acousmodYes, I agree that copying clips is very disturbing…
I use it often to copy clips between arrangements since it is not possible to drag them between two arrangements, and most of the time it happends what you have described.
The logical way would be to :
– click on a clip (or a selection) to select it (them)
– copy
– click on a track
– paste : the clip is pasted on this track at the cursor position.
If there was more than one clip selected, they are pasted in the relative position of the first one, if they were on several tracks they are pasted in the following tracks and new tracks are automatically created if they don’t exist.
acousmodOK 🙂
acousmodI don’t understand how the fades could not be “locked” to the “waveform” but to the timeline ???
Are not they relative (“locked”) to the sound events : fade in at the begining of an event and fade out at its end ?
So when we move the event, the fades move together with it, no ?
I don’t understand why the fades must be relative to the timeline for stretching events ??
For example, in Vegas, when I stretch events by holding control while draging one of its edge, the fades are stretched according to the event.
Can you explain please ?
acousmodCould you give me some examples of effect plugins that responds to MIDI program change? (apart from Acousmodules plugins)
Yes, I know…
Most of the Synthedit made plugins support it, but it is otherwise a rare feature.
I know that the SFX Machine support it too, but it is an exception.
I really don’t understand why the developper do not support the Program changes, it is a great mystery for me…
All I can say, that it is a real problem for people who do realtime music because most of the time they cannot change the effect from their MIDI controllers.
It is also a problem in hosts that does not allow to have effetcs by clips : how to change a preset at some times when the preset is not available as an automated parameter ?
So, I understand of course that Podium does not create a PC object by default, but in the other hand, if it creates one, people are not forced to use it… 😉
acousmodAs part of the ongoing work on the fade-in/out feature, I’ve now changed this so that each channel is always set to an unequal pixel height. Thus you won’t get the alternating thin/fat center line when you zoom vertically. Coming up in 1.73.
Woah ! Excellent !
Thank you very much Frits !
acousmodThe only reason that I have not added more default MIDI parameters is because many synth plugins only support pitch bend and possibly modulation (CC1).
hmmm… I think that you must look at the MIDI Implementation charts that accompany all the MIDI gears and try some VSTi…
I personnaly don’t know any synth that doesn’t support the volume and the sustain.
Even the General MIDI standard has more : http://www.midi.org/about-midi/gm/gm1_spec.shtml
So any MIDI File could need these ones.
I think that you could add the sustain (64) without any risk.
Have you added the Program Change for the VST FX too ?
It is soooo useful with the Parameter Value object.
acousmodSince in other softwares MIDI messages are sent directly to the devices without the need to create a mapping for each parameter, could you add more basic messages to the automatically created ones ?
Program change and Volume MUST exist by default for each VSTi, but also the more common Controller numbers like Pan (10), Pedal (4), Sustain (64) etc.
I don’t see any problem to have more, do you ?
And also the Program Change for VST effects….
Thanks !
acousmodSo really there are two bugs here.
1.The slow bounces caused by the connection between the arrangement length and the sound event that is created. Should be separate.
2. Podium calculating the blank space at the start of an arrangement into the bounce render process. Perhaps there is a different technical way to describe it but that is what is happening.
I don’t think that these could be called “bugs”.
The first one is something logical : if you render a longer file, it takes more time..
The second one must be corrected. If I remember well Frits has said that it was on purpose to be sure that the end of a previous event was not missing in the render.
But of course, it is the responsability to the user to select a convenient range.
The workaround that consists to put a punch in point before the begining of the bounce event could be avoid…
Perhaps the problem is also that we must use the bounce track feature for very differents purposes : freeze, premix and final bounce.
In an ideal software, there must be perhaps different actions and results.
For example :
– freeze : click on a button and the content of a track (and sub tracks) is temporarily replaced by a rendered version of all the used segments (not the silences !) which is invisible for the user, and can be “unfrozen” at any moment for editing
– premix : the actual bounce track feature
– final bounce : a simple menu that bounces all the arrangement (or a selection) directly to the disk, without the need to creating a bounce track and saving the file after.
But the current offline bounce technique in Podium is already good for me, except for the workaround at the begining.
acousmodAnd don’t forget to place a Punch in point if the bounce section doesn’t start at the begining, because Podium calculates all the blank space from the begining or the punch in point.
Or has this changed ?
acousmodSorry to have badly explained.
I know that I can select several files, but I work generally with a lot of arrangements inside a project and I don’t record audio in Podium but import files from different drives, internal and external.
Since the files are spread on the different arrangements, and often I don’t know if they are in the same folders or not, it takes a lot of work to search for each of them when it is needed.
If Podium could search for the subfolders and apply the paths to all the files that share the same places it would be a great help.
It could be an option in the preferences in the case of people use the same names for different files.
acousmodas usual I am simply making Frits aware of suggestions for Podium but he alone of course knows best when or even if to implement any of the suggestions made on this forum.
Of course…
But I would prefer to see it before I died.
So 2008 would let me more chances to use this feature during some years ❓
No, without joking, clipFX and object oriented flows is from my point of view the future of softwares like Podium.
At the time when I was working with Sampltude, it was my prefered feature.
But it will certainly need some time to add it to the track paradigm.
acousmodacousmod wrote:
If I remember well, it is on the plan ?
It looks like it’s already in Podium !
No. We must do “Search in File Folder” for each file, even if they are all in the same folder.
acousmod… a dream for 2008 ?
acousmodIt is something like “consolidate” found in some hosts or the option “copy media in project” in Vegas ?
I think that it has already been asked and thought that it was already on the list, but I didn’t found it.
Good to remind it…
acousmodI think something similar for relinking more than one file at a time in Podium would be a very useful addition.
If I remember well, it is on the plan ?
It is something essential indeed !
Vegas for example does this very simply : if he doesn’t find some files when a project is loaded, he searches automatically in the project folder and subfolders without asking you anything.
If he doesn’t find one, he asked you to choose the path where it is, and if there are other missing files in the same place he locates them automatically.
Since subfolder are also scanned, it is generally nearly a transparent process for the user.
In the case of a drive letter change or a folder renaming, we could have only to select the new drive or folder once.
If Podium doesn’t ask for it at loading, it could be as simple as selecting one of the files that have a broken link, right click for relink file, select the new drive / folder, and all the other files are automatically relinked.
Or as you say, a “Search for missing audio files” menu where you indicate the drive letter and let Podium scan the folders.