Hi G-Sun. I’m hoping you’ll visit again, because I’d like to ask if you’d be able to explain what was happening when Podium froze those two times? And also what kind of features you’re after for tempo?
I don’t want to belabour the point, but about the size of the bounces… I can understand if you compressed four tracks that had freeware plugins down to one, and therefore you only had one bounce instead of four, but if you just replaced the instrument on the track, and the bounce was the same length, then it would be the same size.
This would make sense if you had 64 tracks, and it was cut down to 16. Is that what you’re talking about?
Also, unless your song has 100 tracks or lasts for 20 minutes or something like that, I’m a little surprised space would be such an issue. If you do have really low HDD space, it’s not good to be using it for anything but storage!
Anyway, just trying to clarify. Nothing wrong with what you did of course! I am just surprised you needed to delete the way you did. This thread has taught me more about Podium too. And I’m glad your problem was resolved!
What you have referred to is a midi output.
Go to Setup-MIDI/Audio Interfaces, and there are 3 tabs. The first, MIDI, make sure that Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth is turned OFF. From what I’ve seen, very few people need to use it, and it has caused people to be unable to playback.
Then, go to the Audio tab, and preferably select ASIO Drivers. Then you should be able to select your sound card from there. If it isn’t already selected, of course. If it is, then you won’t have to change anything,
If you do change your audio interface, you may have to reset the audio devices. But, one step at a time. Please try this and let us know how it goes. Also, if it doesn’t work, could you please list all the ASIO drivers you have on your system, from the drop down box in the setup section?
I’m a little confused. With a project where I have “bounces” (which in my case are midi tracks that have just been bounced over the top – I am assuming this is the same for you, whether it be midi or audio tracks) I can disable playback of bounced audio. Then, in the menus, I have a choice to render, or playback bounced audio. Until I found that, I was having problems NOT re-rendering it.
Is your problem not solved by these menu options?
Could you give a step by step description of everything you are doing to end at the problem you are having?
Can’t believe I was taken in. 🙁 You are quite right of course. Don’t remember seeing those links the first time, or I might have overlooked…
The post has been edited, however. :/
Sorry to raise this thread again Frits, but I wanted to let you know that I’ve come up against the lack of ability to assign a CC to a VST parameter again. I can work around it, but thought I would remind you of this as I do feel it’s somewhat important. Some VSTs of course allow assigning parameters to CC. But not all, and for those, it’s painful to tweak real time. I have to get an idea of what I want first, then try to get an automation track. Unless I’ve missed something, which is possible of course.
The issue I’m coming up against now is with zeta+, which CAN assign CCs to parameters. Unfortunately, I find it convenient to manipulate parameters with the x-y pad that is built in, and attach several parameters to x of the pad. Then I would usually attach CC1 (mod wheel) to the pad’s x VST parameter… Only, I can’t do this in Podium, and unfortunately, zeta+ doesn’t allow me to attach CC1 to control the x!
Of course, to get around this I switch all the parameter controls from the pad’s x parameter to the mod wheel, but then of course I can’t play with it without a MIDI controller again.
This instance is minor. But I am concerned if I want to use a VST that does not allow automation parameters to be set internally.
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Spoke too soon. I went to do that and realised that if I switch it to work on the mod wheel, I’ll only get 128 discrete values, i.e. midi resolution. This is fine for fiddling as naturally my midi controller is the same resolution, however I use the x-y pad’s x value for automation so I can automate at 32-bit value resolution. Very important when filters are involved in my opinion, and even more so if they are slow sweeps.
That means I’m going to be hungering for assigning CCs to VST parameters. Just letting you know!
I agree with MelodyMan, but wish to add that if you really did want to ask this forum, the most appropriate place would be General Chat.
I would advise against overclocking, or if you have to, overclocking to a safe amount. Modern systems have enough power for most musician’s needs, and if you’re planning on overclocking for other tasks, I recommend having a separate computer for music-related uses.
As it turns out, this solution fails due to the input selector being removed in child tracks.
I’m not entirely sure why input selectors for child tracks were removed, but perhaps child tracks were not intended to be used in the way I am.
So I will in the end need to create the bus as I planned before, which won’t show anyway because of the new editor profiles I have now loaded which don’t dock return tracks.
There may be times where I want to assign specific midi channels of specific midi devices to child tracks, and it would appear I am unable to do so, without first setting the track up outside of the group, and then moving it into the group afterwards.
Still, currently the send is the best choice. I will only be adding it when needed so it won’t add a lot of space wastage.
Frits, would you consider allowing input selectors on child tracks? Maybe not all child tracks, but sometimes group tracks are used just as an organisational tool and it doesn’t make sense to prevent them from being separately controlled. I may have missed discussion on this due to me being unable to keep up to date recently.
Argh, I brought up the issue of upgrading Podium but not the profiles a while ago. Being able to just update profiles is good, but if you have customised them even slightly, then it reverts them. I try not to customise editor profiles now for this very reason, so then why have them customisable?
I’m not really sure where the balance is between customisable and updating your version to newer ones, though. They are two different paths, after all.
Thank you for your suggestion. The new profile does solve that for me, and I’d already found that option but didn’t realise it was default now. I’d never worked with sends in Podium before due to not having much time for music work (but being in Brisbane with the floods, I can’t work so found some more time!).
One of the reasons I was going to put it on a send was so the audio only went to it if I told it to, otherwise it didn’t. However, it’s true that I don’t want a send taken up with it, the idea was based on organisation more than anything.
Having a group track do it does resolve the issue of having master effects space taken up, however, so I will probably do it the way you suggest. Thank you for your help!
Coming from a modular environment, I still find some things awkward to achieve in such a setup. More on that in another thread soon, no doubt!
Oh my gosh, I didn’t look hard enough. Thanks for that! I figured it was a standard thing.
I had a listen and thought it was pretty good as well. I think my fiance would do anything for me to write a song like that about her! Unfortunately, it will probably never happen. 😛
It sounded really well done. I thought the vocals weren’t clear enough though. It is most likely due to what others say. The effect seems a bit strong, if it’s layered then the dry vocals maybe need to come through, if it’s only the effected vocals, maybe it needs dry a little? Either way, it sounded like it blended too much with the song, making it less clear.
It wouldn’t take much editing, and then I honestly couldn’t critique it negatively any further! Good work!
Sorry to bring this old thread up, however I am trying to create a send and hide it from the mixer, and seem unable to do so.
Currently, my template has a range of visualisation plugins on its effect list. Due to unnecessary space usage, I thought why have that on the master chain? I’m not always monitoring deeper details. Why not create a send for it? So I tried that, moved the effect chain (manually, because master track has no effect chain saving…) across to the send track (which has a return as source), lowered volume to 0 (as I don’t want it playing, only monitoring) and set the fader to after all effects, to make sure all effects get the level sent to them.
Excellent, I thought, now I can monitor signals by adding a send on a track. But now the analysis track, naturally, shows up on the right side of the Podium mixer.
I can just not show sends, but what if I want to have a reverb, delay, and whatever other send there?
For that matter, as I am trying to bring some of the simple routing out of energyXT and into Podium, I’m planning to use track-specific sends. The problem is, that means if I create even 4 track-specific sends, I will have at least 6 sends listed at the end of the mixer! Reverb, Analysis, Track 1 Return, Track 2 Return, Track 3 Return, Track 4 Return.
Ideally, as I don’t have modular routing available to me in Podium, and as the idea of tags was meant to tidy things up, I would like to be able hide certain tracks from the mixer. If that means using tag viewing separately for mixer and timeline, so be it. I suppose a simpler option would be to allow tags to hide from mixer as well, which means I could create a Hidden Busses tag and make sure they almost never show. Unfortunately, I noticed that sends show regardless of tags.
So I wonder why the default Podium tag Busses shows up? What’s the point of tagging them if they never disappear?
Anyway, if anyone can help me with this (if there’s an option currently) that would be appreciated.
I had a sudden thought, though it is less preferably to me. If a person creates multiple mixer views, can you set each mixer up individually? That way, I could have a send mixer and a track mixer..?
Ah yes, that rings true from some of the things I read too.
SF32 loads the entire soundfont into memory, at 32-bit resolution. Likewise, SF16 does the same but at 16-bit. PR32 loads only the selected program (so, Piano, for instance) into memory, but not the entire soundfont, at 32-bit resolution. And PR16 you can guess!
I’m not sure why that 3gb upgrade would cause that. Are you using 32-bit Windows?
I might also go and try sfz+ again, just in case I no longer get the issue, or can resolve it. I have 4gb of memory currently.
This is going to sound silly, but have you tried sfz (not the plus version)? I seem to recall having some kind of issue with the plus version that was released for free, most unfortunately, and have reverted to using the original free version of sfz.
I could be way off of course, but anyway, just in case!
Runs fine on my 4 year old laptop, and I honestly don’t think that a computer 6 to 8 years old would have difficulty, again depending on VSTs. You will find the heaviest usage will be the plugins you insert, I believe.