kyranAs a workaround: drag the effect up into the master track using the track inspector.
Then select the track you want to move the effect to and drag it down from the master track to where you want it in the chain.
Not as smooth as it could be, but it works.
kyran@thcilnnahoj wrote:
I previously used Poise (advertisement: for which I made some skins ;)) with lots of free samples, but now I use Addictive Drums exclusively – especially the jazz kit expansion, as well as the electronic kits (yes, a sampled 909 is good enough for me 😛 ).
From some of the videos you made, I remember I liked your drumsounds. Do you use effects (bitcrusher, saturator?) built in AD to get that crunchy sound or external?
kyranThis delay between the visuals and the soundcard output is called latency.
You will need special low latency drivers to overcome this.
I suggest you take a look at asio4all (http://www.asio4all.com). It’s a free asio driver which works with most soundcards.
Install the driver, then in podiums audio settings select “asio” as the driver type and select asio4all as the driver.
In the config panel of asio4all you can modify the soundbuffer settings (smaller buffer is smaller latency, but higher cpu usage). I find that a buffer size of 1024 of 512 is a good compromise during production and mixdown (I set it a bit lower when I need to monitor something during recording).
I hope it makes any sense to you.
kyranI have used most drum samplers, but now I actually just drag and drop my drums onto seperate tracks in podium.
I then group these together and use that to submix.
The audio controls you have on the samples are all I need: level control, fade in/out (effectively making an envelope)
I like this visual approach, and it makes editing older projects very simple: I see what goes where in a split second (no need to figure out how I routed stuff).
I make electronic beats and don’t do rock tunes, so I’m not programming a realistic beat out of single hits. If I want a very realistic kit, I’ll just load one in kontakt.
kyranOn the project launchpage (the one you get when you open the problem) you have three columns.
The left one has your list of projects.
The center one has your list of arrangements (it will most likely have just one entry named “new arrangement” now).
The right one has a list with all your loaded vst plugins.
Are your plugins visible in this list?
If they are not you can use the menu above this column to import them. I don’t have podium on this machine so I can’t double check but I think the entry is called “load plugin” and “load plugins from folder”. Pick load plugin, browse to where the piano plugins were installed (typically something like C:Program FilesVstplugins ), select the dll files and hit ok. They should now show in the list.
When you open the arrangement, make a new track (the plus button above the tracks region) and then load the plugin on the track. Either by using the “source” drop down menu on the track header (it is shown by default) or using the F2 button and drag/dropping it on the track header.
I hope this helps.
kyranI learned about podium in CM Magazine during the 1.77 freebie giveaway.
It wasn’t ready back then to be my main host, but I liked what I saw, so I kept following the progress.
Right now it is the center of my studio and I haven’t been this productive in ages (I tend to rewire in live when I need time warping of loops and samples, or one of lives instruments)
kyranThese options aren’t included yet.
Fritz also has stated a few times that they are not high on the todo list 🙁
kyranI have a general suggestion: maybe we could set up a “Made with Zynewave Podium” group on soundcloud, much like the “made with ableton live” group.
Soundcloud is a nice platform to move sounds and give feedback.
kyranI sort of like the way it is now:
I arm a track, hit the big record button, record a bit in, I hit spacebar to stop recording, the recordbutton switches off. I then audition my take, cut out a piece, hit the big record button and rerecord that bit.
Now if the “disengage when recording is stopped” behaviour from the record button is moved to the track arm buttons, I could continue working like I am used to.
kyran@LiquidProj3ct wrote:
kyran, I also own Edison, and I’d like to know where do you learn to manage spectral view, any article or book? I’d like to learn that.
Honestly, I don’t use it. I can “read” it well enough to deduce which frequencies are present, so I can use my eq more efficient but that’s about it.
It’s the reason I didn’t include it in my bullets (the ones in there are functions I actually use), but some people seem to like it 🙂
kyrankyran@Zynewave wrote:
Can some of you describe the things you want to do in an external audio editor, which cannot be done in the Podium sound editor?
* Use edisons denoiser
* Timestretch a sample (I do this a lot as a sort of fx)
* Change the gain of specific parts of a sample (could be done in the arrangement view with an automation curve, but sometimes I prefer to “fix” the source file)
* Use edison’s convolution reverb / wavosaurs vst stack to create a reversed reverb fade in effect (can also be done using podium with bouncing and cloning, but the workflow is a lot more convoluted compared to just opening the wav in edison, at least for me)
A lot of these wave editors (audition, soundforge) have quite a few nice offline effects that you might want to apply to a sample or offer good spectral editing which is nice for sound design.
Ableton once removed the “edit” button from their clips, only to include it again in the next version.
kyrankyran@MelodyMan wrote:
@thcilnnahoj wrote:
I don’t have anything to add except that you can at least reverse stuff using Podium’s sound editor. 😉
This is the one thing i still don’t get about Podium: What can you do with the sound-editor? Could you explain in a nutshell?
You can reverse the audio, put destructive fade in and outs, silence bits of the audio, insert silence and I think you can also delete portions of the audio.
That’s about it I think.
All of this, except for the reversing, can also be non-destructively achieved using the clip envelopes in the arrangement window.
Having an option to open the audio in an external editor is the one absent feature I notice in podium every time I use it.
kyranWhile we’re on the subject of drag handles: would it be possible to apply the action to all selected items instead of the one you’re just dragging?
So if I select 4 items and then use the resize drag handle on the last one to gate it, they all gate by the same amount (or have their volume adjusted or are stretched, depending on the drag handle)
You can see this sort of behaviour in lots of ableton live and logic videos and I like it (I instinctively try to do it this way all the time)