luniklunikluniklunikThe onboard gfx is using 32meg RAM. I guess this just isn’t enough.
my work laptop has a nvidia go5600 chip and podium gui is fine, so time to upgrade I think!
thanks for replies
@Zynewave wrote:
How much memory are available to your onboard gfx card? Depending on what resolution you use, make sure at least 16-32 MB are available to the graphics card. On some older machines you can configure this in the BIOS.
I’m using an ATI Radeon X300 gfx card, which has no fans. More expensive cards are mainly focused on 3D game features, which will not not benefit Podium much.
Frits
lunik@Zynewave wrote:
Hi Lunik,
Thanks for your feedback. It’s always nice to hear first impressions, both the good and the bad.
I still havn;t attempting mixing down to wav… there is no “file>export” command, but I’m sure its very easy….once I figure it out….
You will need to create the master output track as a bounce track. Thus when you bounce-record the master track, you have your exported file. Currently this can only be done in real-time. Offline render/record is on the plan.
I could probably have every track on an album as a different arrangement?
Indeed. And you could have a mastering arrangement where you mix the bounce-recorded master tracks of the other arrangements.
Thats great. I currently end up with folders everywhere and different files. Can get a little confusing, this could really streamline things.Another FL has which I don;t know if Podium is ghost notes, where other midi notes in other clips at the same region in time appear in the clip you are currently editing, in a ‘faded out’ fashion.
This was recently implemented in Podium. Check that the ‘ghost notes intensity’ for the keyboard region in the profile properties dialog is not set to zero.
Fantastic! It seems such a silly little feature, but as I say I find it invaluable for working fast. I’ll look for it in the demo.
Is it possible to clone a clip in such a way that changes in the parent cascade into the children?
Start a normal drag of a sequence event. Before dropping it, press and hold the control key (a ‘+’ cursor is shown). The two events now refer to the same sequence (a ‘+’ in the upper left corner indicates this). Podium refers to these event types as ‘phantoms’. Another way to create them is to select a sequence event, and repeatedly pressing the insert key, which will create a series of phantom copies.
The GUI seems a bit sluggish. I was testing out on a 1gig machine with old shared memory graphics card
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.
Ok…good to hear its not an inherent issue with the graphics library.
This is what happens when the developer has a very nice machine (I saw your dual core post earlier) 🙂Thanks for your replies.
Frits