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I’ve added a “Release drivers when Podium does not have focus” option in the Preferences dialog. I decided against the “driver release on power-off” option, because that would mean you could not play or preview sounds in the sound editor unless an arrangement was activated. Appearing in release 1.76.

1: No, not yet.
2: Not as a shortcut in the preset panel. You can use the browser window to locate the drum kit preset, and then use the export file command.

as you are currently working on this area of Podium.

I’m about to release 1.75, so I’m not working in this area any longer. I’d like to get back to audio features.

1. There is a need to refresh certain views before a drum map appears within Podium.

I’ll try to hunt this down.

Selecting a key range in Program properties will *not* remove unwanted notes in a drum map. I tried this and it made no difference at all. What am I doing wrong?

Nothing. The drum kit preset only decides the visual layout of the drum map editor. Changing the kit presets will not affect the note sequence, and I think it would be undesirable if it did. The note sequence may be used in other places and with other drum kit presets. The way to do it is to use the list editor as you mentioned.

Which image are you referring to?

The widest image. It has the 1+2 mapping assigned but no preset.

it’s up and ready for reading on the WIKI…very interested in feedback from everyone!

Very nice. Thanks for the contribution.

Some comments:

You mention in several places that you can right click below the last track to create a new track, and then either double-click a mapping or drag it to the track. Maybe it would be good to mention the shortcut; that you can drag a mapping below the last track to create a new track assigned with the mapping in one go.

You describe that the 1+2 mapping matches “Output A” in the plugin, 3+4 matches “Output B” etc. It may be a useful addition to the tutorial to describe that you can rename the mappings so their name matches those used in the plugin. Right click the “StylusRMX (#1) Out 1+2” mapping, select “Properties”, rename to “StylusRMX (#1) Output A” etc. A small note describing that the (#1) refers to the plugin instance number may also avoid some confusion.

Seing the images in your tutorial has given me a clue to your problems with plugin settings not being saved without a library preset. It seems that the plugin import did not create the “Local Bank” library preset. This would otherwise automatically be assigned to the track when you assign the first Stylus mapping to a track. The image with your stylus mapping shows no assigned preset. Could it be that you started this tutorial project using an old project created before the new “Local Bank” preset system was implemented?

I’m considering adding a “Create Drum-Kit Template” command to the preset panel menu. This would replace the need for opening the properties panel and clicking “Use preset as a drum kit”. The problem with the the way you do it, is that you convert the preset used to store the plugin settings to a drum-kit. This means you can only assign this preset to one track. This would be a problem if you wanted to use multiple tracks with the separate MIDI channel mappings. Having a kit template preset that does not store plugin settings means you can assign it to any number of tracks. I do this with the drumatic plugin in the Freebees example project.

Your description of how to save the drum kit preset to avoid going through the setup of the kit again in the future is not possible unfortunately. As I mentioned in an earlier post, saving to a VST preset does not store information about the kit customization you make in Podium. VST preset files only stores the settings provided by the plugin.