ZynewaveIt could be a corrupt .pod file. Did you have a crash when saving a project file?
Ideally Podium should be able to detect and recover from a corrupt .pod file instead of just freezing. Please email the crash file to me.
The reason Podium freezes when booting must be because it tries to load the problematic project file. You can recover from this by opening the Podium.ini file in a text editor (with Podium closed) and remove the [OpenProjects] block.
ZynewaveAnother option is to adjust the gain on the sound events. If there is a pause between your sections you could split the sound event and increase the gain on the solo part. Even if there isn’t a natural pause where you want to split the event, you could still do the split, overlap the events slightly and apply crossfade to fade in/out the gain change.
ZynewaveHi Ted. Sidechain processing is an integral part of a compressor and you can’t really achieve the same thing within the Podium mixer. Your workaround suggestion with detecting a parameter automation curve from an audio signal could work in theory, but the Podium automation sequences is not optimized for fast changing curves which a sidechain signal requires.
I did a search for freeware sidechain compressors, and I found a couple of candidates that you could try out. I haven’t tested them myself:
https://www.meldaproduction.com/MCompressor/
Molot
Edit: Don’t know why the forum decided to format the links like a quote.
ZynewaveThe way I would do it with the current Podium version 3.3.3 is to create a dedicated “Shapes” project containing my library of automation sequences laid out on tracks in an arrangement. The tracks could be named with the category of the shapes on each track. Since version 3.3.0 you can have multiple projects open, so when I need a shape I would switch to the Shapes project tab, select the curve sequence event, press copy, switch back to the work-in-progress project and paste it in.
Compared to your Inspector suggestion, this solution requires the extra step of switching between projects, but you get a very nice graphical overview of your shapes library when you view your Shapes arrangement.
ZynewaveThis feature has not been implemented yet.
ZynewaveI just tried the Ample Percussion Cloudrum v1.01 freeware plugin and I did not experience any problems scanning the plugin and using it in an arrangement. I tested with Podium x64 v3.3.3.
ZynewaveZynewaveHi Andy. My own tests show that the download links are working again now. Let me know if you still have problems.
ZynewaveGive it another try. I found that the shopping-cart update had imposed restrictions on the download file paths. I’ve patched this now.
ZynewaveHi Andy. Can you try again now? My shopping-cart plugin had updated overnight and I needed to manually initiate a database update.
ZynewaveZynewaveSorry for the late reply. If by sync you mean Podium should lock to the tempo of the drum machine, then no. Podium needs to be the clock master. You can enable MTC and/or Timing Clock for each MIDI output in the Interfaces dialog. This should enable the drum machine to lock to the tempo set in Podium.
ZynewaveHi Matthew. I assume you are using the “Export Arrangement to Sound File” command in the arrangement editor File menu. This will bounce enable the master track if not already bounced. Check that the waveform overlay on the master track is starting at bar 1 and not bar 17. If it looks wrong it’s possible that the underlying bounce track has become fragmented. A quick way to fix that is to disable the ‘Enable Offline Render Bouncing’ mode on the master track and then redo the export.
ZynewaveThere is no error message in the Podium app that contains the text “could not enumerate”. It may be a VST plugin that pops up this message when Podium tries to save the preset state of the plugin.
ZynewaveHi Matthew. Check that the downloaded zip file has a size of ~19MB. If less, then try to redownload. If the file appears to be fully downloaded, then provide me with more details on what Windows version you are using, how you try to unpack the zip file, and so on.