druidAh there you go! Solution!
Also, I know that shortcircuit seems intimidating… And if you don’t need all its features, then being stubborn and using it anyway like me probably isn’t a good idea. 😆
There are quite a few features that you can, if you like, just ignore though. It’s free, so you should give it a try at some point. Make sure you have some free time just to have a look at all the things, work out the pieces you HAVE to know (importing samples, setting up playback note and range notes, ADSR envelopes, and channel muting) and leave the rest until you feel like working it out. 😉
druidI don’t mean to be a bastard, but I have not had one single viral problem on my computer. I use AVG Free, but I do NOT let it run all the time. I only scan here and there, and the occasional full system scan, to make sure things are working ok.
I never open weird things in emails, even from people I know, unless I’m well aware what they are.
I don’t download illegal software.
I don’t accept weird cookies nor allow websites to do very much automatic stuff on their own.
I’m also behind a hardware firewall, which I understand not everyone wants to pay for (I need to share internet anyway :P). The Windows built in one is ok I guess. But with all those things .. do you really need to waste CPU and RAM on a virus checker always running?
So I really don’t see how you can get a virus, if you were to act in a similar way to me, and therefore I don’t see why you need one running, either.
You either, Frits. 😛
druidYes.. I was *fairly* happy with XT 1.4 myself .. but the sour taste in my mouth after realising XT2 was nothing to me compared to 1.4 and that I would not have bugs fixed or any work done on the HOST I was using, when it still could use some work, meant I went searching again.
And lo, Podium I tried once more, and boy had it changed. I still swear that I must have been thinking of a different program that I tried ages ago that wasn’t Podium, because I am so sure that it was way different.
Which it was.
But yes, it does indeed seem more active and sensible in development here, so I shall stay for a while. Of course, part of that is because my music-sound-making actions are on an indefinite hold… Apparently I still can’t resist reading and updating even if I’m doing nothing with them at present. 😳
druidYou mean this one?
http://www.amvst.com/index.php?name=Downloads&screen=44
You might be right; it looks like it’s hard-wired to output, short of a setup screen or some back panel thing.
You *might* be better off using a different plugin? I usually use Shortcircuit for drums (mostly out of stubbornness ’cause I bought it back when it wasn’t free), and since it’s free you could try it … it’s a little more, erm… Overloaded than the pluging you’re talking about (if I got the right one). I’m sure there are others out there that do a similar job as well.
druid… I also must admit, my advice was based on Podium 2.07, which I had forgotten I was still using… Some things look different…
I’m no good at constantly adjusting to small changes. T_T
druidI do not wish to sidetrack too much, so my apologies in advance, but you should seriously look at energyXT 1.41. If you’re into Reaper or Podium, I’d recommend looking at the VST version. It allows more easy routing of signals. I basically use Podium as a track and MIDI editor, and all my VSTs and routing goes on inside energyXT VSTs. It’s pretty flexible. And the first version (VST) is more stable than the second.
Anyway yeah, more info on not being able to reload would be good!
druidAh I see.
As Frits said, within your plugin you might have to change the output of particular sounds. Rather than letting Reaper do it for you (I am going to assume here, possibly incorrectly :P, that it took a plugin’s multiple outputs and just merged them automatically, if that’s what was required for the user), in Podium you have to do it yourself. I guess you could set up sub tracks, which would have the VSTi, and then route those outputs to the one parent track which maybe is a gain VST or something… But safest would be to make sure within the plugin each output selection was to 1+2.
I um … will say no more. I’ve already slightly misunderstood a couple of your posts. 😛 And I’m not an authority on this stuff by far. I just like trying to help if I think I can.
druidOh! I’ve set it to that. Now I feel a little silly…
Honestly I don’t do enough to really make that “tweak” worthwhile I think. Might change it back and see how I go, though my computer is fine anyway.
druidNo offense, but that surprises me that you’d considered it really at all!
Honestly, from what I’ve seen (I haven’t seen it all by far, however) most DAW software doesn’t really care much for unicode. It usually, if it has any localisation support, is only for ASCII languages similar to English in written, such as German, Spanish, French, Italian and the like.
I’m glad you have considered it. 🙂
druidYou’re used to how energyXT does it, clearly. 🙂
Podium is .. er .. a little different than that, at least visibly.
If you WANT to use the different outputs, you must use each stereo pair as a DIFFERENT VST instrument.
Now, this is going to sound weird, and there might be a better way to do it, but here’s how I’ve done it so far:
I usually create a group, called percussion or drums or whatever. Within that I create three tracks, one for outputs 1+2, one for 3+4 and one for 5+6. I then also put it’s VSTi output to those channels (in my case Drumatic 3 1+2 for the first one, Drumatic 3 3+4 for the second, so on). I then can either create MIDI parts on each of those lines just for those outputs, or I can just use one of them. Let’s say 1+2 is for kick, 3+4 snare and 5+6 hats. In one of my tracks, I have got ALL MIDI just on the kick’s (1+2’s) MIDI lane. However, I have the other two in that group with no MIDI parts in order for it to play through those channels, and also so I can adjust their volume from the mixer.
I know it sounds weird. But anyway, even if all your MIDI is all on the one lane, each sound will route to where it was told to in the plugin. But you MUST have tracks for each output you want to use, even if there is no MIDI in some of those tracks.
Depending on your needs, you can also do what I do in other songs, which is to say, use energyXT 1.41 as a VSTi, and then have all the routing you need in there, and treat as a collected unit when output back through Podium.
Hope that helps.
druid1: Yes it needs to be done. Podium has a “default” setting for each parameter, and you’ll find that when a clip/part is not playing, it will reset to this value. This functionality has been an issue for some and not to others, but the solution for the moment is create an automation part for as long as you need.
2: If you use the middle mouse button and click somewhere in the arrangement, you will set the playback bar to that position. Pasting occurs where the playback bar is.
3: Right click on the part and click “Clone phantom sequence”. My opinion is that this is pretty poorly worded. Anyway, that will unghost it. Or you can use the good old keyboard shortcuts: Click and drag an event, hold down alt and let go of mouse button to create a ghost, hold down control and let go of mouse button to create copy.
4: .. don’t know about this one, but I didn’t think you could save either. I can assure you that, aside from some weird glitch that I haven’t read about on this forum yet which may or may not exist, saved projects on the licensed version will load on a licensed version. 😛
Ah another disappointed energyXT user. I still use it as a VST but .. it will take time before I’m willing to give the new version a spin again. I no longer have faith in it, so I can understand.
druidYou checked your anti-virus? Or did you actually disable it and try, or at least create an exception?
I only say this because it is not clear – checking an anti-virus program and setting it up or disabling it are different things!
druidI do not believe you can change drivers and soundcard within an arrangement; only on the podium level.
Although I think you could use ASIO4ALL to have it direct through all of them, and have lots of outputs, and then use that driver in Podium, and then enable all those outputs, allowing you to access them all.
I have never tried this, so I am not sure if ASIO4ALL can do this or not.
druidNow, I don’t know about scheduling of threads, so hit me over the head and call me betsy if I’m off kilter here.. But I do know that when I was mucking around in task manager adjusting energyXT’s process priority (I know, not Podium, but still..) I found that, for me, it’s best to leave it at normal. Putting it higher must have taken resources away from other things.
Now, if that’s absolutely nothing to do with and completely unrelated to thread scheduling priorities, then … um .. ignore my message…
druid