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ZynewaveKeymaster- Keyboard editor audition and key shortcuts.
ZynewaveKeymasterYes it can be done. MIDI file import is not fully implemented yet. Importing .mid files will create an arrangement, but the device mappings created by the import are currently not working. You need to assign the device mapping for your synth to the track containing the sysex messages. If you encounter problems, you could email me the .mid file or your project file, and I can verify the MIDI file is imported ok.
ZynewaveKeymasterI don’t think disabling load or save of projects is a good idea. It would mean that the demo users would need to go through the studio setup process every time they start Podium.
ZynewaveKeymasterI don’t find kagemusha’s posts confusing, but they occasionally deal with pretty complex stuff :). Kagemusha is a long-time beta tester so he has tried some of the more hardcore stuff in Podium.
I still think you need to implement a way that you can move a volume (or any parameter) without it has effect on the curve (modifier key)
Agreed. It’s on the list.
If you want to avoid ‘leaving’ a curve breakpoint when you drag a slider, use the right mouse button (while still holding left button down) to abort the drag action. This will reset the slider to the position before you started dragging, and undo the curve change.
I just verified that I can record both curve and parameter events with my AN1x. There doesn’t appear to be anything broken that once worked. However the parameter events so far only work with MIDI parameters. The floating point parameters such as mixer level and pan and VST parameters does not currently include a dial. I’ll get around to implement that at some point.
ZynewaveKeymasterHi Dustin,
I fully understand your request. I had intended to keep the demo updated on each version. However, a crack of the 1.00 demo appeared the day after I released 1.00, and yesterday 9 out of every 10 visitors to the site came as referrals from warez sites. I suspect a lot of the ‘ghosts’ you mention are just waiting for a new crack of the latest version.
I will update the demo soon, but I’d like my paying customers to be a step ahead of the warez users. I’m thinking about how to cripple new demo versions so that a demo-crack will not be as complete as the full version. What kind of crippling would be acceptable to you?
ZynewaveKeymasterYou need to set a minimum and maximum value before it is enabled. If min and max are the same there will be no effect of using a curve sequence for the parameter. Parameter objects with 0 in both min and max are typically used for ‘mode’ parameters that will cause an effect just by being received by the device.
ZynewaveKeymasterA perfect four-bar part. I copy it (into the clipboard). I want to quickly make 31 copies of it (say it’s drums), each copy appended to the tail end of the one before. Is there a quick way to do this?
I’ve added a ‘Create phantom copies’ menu to the future list. Currently you can only do it manually with the mouse. To avoid doing the clone drag 31 times, you could start by doing 3 of them, select the 4 events and clone drag them to get 8, 12, 16, select the 16 and … you get the picture.
Also, just curious, what is the ETA of the finished documentation (filling in the “To DO” sections)?
Judging from the feedback on this forum, there have been plenty of requests for feature implementation and no requests for the guide so far. So I chose to dedicate my time to coding. I was hoping people would point out specific areas in the guide that they wanted clarified, so that I could make occasional additions to the guide. Any particular page you had in mind?
Frits
ZynewaveKeymasterA plug-in is able to bring down a host like that?
Yes. To optimize latency and CPU usage, the plugin code is called directly from the audio processing thread in Podium. The plugin thus acts as an extension to the host code, and has access to the same memory and system resources as the host. Podium wraps all calls to the plugin in protective code that will catch basic illegal operations, but it is still possible for the plugin to corrupt the host memory without the host knowing about it.
Calling plugin code directly from the audio thread is the way it is done in all major sequencers to the best of my knowledge. Access to a plugin could theoretically be encapsulated in separate processes, which then would make the host secure, but this would be at the cost of added latency and extra CPU usage.
Edit: You’re fast Duncan 😉 I started this before I saw your response.
ZynewaveKeymasterWhen I move that volume slider in the mixer -of the group track- audio drops as long as I hold my mousebutton or moving the slider.
This happens because the parameter track is muted when dragging the slider, to avoid that recorded automation overrides the fader movements. The sideeffect is that any audio routing through the parameter track also gets muted. I’ll have to implement another way to bypass recorded automation when dragging the slider. Thanks for pointing this out.
When I want to set the volume of a track group or for any track to a certain percentage it is written in the parameter file as curves/peaks for that moment. but it would be useful if you could also set a global volume >> if you move the volume that it makes that percentage for the whole timeline.
I am not entirely sure I understand what you mean. Could you describe it differently?
I remember using the parameter events a “long” time ago (instead of curve) but I can not find them anymore
You drag parameter objects onto tracks to create parameter events. It may be that the level and pan mixer parameters are not active currently. I will check up on this when I start work on the curve editor improvements.
ZynewaveKeymasterYes, it seems SIR 1.0.0.5 does not like to be automated. I could not make it crash with the dry parameter only, but once I had tried automating attack level (not recommended 😯 ), a little later a dialog saying ‘SIR GUI: invalid pointer error’ popped up inside SIR, and the plugin editor went dead. The SIR audio processing were still okay, but closing the editor and reopening it again made Podium vanish up in thin air.
Not much I can do about it unfortunately. SIR is a fine plugin otherwise.
Frits
ZynewaveKeymasterYou can drag objects around and into folders using the project browser. Holding the control key while dragging an object will move it into any object you drop it on. Dropping an object on one of the top tabs will allow you to move an object to a parent folder.
Once the ‘Devices’ folder has been created by the wizard, you can rename it or move it to another folder location. Should you later choose to import more devices, then Podium will search for the location of the devices folder.
You should be careful of moving things around that are placed below a Device Definition object though, as this folder structure is required for presets and parameters to be accessible in the arrangement panels.
ZynewaveKeymasterAre all updates free with the full purchase?
Yes, all updates are free. I think I better go add that info to the purchase page.
In the future I plan to offer major new features as add-on licenses, but this probably won’t happen until a release 1.5 or 2.0. Read the license discussion in this topic.
Frits
ZynewaveKeymasterThis could lead to some confusion. If e.g. you’re inside an arrangement editor, then the current viewed folder is the arrangement object (any object can act as a folder for other objects). Opening the wizard in the arrangement editor to import a new plugin, would then misleadingly place the imported objects inside the arrangement object.
ZynewaveKeymasterBy adding the feaure that the contextual menu reflects the tools in the toolbar I get the X(only) and Y(only) zoom function in the contextual menu (they are in my toolbar) >> but they are not selectable in the contextual menu.
Thanks. Fix will be available in 1.04.
ZynewaveKeymaster- Pencil tool bug fixes.