thcilnnahojIf you want to handle all zoom levels via the zoom snapshots, it sounds like a plan.
I don’t think two options are enough, though, if Trancit wants to only store the zoom level without song position. Likewise, I’d probably make a snapshot for editing that zoomed in vertically, but without binding it to a specific track (would this reset the view to the top, by the way?).
The other suggestion, I think it was made by CQSD originally, was to make another feature for vertical zoom level recall (like “track height presets” in Studio One). This way you could combine separate your self-made zoom presets for the X and Y axis. Since you can only have one active snapshot, this isn’t possible at the moment. Honestly, though, I don’t know if this would be useful or just make it more confusing.
thcilnnahojHere’s another thing… I hope I can explain properly.
Concerning making copies of an arrangement – when you create a phantom copy, the sequences are linked in both the old and new arrangement.
A unique copy, on the other hand, converts all sequences to unique copies, meaning there are no phantom sequences at all anymore.
I think there’s an option missing to create an exact copy, which has unique sequences (not linked to those in the original arrangement), but retains the relationship of unique and phantom sequences within the arrangement.
thcilnnahojThinking about it some more, that one FR could actually be taken care of with just an “add tag” button.
After making the track selection, you’d click “add tag”, then tick the small button to tag all selected tracks, instead of right-clicking the add tag button and selecting the “create tag from selection” option. At least that’s one way I can imagine it.
thcilnnahojSomething problematic I noticed:
When you move a sequence (just keep it ‘floating’ a second or two by not releasing the mouse button) in the arrangement editor while recording/real-time bounce recording something, playback is interrupted until you drop the sequence or cancel moving it. 🙁
thcilnnahojWhat are you even arguing about?
As Frits said himself, developing Podium is just something he loves doing. It’s a life-long hobby (if you want to call it that) which he can’t make a living off. He’s not as fortunate as the person developing Reaper (who is a multi-millionaire). You can be sure of one thing, though: Frits would still do this even if nobody had ever bought a licence.
We (the users who ARE happy with this program) should be thankful that he even decided to offer it on sale in the first place.
If you don’t like the product, pick another one. Shouting at the developer and calling him a liar isn’t going to help your case. 😕
How many people pay for REAPER[or any other DAW] vs. people paying for Podium.
You can’t tell. You could count Podium licensees by their forum accounts (I suspect there are a few hundred). There’s no way to know how many people paid for other programs, so what relevance does this have.
Look, the person who started Reaper already was a multi-millionaire. Even though he claims that Reaper is a self-sustaining business – regardless of whether this is true or not, he simply does not need to give a damn about people unrightfully ignoring that they have to buy Reaper after 30 days or stop using it.
If he had to, Reaper would have copy protection. Podium by the way doesn’t have any protection either, because Frits trusts us.
Also, guess what, there are people just as unhappy with Reaper’s development as you are with Podium’s. You need to realize that there’s no single perfect product in this world, free or not.
[and I have yet to see legal action taken by Cockos for a user using it beyond 30days, because it’s not the users fault it’s the devs fault, a FAULT the devs aren’t going to fix because they KNOW what they are doing.]
I have yet to see Steinberg suing someone for using Cubase while ignoring the licence agreement… Perhaps “Still Evaluating” is the new “Try before buy”! (Just kidding.)
thcilnnahojI previously used Poise (advertisement: for which I made some skins ;)) with lots of free samples, but now I use Addictive Drums exclusively – especially the jazz kit expansion, as well as the electronic kits (yes, a sampled 909 is good enough for me 😛 ).
thcilnnahojI just tried the demo and got it to work without problems. Renoise showed up as ReWire devices in Podium without even starting it first. If they don’t appear, try using the ‘Update ReWire Mappings’ option from the devices menu (the button above the devices column on the project start page).
I know this is a problem with Ableton Live, for example, but I think you don’t have to run Renoise separately. Just try running Podium, drag some of Renoise’s ReWire device mappings to the tracklist and power the arrangement on, and Renoise should start automatically!
thcilnnahojThanks, Frits!
About the usefulness of dithering – I don’t claim to actually hear a difference, at least certainly not with the equipment and room I use. I have a lot of 32-bit floating point WAVs around which I want to finally finish and probably archive to FLAC (which doesn’t support floating point anyway).
I just need a way to make sure I get the dithering job done right before I could even start doing listening tests. 😉
thcilnnahojHmm, as far as I understand, dithering doesn’t simply add noise before the conversion, but is used right during the bit conversion. The result, however, does sound like noise (i.e., random).
This is the signal flow as I understand it:
Audio from Podium’s engine running at 32-bit -> dither plug-in (outputs 16-bit) -> bounce rendering puts it into a 32-bit file.
If I would then export this as a 16-bit file, Podium would do the bit conversion a second time! So that doesn’t work for me in this case…
I could be completely wrong, of course! 🙂 I’ll send Frits an e-mail to check the forum again soon, maybe he can clear it up.
thcilnnahojThat is very strange indeed. :-k
Does it also happen with just one file? (Maybe you could also try if the delay is present when using a VST instrument.)
Do the meters in the mixer also have this delay?
Your computer should have no problem handling this situation, but please check if Podium perhaps uses an extraordinarily large amount of CPU power anyway.
thcilnnahojI’m sorry to say Podium can only be the ReWire master. It’s not possible to use it as slave.
thcilnnahojI’m sorry to ask this, but are you absolutely sure you’ve selected the ASIO driver in the audio interfaces dialog?
Also, I assume the files are playing back at the correct sample rate?
thcilnnahojI essentially agree with this, as long as the snapshot feature would be split in two. I use them mostly to store song positions, not vertical zoom settings.
It was once suggested to have a simple way to select from a handful of vertical zoom presets (e.g., tiny, small, medium, big, MONSTROUS! OH MY GOD IT’S GOING TO STOMP ME!) like in Studio One. Or was it track height presets… I can’t remember.
Personally, I’d be okay with snapshots only storing timeline positions, leaving vertical zoom levels to another feature or adjustments by hand.
If you’re talking about snapshots storing only horizontal zoom settings, then that’s something I’d not be very happy with…
thcilnnahojWell, you asked for it – I just received the first floppy in the mail today! 😉
All joking aside, I think it’s only fair that Frits keeps his private business, well, private. I trust him enough that he’ll not keep us in the dark for too long on anything related to development.
Anyway, from a PM I’ve received about a bug, I think it’s safe to say that he is working as we speak.
May the divine lightning strike me down should I not be allowed to talk about this! 😛
So… if I can add a little bit of speculation, I think 2.41 is going to contain mostly bug fixes to keep the release schedule rolling, and work on groove quantization will resume thereafter.
Also, you should be used to this forum being much more quiet than others by now, no? 😉
thcilnnahojThanks – even though I’m not completely sure what’s summed up where and how, I assumed it wouldn’t make sense to dither before bouncing to 32-bit or higher.
However, since there are quite a few plug-ins that offer dithering, and even plug-ins dedicated to it (think UV22HR for Cubase), I think there must be a way other hosts can utilize it (i.e., not processing the signal further after dithering).
The question is whether it’s possible to correctly use dithering done by a plug-in at all in Podium currently, or in the future…? :-k