UtparaI’ve finally tracked down the issue with renderings (both offline and realtime) sounding dull and lack of headroom. It seems that eq vst plugins, including the higher end ones, cause this issue with Podium. When mixing the sound is great, but after rendering and export the quality of the WAV file sounds different, dull, muffled, sometimes thin depending on the eq plugin. You can tell the difference listening through headphones even more. For example, I love ZPEQ but having multiple instances on different tracks and also on the master, the sound changes after real time render and export to WAV (32bit floating). Same goes with other eq’s from different companies. If I remove all eq plugins but leave other effect plugins such as reverb, delay, etc. active the realtime bounce sounds pretty spot on with the exported WAV.
The way I’ve been able to temporarily go around this is to only eq each track, bounce them, disable the eq, and only do the final master rendering with the bounced eq tracks. The exported file sounds close, and the headroom is maintained.
Is it possible for you to check into this? Thanks.
UtparaIt seems to be frequency spectrum change and shifts slightly lower, also the music has less dimension (less polyphonic sounding) when the wav file is created in offline mode.
UtparaThank you for the clarification. I was able to get it to work by dragging and dropping the files into each audio out. Part of my other issue was that my audio interface monitor volume was down so that two of the outputs were not being sent. Once I dialed it up the other outputs appeared.
UtparaHi, I’m resurrecting an old thread. I’m trying to do this with Podium 3.2.0. I’ve got an audio interface with 4 outputs which I like to send individual tracks out. These outputs will go into a hardware mixer and then come back into the audio interface for recording. I’m confused about the bus send and return mapping structure. Following the above instructions I have dragged the audio output assignments from the inspector area to the track area and that is fine. Now let’s say I have tracks 1 thru 4 that each will go to audio out 1 thru 4.
This is what I did:
Track 1 to send 1, Track 2 to send 2, Track 3 to send 3, Track 4 to send 4.
Audio out 1 source is return 1, audio out 2 is return 2 etc.
When I do this I see the levels moving for the audio out tracks but nothing goes out unless I mess around with the master. If I select the appropriate output on the master then it will show up. It seems that the audio out tracks are under the control of the master which I don’t want. I tried reading the tutorials on device mapping and bus routing but still confused, can you help? Thanks.
UtparaASIO4ALL worked, thanks!