Zynewavecan i change the step to 1?
No.
anyway the ‘edit only selected events’ seems does’nt work in the 1.20 version…
You’re right! The menu shortcut is not working. Will fix this right away. You can use the checkmark button in the left edge panel, to toggle the mode.
ZynewaveEDIT : nope it’s a ‘time’ visualization…for video soundtrack editing?
Not just soundtrack editing, but any kind of recording where you don’t need bar/beats. An example is the mastering arrangement in the Freebees demo project.
Zynewavebut does’nt works in the demo version wich is 1.20..am i right?
Correct. The zoom bar change was introduced in release 1.22.
ok..can i do multiple selections draggin the mouse with the pencil tool..then copy paste or cut paste etc. ?
I forgot about this. With the pencil tool you can click the events to select multiple (using shift), but you can’t drag a marquee to select all events inside the drag area.
ok..but the whole point to me is to avoid the classical mouse dance of piano-roll/controller area
One way to speed this up could be to use the plus/minus keys to edit velocity of all selected events. Check out the ‘Keys’ page in the Podium guide to see what shortcuts are available.
ZynewaveAs I understood it, I think lalo had a single wave file which he then used the scalpel tool to split into two events without moving them. This can introduce a single sample offset for the second event, due to what I described above. Audio event fade in/out is on the plan.
Zynewave1. The zoom bar should zoom the visibile area at the window’s center…like the zoom tool does.
In one of the latest releases, the zoom bar was changed so that it zooms around the play cursor position. Put the play cursor in the middle of the time range, and it will zoom around center. Otherwise, use combinations of shift+ctrl+alt to temporarily engage the zoom tools.
2. I’d make the pencil switchable to rearrange tool
The pencil tool does everything that the rearrange tool does. You don’t have to switch to rearrange tool to move stuff around. Only reason to do so, is if the event resize arrows make it hard to select and drag/move short events.
3. The pencil tool could be used to split (part and notes) too with another mouse/key combination or whatever.
At some point I will implement user-definable key shortcuts, so that will enable you to set up shortcuts for all the tools you desire. It is difficult to set up defaults keys for all conceivable tool combinations.
4. Velocity editing is quite difficult when you have many overlapping notes
This is where the velocity editor ‘Edit only selected events’ menu/button toggle comes in handy. When using this mode, you can e.g. select a single note event in a chord, and then edit the velocity of only this note.
ZynewaveIf there is a click, then it’s just a single sample silence. The reason is that bar/beat time based arrangements are not using samples as internal resolution. So cutting at some bar-beat position is likely to be at a fractional sample position. If your arrangement is created with the Linear time resolution option, you won’t see this problem. I will check up on my code for converting bar/beat-time to sample-time. I should be able to obtain sample continuity if I am careful with how I round off fractional sample positions.
ZynewaveWhen you import a midi file, it doesn’t import the names of the tracks from the midi file…
This is actually a bug. It appears that a fix I made in release 1.18 for badly formatted track and marker names had the side effect that all names were ignored. This will be (re)fixed for 1.23. Thanks for the suggestion 😉
When navigating through tracks in the mixer region using the keyboard, currently, if you press across, it will select the next track in the list, regardless of the level that track is on the heirachy…
If you hold the shift key while pressing left/right arrow, it will behave as you described. If focus is in the tracks region, then pressing page up/down will navigate tracks at the same level. I’m going to look into alternative ways of handling collapsed group tracks in the near future.
… It would be a lot more convenient if you could delete things like presets from the rightclick menu inside the arrangement editor…
This has crossed my mind many times also. I’ve now scribbled it down on my todo list.
… it’d be cool if when you drag the mouse while holding the middle mouse button…
I gotta buy myself a fancier mouse sometime soon. Middle mouse button is not supported yet, but I’ll add it to the plan. If you hold the shift key, you can use the scroll wheel to slide horizontally.
It would be very handy if you could select multiple tracks at once…
Agreed, and already on the plan.
Currently, when you delete a track that has other tracks as children, the other tracks just get merged in with the children of whatever node comes next up the heirachy…
How about if you delete a group track that is collapsed, it will delete all child tracks as well? You can always use undo, in case you happened to press delete on your collapsed master out track 🙂 . If the track is not collapsed, it will behave is it does now.
When importing a midi file, and extracting parameter automation track events, I’ve noticed that often the created automation track does not actually extend all the way to the end of the track it was bound to…
Good point. I’ll fix this soon.
When you copy/cut a sequence from one arrangement and insert it into another, it is still bound in someway to the sequence from which it was copied…
Sequence events and the sequences they refer to are separate entities. The sequence objects created for an arrangement are stored beneath the arrangement object. You can use the object list window to view this relationship. When copying events, only the events are copied and not the sequences. Thus when you insert the events in the same arrangement or any other arrangement, the same sequence object is referenced. There are cases where this is desired, e.g. if you have a ‘beat-factory’ arrangement where you create loop sequences or sounds and use these in a number of other arrangements. Changing the beats in the ‘beat-factory’ arrangement would then reflect in the other arrangements.
But I can see the source for confusion in your case. Maybe a solution would be to visually emphasize any events in an arrangement that are referencing sequences/sounds outside of the arrangement object. For these events there could then be a context-menu command that would make a local copy of the remote sequence/sound objects.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Zynewavewhat do you think about OSC?
I haven’t studied the OSC spec, so I don’t have an opinion about it. You’re the first to bring it up in relation to Podium. I think there are a ton of other features that I need to work on, before jumping into something like OSC.
Zynewavebtw is now possible to automate the plugs using their GUI controllers?
Yes, that was implemented in 1.21. The latest demo is 1.20, but I’ll release a new demo later this month.
ZynewaveYou can’t do that currently. Support for MIDI remote controllers is on the plan, but it may be a couple of months before I start work on it.
I assume what you are looking for is some kind of MIDI learn command, so that you can map MIDI messages to regular VST parameters.
Frits
ZynewaveOk, so you want to split up your songs to different computers and play them back in sync. I’m afraid that can’t be done currently. Podium does not yet support MIDI time code.
Zynewaveso i can’t use them networked having podium active on my three computers?
I should have guessed you would ask about that. 😉
As long as you are the only one operating the three computers, I don’t have a problem with it.
Are you trying to set up some sort of distributed processing? Maybe using Podium on one computer to play softsynths via MIDIoverLAN on Podium running on the other computers? How do you route your audio then?
ZynewaveHi lalo,
can i install podium on three different computers?
Yes you can. The following is an excerpt of the license agreement:
“You are permitted to use this software on a single computer. You may install the software on up to three computers provided that you use the software on only one computer at a time.”
Frits
ZynewaveTo verify that your MIDI input is working, check the MIDI indicator at the right edge of the bottom toolbar. The top half of the indicator will light up whenever MIDI is received.
The MIDI input is not recorded, if it does not have a destination in the track tree. On your track with the MIDI input, you need to put a mapping for a synth (either plugin or hardware) which will provide the definitions for pitch bend, modulation and other relevant parameters.
ZynewaveHi Alphonse,
I am not sure what you mean by ‘input screen’. If you mean the MIDI/Audio interfaces dialog, then the MIDI channels are not configured here. Just enable your MIDI input interface and proceed with the ‘MIDI input mappings’ panel in the project wizard.