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@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.
@Conquistador wrote:
B16
1. Right click loss:
In Expanded (Advanced) mode you cannot add an effect by right clicking. Is this an oversight or deliberate? I ask because it seems very odd to lose functionality going to Expanded mode from the simpler Compact mode. Expanded mode is of course supposed to provide more flexibility and more features exposed to a user, not less. One can of course add an effect to track by right clicking in Compact mode.So far “expanded” mode is more like “classic” mode, meaning it works like in previous releases. I’m still considering what to do with the expanded mode. Perhaps the new compact UI will be used in expanded mode as well, and expanded mode will thus be an extension of compact mode with less restrictions on track management.
2. Strange plugin issues:
Podium clearly knows the difference between an effect and an instrument mapping but…I can access my Effects (and instruments) from the “Instrument” command and my Instruments (and Effects) from the “Effects” command.Are you sure? The “Instruments” menu (previously named “Source”) contains all mappings that produce audio, meaning bus returns appear in this menu as well. The “Effects” menu contains mappings that take audio as input. Some instruments may accept audio input, and will thus appear in the effects menu as well.
You can insert as many effect tracks as you like, this blank “lane” track or blank mapping holder will still be there. My question is….is it really necessary? Apologies in advance if I have totally misunderstood the obvious here. 🙂
Apology accepted :P. The line you outlined is not an empty track. It’s the popup line for the lane track. The popup menu is the same as the right click menu on the lane track header. The line serves the dual purpose of displaying what is assigned to the lane track (i.e. instrument and input) as well as a left-click shortcut for displaying the popup menu you also get when right-clicking on the header.
