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@Rottweiler wrote:

1. I like the new navigation stuff, but can the previous scroll used too?

Yes. Open the “editor profile properties” from the view menu, and insert a “scrollbar” region where you want it.

2. The “marker” part of the timeline ruler taking up unnecessary space (not much, maybe an inch, but still) , could it be switched off with a button?

3. The new navigation stuff should be switchable too, cause theres not much space to look at the arrangement.

You can achieve that by setting up multiple editor profiles. You can create a copy of the default arrangement profile, and remove the navigator, marker, tempo, mixer, embedded editor, etc. to have a profile that uses the maximum space for the tracks region. You can then switch between the profiles using the view menu, or the F8/Shift+F8 shortcut keys.

4. Lot of empty space at the top of the arrangement section (!) , maybe there would be space for hotbuttons to customize the interface? It would enable fast switching :).

For example a button to on/off the new navigation section, on/off the scrollbars, show/hide the mixer instead of dragging etc… Would make life so much faster!

I assume you mean the right part of the toolbar. You can configure the toolbar and add/remove any controls you want. I could add shortcut buttons for switching between the editor profiles. That would in effect give you the buttons you want.

@druid wrote:

Podium, when receiving a MIDI signal, usually flashes on the sidebar, but I got no flashes.

That only flashes when receiving/sending via the MIDI interfaces. Not plugins.

Is there another plugin I can try, or something I forgot to do to try this out for you?

Well, it’s kind of funny, but LiquidProj3ct reported this exact feature as a problem in the latest 2.17 release topic. He is using Poise, so I guess you could try that too 😉

I’m not familiar with eXT2, but maybe you could ask on the eXT2 forum or check the eXT2 documentation to see if there is a way to route the MIDI output of the arp to the eXT2 plugin output. Perhaps using its modular routing feature.

@DanielK wrote:

I want to record a plugin output straight to the track,
in this case arpeggiator’s MIDI output, so that I can then experiment
to my heart’s content with what comes out 🙂

I wanted to avoid any heavy third party software to workaround it,
but if that’s the only way, then I probably have no choice?

That should be possible in Podium. If your Arp plugin is configured as an instrument (“Device is an instrument” option in Device Mapping properties), then if you record enable the plugin track and start recording, any MIDI notes output by the plugin should be recorded on the track.

@thcilnnahoj wrote:

@Zynewave wrote:

To do that Podium would need to open all sound files and read their format. That would take too long, but it could be shown as info for the currently selected file.

I see, that’s fine. Just thought, Windows explorer seems to do it without any noticable delay.
But I’m no programmer, so I’ll trust you on that. 😉

The windows explorer only shows files for one folder at a time. The Podium browser combines the folder and file views into one big tree list, and so can show files in multiple open folders at the same time.

Besides that, I think the dimmed folder icons are a useful indication of what folders you have not yet browsed in your search for that rare sound file.

@thcilnnahoj wrote:

1- Besides the size, it’d be nice to see other audio file properties as well. Bit depth, sample rate, maybe even length.

To do that Podium would need to open all sound files and read their format. That would take too long, but it could be shown as info for the currently selected file.

Q: Why are folders that haven’t been opened (yet) shown differently? It’s more apparent with dark color schemes.

That indicates that the contents of the folder has not yet been viewed (and thus it is still unknown if the folder is empty). It would take too long if Podium should search the files in all subfolders shown in the browser.

I need to transmit arpeggio notes from VSTi down to MIDI

What do you want to control with the MIDI output of the arp?

If it just needs to control another VSTi on the same chain, then I suppose there are many modular chainer plugins that can do the job. eXT comes to mind.