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Thanks for adding that kim_otcj

It just keeps getting better. I keep discovering that Podium already has the functionality I need as my needs increase.

@levendis wrote:

Alternatively you could boost the audio output on your analogue device as Podium records your last verse.

You mean “play louder”? If that was an option then yes I could do that. I have a waveform that I didn’t record and asking it to be re-recorded louder is less efficient than what I’m already doing.

@levendis wrote:

You could also add a gain plugin to the track but that would still require an automation event/clip.

Good idea. Yes it would still require a level event but it has the appeal that I don’t have to raise and then lower the level of the whole track.

Thanks, I’ll keep this in mind the next time I need to boost the volume on part of a waveform.

@thcilnnahoj wrote:

It can be worked around by right-clicking the “Bounce” selector on the master track, disabling “Hide Track Lane”, and resizing the master bounce sequence manually.

That didn’t work. The ghost events still do not appear when I do that.

@thcilnnahoj wrote:

This is because, as the group track is set to bounce playback, the individual tracks inside the group are automatically muted – thus, they can’t send to your reverb track anymore. If you want the reverb to be frozen too, the only way I can think of is to place the return track inside the group.

Or, as I discovered, send the entire group to the reverb instead of the individual tracks within the group.

@druid wrote:

First thing I would do is try adding a very very quiet noise to each track, I think it should go before all effects?

I’m not sure exactly how I would do that. I only have 2 audio tracks. All the rest are midi, plus how do I add noise to a track before the effect? The effects apply to the entire track.

@druid wrote:

Another sign of this is if you’re playing the song and it seems to actually balance out and perform better, but when you stop, the usage zooms up to 100% and slows everything down.

Nope. It stays around 100% all the time.

@druid wrote:

You may also be using CPU-intensive plugins that keep processing regardless of whether the song has stopped or not.

I tried deleting the only 2 effects I was using (no other plugins are being used besides SFZ). It made a small difference. Instead of my CPU usage sitting at 100%, it dropped down to about 75% with the deleting of the Podium reverb having the smallest effect so it is contributing to the problem the least.

@druid wrote:

If it is only the VST that you have mentioned, then it may also depend on what your computer specifications are. What kind of CPU power, and RAM, do you have? How many USB devices do you use?

I have a 3.2 GHz Pentium 4, with 2Gig of RAM. I’m using 1 USB device connected to a backup drive that is currently turned off. I would think that my processor speed would explain why the CPU usage is 100% as opposed to some some lower number, but not why the CPU is so busy in the first place while Podium is idle.

@druid wrote:

sfz is also quite an intensive plugin (though I would’ve thought it should only cause slowness if active, not while idle).

I’ve found just the opposite to be true. When I add a new SFZ track, it barely registers on the CPU meter at all when Podium is idle unless perhaps I’ve crossed some threshold of too many SFZ instances.

@druid wrote:

What quality settings are you using on this?

It’s set to draft.

@druid wrote:

In regards to your reverb issue, perhaps your bounce is not being directed to the reverb as well?

I discovered the cause of the problem. I’m using a single reverb bus for all tracks . Each music track in the group was being sent individually to the effects bus for reverb. When I instead send the group track to the effects bus, bouncing the group includes the reverb. Problem solved.

@druid wrote:

Problem 3 can be worked around by exporting a loop, so that it doesn’t get to that part. That’s not a solution though, only a workaround. Were those events split from another event?

No.

@druid wrote:

And if so, did you add the notes at the end of a long event?

No. The extra events belong to my drum track. Each event in the drum track is about 2 bars long.

@druid wrote:

Also, were there any ghost copies of this event put on other tracks, possibly ones you don’t display?

No.

My best guess (without knowing how Podium works internally) is that the ghost notes in the drum track are currently sitting in an output buffer the length of which is not being reset when the song becomes shorter. This would explain why I can play the master bounce within Podium and the song ends when it should but when I export, I get the ghost notes (from the buffer) that are no longer part of any track. This would represent a memory leak if I’m right.

@kingtubby wrote:

@pbattersby wrote:

I’m using Podium Free 4.20 on Windows XP.

wow! are you returning from the future dude? has Podium got midi plug support yet?…..sorry – couldn’t resist. carry on…;)

PROBLEM 4: I have to uncross my eyes

It should of course be version 2.40 not 4.20. I’ll go back in time and correct the original post.

@levendis wrote:

A medley whose parts flow seamlessly

Thanks. 😀

@levendis wrote:

I’m under the impression you admire the children of Fender’s Stratocaster

Not quite sure what you mean by the children of Fender’s Stratocaster but all the guitar parts were recorded using the same modern Ibanez guitar, fed almost directly into my sound card then I used a VSTi called FreeAmp to make the otherwise clean raw guitar sound more like a 50s guitar with a tube amp.

@levendis wrote:

p.s. What module did you use to make the ‘Song List’ on your blog

Nothing fancy. It’s provided by Blogger and it’s called “Labels”. It just displays a list of all the labels used to tag the blog posts. I simply tag each song’s blog post with it’s own name preceded by a “-” so that all the song titles appear first in the alphabetical list followed by any other labels.

Before the song list gets too much longer, I’ll have to write my own module to query blogger for the list of songs/blog posts and replace the song list with a dropdown list.