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@Zynewave wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions Brian.

I’ve had similar ideas, although I have put those on ice since I started going the route of VST plugin support. It’s all logical suggestions, but it requires a lot of coding. There are dedicated applications for this purpose like SoundDiver and MidiQuest, that cost 2-3 times the price of Podium.

I’ve made a simple macro language for SysEx parameters. Doing something similar with SysEx presets, with all the pitfalls you mention, is a bit more complex. Maybe I’ll look at it sometime in the future if the Podium userbase that uses hardware synths grows considerably.

Thanks for keeping these in mind for the future. While detailed synth editing might be best left to a dedicated application, some librarian features are definitely nice to have in a sequencer.

I’ve found what looks like a pretty decent editor for JV/XP (and even XV) synths called Changeit. It’s freeware to boot. So I’ll probably be working with that.

In the meantime, as far as sysex parameter objects go, perhaps a [checksum] variable in the macro language would help on the synths that require them? I’m assuming I can’t use these with the Roland as it is now, but I’ll experiment a little more just to make sure.

Thanks again…

Brian

Hi Frits,

Thanks for the quick reply. I definitely see how the lack of sync between editor panel and patch selection would give the impression of something broken or half-implemented. Sysex is very powerful, but it can get complex very quickly…

I think if there were access to an organized collection of parameter settings, even if it were entirely one-way and even if it weren’t necessarily accessable from the main arrangement screen, it would still have some use to users who do want to do patch creation or editing without having to fiddle with the buttons on their synths. (until they have to hit the save button, that is.)

I suppose that this does tie in with another idea I had for sysex. In a preset object, an option for “Sysex Transmit” under the “Program selection” radio buttons and a field for pasting and editing said message would allow for transmission of patch sysex into the temporary edit buffers of some synths – Basically a way of allowing “library” presets for hardware. (The actual creation of the sysex file or string would be left up to another program like MIDI-OX or something.)

Now if there was someway to syncronize these presets with an editor panel, that would be absolutely killer. 🙂

Of course, I know this is all pretty ambitious, but when I play with Podium I can’t help but get ideas and share them. Thanks again…

Regards
Brian

Hi again Frits (sorry I spelled it wrong the first time!)

Thanks for the quick response. My apologies if some of these ideas seem a bit strange, I’m still learning my way around and finding different ways to do things.

MIDI IN/OUT monitor shows MIDI message types and values

What are you referring to as MIDI monitor?

Ah, I see I got the terminology wrong. 😳 The MIDI indicator. 🙂 I noticed there was some space in the lower right of the arrangement screen that is not used. I remember this coming in handy a few times in Logic Audio, as the transport in that displayed MIDI data coming in and being echoed out.

Changes to tempo can be heard in realtime

If you change tempo events during playback, the playback tempo changes. What do you mean with realtime?

I noticed that the changes in the Tempo Event Properties window are not applied until the “OK” button is pressed. I thought it might be nice to hear the changes as the values are being edited.

Realtime nondestructive quantize on MIDI tracks
Realtime nondestructive transpose on MIDI tracks

Sounds like a job for a simple MIDI plugin. Support for MIDI plugins is on the plan.

Count-In for playback/recording

On the plan.

Event list can be made to show only events for individual tracks/event types
Event list can be edited similar to text file

The event list could do with some improvements. I haven’t touched it for a long time. I’ll add it to the plan.

Great! 🙂

Zoom keeps current position centered

I assume you mean when using the zoombar sliders at the lower right of the editor windows? When I want to zoom in on a particular point, I use the zoom tool shortcuts (Shift+Ctrl+Alt combinations), click at the point I want to lock on the screen, and drag.

Say, that works pretty well. Thank you.

.POD files may be expanded in list window to display objects

That will not be an easy thing to implement. There are many links between the objects in a project, so the whole project file needs to be loaded to be able to safely extract individual objects. If you want to extract objects from a project and insert it in another project, I recommend you load the project, copy your desired objects to the clipboard, load your new project, and paste.

I had this idea that it would be cool to have a single .POD file for the growing list of supported hardware that could be browsed and partially imported. Definitely no biggie.

“Create Multiple…” wizard under “New” drop down menu

What scenarios would you want to create multiple objects for in one go? Copy/paste can get you far.

I have a JV-2080 and a Nord Lead 2X and was thinking that something like this might be a way to create banks of presets very quickly. Like a wizard that make a batch of 128 presets in order, with a common bank select. Either this, or be able to select multiple presets and edit a common parameter for all of them, in this case, bank controller values.

Aliases may be created for device maps

What do you mean with ‘alias’? Why would you like to create aliases for mapping objects?

I think I like to over-compartmentalize things a bit… Once I realized that you could make pretty much as many device mappings in as many folders as you want to, I set out to make one folder of VST plugs with folders for each developer, then another with folders for each plug type (reverb, chorus, etc.) Is there a way to do this so that multiple mappings to the same VST plug will share the same preset library?

Thanks very much,
Brian