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ZynewaveKeymasteri did a forum serch for the word lag and slow and found this thread:
The problem described in the thread you refer to has been solved a few months back, by an extensive optimization of the drawing routines.
But I think you’re right, that it has to do with the graphics card performance on your system. I just tried your project and your setup file on my old P3 800 MHz internet machine (old ATI card with 32 MB video memory), and there are no speed problems here. I think your problem is not so much that your video card is slow, but more that the video memory is filled up. The sudden slowdown you experience likely happens because Podium needs to draw something that doesn’t fit in the remaining free video memory, and thus Windows has to do the rendering in system memory. When you activate loop, Podium draws the loop range with a highlighted color, which could explain why toggling loop mode affects video performance. You can verify this by scrolling the timeline so that the loop range is not visible, and check if note editing still is slow.
If your PC has an onboard video card that shares the system memory, you may be able to configure the amount of memory that the video card can access. Check the display properties control panel, settings page, advanced button, and see if you can find information on how much video memory you have. If not in the display control panel, then maybe there is a setting in the BIOS that controls video memory size. But don’t mess with the BIOS, unless you know what you are doing.
Other things you can try: Quit any unneeded running applications, as these may occupy video memory even if they are not currently shown on the display. You can also try to reduce the display resolution, as this will require less video memory.
ZynewaveKeymasterfrits i cand find the ini. been looking and even serched for them.
That’s probably because your Windows Explorer is set to hide system folders (which is the default setting). Instead, just open Podium, use the ‘Save Complete Setup…’ command in the Setup menu, and save the setup file in your My Documents folder or anywhere where you can access it.
ZynewaveKeymasterCould you please email me your project file AND your Podium.ini setup file. The setup file can be found at: “C:Documents and Settings[user]Application DataZynewavePodiumPodium.ini”
ZynewaveKeymasterbut as soon as i turn on L for looping podiums note input and speed as well as the program itself starts to lag considerably
Does the lag also occur if playback is stopped? How long is your loop section? If you extend the loop range, does this affect the lag?
ZynewaveKeymasteri dunno if this makes any diffrence, but i always have podium set on loop mode as its all i know how to use at the moment
Only if the CPU usage is stressed. If you stop playback, does editing with the mouse still lag?
have no idea what the C S P L options are or what they do. what DO they do?
They set the mouse edit mode of the timeline ruler. Enable popup help (help button at top right corner of screen), and roll the mouse over the buttons for usage hints.
ZynewaveKeymasteri have to wait a secong or two before each note shows up in the sequencer and another to hear it
There should be no noticeable delay at all before the note is drawn on the display. Just to make sure; I assume you are using the mouse and not a MIDI keyboard to input the notes. If you use MIDI input to record notes, then the notes are only drawn once the note-off is received. The delay before the note is auditioned should be no longer than what the latency of your soundcard is set to.
Which Windows version are you using?
Has it always been like this?
What is the Podium CPU usage percent when you experience the delay?
Is this PC also the one you use for internet? I ask because I’ve previously received reports of e.g. slow saves which was caused by a background spyware detection program. If you have any of these programs installed (spyware, antivirus etc.), then try temporarily disabling them to see if it affects Podium performance.
There may be other programs running in the background that can cause Podium to be slow. To verify this, bring up the Windows Task Manager and see if there are any processes that hog the CPU. Also go to the performance page and check the CPU usage history while you are doing the editing in Podium.
ZynewaveKeymasterui being slow
Forget my previous answer then.
it seems like every note that i input or evry move that i make has to catch up
Are you saying that if you use the pencil tool to draw or move a note event, there is a noticeable delay from the time you release the mouse till the note is drawn? 😯
Whare are your system specs? More specifically, what’s the speed of your CPU, what graphics card are you using, and how much video memory does the graphics card have?
ZynewaveKeymasteris there a certain length of notes that i shouldnt go further then at a time?
The length of the notes should not have any influence. Maybe I misunderstood you: Are you talking about playback response to editing, or are you talking about the UI being slow?
ZynewaveKeymasterTo ensure steady playback timing, the Podium engine will prepare and ‘preplay’ all notes, audio and automation up to one second before it is audible. This means that if you during playback insert a note at a position that is less than one second later than the current playback position, it will not be heard in playback.
ZynewaveKeymasterI have uploaded a new version of the zPEQ plugin. Just download the same zip file in the VIP lounge.
This one should be denormal free. I managed to find a method that did not involve adding a low-level noise or otherwise degrading the audio signal. This version may also be slightly more CPU-efficient.
Please report if you find any problems with this version.
ZynewaveKeymasterafter i do that, i notice that theres not even an E box and that the plugin seem to have gone missing
I think you just need to activate monitoring. That is the power button to the left in the transport toolbar. This button activates the Podium mixer engine and will load any plugins on the tracks. Once plugins are loaded the E button is revealed for the plugin editors.
ZynewaveKeymasterYour project file seems to be ok. You have a library preset assigned which should store the plugin settings. You write that you have trouble saving the project; More precisely do you mean your trouble is to save plugin settings with the project, or are there other issues?
One thing that I noticed when trying out microtonic was that the two dll versions were not preset compatible. Maybe you have created the library preset on the track with the dual output dll, and since swapped the mapping to the multi-out dll. Try using the ‘new’ button to create a new library preset after you have loaded the desired patch in the microtonic editor. If this goes well, the new library preset should take its name from the currently loaded microtonic program.
ZynewaveKeymasterI just tried my installed demo-version of microtonic 2. There are two dll versions. One which allows configuring each drum sound to either output A or B, and the other ‘multi’ dll which hardwires each of the eight drum sounds to eight stereo outputs. But I guess you are aware of this.
do i just load the patches from the microtonic editor?
Yes. Microtonic uses its own proprietary file format for the presets, so you cannot load these directly in Podium. What you need to do in Podium is to create a single library preset and assign it to the track with the microtonic mapping. I just tested it, and it seems it is enough with a program preset and not the entire bank, so you can use the ‘new’ button in the preset panel. Once this library preset is assigned to the track, and the ‘sync’ button in the preset panel is selected, Podium will store any changes made in the microtonic editor into this preset, and thus it will also be saved in the project file.
HOW do i save a project with all plugins when im done working? ive been typing ctrl s but it seem to work rather weird when i use that command.
Ctrl+s should work, but it only saves the project file and not any edited sound files. For this you can use Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S, which is the shortcut for the ‘save all changes’ file menu on the main browser page. When you quit Podium it will also ask if you want to save all changes, with a yes/no option.
If you still have problems getting microtonic to behave, you could email me your project file so I can review if there are any problems in your setup.
ZynewaveKeymasterHey,
are 1+2-15+16 related to microtonics 8 multiouts
Yes. The microtonic 2 plugin supports 8 stereo outputs, so Podium has paired the channels into these 8 mappings. You can rename the mappings so that 1+2 becomes 1, 3+4 becomes 2, … 15+16 becomes 8, if you prefer it that way. Somewhere in the microtonic UI there must be a selector which allows you to assign each drum sound to one of the 8 outputs.
why is there a pianoroll for each group track instead of one?
You should only create note sequences on one of the tracks assigned with a microtonic mapping. The other tracks with the multiple output mappings should just be left blank on the timeline. The purpose of these tracks are only to insert the multiple output of the plugin into the Podium mixer.
how do i save my project so when i load it up again its kept the sounds i used
On one of the tracks with the microtonic plugin you should create a library preset. I recommend you do this on the track with the 1+2 output mapping. The microtonic plugin may require that its entire bank and not just the current preset is stored in the Podium project, so instead of using the ‘new’ button in the preset panel, try using the ‘new bank library preset’ in the track context menu.
ZynewaveKeymasterNevermind Frits, I’ve found the problem now
Ok. Maybe I should implement a warning-popup when a mapping has no connected device definition.