ronin🙂 sorry, it was late yesterday.
3. I was talking about an easier way to set the loop and punch markers. This could also be done by click&drag into empty tracks. To avoid accidently settings these marker a modifier key (like shift) should be added. In detail: hold shift in loop edit mode and click (button down) into an empty track. loop-in and out are set to the pointers position. hold the button and drag the loop-out marker wherever you want and release the button.
additionally another modifier key could be used not to set a whole new loop but to drag/move the old one around.
roninI had a similar problem. I use a lot of free plugs and almost every host I’ve tested crashes while scanning them. Podium was clever enough to mark plugins which crashed immediately but there seem to be some other bad plugs which crashed podium after the scan was completed. You can try to save a template after the scan has completed, reopen podium and use the template.
ronincongrats to your decision! playing guitar is a good thing since a guitar has almost always a beautiful voice and never contradicts 🙂
if you are looking for tabs check out tuxguitar (which is also available for win). It’s an opensource program for playing tablature files…very handy tool for practicing guitar!
there are some huge databases for these files out there. mysongbook.com hosts a lot of stuff but unfortunately due to some licensing issues some tabs are not downloadable anymore…but you can find some archive files if you ask the mule 🙂 there are some other good sites but I can’t remember them. I’ll write again if I can find them.
roninI can confirm that the parameter faders are not movable since beta 2.
roninA few short tests with b5 didn’t show any inconsistencies.
Very good response time frits 🙂 22 minutes between reporting and an avaiable fix 😆
I’ll do some more testing later this day.
roninThe changes so far look beautiful and very usable!
But I’ve noticed a small bug. I use a dualhead setup. One screen shows the arrangement and the other the mixer panel but I guess this not nessecary for the bug. It just helped me discovering that.
Add a track and leave the metering options disabled.
1. The mixer panel doesn’t show the meter (thats right since we disabled the meter) but the arrangement panel does.
2. If I add an effect to that track the meter in the arrangment panel disappers but the context menu says it is enabled. (it can be reenabled by deactivating the fader and activating it again)
There are a few more “enabling and disabling the meter”-related glitches.
The arrangment meter sometimes disappers if an effect is inserted and you switch between pre/post. This happens only on some tracks.
Sorry I can’t give a detailed way to reproduce this right now but this seems only to appear if fader and meter are set to the last effect in the chain.
edit: I was using beta4 🙂
ronin@Zynewave wrote:
I think this must be a misunderstanding. There is only one fader on the track. Moving the fader position moves the fader (i.e. gain and pan settings) from one track to another track in the chain. There aren’t separate settings for gain and pan on each effect track. Please explain why you would want it to behave differently.
when you use the expanded mode you can see and set pan and fader for every track side by side in the mixer. now we have the beautiful switch in the fader panel which could let you choose which fader is shown “on top” of the track panel. with this behaviour it would be possible to keep the hierarchic workflow and to set the level independantly for every point in the signal path by switching the fader position. this would leave some more possibilities to the user and personally i think thats the more obvious behaviour…but well…thats just my opinion ^^
roninYes! Thanks for the beta 🙂
I guess swindus is talking about the fader handler. say we have an empty track and we add one effect. the small box-switch appears and we can switch between pre/post. the fader handler should now update its position accordingly to the signal path position. example: set pre fader to -10db and post to 0db. if you switch between pre/post the fader(/pan?) doesn’t update.
the default setting would be nice.
are there any thoughts on the behaviour with inserting new effects? if its possible (and some more users want to have this) I would prefer that if fader and meter is set to post (the last position in the chain) and a new effect is added that meter and fader automatically reset to the new last effect. in short: if its set to post it will stay post.
personally I like the font (-size) the way it is but the option frits mentioned won’t hurt 🙂
btw: these features look really nice frits. thanks again!
roninbrilliant! looks pretty and seems to be very intuitive.
roninlooks promising thanks for these features.
is there a default switch for pre/post? It would be nice to define this as an arrangement parameter. (like compact/extended headers).
I think the “hide” option is still usable but I have to take a closer look on 2.04 to give a comment 🙂
ronin@Conquistador wrote:
Hmmmmm…what you are describing sounds very similar to the existing horizontal clip gain control. 😉
whoops…exactly like tihs 😳 as I said: I wasn’t at home and couldn’t take a look 🙂
thank you frits for the metering and the pre/post stuff!
roninI’m using XP Pro SP2 with an E6300 dual core.
I’ll have a closer look on the windows settings. I guess podium is not to blame on that 🙂 thanks!
I was wondering why the cpu usage on one core was lower as I added another instance on another track.
roninI agree with the three fader options mentioned. they are all usefull and two things should be done for this feature.
1 a default settings which should be set in the preferences. (or maybe in the arrangement setup)
2. a button which toggles and visualizes this setting on the track lane. Conquistador mentioned this in his post.
switching the phase is indeed useful but personally i don’t need this very often. maybe an option in the audio editor is enough cuz too much buttons make ronin go crazy 😆 (I don’t know if this is already present…I’m not at home right now and can’t take a look)
the possibilities for metering have already been discussed and i guess frits is already aware of this.
i think a better alternative to the trim button would be a more modifiable envelope on the objects/events. there are already handlers for fade in and fade out and as far as i remember it is possible to drag this envelope in the negative (downwards) direction but not in the positive. dragging upwards could boost the objects gain and a small tooltip could visualize the amplification. how about that? should be easy to implement 🙂
roninthis is also a good idea but I guess there are some problems.
since you can add multiple sends wherever you want (which is an ingenious feature of podium) it would be no good idea to move all sends after the fader with the “post-fader sends” option. in this case you are modifying the signal flow. maybe you’ve wanted to have one post-fader send and one pre-fader send. so which one to use for fader/pan? what should the option do? I have no good idea on that.
the pre/post FX level/pan is simple in that way that you only have to switch between the last fx and the “data track”
roninIndeed, this sounds like a good solution! thanks for your reply. I’ve searched the forum for this topic but I came up with nothing. maybe I’ve searched the wrong terms 🙂
how a about a small button/indicator named AFX(after-FX)/PFX(pre-fx) on the left upper corner of the mixer-track lane…but maybe in this case the panner should be moved “into” the fader part of the lane (so its not separated with a line)
p.s.: there is another small thing I’d like to point out: drag and drop FX reordering. currently the behaviour is copy & replace if you reorder the fx chain via d&d. is this behaviour somehow customizable? are there other opinions about that?
good night everyone