bladerunnerrather than start a new thread i thought i would post some cpu observations here as it is relevant to this thread. i have always had the cpu spiking issue discussed here. i am using asio4all version 2.9 on a vista home premium equipped pc with a core 2 duo E6550 processor and 2 gigs of ram. to try to find the cause in the past i have tried disabling all sorts of devices, disabling all but the most essential background processes, startup processes etc. but all to no avail. what i have found today is that the spiking seems to be directly related to the asio buffer size. i don’t know if this is something generally known already.
i made a simple project with 6 instances of the zynewave nucleum synth and one zynewave reverb as a send. this uses around 25% of the cpu. at a buffer size of 320 samples i am getting regular spikes (every 20 seconds or so) some of which will hit the 70% mark now and again. increasing the buffer size lowers the size of these spikes until i get to 1024 samples at which point the spikes almost disappear completely. obviously i am pleased that i have found a solution as at one point it was stopping me from starting a new project in podium. a sample size of 1024 gives me a latency of 27 ms which is not great for playing a midi keyboard but manageable. cpu usage in other hosts that i use don’t seem to be affected by the buffer size.
has anyone else found this direct relationship between the spikes and the buffer size?
bladerunner@UncleAge wrote:
Are there any DAWs out there that let you check your mix in mono?
reaper has a stereo/mono button on the master buss. would be cool if podium had this function
bladerunnerthanks for replying everyone 🙂 its very hard to get reliable info on this subject!
bladerunnerwow. that is exactly what i wanted. i have the ‘split mixer’ option ticked on the left monitor window and ‘split timeline’ on the right. perfect, thanks 🙂
bladerunnerthanks for the reply 🙂 i will have a play around with this in the next day or two
bladerunnerhi h-man 🙂 i’m always up for a collaboration so fire any ideas this way. i record as boc scadet – heres my myspace page to give you an idea of the kind of stuff i do http://www.myspace.com/bocscadet (although the tracks there are pretty old now).
when i find time (3rd year of my music tech degree this year) i am going to continue with the nucleum presets, hopefully soon…
bladerunnerthis obviously lonely, bitter person has been ousted or banned from many other audio related forums. it was only a matter of time before he arrived here 🙁
bladerunnerthe oval sliders look great in my opinion. stylish, uniform and unique 🙂
bladerunner@Zynewave wrote:
I’m in the process of changing the Podium default to pre-fader effects. With the new fader/meter menus or alternatively the mixer grids, you’ll be able to easily change the pre/post placement in your existing projects.
this is great news. just need to get my head around the new mixer grid now…
thanks for the workaround druid 😉
bladerunner@Zynewave wrote:
When you insert effect tracks in Podium, they have so far been inserted post fader.
i have been transferring a few projects from another daw to podium – copying settings from vst’s etc. could this be why certain elements have been sounding a lot different? i always understood that an insert effect is pre fader. if that is the case then i think inserts should definitely be changed to pre fader in podium
bladerunnerhi H-man,
thanks for the kind words 😀
Moon Orbit is the name of that pad, kind of an old school 70’s sounding pad. i’m very influenced by tangerine dream, jarre, vangelis etc. so consequently quite a lot of my presets will probably end up sounding like that! also hence why i like to make some of them just 3 voice polyphony for that authentic way the release is cut off when a new chord is played. glad you like them.
the quality of the oscillators are very good on this synth – its capable of some very rich sounds i think. when i get some spare time i will make some more. i will check out the osilloscope too – sounds interesting
bladerunnerjust uploaded the bank – there are 20 patches now, made 5 more this morning. any feedback would be appreciated – this is my first proper attempt at creating patches from scratch. i will probably carry on and program a full 128 patches and organise them properly (they are not very well organised presently!).
hope someone finds them useful… 😀
bladerunnerthanks! i will upload them later this evening. i suspect i will do plenty more as i am loving this synth! its very well laid out, sounds great and is very intuitive/easy to use 😀
bladerunneri have made 15 patches so far. how do i upload them? i looked at the wiki but couldn’t see an edit button as per instructions
bladerunnernucleum is a great sounding synth – one of the best examples of a synth maker one i have come across. i fully intend to program some presets and write an all nucleum tune. in fact i’m going to make it my next project i think… 😀 would be great to have it bundled with podium along with a killer demo using podiums eq and reverb