@Zynewave wrote:
If you are trying to add an instrument to a new track, you can drag the instrument mapping below the last track to create a new track. If you are trying to add an effect plugin to e.g. an instrument plugin track, the easiest way to do it is to drag the effect mapping onto the first ten pixels of the instrument track header (the part will be highlighted accordingly). This will wrap the instrument track in a new track with the effect plugin.
Wow! This has been under my nose all this time. 😯 This has to be the easiest way to get FX into Podium tracks, indeed even most hosts cannot import a plug and wrap it into another track by simply dragging an dropping an FX or instrument!!!
I read one of the older Podium guides from start to finish but that was before the new small arrows appeared on a wrapped track. I am guessing this little gem is not documented yet or is it?
This may be a bug but it may be a desirable bug…he he, let me explain…
1.Create two new tracks
2.Wrap the first in a track with the right click menu (use the group option) add an FX to this new group track.
3. Drag another FX to the header area of the 2nd created track and let go.
If you look at the mixer you should see track one now has a track that extends over it (contains the FX)
Track two also should have a track that extends over it in the mixer..
But…(unless I am doing something wrong here) by dragging an FX into the header area it creates a track that appears on the same level horizontally, but not above it.
While wrapping an FX with the right click menu will create a track that clearly is placed above the initial track.
Strangely both approaches produce tracks that look identical in the mixer.
Frits you must know what I mean. 😉
Dragging an FX to a track will look like this in Podium…
Group FX track > original track
Wrapping a track with the right click menu creates this…
Group FX track
> Original track.
Why is this?
I really like the Group FX track > Original track idea as you could just keep dragging and get all your tracks on the same level, but still see the direction the audio stream is heading in…
Group FX track 1 > …FX track two > …FX track three… I think this is my preferred way of seeing my FX tracks in Podium as they appear horizontally and do not even need to be hidden! Please do not change this behaviour if it is a bug! 8) Actually the arrows are pointing the other way in Podium, but this is just for this illustration. 😆
Wrapping a track with the right click menu takes longer anyway. I suppose you cannot create a bounce track without the right click menu (unless there is another way) but when adding FX, the drag drop approach is so fast. I love the way it creates the track on the same horizontal level. Yet the arrows still show the correct flow of the audio stream. Great!
Frits am I doing something wrong here? Or is it a good bug? 😆
Sorry P. Rene I did not mean to hijack your thread. 8)
If you have already created an arrangement within Podium the header part that Frits was talking about (that I can see) is a small vertical strip that will be highlighted it’s a bit thin (can this be made a bit wider Frits?) but if you drag it on the side of a track, left side, you will see this small thin vertical highlight, that will appear.
When you see this, drop the compressor (if you want that first on the track) on this highlighted area it will create another track for you. Repeat this process with the delay.
Frits is the real expert around here and will confirm or deny my advice but it works here.
I have just noticed that when dragging an FX or instrument to a track header it will create an exact duplicate of the previous track so no need to even touch the track properties that pops up when using the right click group track option. Very smart and quick. Why did I not see this before!
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