ZynewaveThe final release is now uploaded and posted on the blog.
ZynewaveI might be a bit off topic here. Recently i was presented with the warning “plugin…illegal…disabled”.
But there was another message I have not seen before-“preset size exceeds allowable limit of 1mb”.
Could this be a cause of certain plugins not working?
Is it easy to increase the allowable limit? Seems reasonable that 1 mb is quite small these days.
Podium allows for presets up to 256MB. I can’t find the “preset size exceeds…” text in Podium. Could it be the plugin that showed that message? Which plugin was it?
ZynewaveHi, I gave beta8 a test (32-bit only on Win 8.1 and XP), set preferences to look at a folder with four Metronome sounds, each at a different sample rate. They all played back correctly at original pitches as hoped and expected.
Thanks for the thorough testing Nicholas.
Oh yeah, I tried thinking about uses for the Scalpel tool in the audio editor. (I only mentioned it before because I assumed it was mismapped.) Really it should split or slice things up… but it doesn’t seem worth the hassle to duplicate arrangement view functionality. So, could the Scalpel button just be hidden by default?
I had forgot that the scalpel tool actually has a specific function in the sound editor. It draws a straight line between the click down/release points, where the pencil tool draws a freehand line. I’ve updated the tooltips for the pencil, eraser and scalpel tools so that they display correct information when shown in the sound editor.
ZynewaveZynewaveI don’t have experience with Xpand2, so I’m not sure what could be wrong. From what I’ve read, it is a multi-timbral sound module. If it has multiple audio outputs then the plugin should be imported with separate MIDI/audio mappings. Otherwise check that your MIDI keyboard is sending on the same channel as the MIDI channel selected in the plugin.
ZynewaveTry to create a project with Hybrid 3 in Podium Free. Save the project, exit Podium Free, open Podium Demo and then load the same project. Does Hybrid 3 then work?
ZynewaveZynewaveIt is most likely because the samplerate set in the arrangement is different than the samplerate of the sound files. Samplerate conversion is something I’m working on, but it is not yet supported in Podium.
ZynewaveCan you provide more details? Does it crash, can you open the editor, is there any sound?
It’s possible there is problem with multiprocessing of the plugin. Try disabling the ‘multiprocessing’ option in the Podium engine preferences and test again.
ZynewaveThe links seem fine to me, all three of them 🙂
ZynewaveBeta8 is now uploaded, and that is hopefully the last beta before I’ll release 3.2.5.
I have been experimenting with sample-rate conversion, and I chose to integrate the r8brain-free-src library in Podium. It is created by Aleksey Vaneev of Voxengo. Link:
https://github.com/avaneev/r8brain-free-src
I needed SRC to complete the newly added support for custom metronome sounds. Now the metronome sound files will play at their original pitch no matter which sample-rate you use in your arrangements. So far the metronome is the only place where I use the SRC, but in future Podium versions I’ll work on supporting SRC for resampling of sound files, and on sound events placed in arrangements.
ZynewaveI’ve updated to beta 7 and both splash logo and “about” section show “3.2.5”.
Is it just an oversight?
It doesn’t show the beta number, if that is what you’re missing. The only clue to beta version number is in the filename.
And any chance of fixing the scalpel tool in the audio editor? At the moment, if works just like the pencil tool.
That is on purpose, as I couldn’t find an obvious alternative use for the scalpel tool in the audio editor. What would you want the scalpel tool to do?
ZynewaveIf you are looking for the actual dll files, then they should be located in:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST2\Zynewave
Unless you selected a different installation folder for the plugins in the Podium installer.
In the Podium Preferences dialog, on the Plugins page, you should enter the “C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST2” as one of the scan folders.
ZynewaveHi Nicholas, thanks for alerting me on the XP issue. I’ve uploaded a new beta7 where this should be fixed.
ZynewaveHi Hermu. The release of new Podium versions has once again been delayed due to me having to take on other jobs. I will be adding another free year of upgrades to all existing customers once 3.2.5 is released. I released another beta version today, and I only have one feature I would like to work on before finalizing the 3.2.5 release.