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I have a Casio CZ 3000 synthesizer with a midi out cable going directly into my Sound Blaster Audigy card on Midi Port II

If you wan’t to use Podium to play the Casio synthesizer, then you also need to connect the MIDI in on the Casio to a MIDI out port on the SB. Or do you want to use the Casio keyboard only for playing the onboard synth on the SB Audigy?

As an example I don’t see a “Project Wizard” in my version.

This must be from one of the old videos. They are indeed outdated, but I keep them online because some of the features shown in the videos are still valid. The project wizard was removed a long time ago, and is replaced by the project start page you see when you first start up Podium. I recommend you study the written “getting started” tutorial in the Podium guide pdf file. This is also available in the wiki section:
http://www.zynewave.com/wiki/doku.php?id=guide:getting_started

What kind of device do you have connected to the MIDI input of your SB card? Is it a synthesizer or a simple MIDI keyboard controller (without sound)?

To play an instrument in Podium, you can either use VST instruments or hardware synthesizers. There are no VST instruments bundled with Podium, so you need to download those from other websites. There are plenty of freeware VST effect/instrument plugins available. A good database to search can be found at: http://www.kvraudio.com

Question 1 – Do you always have to choose a new assignment to reset the sample rate to 48000Hz?

If the “default sample rate” setting in the MIDI/Audio Interfaces dialog is set to 48000, then all new arrangements you create will by default be set to this rate as well.

Question 2 – Where is the rewind button after play back?

There is no button for this. You can use the Q/W key shortcuts to move the edit cursor. Also check out the “link edit cursor to play cursor” option found in the view menu. If you keep this option disabled, then stopping playback will reset the play cursor to the last edit cursor position.

Question3 – How do I assign a track 2 to access my midi port II input?

I assume you followed the instructions on the “create new project” start page, and enabled your MIDI inputs prior to the final creation the project. If so you should see the MIDI inputs in the input panel of the track inspector. If you have created a new track, you can assign the MIDI input by double clicking the input object in the inspector, or by using the “Input” submenu when right-clicking the track header. On the same track you also need to assign the instrument that you want to play with the MIDI input.

If I get input should I add it to the string of this post or start another one?

Just hit the “post reply” button at the bottom of this topic page to add another post.

I thought this had been changed already!?

What you describe is true. However if you have zoomed out so that the tracks are higher than the contents, then the track heights will be scaled when you e.g. open the mixer. I intend to make the track heights pixel fixed, as Mike described.

I’m going to change this at some point. After the recent introduction of the track header chain panels it has become more sensible that the tracks retain their heights, as you described.