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March 18, 2007 at 00:20 in reply to: Hello to all! Interested customer here! #9368

darcyb62
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Hey Brent…. I wasn’t be argumentative (I hope it didn’t come across that way). I’m just curious how you would use POdium slaved to Tracktion? I might be missing something that could be extremely beneficial.

March 18, 2007 at 00:03 in reply to: Hello to all! Interested customer here! #9366

darcyb62
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Why would you want to rewire Podium to Tracktion? I come from the Tracktion side and while there are a few things that Tracktion has that Podium doesn’t but I just can’t see myself using Tracktion as my main host. Rewiring Tracktion to Podium would be more reasonable as you would be able to get at the cool routing within Tracktion but for now ext serves that purpose.

March 15, 2007 at 16:26 in reply to: MAC Question… #9287

darcyb62
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Parallels is an addon ($80us) that allows the creation of a virtual machine while in OSX so you can run windows as a virtual session while running OSX. The current version requires you to have a seperate instance of WinXP from the Boot Camp instance but I understand the next release will eliminate this. So today if you are running both Parallels and Boot Camp you require 2 WinXP licenses. Wuth the next release you will require only the one. I will wait for this release to come out.

With Parallels memory becomes an issue and I’ve heard that there are some issues with conflict between the Windows and OSX audio drivers.

March 15, 2007 at 13:51 in reply to: MAC Question… #9278

darcyb62
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So installed Boot Camp and WinXP last night and I have to say it’s pretty slick. Boot Camp helps you set up a Windows partition and then creates a driver disk to load all the windows versions of the mac hardware. This had to have been one of the easiest windows installs I have done.

Did a quick install of Podium and it works just fine. I will be installing my suite of plugins and transfer a couple of projects I’m working on.

From there I want to install MacDrive which will let me access the Mac disks from the windows partition and then give Parallels a try.. With Parallel’s I should be able to run Windows apps direct from OSX without having to reboot. I am curious to see what the overhead will be and how usable an app like Podium will be from it (ie drivers might be an issue).

March 15, 2007 at 13:42 in reply to: Count in #9277

darcyb62
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I don’t find count in all that useful. Even on products that have it I usually set the recording start to 1 bar sooner. That way I don’t cut off the 1st not if I start a fraction of a not sooner than I should. That’s what gives music feeling.

March 12, 2007 at 20:31 in reply to: MAC Question… #9220

darcyb62
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So I bought myself a new 2 gHz Core 2 Duo Macbook on the weekend. I went out on the weekend to spend some money and unfortunately there are very few machines left with WinXP pre-installed and there was no way I was going the vista route at this time.

I’ll be loading up winXP via boot camp later this week and I’ll let you know how it works.

March 10, 2007 at 03:45 in reply to: Preview: Beat slice #9194

darcyb62
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Very nice… And not more than two days I realized I could use such a feature.

March 8, 2007 at 19:08 in reply to: MMC #9183

darcyb62
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@Zynewave wrote:

One of the next major features that I’ll be looking at is MIDI remote controller support. This includes the possibility to start/stop Podium playback with a user-definable MIDI message. Hopefully I’ll find time to look at this some time this summer.

Great news!!!

March 7, 2007 at 16:24 in reply to: Restricted to Podium license owners

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March 6, 2007 at 13:44 in reply to: Preview: zPitch #9157

darcyb62
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@Zynewave wrote:

Progress update:

I’ve found some ways to improve the quality of the time-stretch, but to get better quality the latency of zPitch would have to go up. I don’t think the plugin will be useful if the latency approaches 200 milliseconds. The latency is however not a big problem when integrating time-stretch in Podium, so I’ll be able to benefit from the quality improvements then.

If you have the ability to select the level of quality, latency should be less an issue. As an example, if you are doing a quick sketch and don’t need the quality, turn the quality down and go for the reduced latency. I could see this as being useful when laying down the initial tracks. When mixing latency is less an issue and you can turn the quality back up.

March 2, 2007 at 20:02 in reply to: Binding midi controllers to VST plugins #9135

darcyb62
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This may or may not work, but Asseca has come out with a utility (mGUI) that allows you to skin GUI-less plug ins. One of the benefits of the skinned plug-in is that it provides a midi-learn capability (I think). The other thing about mGUI is that you use it skin plug-ins that have a GUI so you could use this to add a midi learn function to a plug in that doesn’t have it natively. The flip side is that in doing so you lose the native GUI, so it’s a trade-off.

That’s how I think it’s supposed to work> I have skinned a VST but I have yet to try the midi learn capabilities, but if it works like I think it is supposed to, could be a slick workaround.

http://asseca.com/mgui/index.html

March 1, 2007 at 19:19 in reply to: Preview: zPitch #9129

darcyb62
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@Zynewave wrote:

I don’t intend to add more parameters to zPitch, so it won’t get beat-slicing functionality. I read the topic you linked, and it seems that Liveslize uses a simple form of stretching on the decaying part of the individual drum hits. The algo I use in zPitch is slightly more advanced/CPU demanding.

I’ve just finished creating a small native editor for zPitch:

Clicking+dragging on the pitch band will adjust in semitones. Holding shift while clicking will adjust in cents. The band will resize to the window, so you can set a convenient size for automation recording of realtime mouse movements on the band.

I like….

February 27, 2007 at 13:41 in reply to: Preview: zPitch #9093

darcyb62
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I spent a bit more time with this last night. I have to preface this by stating that have no basis for comparison (I’ve never used pitch shift or time stretch as part of a DAW in the past), but this is quite good. When I goof around on guitar I often like to play along some of my favorite songs and its somewhat annoying when the originals are detuned. In the past I’ve used Winamp and a certain plugin to adjust pitch to get the song back in tune with my guitar (my guitar has a Floyd Rose trem so its not the easiest to retune). This easily sounds as good as (and probably better than) what winamp could do.

I think you need to keep things reasonable as it starts to fall apart when you starting going insane with the amount of change, but within tolerances it is very good.

I also tried it on pure drum track. Jamstix feeding into zPitch and again as long as you keep the amount of pitch alteration somewhat reasonable it works very well.

Darcy

February 26, 2007 at 19:44 in reply to: Preview: zPitch #9091

darcyb62
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Just gave this a quick try and it sounds pretty good. I will try on some other stuff tonight but so far I would say this looks very promising.

February 26, 2007 at 13:46 in reply to: preview midi miles in list window #9089

darcyb62
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I am starting to do more and more with midi and something like this would provide some value. Midi is starting to be a bit of weak spot in Podium.

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