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1. Stickie notes for the first two columns: The New project and Arrangement and sounds columns have no stickie notes. I would like to be able to include notes for those columns.

But there are stickie note buttons on the project properties panel, and the properties panel at the bottom of the arrangements column?

I noticed that the E button still has no tooltip when the mouse cursor rolls over it. Yes, once a new project is created a message is displayed that tells a user what it does (great addition) but still I think a tooltip that will appear when a mouse cursor is over it, will also help. “Click the E button to open plug in Editors (Short cut E)” very short and simple…this text is taken from the other new message shown after a new project is made. I still think the E button should be changed to VST, FX / INST or GUI as they are more descritpive than simply E. ?!?!?

E is short for Edit or Editor. It may extend its purpose if I later on add some feature for opening editors for external devices. If you hover over the E button in the track inspector you get a tooltip. I deliberately avoided tooltips over the buttons in the track headers because I think it would be too annoying with popups appearing constantly when you edit the tracks.

4. B Bounce button tool tip:

Again, there is a tooltip on the B button in the track inspector.

I still think it is not a good idea to switch it off by default for new users especially. New blank projects are highly unlikely to have any mappings so having this on by default avoids confusing a new user when there is no sound.

When you create a new arrangement then it by default has two tracks with audio input and an instrument/MIDI input track. I think I mention it in the ‘getting started’ chapter in the guide; that you should be careful with your monitoring levels when activating live audio inputs. That is why it is not turned on by default.

Icons for Arrangements and sounds. Right now there appears to be no way to differentiate between the two.

The icon for an arrangement is a score sheet, and the icon for a sound is an oceanic wave. Or are you talking about some place where the icons are not shown?

but your “mixer” is glued to the bottom of the arrange page isn’t it ?

Only in the default setup. You can change the layout of the editors with the sequence profiles. You could remove the mixer completely from the arrangement profile and create a new profile containing e.g. two mixer regions. You would then open a new browser window and place that in your second screen. When you want to edit an arrangement, select the arrangement in both browser windows and select your mixer profile from the view menu in the second browser window. You then have one screen reserved for timeline editing and another screen for mixing.

@swayzak wrote:

The new startup page straddles my 2 monitors e.g one half one on, other half on the other.

And I can’t seem to move it.

Is this intentional ?

It’s intentional that the page is centered on the window. If the Podium main window is spread across your two screens, then you must be using the ‘extend my Windows desktop…’ option in display properties? Normal behaviour I think is that a maximized window only occupies one screen and you can then use the other screen for other windows.

@Improv wrote:

@Zynewave wrote:

One problem though. The vst scan hangs on Real Guitar 2.dll

Do you mean to say this is a problem with the new project creation, or did it hang in the project wizard of the previous releases as well?

The problem only appeared with this ver. 166 using the new project creation. The problem never occurred before with the project wizard and/or with previous releases. 😕

Could you try to create a new project using the project wizard in 1.66 and see if this causes it to hang?

@darcyb62 wrote:

Another issue:

I have tried to bypass the JCM effect by setting the vst folder 1 level deeper by focusing on the Zynewave effects…

I set it as follows:
c:Program FilesZynewavePodiumVstpluginsZynewave Effects

But when I hit create the plugin import dialogue box indicates the following:
c:Program FilesZynewavePodiumVstplugins

It would also be good if you could use multiple folder pointers.

I would not recommend that you put your plugins in the c:Program FilesZynewavePodiumVstplugins folder, as this was intended to be reserved for Podium bundled plugins. This folder is automatically searched by Podium, in addition to the VST folder you specify.

When using the new “New Project” setup is it possible to disable the plugin scan when creating the project.

Hmm, not the most beatiful solution; but you could hit the abort button just after the import dialog appears.

The Browser window was also the unique way to open new arrangement windows, but this can be easily changed with a “New arrange window” option…

If you right-click an arrangement on the start page, you get the option to open it in a separate window (or press Ctrl+Enter).

@acousmod wrote:

to start a project there is this new screen but also the Wizard which is not a visible option in this screen

I intend to remove the project wizard window completely, once I get all the functionality from the wizard into the start page. If the old browser pages are confusing, then I may decide to remove those as well and let the start page be fixed on startup. That would remove the upper right toggle button. At some point I may also add a ‘setup’ page tab, either before the first project tab, or to the far right next to the ‘list’ tab. This page could show info for engine, interfaces and other important settings. There would be buttons for quick access to the five configuration dialogs.