Topic: Looking at Podium – wondering about features

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May 2, 2010 at 16:01 #2210

Nebulae
Participant

Hi-

I’m a long-time Ableton Live user. I recently did a track that required a lot of clips, tracks, and audio to be recorded. When I stick with electro songs, this is usually not the case, and Live shines. But when I overload it with a lot of tracks, the UI starts to bog down, and so I started looking at other options. I looked at Reaper, but it felt unintuitive to me. I’m not going back to Cubase or Sonar. So here I am, but with a few noob questions:

1. Can you take the output of one track and patch it into another and record? In Live, this is so simple, and my workflow involves doing this all the time. I don’t mean bounce…I mean like a virtual patchbay.

2. Can you route midi from one track into another and record – same as in my first question?

3. Can you record the output of a midi VST or VSTi?

4. Can you assign an LFO from a midi plugin or vsti to another track’s parameters, such as pan or fader, or the parameter of an inserted effect in another track?

If these options are easy to do, and I an easily track about 100 tracks of 24bit audio on my current daw (Q6600, 4gb ram, 7200rpm sata drives, Win7x64), then I’m definitely willing to give it a shot.

Thanks and keep up the good work!

-Neb

May 2, 2010 at 21:44 #17961

Zynewave
Keymaster

Hi,

@Nebulae wrote:

1. Can you take the output of one track and patch it into another and record? In Live, this is so simple, and my workflow involves doing this all the time. I don’t mean bounce…I mean like a virtual patchbay.

You can’t route a track output into another track for recording. You can use busses to route audio between tracks, but a bus return will not be recorded like a normal audio input will. To record track outputs you need to use the bounce feature. Bounce in Podium is a bit more flexible than the bounce/freeze feature you may know from other hosts. The bounce mode can be assigned to any track you like, and it will render/record the audio output of that track. You can keep the bounced audio in place (effectively muting the sources you bounced), or you can move the bounced recording to a new track.

2. Can you route midi from one track into another and record – same as in my first question?

No.

3. Can you record the output of a midi VST or VSTi?

If you mean audio, then you do that with the bounce feature. If you mean MIDI note output: Enable the “enable recording of VST plugin MIDI output” option in preferences, and then you can record the MIDI output of a plugin to the track. You can move those recorded MIDI sequences to other tracks for use with other plugins. You cannot realtime route MIDI output of a plugin into another plugin.

4. Can you assign an LFO from a midi plugin or vsti to another track’s parameters, such as pan or fader, or the parameter of an inserted effect in another track?

No.

June 4, 2010 at 04:26 #18403

greatwillies
Participant

I think from the four question two have answer yes and two have no like ]
1. yes
2. No
3. Yes
4. No.
Actually podium is not so much frequent that can give you all the facilities, it is still under construction according to me. So basically just wait for the features.

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