Zynewave1/ You can set up a bus return mapping that extracts a single mono channel from a bus that is being fed with a surround bus send mapping.
2/ You can’t. You’ll need to find a surround tool plugin that can handle individual channel gain, pan, mute and solo. I’m not familiar with the available surround plugins. I’ll probably develop such a plugin in a distant future.
3/ Panning is only available on tracks that are feeding into a parent stereo track.
4/ You can’t. If you undock the master section in the mixer region properties, the master track will zoom like regular tracks.
5/ Yes. Same principle as mentioned in question 1.
6/ You’ll need to set the gain fader to after the send mapping. Turning the gain down will then not affect the send level.
ZynewaveThe feature limitations in Podium Free are only those that are mentioned on the download page. In other words, the features covered in your questions 2..5 are not restricted in Podium Free.
1/ Yes, wav & aif.
2/ Yes.
3/ Very.
4/ It cannot be adjusted.
5/ Unlimited.
About the Reason/rewire question: I am not particularly familiar with Reason, so perhaps other users that are using Reason will chime in with some comments on that.
Zynewave@thcilnnahoj wrote:
Say I have a limiter plug-in that has a dither algorithm built in, and I want to make use of it directly inside Podium. Please help me see through this confusing stuff! 😉
Let’s say I set this very last plug-in in the chain to output 16-bit (dithered). Podium will still render a 32-bit file (or even 64) from this, right? Does this simply leave the other bits unused, or what happens here?
The float values should ideally be value-quantized by the dithering plugin so that a later conversion to 16 bit integer values (by Podium) just removes/truncates unused bits. It’s important to not apply any processing or gain-scaling after the dithering plugin.
If I would then use the export file dialog to create a 16-bit file from the master bounce render, won’t this essentially do the bit conversion twice – the second time just by truncating…?
You can open the sound properties for the master bounce file, and change it from floating point to 16-bit integer. That way it is not needed to do the bit conversion when you later export the arrangement as a wav file. But it is ok to just leave the master bounce as a float file.
Is there even a way to do this right currently?
Once Podium supports dithering natively, it will be an option in the export dialog. It will probably also be a global option for the audio interface, so that dithering is automatically applied each time Podium outputs audio to the audio interface, ensuring that realtime monitoring also is dithered. Of course, if you are using a dither plugin as the final step in the master chain, you should then not enable the native Podium dithering.
ZynewaveJust to be sure: When you say the visuals are late compared to the audio output, do you mean the position of the play cursor as it moves across the waveforms on the tracks?
Is it a constant delay, or does the delay increase as playback progresses?
Please check that the samplerate in the arrangement properties dialog is set to 48000. Changing the default samplerate in the interfaces dialog will not affect the samplerate setting in arrangements that are already created.
Zynewave@chase wrote:
However… i inquired as to the upgrade costs after seeing a post on the topic in the forums and some questions regarding purchase via email about a week ago..
nobody replied – this has me a little conserned.
Hi chase,
Sorry for the late reply. I hope you got my reply to your email yesterday. I’ve been busy with other matters the last couple of months, so my presence on the forum has been less frequent than usual. I hope things return to normal soon.
Frits
Zynewave@Trancit wrote:
1. Something bigger is on it´s way (what I personally hope)
2. the project is dying…:shock:
Something big is not on its way, and the project is not dying. Although, in the future I will have less than the 70 hours per week I’ve spent on Podium for the last 5 years. Once I am ready to resume work on Podium, I’ll post about the status. Hopefully the dust settles within a couple of weeks.
ZynewaveI don’t know precisely how the Cubase arranger track works, but I assume you mean a way to piece together a song by specifying a sequence of sections, like: intro, verse, chorus, etc.
A while ago I had an idea for a new feature on the marker event lane, that would allow easy manipulation of timeline sections. That is however a feature that currently is low on the priority list.
ZynewaveDon’t worry about expiring upgrade periods. I’ll catch up with all that eventually. I’m still tied up with other non-Zynewave stuff.
Zynewave@batman42ca wrote:
So you’re saying that this is a Window’s issue with smaller window frames and it’s out of your control?
Yes. Even if I tell Windows to show the min/max buttons, it will not show them on the small window border frame.
ZynewaveIt’s because the editor windows (and all the other non-project windows) use a smaller type of window frame, on which Windows does not show the minimize/maximize buttons.
ZynewaveI think I know what caused this. Your “project template library folder” in preferences was probably set to your main projects folder path.
I’ve checked the code, and I found that if the number of folders/project templates exceeds 100, the construction of the “Load Plugin Setup from Template” submenus can be skipped prematurely, causing the remaining menus to not display properly. I’ll fix that.
ZynewaveI’ve been busy with stuff not related to Podium the last few weeks, so the shop is still offline. I hope to have everything sorted soon. I’ll reply to this topic when the shop is open again.
Zynewave@druid wrote:
Is there any reason you thought a group should become a bus return group if a bus return track was inside?
The group track will only be marked (internally) as a bus return group/section, if it is the only group that has bus return tracks child tracks. Podium uses this to include the group track in the docked bus return section in the mixer, if you have enabled the docked bus option in the mixer region properties.
Zynewave@batman42ca wrote:
On the Podium page that shows “Contents – Arrangements, Sounds ” and “Devices – I/O Busses, Plugins” menu bars, I used to have a menu option under “Devices – I/O Busses, Plugins” for “Import Plugin“.
What could I possibly have done to make that menu option disappear?
I’m using Podium Free – version 2.37.
Weird. Please provide more details of what commands you do see in the menu.
Zynewave@levendis wrote:
Say you have a set of tracks (possibly of different groups) soloed. The Global Solo button will light up and when clicked will un-solo those tracks.
What I’d like is to then be able to click the Global Solo button again and have the previous track solo states invoked.
Auditioning recent edits could then be A/B’d between the output of all tracks (bar those muted) and a selected sub-group.
I think you can achieve what you want, by using the undo/redo commands to A/B the solo mode changes.