thcilnnahojYeah, it’s a little weird that the bounce sequence ends up being as long as the whole arrangement in this case. Maybe this could pass as one of those ‘minor things’ that Frits is going to work on for now. *nudge* 😉
The crashes you get are most likely related to some plug-in you’re using, though – I haven’t had one in years during bouncing. If you have some time, you could try removing plug-ins one by one and see if it stops crashing. Or if you could write down which ones you’re using in that particular project, maybe we can help trying to pinpoint the culprit – provided the plug-ins are available to someone else here as well.
thcilnnahojFor what it’s worth, I can confirm that the way druid suggested (instrument on a group track, MIDI data on any number of child tracks) is the only way to achieve this, currently.
thcilnnahojI do think that the “+” button should create a snapshot storing all four states at least when it is clicked the first time in a newly created project (or when you open a project in general – I assume the last snapshot settings are not stored in the setup file). Otherwise it’s going to be confusing for new or occasional users.
For experienced users, it’s certainly going to be useful if the “+” button remembers the last snapshot’s settings. As a personal example, since seeing what you did with the default snapshots, I’ll most likely only adjust snapshot #5 (default vertical zoom) and never have to worry about zooming in manually. Those three sizes are perfectly sufficient.
With the previously mentioned zoom centering option, I’d probably never have to use the vertical track offset option either. 😉
So the only options I’ll regularly use are timeline position and zoom. It’d quickly become a chore if I had to disable the other two options on each snapshot I created…
thcilnnahojSimply 8)! The default snapshots help quite a lot as well.
One suggestion I have is to put the default V-zoom snapshots before the T-zoom ones, even though it seems backwards. I think most people will create new timeline position/zoom snapshots much more often than vertically zooming ones. With the default snapshots, creating a new one only stores V-zoom settings, which might be confusing to people who don’t know about the right-click options. Alternatively, maybe there’s a way to put the “+” button in a new snapshot group by itself?
Also, a request I have for another time perhaps is to (optionally) center the view on the selected track during vertical zooming, instead of on the mouse cursor.
By the way, when you press END in the arrangement view, this centers around the selected sequences. If you don’t have a sequence selected, it scrolls up to the top instead. So selecting a track and pressing END doesn’t seem to work…
@Zynewave wrote:
I removed the restriction of creating duplicate snapshots. I did not yet remove the zoom restore feature when re-clicking a snapshot button, but instead I changed it so that it should only restore the settings affected by the snapshot. Let me know if this still results in confusing behaviour, in which case I’ll remove the restore feature completely.
It’s good now, as far as I’m concerned. It’d be nice if someone else could chime in with their opinion, though. 😉
thcilnnahojWorks nicely so far! Here’s what I noticed:
#1
It appears the settings you chose for the last created snapshot are applied when you create a new snapshot. This causes more problems for me than it does good, though, as it becomes impossible to create snapshots in many cases…
I think the simplest solution here would be to allow duplicate snapshots…?
#2
Clicking an active snapshot deselects it (remember this behaviour was changed for the editor profile bar buttons) – with multiple active snapshots, this can become confusing, I think.
Probably best if this is disabled like on the editor profile bar…
Please see the video (with annotations) showing these two things.
About default snapshots, it sounds good, but I can only see it working for zoom-only snapshots (which is good enough for me). I don’t see myself copying snapshots between arrangements, though – do you perhaps have an example of a situation for this?
thcilnnahojYup, some really nice ideas! 🙂
Let me just comment on these ones…
@CymaticCreation wrote:
5. The ability to undock the Mixer. Very crucial for those with two-monitor set-ups.
While it’s not as dead-simple as just undocking the mixer, it’s possible to have it on another screen using screensets. Most unneeded elements (transport bar, etc.) can then be stripped from the mixer editor profile. The only thing you really can’t remove is the tab bar at the top…
Making send FX Tracks more streamlined and easy to work with. For an example;
A simple right mouse button click on the mixer -> Add Send FX track.
Done. Then to be able to colour it and name it as we want, add the desired effect. That would autotatically make the routings, and appear on the send section of any wanted track.
If you click on the “+” (add effect) button on a track, all available sends appear in the menu as well. If you choose a send that has no return track yet, Podium asks if you want to create one automatically. Do you add sends to tracks in a different way?
Or do you mean that once a send is created it should be present on all tracks?
thcilnnahojthcilnnahojHmm, personally, I never use the timeline ruler to position the cursor, but middle-click instead (with the middle mouse button bound to the thumb button on a 5-button mouse)! This has the invaluable bonus that it works wherever you click on the timeline.
That being said, I have no objections. 😉
thcilnnahoj@chase wrote:
thcilnnahoj said:
…recording with microphones inside a plastic head’s ears).
lol… for some reason – i just can’t see many singers using that mic set up.
but can you imagine the look on there faces if you did set up a mike system like that – then again – might make for a good prop as aopposed tot he standard mic and stand. (Sorry had to share that thought as i still have weird visions about this running through my head with some of the major acts of today…)
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Wow they did do that – it’s called Dummy Head Recording (link is to the wiki page on it)
Well, the use of this ‘dummy head’ is to create a spatial image of the room and the musicians in it for the listener. So the head (and ears) is the listener’s – thus the singer wouldn’t be the one wearing the microphones usually. 😉 I guess you read the article, though, so you already know how it works.
thcilnnahoj – Do you know of a good Leveler /Panner for 7.1 surround – a vst that will work with Podium?
No, unfortunately, besides the ones by AcousMod (which you already tried) – they’re made with SynthEdit, so I guess the performance and stability is not up to par.
This is just an innocent guess, but I assume a simple multi-channel leveler plug-in would be easy to write for someone experienced (it wouldn’t even need a GUI). My knowledge of programming and DSP is very limited, otherwise I’d give it a try myself. C/C++ still seems totally alien to me compared to other languages… 🙁
I actually don’t do surround mixing, but like you, I’m very interested in it and hope to get a full speaker setup later this year. I’m also eager to hear more of what can be achieved with regards to headphone surround sound.
It seems to me that this is a very niche segment of the plug-in market so far, though. Film sound mixers probably use programs like Nuendo or Pyramix, which have integrated surround tools – I guess those are sufficient.
thcilnnahojThey’re going to be in the next version.
thcilnnahojthcilnnahoj@chase wrote:
Zynewave has mentioned he is going to be working on a new vst as well for Surround sound – a leveler / panner i believe. Which for me – once i pick up the full version will be a huge welcome.
Um, not to shatter your hopes, but this is unfortunately going to be very low priority, so I honestly don’t think we can expect a Zynewave surround tool any time soon… (though I’d like to see one as well) 🙁
As far as I know, the only way to get a 3D-sounding recording is by using special microphone placement techniques (or even recording with microphones inside a plastic head’s ears). As for plug-ins, I only know of this plug-in by some french company, and a (hopefully) soon-to-be-released one by Tom Ammermann, who does a lot of surround and headphone surround mixes for films – I’m looking forward to that myself.
I don’t know of any technique that works for creating a surround image on stereo speakers, but if you find one, I’d be interested to hear about it!
thcilnnahojYep, sound great! 8)
thcilnnahojGee, thanks. 😳 From what I remember, it’s just some gentle distortion (mda Overdrive) and sample rate reduction (tbt SampleReducer) applied to the whole kit. Otherwise I’ve sticked to using AD’s built-in channel strips so far.
thcilnnahoj@Zynewave wrote:
Btw. there is no concept of an “active” zoom snapshot. The zoom snapshot buttons will light up (appear selected) if the current zoom settings matches those stored for the snapshot. So, if a snapshot is set to only affect track height zooming, then it will light up if that matches, ignoring the status of the other three zoom settings. That way there can be multiple snapshot buttons that appear selected.
Yeah, you’re right on that. What I meant was that you couldn’t, for example, activate a snapshot that zooms in on bars 26-30, and then use another snapshot to zoom in vertically. These would have to be combined into one snapshot currently – not that this is a problem!