links between the objects in a project, so the whole project file needs to be loaded to be able to safely extract individual objects. If you want to extract objects from a project and insert it in another project, I recommend you load the project, copy your desired objects to the clipboard, load your new project, and paste.

    I had this idea that it would be cool to have a single .POD file for the growing list of supported hardware that could be browsed and partially imported. Definitely no biggie.

    “Create Multiple…” wizard under “New” drop down menu

    What scenarios would you want to create multiple objects for in one go? Copy/paste can get you far.

    I have a JV-2080 and a Nord Lead 2X and was thinking that something like this might be a way to create banks of presets very quickly. Like a wizard that make a batch of 128 presets in order, with a common bank select. Either this, or be able to select multiple presets and edit a common parameter for all of them, in this case, bank controller values.

    Aliases may be created for device maps

    What do you mean with ‘alias’? Why would you like to create aliases for mapping objects?

    I think I like to over-compartmentalize things a bit… Once I realized that you could make pretty much as many device mappings in as many folders as you want to, I set out to make one folder of VST plugs with folders for each developer, then another with folders for each plug type (reverb, chorus, etc.) Is there a way to do this so that multiple mappings to the same VST plug will share the same preset library?

    Thanks very much,
    Brian

    #3989
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    I noticed that the changes in the Tempo Event Properties window are not applied until the “OK” button is pressed. I thought it might be nice to hear the changes as the values are being edited.

    Ah, ok. I’ll add it to the plan. Maybe a checkbox in the dialog saying ‘preview tempo change’.

    Either this, or be able to select multiple presets and edit a common parameter for all of them, in this case, bank controller values.

    That could be a neat solution. The dialog would be similar to the dialog for a single preset object, but when opened for a multiple selection, the name field would be disabled and show ‘multiple selection’. Changing any properties would then be applied to all objects.

    Is there a way to do this so that multiple mappings to the same VST plug will share the same preset library?

    Yes. Just make sure that your duplicate mappings all refer to the same device definition object. If you import the same plugin multiple times in Podium, then only the mappings will be created for the new instances and the original device definition branch (with presets and parameters) will be reused.

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