mikeparr.
mikeparrI’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
Podium from: http://www.zynewave.com/
Default Install:
Program Files
….Zynewave
…….. Podium Free
………… Vstplugins
………………… mikePlugins (put DLL files here)
………………… Zynewave Effects
2 Example plugins
Mda Piano.dll Put in your plugin folder
Podium Setup
TUTORIAL 2 – Instruments, Tracks
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
TUTORIAL 4 – Editing notes
Edit: drag, delete, undo, copy, paste.
……….Ctrl for marquee selection.
thcilnnahojHi 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!
ZynewaveHi 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.
mikeparrThanks for the positive feedback and suggestions – I will do the suggested corrections in the next (probably last ) video – i.e the marquee stuff etc.
mikeparrThe final tutorial (so far) – number 5 – is now up. Have incorporated some corrections where possible.
Mike