ZynewaveIt is shown as a verification that the application is starting up. It may be a few seconds before the main window is shown. If the splash is not shown during this time, you may think that you didn’t double-click the Podium icon properly and then risk starting up Podium twice.
Another purpose of the splash screen is to show the version number. With the frequent updates, it is good to have confirmation that you are running the latest release.
ZynewaveZynewaveIs there an option to disable the Startup-SplashScreen?
Is it really that ugly? 😮
Or is there another reason why you want this?
ZynewaveIf you email me your project file, I can check if there are other things that causes the spikes.
ZynewaveI’ve tried the JamStix demo, with ASIO4ALL. I could run it with a steady CPU reading of ~15%. At one point though, after frantically clicking on various buttons (I had no idea what I was doing), the CPU suddenly went to 100% and stayed in the red. Unloading and reloading the plugin seemed to fix it. I think it happened when I activated the JamStix metronome, but I cannot reproduce it.
Try to adjust some of the options in JamStix and see if the CPU usage is affected. Also try adjusting your ASIO buffer size and see if this affects it.
ZynewaveIt is mostly intended as an alternative view of what events are in the sequence. Sometimes you may end up with events that are hard to spot in the graphical editors, such as zero length or obscured notes/sequences. The bars are just a graphical representation of the percentage that the start/stop times are offset from the current editor quantization value.
ZynewaveI’ll download the demo, and try it out in the weekend.
Zynewaveyou could use MIDI-OX and record the MIDI back into Podium. There might be a small MIDI latency, but that could be Dragged back into line after recording
If the goal is to record the MIDI output of the plugin, then this can be done in Podium. Just record enable the plugin track. What is not possible currently, is streaming plugin MIDI output into other plugins.
ZynewaveI need to stream the midi-output of Jamstix to a sampler plugin. When will this be available in Podium?
I don’t know when it will be available. It requires some careful planning. It involves additional coding on the engine, which is something I try not to do too often. The engine is by far the most complex part of the application.
It is on the plan, disguised as this item:
MIDI plugin support, either by supporting MFX or supporting the use of VST plugins with MIDI only.
ZynewaveGPO and EWQLSO? What is this?
Garritan Personal Orchestra
East West Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra
ZynewaveWhen activating bounce on a bounce/group track, Podium gives error messages on those tracks that have plugins mapped, which are now unloaded.
Ah yes, these warnings about missing plugins should of course not appear when the ‘unload plugins’ option is enabled. I’ll fix this for 1.39. Have you discovered other interesting bugs ? 🙂
Zynewavewhen dragging the polyiblit vsti (1.1.3) from the right panel to the arrangement it also caused podium to crash (“memory could not be read” or something was the error-message). 100% reproducable here. maybe that’s the same bug!?
Yes it is.
ZynewaveBang.
Same here. Bug fix will be available in 1.39.
ZynewavePodium creates audio events on tracks that do have input mappings on it, but even when they are not record enabled. Is this the way it’s meant to be?
No, I’ll get that fixed for the next 1.39 release. Thanks for reporting it.
ZynewaveWhat happens when (as often happens with large GPO or EWQLSO projects) you need more than one instance of Kontakt?
You need to create separate sets of mappings for each Kontakt instance that you want to use. Importing the plugin multiple times will create additional sets of mappings (labeled #2 etc.), but will reuse the device definition for the first imported instance. I recently updated the devices section in the guide, including a chapter on the use of multitimbral plugins:
http://www.zynewave.com/guide/guide20_devices.htm#multi
I’m currently working on an example project using GPO. I’ve created several global instances of GPO dedicated for strings, woodwinds, brass etc. I’ve also configured a ‘GPO insert’ mapping for non-multitimbral use, which is handy to add e.g. a piano to the arrangement without having to set up multiple tracks for audio and MIDI.