As pointed by AOS74 and kingtubby the best way to use a vst is to play it like a real instrument. So, you have to create a midi track, create a midi sequence/clip and play it. You can also bounce the sequence to create an audio file.
Anyway, to record the audio output in Podium you have to configure your audio device.
If you use only the pc audio card, try the following steps. If you use an external audio device you should see the user manual to configure it.
If you have the Stereo Mix device in Windows, you can record the output of your pc in Podium.
– right click on the speaker icon on your Windows taskbar and select Recording devices;
– right click on the list and check Show disconnected devices and Show disabled devices;
– if Stereo Mix is present right click on it and select Enable;
– set it as Predefined device;
– double click on it and go to the Levels tab: set the level (important: this is the input level for Podium recording);
– add a new track in the sequencer and in the input slot select Audio In 1+2;
– click the “x” on the right to disable the input monitoring to avoid the loop of audio signal;
– arm the track for recording (“R” button in the track header) and press the record button;
– finally, press play to start the recording.
Now, if you play the vst drum machine, you should see the waveform progress in the sequencer.
If you want to record from the microphone, you have to set it as predefined device again.
I made some tests and here’s the result:
The first track is the original track with a effect applied.
The second track contains the bounced audio of the first track (Move Bounced Audio to New Track).
In the third track I have imported the audio file previously saved from the first track (Export Bounced Audio to Sound File).
As you can see, the levels of the three tracks are the same (peak and RMS).
I export my tracks to sound files
Do you export each track or only the master track?
The Export to Sound File… option from the File menu, exports the master track.
In the picture above, the level of master track is lower than the others. If you export it, the level of audio file will decrease.
I probably did not understand very well what you want to do… I try again 😉
I started from this scenario with one hour mix splitted in some segments (the process is the same even with more tracks):
After the copy/paste, I bounced each segments in different tracks and I moved the bounced audio to a new track and here’s the result (the original segments have been deleted):
Now you can easily save the bounced audio. In this way you keep the parts separated for future mix process.
This is my alternative to create a unique cropped copy of segments. I know, it’s a bit convoluted. Check the time needed to save the file on disk. It should be less than before.
If you don’t need to edit the original mix in the future, you may share it among all the songs. In this way you don’t have to create unique copies.
