PodianerYou are awesome!! 8)
Thx.
PodianerPodium’s engine is “different” in comparison to what you might know from other hosts. The signal flows from the bottom to the top. You allways have to have a master track with an output mapping assigned, otherwise you do not get any sound at all. Every track can produce audio (or midi, or automation data) and the track view in podium directly shows the actual signal flow! In every other host, you won’t SEE how the signal flows.
Try to start at the beginning. Take a look at the “getting started” page in the Podium guide. I assume some things will make more sense for you.
PodianerAnd I forgot to ask: Do you have an output mapping on your master track?
PodianerHi,
a preset must be assigned to store changes made in the plugin editor
go to the preset tab in the inspector (left side of the arrangement) and double click on the preset that is shown there (sth. like “Local bank”)
– the mapping produces audio but there is no parent track mapping
that handles audio
You probably have put your VSTi on the same hirarchic level as the master track. Just create a new track and put it “under” the master track, or simply lower the hierarchic level of your intrument track by pressing ctrl and –
If you still get problems, feel free to ask. We will help you. And you could take a look at the new tutorial (about the engine) Frits made. It can be found in the Wiki.
Max
PodianerWhich Windows version are you using?
Windows Home XP SP2
Do you have the ‘extend desktop on this monitor’ option set for the secondary monitor?
Yes
Podianermain monitor: 1280 x 800
2nd monitor: 1280 x 1024
The missing part on the 2nd monitor is exactly the difference between 1024 and 800
Podianer@Conquistador wrote:
@darcyb62 wrote:
agree… I want to see fade-ins/fadeouts/crossfades, I want midi control surface support… I want zCompress and zLimit… I want world peace… I want to drop a supercharger in to my ‘Stang. I want my daughter to hurry up and finish university… I want a holiday…
But I’ll take whatever comes my way.
Cheers…
Darcy
I guess Podium feature requests just just took a very unexpected turn. Frits may to have to raise the price of Podium to cope… 😆
That reminds me…crossfades. I was so looking forward to clip fades that I totally forgot about cross fades as well. Auto cross fades and clip fades especially are really needed in Podium. Workarounds exist but it is now a much needed / expected feature.
Some sort of extension of the really nice spline curves for clip fades and auto + manual cross fades would be very sweet indeed. Different shapes for the clip fades and auto cross fades would be great.
Just a gentle reminder Frits, I think it is on the future road map already IIRC 8)
+1 🙂
PodianerNice! They look great this far.
For a plugin instrument you could use a small piano roll to indicate that this is a plugin that can be “played”.
Effect plugins are hard to find a symbol for. Perhaps a simple “VST” or “FX” labelled icon would do?
just my 2 cents..
PodianerPodianerI’ll make the start. I posted this song in a different thread, but here is the place where it belongs.
http://www.hello-from-hell.com/audio/canyouhearme.mp3
This song is a rock ballad written in my band. During production in Podium I tried three different drum libraries, but ended up with Toontrack’s ezDrummer, because of its flexibility and superb sound. The drum lines are programmed by our drummer. To record a whole drumset needs a ton of equipment I don’t have. ezDrummer makes it “ez” 🙂 .
All vocal recordings were made with Line 6′ Toneport UX 2 and a Shure SM57. The clean guitars were recorded clean and then sent through Freeamp2 and a preset I tweaked a little bit. The bass guitar was recorded through my Toneport and a bass-amp preset.
There is a delay on the vocals that I like very much. I use it in almost every song. It is Voxengo’s TempoDelay. This plugin is versatile and easy to use. And it is FREE! Most tracks use zEQ and/or Hydratone. I often use Hydratone to make tracks sound alive and to correct phase coherence. The only reverbs I used here are Classic Reverb on the bass drum and snare and SIR convolution on the drums group. In the master chain, I used PSP’s Vintagewarmer, Spectralive (from Crysonic) and MPL 1-Pro (Khjaerhus).
I must admit that I am glad to have recently bought some monitors (not the most expensive, but still good!), because having only multimedia speakers on your mixing desk doesn’t really help mixing. You allways get the wrong idea of what your song sounds like. It may sound good on your speakers, but when listening to your song on another sound system can evoke some shock moments 😉 This investment, to me, seems more important than a bunch of eq plugins.
That’s it.
Please let me know what you think!
(some users answered in the other post, I know 🙂 )
PodianerPodianer@Zynewave wrote:
By the way, it would be great if we could have some kind of a music lounge here in the forum. I assume the user base of Podium is very versatile as far as music is concerned. We could help each other with mixes and ideas.
The forum here is probably the easiest way to communicate, but you could set up a project collaboration page in the wiki. This would provide you with a place where you could upload and share project files, wave files and mp3 files.
What I meant was rather a sticky thread only for songs. Perhaps this is easier than in the Wiki.
PodianerThanks for your kind words! They justify the hours I spent for the mix 🙂
You’re advice is a good one. I’ll try to bring the drums in the foreground at the end of the song. I must admit, ballads are quite hard to mix, because there are different parts with different volume settings. But I’ll give my best. 😛
By the way, it would be great if we could have some kind of a music lounge here in the forum. I assume the user base of Podium is very versatile as far as music is concerned. We could help each other with mixes and ideas.
Would anybody be interested in that? ❓
PodianerHi,
Thanks for your reply. The clean guitar actually is Freeamp2, a plugin. 🙂 I prefer this for clean sounds, because of its versatility. You can tweak until you have the right sound. You do not have to record again 🙂
Try google. This thing sounds very good, and it is free. Even crunchy sounds are ok.
By saying “professional gear” I mean decent mics, a tonal correct monitoring situation here in my “studio” (I don’t have one! 😉 ), hardware interfaces that give you a nice tube saturated sound. I try to achieve all that with software, but software allways simulates the original. But nowadays one can achieve a pretty good sound in comparison to what was possible a few years ago. By the way: ezDrummer is wonderful! You can hear it in this tune. I think it gets very close to a real drumset. And its light on the resources. My mixing knowledge doesn’t allow me to mix a real drumset until it sounds THAT good.
And you are right: Fun is all that matters!! I love Podium for allowing me to have this fun with my tunes.. 🙂 (I was so frustrated with Cubase, I almost lost the fun factor)
PodianerThanks for the update!
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