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hhbHi all
I have downloaded the software, downloaded 3 VSTis (piano), connected to the midi keyboard.
When I ran the program it said that it found 3 VSTis.
When I press F2 (as I understand in the idiot guide), it should show me instruments that I have.
No. I cannot find sounds. Just need to be able to make a piano noise so that my daughter can start practicing.
There is a green triangle flashing when we hit the keys so I think it is connected correctly.
Does anyone have the patience to help a complete novice at this stuff?
Many, many thanks….
😳
thcilnnahojHi and welcome!
When you create a new arrangement, you start without any tracks (besides the master) – you first need to create a track which you can put a VST instrument on. There are a few ways to do this, but the easiest one is probably this: as you’ve already pressed F2, there should indeed be a list visible now, and it should have your VSTis in it. You can just drag-and-drop one of them to the tracklist (this is explained in more detail in the getting started chapter of the Podium Guide).
It appears your keyboard is already set up correctly since you see the green triangle. It should be automatically assigned to whichever track you have selected, so you can start playing right away.
If you still can’t get it to work, here’s a short video showing how to do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RjH2lI9jdI
A word of advice – you should use ASIO drivers if you’re not doing so already. Otherwise you’ll get a relatively big delay between pressing a key and hearing the sound generated. There’s a free set of these drivers called ASIO4ALL, which works with pretty much any sound card.
Hope this helps! 🙂
hhbStill no instruments. I wonder if they are saved in the wrong place or when I choose update list should it search the whole pc? I have download Asio4all.
I have looked at the guide but as the instruments don’t appear, i got stuck.
I will look at the video in the morning as I have been up since 4am. Not on this!
Many thanks for your help so far. Hopefully I will do better with fresh eyes.
Hannah
kyranOn the project launchpage (the one you get when you open the problem) you have three columns.
The left one has your list of projects.
The center one has your list of arrangements (it will most likely have just one entry named “new arrangement” now).
The right one has a list with all your loaded vst plugins.
Are your plugins visible in this list?
If they are not you can use the menu above this column to import them. I don’t have podium on this machine so I can’t double check but I think the entry is called “load plugin” and “load plugins from folder”. Pick load plugin, browse to where the piano plugins were installed (typically something like C:Program FilesVstplugins ), select the dll files and hit ok. They should now show in the list.
When you open the arrangement, make a new track (the plus button above the tracks region) and then load the plugin on the track. Either by using the “source” drop down menu on the track header (it is shown by default) or using the F2 button and drag/dropping it on the track header.
I hope this helps.
hhbThank you everyone. I managed to figure it out this morning after some sleep but had to dash to work before updating this thread.
There was an asio4all box that was not ticked on the midi set up area and a tick in another box (can’t remember where now), that I un-ticked and voilà! It all came together.
Cheers all,
Hannah