Topic: Videos for Absolute Beginners here

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  • January 3, 2011 at 16:14 #2496
    mikeparr
    Participant

    I’ve done some videos for people who might not have used a daw before – they are at:
    http://www.youtube.com/user/SuggestionsHere

    I’m a newbie myself, so you may find that I am doing wrong things, or doing things a roundabout way.
    Still, I hope they get beginners into podium!!!

    Happy new Year
    Mike

    ps here is the text of what I work through in the videos


    TUTORIAL 1 – Setup, VSTI instruments


    ASIO4ALL Drivers from
    http://www.soft82.com/
    download/windows/asio4all/

    Podium from: http://www.zynewave.com/

    Default Install:

    Program Files
    ….Zynewave
    …….. Podium Free
    ………… Vstplugins
    ………………… mikePlugins (put DLL files here)
    ………………… Zynewave Effects

    2 Example plugins

    Drumatic 3.dll
    presets (folder) Put both in your plugin folder

    Mda Piano.dll Put in your plugin folder

    Podium Setup

    plug in midi keyboard (if you have one).
    Run podium
    Configure audio (and midi if you have it)

    TUTORIAL 2 – Instruments, Tracks


    You have installed Podium, and put some instrument DLLs
    In a folder.

    You have created a project.

    We will:
    Open your project, add a track
    Put an instrument on it (e.g., mda piano)
    drag track out.

    Open a note editor (piano keys).
    Look at its controls and presets.
    (mda piano, zebra synth)

    TUTORIAL 3 – Beats

    We will:
    Open your project, add a track; drag it out to 2 bars.
    Put drums on it (e.g. digidrum pro, drumatic 3,
    ………… dr fusion 2, drumcore 3… )
    Open a note editor (piano keys)
    Change to drum editor, view used sounds only
    Enter some kick drum notes.
    Show looping + editing
    Show phantom copy (Ctrl + Insert)
    ………And unique bars (right-click)

    TUTORIAL 4 – Editing notes


    Here, we add piano to an existing drum pattern.
    I use a midi keyboard, but you could paint the notes in.
    Plug in keyboard before running podium.
    Use zoom tool to make arrangement editor show lots of bars.
    (I like to use this as a ‘bar’ editor – set snap 1/1)
    Add a new track, put vst piano on it.
    Ensure midi working – setup
    NB tempo slow
    Arm track for Record, click record, then play (space)

    Edit: drag, delete, undo, copy, paste.
    ……….Ctrl for marquee selection.


    (TUT 5 – effects – by 10 Jan 2011

    January 5, 2011 at 05:45 #20214
    thcilnnahoj
    Participant

    Hi Mike!

    Those are very nice tutorials – good work all around! 🙂

    Now if you don’t mind, here’re a few little corrections you might find helpful:

    As you can probably guess, assigning a MIDI output device is needed to send MIDI data to an external sound source (i.e., hardware synthesizer or drum machine).
    You should disable MIDI output to your keyboard (in the “MIDI/Audio Interfaces” options dialog) if it doesn’t generate sound on its own.

    You don’t have to rescan all plug-ins every time you change something in your plug-in folder! Just use the “Update and load plugin database” option instead of “Rebuild…” – this will and only scan plug-ins that are new.

    A marquee selection is actually when you click-drag with the mouse to draw a shape (usually a rectangle) over items in order to select them. In Podium, you can either use the select tool for this, or with the pencil tool, hold the Shift key before clicking and drawing the rectangle. If you use Ctrl instead of Shift, the new selection will be added to the current one instead of deselecting the previously selected items.

    You can configure what happens when you click on the piano keyboard in the “Notes Region Properties” dialog (MIDI editor View menu -> Customize Region -> Notes). If you wanted, this way you could prevent notes being added when you preview sound by clicking keys with the pencil tool. Personally, I find it useful to make clicking on a key select all notes that are on that particular key, so you can select, e.g., all bass drum hits quickly!

    January 5, 2011 at 17:43 #20216
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    Hi Mike,

    Very nice. I’m going to add those as favorites on my YouTube channel.

    About tutorial 1:

    The ~5 second delay you experience before the plugin scan dialog appears, after clicking the “create project” button, was caused by the old method I used to write the Podium.ini file. This was changed in Podium 2.38, so the next Podium Free release should no longer show this delay.

    About tutorial 3:

    Instead of 1/create track, 2/drag instrument from list onto track, you can have the track automatically created by dragging the instrument onto the blank area below the last track.

    January 5, 2011 at 20:45 #20219
    mikeparr
    Participant

    Thanks for the positive feedback and suggestions – I will do the suggested corrections in the next (probably last ) video – i.e the marquee stuff etc.

    January 11, 2011 at 15:17 #20237
    mikeparr
    Participant

    The final tutorial (so far) – number 5 – is now up. Have incorporated some corrections where possible.

    Mike

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