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Automatic renaming of arrangement file folders is on my plan. It will require a bit of work, so I’m saving it for a future update of the whole project file management.

@Mike G wrote:

1 – Why can’t you bounce a group track? (I frequently divide by arrangements into 4 or 5 groups (Drums & Bass, Pads, Vocals, etc.) and I bounce the ones I am not working on at the moment.) It seems that I have to add an effect track (usually a zPEQ with no frequencies in use!) in order to get the tickbox on track properties that allows be to bounce. Or am I missing something?

Group tracks can be bounced just like normal tracks. Select the group track and press the B key shortcut, or use the bounce submenu.

2 – What’s the best way to add one group just before the Master? I sometimes put a limiter/compressor on Master but have to create a group track and move all sub tracks/groups up one at a time. I have also just added a limiter between the Master and MainOut but i’m not sure if that’s the best way to do it either.
How do other people do limiting on master track?

Are you working in expanded track layout mode and manually adjusting the group levels? This is all easily handled with the “insert effect track” and the “move effect track” submenus.

3 – If I ‘X’ (Bypass) a plug-in does it get unloaded? (This is what I do with the Master limiter during normal mixing)

No.

4 – What difference does “use as group track” make. I can see no difference with this ticked or not ticked.

Lots of small differences: You get the “new child track” command in the track menu. The track will be drawn using the “group track luminance” color setting. The track will have “(group)” appended in the inspector group panel group menus. The group track will appear in the “move to group” submenu for other tracks.

Hi,

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

@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.

Do 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?

Please send the file.

@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.