ZynewaveThe only remaining track count issue is instrument tracks as unless I have missed a crucial step I cannot insert an FX mapping on the same track where an instrument mapping resides.
It should be possible to route both the effect and the instrument plugins in a zGrid instance, so you can do it on a single track if you want to.
ZynewaveI’ll check my code tomorrow, to see if I can come up with a solution. I may have to do a small modification to the MIDI input mapping handling.
ZynewaveAny mock up screens yet we can comment on?
No.
I wonder if it may be a good idea to have a zGrid built into each group track already for ease of use?
I’ve thought about building the functionality into Podium, but there are various reasons why it is a good idea to keep it as a plugin. For one, you can use the existing preset library system to store your zGrid routings.
ZynewaveSpecifically I need to use MIDI CC #1 from a keyboard to control the speed of Spinner’s rotors and at the same time use the MIDI Note On/Off messages to “run” NuBiPlus.
Is this routing already available in Podium?
Can you set your keyboard up so that CC#1 and the note on/offs output on different MIDI channels?
ZynewaveYes, you can automate both instrument and effect plugins with MIDI parameters. What is not supported yet, is routing MIDI output from one plugin to another. This means that plugins whose main function is to output MIDI to drive other sound generating plugins are not usable with Podium currently.
ZynewaveWill this be for effects only? Or let me re-phrase that, will it be audio only, or will it be possible also to send MIDI through the grid. The idea is to chain or stack plugin synths with effects…
The first version may not support it, but it should be possible later on to support routing MIDI through the grid as well. You could then layer synths and play them with a single track/MIDI input.
ZynewaveWhat would zMatrix look like? I’m imagining a window with about 8 – 16 boxes, and a clear signal path going from the first box to the last. You can load a VST effect in each box. And then drag the boxes around to rearrange the order of the effects.
That’s a good guess. It will be a user configurable X*Y grid where signal flows from the left edge of the grid to the right. Placing effects on a row creates a serial routing, and placing effects in a column creates a parallel routing. There won’t be any wires to drag. The placement in the grid decides the routing.
I’m also considering naming it zGrid (pronounced Siegried 😉 )
ZynewaveI assume you mean the disk subfolders named after the arrangement.
These folders will only be created when saving all changes and only if there are any unsaved sounds in the arrangement. To avoid getting the subfolders you can use the “save as” command on the bounced sound before using the “save all changes” command.
ZynewaveI could be wrong but I think being able to add an effect plugin (or two) on an existing track is an expected feature these days.
With unexpected I was referring to the routing and UI features i have planned for zMatrix.
The simplest use of zMatrix would be to chain plugins inside the zMatrix editor. You would then only need one track with a zMatrix plugin and the embedded zMatrix editor would allow you to arrange any number of plugins in serial/parallel routings. Thus you don’t have to create multiple chained tracks for individual plugins.
ZynewaveI cannot remember where, but I think you said something about some sort of plugin chainer or rack that would do away with the need to have each FX on it’s own track. Is this still under consideration?
That is indeed the way I intend to go. Working title for the plugin is zMatrix. I have not started implementing it yet, but I have a good idea of how it is going to work. There is going to be a couple of novel features in that plugin. I would have started it a long time ago, but there have been so many requests for other “standard” features that I felt I needed to get them out of the way before starting on some of the “unexpected” features.
I could potentially use Phrazor or Energy XT but I think using either of them as an FX rack in Podium might stop Podium from delay compensating for FX hosted within them while used as an insert in Podium. Do you know if that is correct?
If the host plugin calculates the latency of its plugin processing chain and reports it back to Podium, then PDC should be ok.
ZynewaveAfter a days work: The waveform shown on sound events are now scaled according to the event gain and fade in/out time settings. Available in release 1.76.
I think I’ll wait with the support for customizable fade curve defaults. Instead I could easily add a few fixed defaults that can be accessed by right-clicking the fade in/out handles on the event. The two obvious choices would be “Linear” and “Equal power”. Linear is -6dB and equal power is -3dB at the middle of the fade-in/out. What other curve defaults would you find useful?
ZynewaveThis resolved the problem.
Excellent 🙂 . Sorry for the troubles it caused you.
ZynewaveI did find the “Export file” menu item in the “old standard browser” but that was for saving project files, so I’m not sure how to use that.
It will save as a .pod file but only the sub-branch of the project that you have browsed into. So if you export a “drumkit.pod” file, you can import (i.e. Ctrl+I and not Ctrl+O) this file into other projects.
In other words I can create drumkits within drumkits ad infinitum, or so it seems. Which is sort of mind-boggling…
You can, but I don’t think you can find a practical use for this. The only use for the drumkit preset option is to determine whether note sequences should be edited with the piano roll or drum map editor.
ZynewaveOk, I’m pretty sure I found the problem. I made a temporary hack in the code to simulate a buffer size of 441 on my RME card (which normally only allows power of 2 buffer sizes). I got a crash in the SSE optimized code that calculates the meters, due to the buffer size being uneven. You must have used a different buffer size before you upgraded the driver?
I have inserted a check that skips the SSE optimizations on uneven buffer sizes. I’m about to send a 1.76 beta to you. Please report if this fixes your crash problem.
ZynewaveSo with a fresh windows install and with the only additions outside of windows being the Presonus Inspire drivers and Podium, Podium still crashes when I turn on monitoring.
Did you install the older driver that used to work with Podium?
Your report stated that you are using a buffer size of 441, which is kind of odd. If possible, try changing this to 256, 512, 1024 etc.
You could also try the ASIO4All driver, to check if you can use an ASIO driver at all with Podium on your PC.