darcyb62@swayzak wrote:
Frits
Just a note to thank you for putting up with my occasional (and sometimes rather idiotic) posts.
Podium is quite a steep learning curve and doesn’t lend itself to occasional dabbling (which is really all I’ve got time to do).
However I am determined to get to grips as I really fancy it as complete solution & replacement for Cubase SX (which I ceased upgrading at version 2).
So I may post a few more times 😉
swayzak
Just keep plugging away at it and eventually it’ll hit you like a brick. Then you really see how powerful it really is. It took me a few tries before I understood but don’t hesitate to ask questions. The people on this board are quite knowledgable and extrmely helpful.
Cheers…
darcyb62@Podianer wrote:
I must admit, I am longing for a change in the actual system of template tracks, that allows me to copy the template track to another project. The templates can make live so much easier, but having to create them all over again is quite time consuming.. 🙁
EDIT: But I assume, due to the layout of Podium’s project structure, this won’t be possible. At least we can copy the pure layout without the mappings assigned. Or we can copy the whole project and delete everything, we do not need.. 🙂
I would agree. This is where I see benefit with templates. To be quite honest I doubt that I would have much of a need for a template within a project. But then I might have a different context of a project.
darcyb62Haven’t had a chance to try them yet. Maybe on the weekend.
Cheers…
darcyb62Another small request with track/group placements.
Currently if I want to move a group in the hierarchy, I have to collapse the group then move it.
It would be good if I could I could do an
darcyb62Neato…
A couple of thousand miles or so away from home, but if I was closer and maybe if I hadn’t already booked a trip down to Mexico, I would stop by.
I tried opening the link you provided but it didn’t seem to want to open. probably doesn’t matter much anyways as I assume it is a French language web site and I haven’t spoken French since high school which was a long long time ago.
Good luck with this… I wouldn’t mind listentining to what you’ve put together for this as it sounds quite interesting.
darcyb62One of us isn’t getting something…
Here’s my interpretation….
A template is just that “a template”. A template should be seen as a shortcut for a setup that is somewhat repetitive. For example, I would set up a Jamstix template that would be my drum track grouping with my favorite drum mappings, compression and eq. Saved as a template, whenever I want to reuse, I would use the template. However, that doesn’t stop me from further editing the track once it has been brought into the arrangement.
If while I’m tweaking I find another setup that works better there is nothing stopping me from resaving it with new settings.
However, if I wanted to tweak a template based on something I was working on, for example, maybe I found a better compressor for drums, I would WANT to open the template in another arrangement so as not to effect my current arrangement/settings.
Another way of looking at it is to thin of Miccrosoft Word documents. Everytime you start Word it loads a default template. You can make changes to your hearts content without effecting the template. If you want any changes you made to be stored as the default template you have to specify that. If you want to make changes to another template you have to open that template up and save it as a template. It sounds like Fritz’s implementaion is much along these lines and to me makes sense.
I’m not sure how your approach simplifies anything.
darcyb62@Zynewave wrote:
You would only need to do that if you want to change the template track after you have used the “copy to template”. Or if you want to reorder the template tracks and put them into sub folders.
Consider the “track templates” arrangement as any other typical arrangement, just with some shortcut menus for copying tracks between the template arrangement and the arrangement you are currently editing. Your suggestions about multiple templates and separate .PTT files are way more complicated than what I try to achieve with track templates.
The way I see it I don’t think there is any other way to do it and keep the process efficient and seamless. By ading different file types you start adding complexity which at times can make things more difficult to work with not easier. I think the current approach is bang on.
darcyb62Gotcha…
darcyb62@Zynewave wrote:
As it sits I can’t do it.
By that, I assume that you are using a mono effect on the group track? The pan dial is hidden in this case, because there is no point in panning the signals when they are going to be summed into mono on the group track. You need to use a stereo effect if you want to pan the signal before applying the effect.
That’s correct… But at that point in the signal chain all I wanted to do is pan the signal. I don’t want it “effected” in any other manner.
So let me get this right… The only way to turn a mono track into a stereo track is to run it through a stereo effect. What if (and this might just be me being a bit anal here) but what if I ran no effects through the whol chain (not really likely)? There would be no way to pan tracks appropriately in the master. Everything would sit right smack in the middle. Is this correct?
darcyb62Okay… I understand that…
How would I do this then?
I am recording an accoustic guitar, single mic in. I want to add fullness to it so I’m taking mutliple takes by turning the loop function on. I’ll do several takes (let’s say 5). I’ll listen to the indidual takes and pick out a few that sound decent and delete the rest. I then want to take each of these takes and position it in the stereo image.
As it sits I can’t do it. I tried wrapping each individual track in its own group track but that didn’t do it either. If I were to drop the stereo version of zEq I am assuming this would give me the panning on a individual track basis.
I guess if I were to add a stereo effect (like my favorite Ambience) on the group level that feeds these individual tracks it would give me the pan dial as well. Correct?
Darcy
darcyb62@Zynewave wrote:
And it is written beneath : do not post until fades / volume / groups are done !
😆
+1
darcyb62I think the mixer is perfect just the way it is…
darcyb62darcyb62darcyb62Now that I see it from TCelectronic I can see it as a dial. Didn’t jump out at me at 1st though.