Zynewave@Piltdown Man wrote:
I think the screenshots are the most important thing to update. While the text may not be 100% complete, the Wiki version of it should be a reasonably accurate description of the GUI up to and including version 2.05.
The last couple of days I’ve updated all dialog screenshots in the wiki guide. The screenshots are no longer shrinked in size.
You may notice some changes in the dialog screenshots. That’s because I’ve revised the layout of all dialogs for the upcoming 2.11 release. There is also a “Help” button at the bottom left corner of each dialog, which will open the corresponding wiki page.
ZynewaveHi,
If you had the “scan and import surround VST plugins” option enabled when you created the project, you should have some plugins with [5.1] configuration. The zPlugins at least are available in this configuration. These mappings allow you to process all six channels on one track.
When I setup a 5.1 Master output, all my tracks are only
routed to the left and right output. How can I assign the track output
to any of the other master outputs?
If you have a stereo plugin that you want to route into e.g. the back L+R channels on the master out, you can use busses. Your project should already have surround bus mappings. You need to create an additional bus send mapping:
On the project start page, locate the “Send 1 [Stereo]” mapping, right-click and select “New Copy…”. Rename the mapping to “Send 1 [Back Stereo]” (or anything you like), and change the “first channel” from 1 to 5. Any stereo track where you assign the “Send 1 [Back Stereo]” mapping will then be routed into the surround bus on the back stereo channels, and the surround bus 5.1 output will be routed to the 5.1 master output.
Of course, the use of busses for this purpose is not necessary if you have a 5.1 in/out plugin that can reroute input channels into any output channel. Come to think of it, that would be an obvious future addition to the zPlugins suite 😉
Frits
ZynewaveZynewave@psychesonic wrote:
Hi. I would like to say that the recent implementation of edits on all selected midi events is a godsend – really useful. It seems though that this does not apply to audio samples. e.g. if I have dozens or hundreds of hi-hat samples placed and wish to alter the fade qualities or sample length, it seems I have to do it individually – a mind numbing, if not impossible task. Could the simultaneous edit of all selected audio events be introduced? Or have I missed something?
Cheers
psychesonic
Correct. The recent multi-event resize drag was only implemented for note events. Eventually I’ll add this feature to track events as well.
ZynewaveZynewaveDo you mean this one:
http://www.kvraudio.com/get.php?mode=show&id=1768
The download link on that page does not work. Do you have an alternative link?
Have you tried the latest version 1.1?
Zynewave@DanielK wrote:
– When Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth is ticked as MIDI out in preferences, ASIO (ASIO4ALL 2.8) cannot initialize even though the soundcard is unused at all.
I think this is due to the way the Microsoft Synth works. When the MS Synth is enabled, it will allocate its output to the default audio device as configured in the Windows Control Panel. Most ASIO drivers will not initialize if the soundcard is locked by another application, in this case the MS synth. Tricky 😮
– When pitch bend data (or any other MIDI event?) event block from a pitch bend track having ! (exclaimer) icon, is moved/copied to another pitch bend track, the new track cannot be deleted without Podium crashing, but when data is drawn by hand, it’s OK.
It should not be possible to get the ! error button on automation tracks. Please send me the project.
It makes no difference whether 1 or more cores are active (affinity), same with enabling/disabling rewire and multiprocessing.
Do you mean it makes no difference to the crash caused by the pitch bend track?
Zynewave, how can I send you a small project file I’m using to replicate the crash, privately?
info at zynewave.com
ZynewavePlease send the file.
Zynewave@LiquidProj3ct wrote:
Thanks but…. It’s a little buggie, I think >< 1. Import any multichannel MIDI file as you explained
2. You will get a new arrangement with a random vst loaded in all tracks
3. and now try to copy the clips from the imported arrangement to your original arrangement in the same project. You will see that you can copy the first track without problems. But when you copy the second one it isn’t pasted, but although it isn’t pasted at all it appears in the embedded MIDI editor 😆
That’s a problem with the copy/paste of track events. The current system was implemented before the option to hide track lanes was implemented. If you paste a multi-selection of track events from one arrangement to another, some of the pasted events may end up on the hidden track lanes. That’s why you see the ghost notes in the piano roll, but not the sequence events on the hidden track lanes. The copy/paste of track events will be revised in the near future.
ZynewaveZynewaveI’ve added some code that will compensate for wildly fluctuating CPU usage measurements. Podium 2.10 will be released in a day or two, so I would appreciate if you could try the 2.10 demo and let me know if this version improves the CPU spike behaviour on your PC.
Zynewave@Conquistador wrote:
Frits are you happy to ship Podium with drum map templates? We could all chip in with templates of drum VSTi’s, RMX, BFD, Superior D2, Addictive drums e.t.c if you are happy to allow it. Unless there is some copyright issue, permission from the devs needed?
Don’t waste time on that yet. I’m going to revise the drum map editor in the near future. My thoughts so far are:
Add a new “Create drum kit template” command to the preset menu. Once a drum kit preset exists for a device, a “Drum Kit Preset” submenu will appear below the current “Preset” submenu in the track menu. This will allow assignment of drum kit presets separately from the normal preset assignment. This means it is no longer necessary to convert the normal presets into drum kit presets in order to get to the drum map editor. You can just assign any drum kit template preset to a track to get the drum map editor, without worrying that it will override the patch preset assignment. The “drum kit preset” submenu will have commands for e.g. extracting drum key names from plugins which support this feature.
Zynewave@Conquistador wrote:
I’ve changed the default of the new option to be off. The automatic bypassing was implemented years ago, on an older Windows version running on a single-CPU PC. Without the automatic bypassing, the PC could freeze up completely, requiring a cold-boot. Today multi-core machines are more common, and on these machines you seldom have problems with GUI freezes.
Something to consider Frits….most demo users IMO will not post their thoughts on a forum and may silently compare CPU usage with their current host. I really think it is better to leave the new option on instead.
I think you misunderstand. Having the option on will result in the same behaviour as previous versions, where plugins are bypassed when overload is detected.
ZynewaveWhen you import midi files by dragging them onto tracks, only the first track in the midi file is imported. To import the complete midi file, use the “import file” command in the arrangement list on the project start page. This will create a new arrangement with all the midi tracks.
Zynewave@LiquidProj3ct wrote:
A small bug. When editor snap mode is set to “start of grid unit under cursor”, if you drag a note foward it works nice, but if you drag a note backward it’s weird, the note goes backward before you reach the gridline with mouse cursor.
This picture was taken when I had the mouse where I point with a red dot:
Thanks. This is now fixed in beta4.
Also in beta4, when using the “start of grid unit under cursor” option, dragging the end of sequence or note events will snap upwards to the next gridline instead of downwards. This makes it behave more as a pasting action.
