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September 9, 2018 at 17:34 in reply to: Preview 3.3: Multiple open projects & new Start page #36617

nicholas.h
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Hi Frits, many thanks for the upgrade extension, and for this release, which addresses a few minor issues that I reported (sound editor tabs can be closed! sequence event lists don’t get ‘dirty’!).

Here’s a few minor issues I encountered in the new release. Nothing critical, just observations. This is the 32-bit Podium 3.3.0 on 64-bit Windows 8.1:

1. After I run “Build and Load Plugin Database” or “Update and Load Plugin Database”, the Project page’s Device list is empty, and the Device drop-down is empty; it just says “Device”. I have to change pages in order to see the refreshed list and drop-down options.

2. In the Arrangement editor, renaming the arrangement using File menu > Arrangement Properties does not automatically update the Arrangement tab name. I have to change page before it updates.

3. In the Arrangement editor, the ‘default’ help topic relates to the Project page. There are more relevant sections of the guide which could be presented, like 1.3 Arrangement editor. (There’s a chance this is due to my custom editor profiles.)

4. Tab names: If I’m looking at an arrangement, the tab is titled with the arrangement name. If it’s a project page, the tab is titled with the project name. But if I quit Podium and then restart, I’m looking at the arrangement but the tab is titled with the project name. This has a radical contextual eloquence, but I’m not sure it was intended?

5. Start page’s + – buttons look like they are disabled, yet they are functional.

6. I’m having projects listed twice in the Start page. Once under Recent projects with more of a path (e.g. “Spectrum\Spectrum.pod”), then again in the next (untitled) column with the same screenshot, same save date and time, but simpler name (e.g. “Spectrum”). I don’t mind the repetition, I just don’t understand why.

7. Related to this untitled column, I see a blank menu entry in the Start page’s View menu (between Recent Projects and Templates in the menu). I can select it to bring the second column into view, but it’s a bit mysterious.

November 28, 2017 at 16:14 in reply to: Perform edit on multiple clips. #34357

nicholas.h
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Some one-move edits are possible. Multi-select clips, right click -> Adjust Sound Events lets you change gain (relatively and absolutely) and fades for multiple clips.

But changing the length of multiple clips isn’t so easy. You can right-click -> Adjust Timing, then use the Quantize mode of “Quantize start – Set length”, and preview/play with the values (including the “Grid” value)… But this won’t set all clips to an equal length; instead it will kind of adjust them by an equal quantized amount. This is cool for tidying clips up relative to the grid, so it might work for an arrangement-based drum machine frenzy. But otherwise, no I don’t think so.

July 17, 2017 at 22:04 in reply to: Preview 3.2.7: Redesigned system for loading plugins #33258

nicholas.h
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Same here, no problems running 32-bit Podium beta on Win8.1 64.

FWIW I can’t offline bounce rewired Reason 5 without hiccups in the audio, despite trying various settings in Preferences. But had the same issue in 3.2.6 also. (Other rewire hosts can do it, but… they’re not Podium.)

On a very trivial note, there was a UI issue I mentioned back in the 3.2.6 beta thread, about ‘dirty’ MIDI event list when making changes in a separate piano roll window. But again not a big deal.

May 3, 2017 at 23:13 in reply to: ImageLine Slicex GUI problem #32772

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Just tried the demo and I get pretty much the same thing. (The plugin window is sized differently, really tall and narrow, but it’s just as awkward.) For now, instead of removing the plugin to restore the window, just hit Podium’s Power button off and on; you don’t even need to close the plugin window.

February 1, 2017 at 16:14 in reply to: Restricted to Podium license owners

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December 22, 2016 at 20:36 in reply to: Decreasing CPU Usage? #31932

nicholas.h
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Try the full Podium Demo for a more even comparison. Also, you mention running FL side-by-side, which makes me wonder if you have an equivalent ASIO driver selected in Podium’s Setup menu > Audio/MIDI > Audio I/O tab. (Windows MME is less performant.)

September 16, 2016 at 00:11 in reply to: Website update + One year free upgrade period #31307

nicholas.h
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Yeah that’s fixed it for me.

September 15, 2016 at 17:03 in reply to: Website update + One year free upgrade period #31299

nicholas.h
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I also have the caching issue here in the UK. (Logging in to say as much was not easy!)

August 25, 2016 at 22:36 in reply to: Preview 3.2.6: No more .mini files #31139

nicholas.h
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Brilliant so far: 326b2 has been totally solid, despite my best efforts!

I did see an issue in the marker and tempo region shortcut menus. Instead of the bar beat position, such as “9|1”, it’s showing “[][][][][][][][]”.

See screenshots at http://imgur.com/a/KjY3B

(Tested 32-bit version on Windows XP.)

August 18, 2016 at 00:12 in reply to: Preview 3.2.6: No more .mini files #31076
nicholas.h
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Hi, this is very cool news! 326 Beta 1 seems fine with regards to waveform presentation and absence of mini files. But like 325, I’m finding it less stable than 324.

I saw the comment in another thread about possible code migration issues, so I tried to pin down what specifically might cause my problems. I’ve had the odd random crash, but basically I can force a crash when manually muting and unmuting audio tracks… Okay, it’s fairly rapid muting that will trip it up, but nothing overtaxing or unrealistic.

Here’s a minimal example project made in 324, which hopefully can showcase the behaviour in 326b1. There are no third party plugins, just a bunch of audio events with a few stock zEffects:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/whikczcdmlsij05/P324-01-Example-project.zip?dl=0

Smallprint: I’ve only tested the 32-bit version of 326b1 on Windows 8.1, on a Wacom Cintiq Companion 2 using ASIO4ALL drivers for its internal Realtek audio chipset. Yeah. But the project (and any amount of frantic muting and unmuting) is absolutely bulletproof on 324. Hope that helps!
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July 28, 2016 at 23:29 in reply to: Preview 3.2.5: Minor improvements #30926

nicholas.h
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Hi, I gave beta8 a test (32-bit only on Win 8.1 and XP), set preferences to look at a folder with four Metronome sounds, each at a different sample rate. They all played back correctly at original pitches as hoped and expected.

Oh yeah, I tried thinking about uses for the Scalpel tool in the audio editor. (I only mentioned it before because I assumed it was mismapped.) Really it should split or slice things up… but it doesn’t seem worth the hassle to duplicate arrangement view functionality. So, could the Scalpel button just be hidden by default?

July 23, 2016 at 23:50 in reply to: Audio files slowed down #30869

nicholas.h
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Are the loops at a different sample rate compared to the project sample rate? Presently there’s no auto-conversion.

June 25, 2016 at 22:57 in reply to: Preview 3.2.5: Minor improvements #30728

nicholas.h
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Thanks, can confirm the files are now correctly displaying, previewing, loading etc. in the Browser and Load Color Setup menu on XP.

June 25, 2016 at 10:05 in reply to: Preview 3.2.5: Minor improvements #30721

nicholas.h
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Hi, I just gave beta6 a run, testing the 64-bit edition on Windows 8.1 and 32-bit edition on XP.

On Windows 8.1, no issues.

On XP, the Browser no longer showing any content. No subfolders, no WAVs that were previously displayed.

Also on XP, the Setup > Load Color Setup menu list is empty.

(There’s also a UI issue I encountered: The MIDI Event list gets ‘dirty’ when transposing notes in a separate MIDI editor window. New event list items are added, but older entries are not removed… until you close the window, or change to Event list to the timeline and back again. But you might want to forget about this for now, because it’s not specific to the beta. It also occurs in both editions of 3.2.4.)

March 17, 2016 at 23:01 in reply to: Using VST Plug-in with Podium #30218

nicholas.h
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> I still use Windows XP

Podium still supports XP just fine.

> I can’t pursue this matter because for some reason I was getting a pop-up.

I had a few similar crashes when running just off my laptop with no decent audio interface or driver. Installing ASIO4All allowed Podium be the stable, solid beauty it was born to be.

> There is something that shows something about VST plug-ins but it starts off with VST’s listed and doesn’t explain how to bring up that view…

I wasted a minute posting about the two main views in Podium recently, maybe it will help you:

Podium Free

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