darcyb62@Zynewave wrote:
The preset icon is a MultiMediaCard flash memory. If you look really carefully at the print on the card, you’ll see that it can hold 64 MB 😆
I had a suspision that the icon would be hard to get. I just cannot think of another graphic icon that will make people go; “Ok, that’s a preset”.
How about the parameter dial icon, is that recognizable?
I find both hard to recognize.
For preset I think of something file related. When I peruse the windows icons I think something along the lines of the icon used for “administrative tools” under control panel or even the control panel icon itself would be somewhat more intuitive.
darcyb62That’s quite all right by me but didn’t have any issues with how they are currently. Is the preset icon a book? Or maybe a zEQ image?
darcyb62@Zynewave wrote:
Could the colours be made changeable like other gui widgets are now?
I could add an icon and color selector in the device mapping properties, and even allow import of image files. But at present I think my time is better spent on more important things. If I can just create a set of default icons that can differentiate the device types, then I think that will do for now.
I agree… I want to see fade-ins/fadeouts/crossfades, I want midi control surface support… I want zCompress and zLimit… I want world peace… I want to drop a supercharger in to my ‘Stang. I want my daughter to hurry up and finish university… I want a holiday…
But I’ll take whatever comes my way.
Cheers…
Darcy
darcyb62Adding this song from a previous post…
http://users.accesscomm.ca/toft/TOFT-Renos.mp3
Done in Podium (of course).
Drums are Jamstix split to 8 tracks. each track runs through zEq and blockfish, then all are comibed and routed through Ambience.
I use a couple of guitars here, a Takamine accoustic and a Dean Sarasota for the electric parts. Both guitars are tuned to open d (it kind of evolved into something that could’ve been done in standard tuning but playing in open d was kind of fun).
The Takamine was recorded through the piezo and blended back in with a mic’d component and then a little Ambience.
Electric was recorded through a Korg AX3000G. I also record a clean sound direct in through a splitter that I usually keep to re-amp but never did it this time.
Bass was direct.
From hear I bounced the master and moved everything over to Tracktion so I could use final mix for the final tweaking. I just bought a couple of Voxengo products so in the future I may just drop the Traction Final Mix step.
I have this song up on garageband right now and I’m getting slammed a bit for not having much of a melody in the song. I say melody schmelody, if I wanted a strong melody in the song I would’ve put one in but that’s not what I was going for. C’est la vie. Like Podianer, this is a hobby for me and helps keep me sane.
Cheers…
Darcy
darcyb62@Podianer wrote:
Thanks for your kind words! They justify the hours I spent for the mix 🙂
You’re advice is a good one. I’ll try to bring the drums in the foreground at the end of the song. I must admit, ballads are quite hard to mix, because there are different parts with different volume settings. But I’ll give my best. 😛
By the way, it would be great if we could have some kind of a music lounge here in the forum. I assume the user base of Podium is very versatile as far as music is concerned. We could help each other with mixes and ideas.
Would anybody be interested in that? ❓
I’m in.
darcyb62Nice guitar work… What are you using to get those sweet clean sounds?
I’m no expert but this sounds pretty good. What type of professional gear do you think you need that would improve on this? I think it’s darn good.
An is is fun isn’t it? In the end that’s all that really matters.
darcyb62Renos is the right one…
I did use Jamstix but I seldom (actually never) use the free jam mode, which is what I assume you mean by “virtual drummer). However I do let Jamstix take some control in how it randomizes and adds accents. I also disable the auto-fill functionality.
So the 1st thing I do is find a pattern in the rather extensive set of patterns included that I think will fit within the context of the song. I use that as a base pattern and I strip some of the complexity, and save it as a version. I then go back to the base patter and a bit of complexity in and save that as well. So I will have three versions of the basic pattern. That’s my starting point. If I have a rather dramatic change in feel within the song I will do this again.
I then take these three patterns and arraneg them in a recurring pattern. It coould p1 p2 p1 p3 or it could be p1 p1 p2 p3, it could really be anything. I then set up a 4 bar loop and let the song play. Then on a bar by bar basis I adjust until I get something I really like and lock that bar down. I’ll add fill in where I thinks it needed and to do that I will loop the one bar and work the provided fill patterns until I find one that seems to fit. I then expand the loop to include the bar before and after to see if it fits. I do that until the drums are complete for the song and then I go back and adjust the sound of the tracks on a track by track basis, usually just eq and compression. zEq is great for this and I’m paitently waiting for zCompression. When that’s done for each of the drum tracks I wrap it all in another group and add Ambience.
It sounds a lot more complex time consuming and complex than it really is as once you get going you can work through it rather quickly.
I’ve tried using the freejam mode and I just don’t get the results I want but others are quite happy with it.
And thanks for the feedback…
darcyb62@Conquistador wrote:
Hi darcy,
For some reason I just cannot get any sound. I clicked on the play icon on your link, another small window loaded that appeared to be loading but it just went on and on…what am i doing wrong?
Don’t know. When the small window pops up you should see the light gray panning left to to right just under the window banner/frame. You should also see a slightly darker bar also start panning left to right on to of the other. The lighter grey is the song loading into the player, the darker grey is the song playing. The ramp in the top right corner is volume, make sure it’s all the way to the left. If that doesn’t work you can listen to it here as well…
http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSlZFOzY2o
It looks like you will have to cut and paste the url as I can’t seem to format it correctly. The vertical bars might have something to do with that.
darcyb62Good stuff…
darcyb62Thanks for the feedback…
I use zEq on every track. I couldn’t get zReverb to do quite what I wanted it to do so just used Ambience. I have a couple of “go to” presets in ambience that really work for me. I just need to spend a bit more time with zReverb.
Drums are Jamstix, and I seperate them into 8 tracks. I then eq and compress each track on their own. zEq for eq and then I believe Blockfish/Floorfish for compression/expansion.
Getting drums to fit right in the mix is an ongoing problem I have but I am slowly improving (well I hope I am anyways). Again thanks for having a listen and providing some feedback.
Darcy
darcyb62@Conquistador wrote:
@darcyb62 wrote:
Thinking about this… If we can get rewire support than all the for those that want FL in Podiom it’s right there. That would be my preference.
Maybe I have misunderstood your statement but it sounded like you were saying…FL can only be used in Podium using rewire.
FL can of course be used as a VSTi in Podium.
I didn’t know that. Problem solved I guess.
darcyb62Thinking about this… If we can get rewire support than all the for those that want FL in Podiom it’s right there. That would be my preference.
darcyb62ONce Chordspace works with Podium I think you have a much netter chord/arp tool. As far as strum… Hey I’m a guitar guy… Would never use it.
darcyb62I could live without… Tried Fruity Loops but never really liked it.
darcyb62@Conquistador wrote:
Group FX track > original track
Wrapping a track with the right click menu creates this…
Group FX track
> Original track.Why is this?
It’s really the same thing but the view is slightly modified. If you select the Group Fx track and hit