soundquistI haver both Tracktion and EXT licenses but I still bought the Podium license some time ago. The main reason for me was the MIDI editing, which works best for me of these hosts. (That’s only a matter of opinion of course.)
If MIDI is important to you, I suggest you take a look into Podium
Sadly enough, I’ve had almost no time for “music creating” the last months. 🙁 To be able to still feel a part of it, I put in occasional visits to this forum to see what’s going on with Podium. Because there’s really so much going on 8)
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soundquist@acousmod wrote:
Perhaps it would be a solution if Ctrl-click would de-select individual events from a bundle, instead of the whole bundle. It would then be possible just to press Ctrl-N to create a new bundle without the de-selected events.
I think that it is how it works actually, no ?
Well, my idea, which may or may not not be a good idea at all, was something like this:
1. Select a previously created bundle by clicking on one of its events.
2. De-select the events you want to remove from the bundle with Ctrl-Click.
3. Press Ctrl-N to save the bundle again.
That way you will never loose your bundle until you press Ctrl-N
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soundquist@acousmod wrote:
How would you want it simpler?
With the workaround that you describe, I have to select the group, right click and choose “unbundle” (or the key command), then Ctrl-click the clip I want to ungroup and re-apply the key command, with the danger to accidentally click somewhere and deselect the clips that were part of the group and having to re-select each of them. I know by experience that this scenario can happend in the action !
The bundle seems like a really great feature, but I agree with acousmod about the above.
The risk of losing the whole bundle seems not far away, with the current way of doing things.
Perhaps it would be a solution if Ctrl-click would de-select individual events from a bundle, instead of the whole bundle. It would then be possible just to press Ctrl-N to create a new bundle without the de-selected events.
Tha backside of this is of course that it would be impossible to “add” several bundles together with Ctrl-click.
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soundquist@Conquistador wrote:
I discovered something else not sure if it is a bug or not but if you…
1. Create a loop during playback (4 bars or so)
2. Let it loop once
3. Then deactivate the loop before it reaches the end
4. Reactivate the loop
5. Audio drops out.
I have not seen this in any previous version. Is this a bug?
Another variant:
1. Create a loop.
2. Let it loop. Deactivate the loop during playback.
3. Audio drops out when the cursor reaches the end of the (now deactivated) loop.
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soundquist@Zynewave wrote:
Or am I doing something wrong here?
No. This is something I will improve at some point.
Good. The current behavior is a bit annoying.
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soundquistA great improvement. ❗ 😀
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soundquistsoundquist@Zynewave wrote:
What would zMatrix look like? I’m imagining a window with about 8 – 16 boxes, and a clear signal path going from the first box to the last. You can load a VST effect in each box. And then drag the boxes around to rearrange the order of the effects.
That’s a good guess. It will be a user configurable X*Y grid where signal flows from the left edge of the grid to the right. Placing effects on a row creates a serial routing, and placing effects in a column creates a parallel routing. There won’t be any wires to drag. The placement in the grid decides the routing.
Will this be for effects only? Or let me re-phrase that, will it be audio only, or will it be possible also to send MIDI through the grid. The idea is to chain or stack plugin synths with effects…
@Zynewave wrote:
I’m also considering naming it zGrid (pronounced Siegried 😉 )
Well! Named after someone special? 😉
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soundquist@Zynewave wrote:
I did find the “Export file” menu item in the “old standard browser” but that was for saving project files, so I’m not sure how to use that.
It will save as a .pod file but only the sub-branch of the project that you have browsed into. So if you export a “drumkit.pod” file, you can import (i.e. Ctrl+I and not Ctrl+O) this file into other projects.
Ok thanks! That’s good. I have some questions concerning the project manager but I think I’ll bring them up in separate thread.
@Zynewave wrote:
In other words I can create drumkits within drumkits ad infinitum, or so it seems. Which is sort of mind-boggling…
You can, but I don’t think you can find a practical use for this. The only use for the drumkit preset option is to determine whether note sequences should be edited with the piano roll or drum map editor.
Well I wrote that more or less half-jokingly… couldn’t let it be. 8)
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soundquistHello Conquistador!
Thanks for your drum-map tutorial!
I have gone through it, and I think I now understand most of it, but in truth I must tell you it raised more questions for me than it answered. 🙂
Now this was a good thing in itself. I realized that I needed to have at least a minimum of knowledge about things like Global versus Insert plugin mode, and the function of the different mappings in the device list etc.
In the process I also gained some insight into the various panels, browsers and lists, in which all this information is displayed. I also learned that there is much to learn in Podium… 🙂
Now, as for the drum-maps, the way I understand it from your conversations in the drum-map and 1.75-thread, there is at the moment no practically useful way of saving and re-using drum-maps in other projects?
I did find the “Export file” menu item in the “old standard browser” but that was for saving project files, so I’m not sure how to use that.
Another kind of weird thing (well, perhaps it seems weird to me because I don’t understand it). I discovered that if I right-click on one of the drumkit note-names in the Preset panel, I can then open yet another “Drum preset properties” dialog, where it is possible to set “Use as drumkit”.
In other words I can create drumkits within drumkits ad infinitum, or so it seems. Which is sort of mind-boggling… 😯
Anyway, thanks for the tutorial, which gave a newbie like me the impulse to dive a little deeper.
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soundquist@Conquistador wrote:
Although for anyone else reading this thread, if you do not use Stylus it should be very useful as well, as the steps apply to just about any drum module. 😉
Looking forward to your tutorial!
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soundquistThe mute seq/event looks and work great at a first glance!
Thank you for adding this important feature (from my point of view at least).
The only problem with your fantastic response time must be that your feature wishlist must be growing exponentially every time you satisfy your craving users. 😀
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soundquistI had not noticed this, but I can comfirm that it is a potentially very confusing behavior. I can imagine that it will be most obvious in large arrangements where drag-and-drop might be inconvenient.
I realize though that developer’s list for improvments must be very long… 🙄
soundquistsoundquist@Zynewave wrote:
It should be easy to add a mute feature for individual sequence or sound events. There could be a “Mute Events” command in the edit menu and the event context menu. The sequence event would be drawn in the greyed out mode similar to events on a muted track, and possible an “M” icon next to the name to indicate the event is muted.?
Some sort of greyed out thing is enough for me.
@Zynewave wrote:
Muting individual note events is another matter I think. Are there anyone (other than Max) that would find this useful?
Absolutely. EXT has both of these features I think. Tracktion has neither.
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