ZynewaveHow much memory are available to your onboard gfx card? Depending on what resolution you use, make sure at least 16-32 MB are available to the graphics card. On some older machines you can configure this in the BIOS.
I’m using an ATI Radeon X300 gfx card, which has no fans. More expensive cards are mainly focused on 3D game features, which will not not benefit Podium much.
Frits
ZynewaveBecause of Podium’s hierarchic structure, you can do this on each track, including the master track, right?
Right. The offline bouncing will be able to bounce record multiple tracks simultaneously, just like realtime bouncing. Offline bouncing will of course exclude any communication to audio and MIDI interfaces, so only plugin and audio tracks will be bounce recorded.
ZynewaveEnter the properties dialog for the preset you have assigned to the Jamstix track, and select the ‘use preset as a drum kit’ option. When pressing ok to the properties dialog, you are given the choice to create a default GM compatible map. If JamStix use a special drum-layout, you’ll have to manually modify the individual drum presets within the kit preset. If you are using Jamstix as a multiple out plugin and want the MIDI on a separate track, you’ll need to create a template drum kit preset. For hints, see how the drumatic ‘Kit Template’ preset is used in the freebees project.
ZynewaveHi,
I’m not entirely sure what you want to achieve. Could you email me a simplified version of your project?
ZynewaveWhat I did with Podium is set up my audio in. I then wrapped this up in a group. I do this so I can set volume of that track to 0 as I just want to use the effected sounds. I then drag a “bus 1 send” onto the “audio in” track.
If I understand your setup correctly, I don’t think you need to create the extra group. Setting the gain to off on the same track with your audio in and send mapping should do the same.
From there I drag the “bus 1 return” twice. I pan 1 fully to the left and 1 fully to the right. On the left I drag a compression vst, wrap it in a group then add eq. On the right, I do do much the same adding delay, compression, eq, ampsim.
From this I gather that you’re panning the signal before it is sent to the effects. Depending on whether your effects are stereo or mono, you may be able to simplify it by changing the bus send/return mappings to mono (I assume your guitar input is mono), and then do the panning on the effects output. But your current solution is neat.
Zynewave@darcyb62 wrote:
Hey… How do you get the velocity mapping under the piano roll?
Drag the bar directly below the piano roll region upwards.
ZynewaveWhat was your track count for the project?
~140, including automation tracks.
ZynewaveWhen the arrangement has been created do I have the ability to switch from linear to musical and vice versa.
Currently this is not changeable. In the distant future I may offer an option to convert between the two formats. This setting determines the internal resolution only. On the future plan is an option to switch between showing bar:beats and hh:mm:ss on the timeline ruler.
I went to open a new arrangement so I could be sure I had the musical and linear terms correct. I typed here for awhile and went back, had the demo reminder popup on the screen closed it and found I could do nothing with the new arrangement window. To get rid of it I had to close Podium.
I just tried this, and it does seem to lock up Podium when the demo reminder pops up while another dialog is open. I was able to get focus back to the new arrangement dialog by activating another application and then activate Podium again. I’ll get this fixed for the next demo version. Thanks.
I’m more concerned with your other stability problems. I’m not aware of any crash issues with Podium, and it’s been a long time since users have reported any such issues. I need more information to be able to determine what causes the crashes. If you find a reproducible situation, please let me know so I can try to recreate the problem on my machine.
I have also had Podium up, left it, came back an hour later to find that it had closed due to an unexpected error of some sort.
Were your PC in power save/standby mode? I know that some ASIO drivers will crash upon reawakening from power save mode.
Finally… I get this rather annoying silence every so often. If I can only fina a way of getting rid of that. 😉 😉
That sounds like a serious bug. I’ll fix it for you for 90US$ 😉
Frits
ZynewaveHi,
Thanks for your feedback. It’s valuable information to hear how people prefer to work with sequencers. Rewire is on the list, but I’m afraid I can’t set any date on when it will be implemented. I have tried emailing Propellerheads three times over the last year or so, to inquire about the Rewire licensing. So far, I have not received reply, so I’m currently focusing my development efforts on other areas.
Frits
ZynewaveI could use the pencil tool and ctrl-click to select several events, but it create an empty event when I click to de-select the previous ones..
You could use the pencil tool to click once on the first event you want to move, which will deselect previous events. Then you can use shift with the pencil tool to select multiple events.
Is there any programmation problem that prevents the detection of the mouse cursor on the edge of a clip to make it automaticaly act like the resize tool ?
The only reason why I don’t do the automatic resize cursor with the select tool, is because this would make it impossible to select and move events that are smaller than the width of the resize border. To solve this I could restrict the resize area to the bottom part of the sequence event box, highligthed by a frame. However this would not be possible with note events.
ZynewaveWhen I press shift to enable a marquee selection, cursor is not changing. Why? I think, it would better if the current cursor icon becomes select tool-like when shift is pressed.
I could introduce a new cursor type that indicates a marquee selection is started. I would only show it once the mouse is clicked though. Otherwise the cursor would change everytime you press shift for any of the other key shortcuts.
Is there a way to fast disselect some of them, without switching to ‘select’ tool?
Ctrl+click should toggle select, both with the select and pencil tools.
ZynewaveDirect resizing WITHOUT any key when the mouse is on the edge in the next build ?
Why don’t you use the pencil tool for this?
ZynewaveGoing to upgrade to 1.5GB RAM (an extra 1gb) so I don’t run into any more problems… this should be considerably more than I should need, shouldn’t it?
That should be plenty. Until a few months ago I was using a laptop with 512 MB. Adding more memory does not necessarily mean that the dropouts will disappear, the first time you play through an arrangement. The extra memory will mean that the loaded audio is cached in memory, so a second play should reduce occurrence of dropouts.
ZynewaveI am thinking of getting en emu 0404 card. Can I use the onboard dsp effects with Podium?
If the 0404 comes with VST plugins that controls the DSP effects, then you can use those in the Podium mixer. Otherwise I would guess that the effects can be applied in the 0404 control panel, to either the soundcard input or outputs.
Also, will Podium accept SPDIF as an input?
Yes.
Now how the heck do I get to the Jamstix gui?
Press the ‘E’ button next to the mapping name in either the track header, or the mixer strip for the track. Pressing the E shortcut key with focus on the plugin track will also open the editor.
ZynewaveHi,
how does Podium work with VSTIs that have multiple outputs?
You can see a simple example of it in the freebees demo project. The ‘Song B’ arrangement uses the Drumatic plugin with multiple outputs. The podium guide has a section that explains multiple I/O plugins
Does Podium have something similar to the rack concept within Tracktion?
Not exactly, but multitimbrality and multiple I/O can be configured using the device mappings in Podium.
How does Pdium handle time/tempo changes? Can I cop and paste these through the project?
Tempo events (which can be configured for tempo and time signature) can be moved around and copy/pasted like any other events.
Frits