alexHi!
I didn’t really go thru all the stuff you people wrote here, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t see anything about ReaPlugs . Anyways, this is my favorite free vst plugin bundle:
http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/
Cheers!
alexThe Telenator wrote:
Yet I find that ASIO4ALL works as well or better than the native drivers supplied, so I don’t even bother to use them anymore……………I have experienced the same results, sometimes even lower latency, when using some of the older M-Audio interfaces and so on.
😀 I just needed confirmation……..
alexThanks for your answer!
I have asio4all installed, and was using it for sometime. It always worked fine. I just wanted to know what people who use it (or in your case used it) think about it, because, I love my interface, but I don’t know if I want to mess with it’s asio drivers anymore. So, I think, this time I’ll just switch to asio4all. 😀
alexLevendis wrote:
Regarding the mixer, alex wrote:
Unlimited, or at least some reasonable number of sends.
Podium supports a total of 100 bus instances, and each bus supports up to 32 audio channels. I imagine those numbers to be sufficient to emulate a symphonic orchestra!
I deleted that one right away 😀 I could find the way to add more busses in device panel.
Levendis wrote:
That is peculiar behaviour.
Once you download and unzip Nucleum to your VstPlugins directory, it should load in your host like any other VSTi.
That’s exactly what I did.
Never mind 😀 I got it now, and Podium didn’t skip any other plugins.
This is strange, though. Until this time, I never really had a problem with plugins in Podium. I think there were just a couple of them (not really interesting ones, that I just wanted to check out) it didn’t like from the very beginning (so I deleted them and forgot them 🙂 (didn’t even bother to check if they would work with another host)).
Tnx anyway
alexHi!
I have a problem with Nucleum. Do you load it just like any other plugin? I tried to load it, and it didn’t show up, and another folder of plugins ended in quarantine. Than I removed Nucleum and was able to load plugins back. 😕
Tnx in advance
alex:-k …… Zcomp and Zdelay….. I suppose they’re somewhere at the end of the to do list, if at all (I suppose it takes quite some time to make something like that). But that would fulfill the list of bread and butter plugins in Podium, and that would really be something.
alexLevendis wrote:
About zPEQ:
You can resize the window for finer edits.
Each of the 6 bands can be set to one of the following:
Low shelf
High shelf
Parametric
Band reject
Band pass
Low pass
High pass
or Disabled
Yes I know it now, I checked it yesterday :). The fact is that I have eqs and reverbs that I use all the time, so the zEffects never really had a chance (until now). And now I’m little bit confused about Nucleum (I found zEffects in program files>Zinewave>vstplugins). I actually don’t know what Nucleum is (or where to find it).
Levendis wrote:
Right click a band handle to access a menu with these options.
Alt+dragging band handles adjusts the filter’s Q (resonance/fall-off slope).
Ctrl+click the frequency response display to toggle display of the phase offset.
I have no idea what that last one means. Can someone explain it to me?
Sorry, but I can’t help you. It would be nice to know what is that all about. So, any help appreciated.
Anyway , this eq is much more complex than I expected. I read the guide this time – there’s no answer to your question, but some really interesting things about q relating to different filter types.
Levendis wrote:
I too am guilty of asking questions that have answers in the guide
Well, I’m am actually really happy that I could work with Podium right away, using just popup help and drop down menus. But, Podium handles audio in it’s own, unique way, so there are things to be learned.
alexLevendis wrote:
To that end, may I suggest you check out zReverb!? It installs with Podium.
I must admit a feel a little ashamed. I actually didn’t load Zynewave effects the second time I was rebuilding plugin database. Two reasons for that:
1. I’ve always asked myself: “Why don’t they make a daw with no effects and processors (which make it more expensive and I probably never gonna use them) and let me load the plugins that I like?” So, you can’t imagine how happy I was when I first saw Podium free.
2. I actually checked zPEQ and it was like this: I wasn’t so clever to click here and there and see what really happens. I just said to myself: “How can anybody make an eq with no pass filters, for mixing?” 😳
Anyway, as I read what you had written about zReverb I loaded Zeffects again and saw that the zPEQ was a full featured eq and zReverb looked like I would have to spend some time to get to know it. 🙂
The truth is that I don’t really have enough time to really work with Podium. I still rely on software that I already know and use for quite some time. But I gave it a shot when I had to deal with a simple mix and it did great. I could say, for my needs, it’s almost perfect (I’d still like to see those three things in it :)). So, I’ll keep checking it (and the zReverb too :)) and asking around about the things I can’t figure out (I’m too lazy to read the guide). 😆
Till next time
alexHi, and tnx one more time.
I think I didn’t explain everything clear enough. My bad. I took the same number of tracks for both things I wanted to explain. Namely, when I was talking about guitars and stuff I wanted to tell that the separate pan knobs for stereo channels are useful for many things – simply you have more control over those sounds and you can use that in many ways (most of the time, as I said, I split most of the stereo tracks into mono tracks, when I work with the software that doesn’t have this feature). And about pan knob on sends – let’s say I have a stereo reverb bus. Now I have one track panned 20% left, and I’ll pan the send 80% right, the other is 47% right, and I’ll pan the send 51 % left and so on (hope now you’ve got the idea what I’m talking about). No send buses on group tracks or anything like that (I don’t think what you’re talking about is bad at all. I do things like that all the time, like in the old days when there wasn’t such a large number of hardware units (and today, this can help you not to run out of computer juice), I make two buses with mono reverbs, one short, one longer, different predelay (u know the drill) one panned hard left and the other hard right, and it works today just as it worked before :))
So, I must say I learned something about Podium from you, today (about the send bus on a group track). If I wanted to do something like that, I know how I’d do it and it would be much more complicated.
alexTnx Levendis!
I know about those workarounds. They’re all fine except for the first one (if you have lets say 5 tracks you want to send to a reverb bus and pan reverb differently than the sources, you can’t do it with the single pan knob on return).
Levendis wrote:
alex wrote:
Two pan knobs for stereo tracks
Can you describe a scenario where this would be useful?
Are you after control of stereo separation?
Sometimes I split stereo tracks in a wave editor and pan them differently (if I don’t have separate pan knobs for both channels).
And finally the workaround for the first one would be – double those tracks, pan any way you like and send to a reverb bus (but now you have 5 more tracks 🙁 )
I mentioned precount because it is really funny that the daw like Podium doesn’t have it (I’m sure everybody can live without it).
tnx and cheers
alexHi, evb!
Thank you so much guys!
Wasn’t such a great idea not to open the Podium guide, after all. I’d have done it instead of asking stupid questions.
@ kim_otcj: you answered the second part of my first question. Now I know that Podium can’t really “see” if one uses 24 bit interface with the 32 bit driver (it only cares about the driver :)). But as you said, it can be set ( setup>preferences>engine 😀 ). However, the master bounce will still be 32 bit.
And, yes, Podium is really CPU hungry. So, with a 2 GHz single core processor, and 1.5 gigs of RAM, believe me I know everything about bouncing, although I prefer freezing, because you can unfreeze the track in a second and tweak, well, whatever you need to. But I still don’t know how or if it all works in Podium, and I won’t ask any more questions before I’m thru with the Podium guide.
@ The Telenator: No dithering onboard. Tnx man. I don’t know how I missed it. So, everything below 24 is just zeros and it’s totally safe to click on “convert to 24 bit…” and get rid of those bits, or simple leave it as it is and take care of it after dithering.
Using 192 for rock and pop?! 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
My M-audio usb ASIO works good for now, but u r right about commercial drivers (m-audio asio drivers are famous for being unstable).
Tnx and cheers