Zynewaveby then using -6db panning law won’t this hide the fact that the track is too centre heavy?
I don’t see any problems of this sort. Your mix will just attenuate mono source signals that is center panned. After your have a near complete arrangement, you can try to change the panning law for the arrangement, to hear what effect it has on the final mix and the stereo width perception.
ZynewaveFound and fixed the bug. It turned out to be a different problem I had overlooked. Fix will be available in release 1.18.
ZynewaveSearching the net should bring up a bunch of articles concerning panning laws. The short run-down is that, panning a mono signal from side to side, it will not sound equal in loudness/power if the signal is not dampened when approaching center. This depends on many factors such as the nature of the signal, and speaker/headphone setup. -3 dB is the most commonly used method in music production. -6 dB is more used in broadcast. Use whatever sounds best to you.
i’m not masking problems using -6db am I?
Not sure what you mean by masking?
ZynewaveZynewaveYou can’t do that yet with the mouse. I have it on the plan. Resizing an event that is part of a multiple selection, should resize all events, both note events and sequence events in the arrangement. I’ll put a higher priority on this. Until then you can do it using the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+Plus and Ctrl+Minus. They use the current quantize value in the editor as step value.
ZynewaveZynewaveZynewaveHi Eli,
Thanks for the bug-report. I actually had detected this problem during development, and fixed it, but something must have gone wrong subsequently. I’ll look into it asap. I hope you can live with this bug for the next few days.
Frits
Zynewaveoh, I hope it’s not my system, I do hope so!!!!
It is not your system. The problem has been brought up some time ago, by another Podium user on the ConcreteFX forum on K-v-R:
http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=612595
I contacted Jon with the few details I was able to determine concerning the bug. In the last email I received from Jon, he said he had changed the memory manager which seemed to fix the problem. He said he would await the response from ageis before releasing a new demo version. I’ll email Jon again to ask what the status is.
ZynewaveZynewaveI will prepare a project and send it to you ok?
Yes, that would be helpful.
ZynewaveZynewaveYou should create a new track dedicated for system setup parameters under one of your tracks with a SW1K mapping. On this track you drag any setup or mode parameters onto the timeline area of the track. This will create parameter events that you can use to change the modes during playback. On this track you should e.g. always put the ‘XG System On’ as the very first parameter, to ensure that the XG card is put in the right mode of operation before your arrangement starts. This XG system on command will require a few millisecs to initialize, so generally when using this, you would start your sequences on bar 2 to make sure all modes and program changes are complete before the song starts.
ZynewaveOpen a list window (Ctrl+L), use the right side file panel to locate your wave or MIDI files, and drag them onto tracks. Dragging a MIDI file onto a track will only import the first sequence of the MIDI file. If you want a complete track arrangement to use as a template for starting your songs, you could create a basic arrangement in your default project, and then copy/paste that arrangement when starting on a new song.
ZynewaveAfter you have imported it from the library, you can edit the imported objects as much as you like. You can also load the actual SW1K definition file as a project, edit it and resave it in the library. In this case you should keep a backup copy, as installing new versions of Podium may overwrite the contents of the library folder.