Topic: Play Order Editor

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Excellent idea, especially for songwriters!

Does this work like a ‘wrapper’ for normal audio/MIDI/etc. events?
And is it meant for electronic music, or do you use it successfully with recorded material?

Because with normal recordings, I’d assume most things never start exactly on the beat (or may intentionally come a little earlier or later). I can’t imagine just swapping the bridge with the chorus without creating overlaps or timing weirdness here and there…

Nevertheless, it looks interesting. Especially if, which I assume is possible, you can also change the number of repeats directly in this editor.

In the meantime, you could try placing markers at the section starts, and grouping them with the events, like in this GIF animation.
It’s of course not in the same league, but it might at least make selecting the sections a little quicker. 😉

thcilnnahoj: please how you can do that selecting which is in your animation? I cannot figure out it… (i´m newbie to Podium) thank you very much

It would be fairly easy for me to add some commands to the marker popup menu that can automate some of the manual bundling/dragging that thcilnnahoj showed in the gif.

The commands could be:
“Move Section Left”, “Move Section Right”, “Delete Section” and “Repeat Section”.

Marker events will thus become handles for sections, and you could name your markers “Intro”, “Bridge”, “Chorus A”, etc.

When dragging markers it could also be possible to use the Alt key shortcut to move around sections instead of only the marker event.

The section commands will affect all events that are within the section (i.e. the time range up to the next marker event). No need to use the bundle command. It does require that all track events are split at the marker position, or else the events cannot be shuffled around.