hitman8081could you add this in the next version frits 🙂 on a ligther note podium gui speed is fine now. i turned of hardware acceleration, updated my intel drivers, and set color to 16 bit 🙂
hitman8081it just frusterating frits. when i hit a note on my keyboard, midi doesnmt respond to what im hitting, therefore when i preview a key, if im using a pad,
and the pianoroll is set to 1/16 note i cant preview the how the pad should sound and i cant see what note im htting in the pianoroll. it just fruterating and i cant make any music because of it 🙁
hitman8081so ae you saying that soon ill be able to audition pad sounds while using a 1/16 note?
i think that shoupld be implemented asap 🙂
hitman8081hey frits, sory about being an asshole and goin into a rant. i was upset and frusterated 😳 any plans of adding things like, adjustable pattern lengths,(by adjustable patern lengths i mean having two difrent patterns playing at the same time. so, podium can be playing a 16 beat drum and a 64 lenght melody, you would hear the 16 bar drum loopplay over and over instead of the drum loop stoping playing at 16 bars ie orion/project 5
a preset breed function and editor, activated pianoroll/sutained note preview?
thanx frits 😳
hitman8081where can i find these drivers. i did do a full reinstall/reformat. i hope things are beter when i install podium again.
hitman8081i removed all background tasks to see if it makes a diffrence and it doesnt.
i though podium was fixed well enough but it seems that as i add more cpu podium just slows to a snails pace. you said something is eating all my video memory? i downloaded nero unltra edition the other day and noticed that after uninstalling the demo, almost all my image files and other media files were completely taken over by nero. i removed all the registry info pertaining to nero and low and behold my files are still fucked up with nero.
the only way to play certain image files is to force it to play with windows media player? could this be the problem? should i try a system restore? reformat? frits your right, somethings NOT right. 64 megs should be fing plenty. im gonna have to look more into this issue.
hitman8081wow frits, that info was pretty help concering looping. i had no idea it was that simple. i was just manualy dragging the loop points. (its also seemed to cause quite a bit of confusion as far as as proper matching loop length. now my loops match up length wise 🙂
hitman8081so what can i do to fix this frits? HOW do i find which programs are taking up video memory? what kind of plugin editor are you refering to? thanx frits.
hitman8081hey frits, i just did a check of my video card and these are the specs,
chip type: intel[r]82845g graphics controller
dac type: internal
memory size: 64mb
adaptor string: intel[r]82845g/gl/ge/pe/gv graphics
bios information: intel video bios
screen refresh rate 60 hertz (goes up to 70 hertz)
hardware acceleration: full
dpi setting: normal size (96 dpi)
color quality: highest (32 bit)
hitman8081funny thing frits, ive always had my screen resolution to 1152 by 864 and just recently(about a week after installing podium) i chnaged my screen resolution to 1280 by 1024, which was the highest my monitor could go. i didnt realize that doing that would slow podiums performance big time. podiums still lags when using the select tool and other grab functions. but im pretty satisfied now 🙂
hitman8081frits, i did a forum serch for the word lag and slow and found this thread:
http://www.zynewave.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=466&highlight=slow
also you said in another thread:
Podium is using transparency effects extensively, which does require a graphics card with decent hardware accelerated transparency. I’ve tried Podium on a machine with onboard graphics card, and it does make the Podium UI slow. On my new machine I have a cheap ATI X300 which makes Podium fly. The difference is huge.
i didnt know this when i bought it. could this be why the guis so slow? it might be a good idea to create a version version for those that have only average cards. i dont think its too far away to say that many people who have tried podium in demo version were put off by how slow podium moves and probaly invested in a good soundcard but use there inbuilt video card because like me they only produce music on there pcs and dont play games or do anything else on there pcs that requires a fast video card.
tbh podium is the first host ive used that requires a good videocard.
but this may be why podiums so slow for me and others.
hitman8081@Zynewave wrote:
i have to wait a secong or two before each note shows up in the sequencer and another to hear it
There should be no noticeable delay at all before the note is drawn on the display. Just to make sure; I assume you are using the mouse and not a MIDI keyboard to input the notes. If you use MIDI input to record notes, then the notes are only drawn once the note-off is received. The delay before the note is auditioned should be no longer than what the latency of your soundcard is set to.
Which Windows version are you using?
Has it always been like this?
What is the Podium CPU usage percent when you experience the delay?
Is this PC also the one you use for internet? I ask because I’ve previously received reports of e.g. slow saves which was caused by a background spyware detection program. If you have any of these programs installed (spyware, antivirus etc.), then try temporarily disabling them to see if it affects Podium performance.
There may be other programs running in the background that can cause Podium to be slow. To verify this, bring up the Windows Task Manager and see if there are any processes that hog the CPU. Also go to the performance page and check the CPU usage history while you are doing the editing in Podium.
yes this is my only pc. i have/had zonealarm, live 365 icon, aim, and msn icons running in the background. its definitly a problem with having the loop mode on.
i did a speed test to how how far the notes are laging behind by clicking ten notes ten time for ten seconds. loop off timeing is fine. i then did the same exact test with loop on and the notes took three more seconds to appear after the ten seconds were up giving a 3 second lag. also highlighting notes with the select tool, podium seems to lag with both loop of and loop on.
hitman8081sent frits.
hitman8081frits i cand find the ini. been looking and even serched for them.
hitman8081the lag does still occur when playback is stopped. my loop section in the pianoroll is 16 bars extended to a patern length of 1 bar ending at 2. sequencer mode is the same 1 ending at 2. sequencer arangement is set to bar, pianoroll note length is set to 1/16. extending loop length to 64 bars created no noticeable lag diffrence.