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@Conquistador wrote:

Yes the warning icon is red but there is little I know of to solve the problem outside of using the “New insert mapping command” and bypassing your advice earlier which clearly would mean there is a problem here.

If you want to use the plugins without the side chaining feature, then the insert mapping is the simplest solution. Only if you want to use side chaining you need to set up a separate track for the side chain input. Caco gave an example of how to set it up in a post on kvraudio:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2748273&#2748273

@Conquistador wrote:

Hi Frits, any progress on the mappings issue I brought up a few posts earlier in this thread…?

“I can definitely access a GEQ Overtone mapping and a Compressive Pro mapping (both free plugs to download and test) from my Instrument list in B17…”

I get the same result in B18.

Perhaps the fact that both plugs appear to need the “New insert Mapping” command (IMO Podium really needs an automatic process to do this like other hosts) to work properly in Podium, might have something to do with these mappings being accessible in the “Instrument” list. Just guessing.

If they are sidechaining/global plugins, then there is no problem. The problem may be with the “Instrument” menu name. I’ve renamed it back to “Source” to hopefully avoid the confusion. One of the plugin mappings is the “return” from the plugin, so therefore it should be assigned as the bottom source in a track chain.

@kingtubby wrote:

@kingtubby wrote:

When right-clicking in an empty space in the track-headers area and selecting ‘new track’, the new track always appears as a child to the track above it. It’s OK in expanded mode as you can change it’s position in the hierarchy, but in compact mode it doesn’t appear possible to move it around or delete it.

As a supplementary to this, in beta17 all newly created tracks appear like this:

As I said before, in compact mode it doesn’t appear possible to change the track level so that it feeds in to the master.

Mart.

This is because your master track is not defined to be a group track. I’m guessing you have used an old arrangement and converted it to compact mode. If you create a new arrangement Podium will add a “Master” group track to the audio output track. Having this separate master group track also makes it possible to add effects to the master chain.

@Igr0 wrote:

Beta 16. Not Bug, but not right too:

When i brows the track menu and get ” presets “, the presets menu window appears over all the next items on this track menu.So i was unable to see others lines of this track menu items.

I’m not sure I understand you correctly. If you have preset subfolders, then these will unfold over the “load preset file…” etc. commands at the right edge of the main preset menu. You’ll still be able to access the commands though if you avoid resting the mouse over the submenu popups. If the problem is that the preset menu is so big that it won’t fit on the screen to the right of the tracks menu, then the submenu may unfold at the left edge. This is done by Windows and is not something I can control.

@H-man wrote:

When dragging an effect onto a track (with existing instrument and effects), I noticed that the effect is always placed just above the instrument or at the bottom of the effects chain. I know it is possible to move it afterwards however would it be possible to choose the location in the effect chain when dragging?

I’ll add drag/drop on the effects chain in a later release.

Beta 17:

The “move track” submenus previously found in the group panel menus are moved to the track context menus. The group menus now only contain the track shortcuts. Also added an option to hide the group menu buttons in the inspector View menu.

Added a menu button at the bottom of the track list. This will help new users which may not know that you can right click to get this menu. The menu has been extended with a submenu for “New Track in Group” (if there are any group tracks in the arrangement). Using the old “New Track” command or double-clicking below the last track header will now create the track directly under the master, and not under the last group track.

I’ll reply to the questions in the previous posts tomorrow.

Is there any need for Effect tracks within a track panel to be bounce enabled?

In compact mode it is recommended to create dedicated bounce tracks (using the “insert bounce track” menu), instead of manually enabling the bounce mode for an existing track in the track properties dialog. If it is confusing that you have the bounce mode option available in the track properties dialog, then I’ll need to implement different properties dialogs for the different track types.

2. Extra track created automatically every time:
When creating a new track, a blank track is also created within a track panel in Compact mode. That is a nice way to start off as one can then click on it to choose an effect…well not really because this is what you will see if you right click or left click on that new “auto” blank track…

I’m not sure if I understand you correctly, but there is only one track in the last of your screenshots. The line that pops up the menu belongs to the lane track, which should be apparent from the coloring with the select color. With the compact mode, it is recommended to keep effect mappings on separate effect tracks because this makes it easier to manage the effect chains. The “Move track” menus can easily shuffle the effect tracks and the “Replace effect chain” command can replace all effect tracks. This would not be possible if you assign the effect mapping directly on the lane track. That’s why you only have an “insert effect track” menu on the lane track.