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Tested it, and it appears that Podium calculates the MIDI notes received from the plugin to be a little earlier than on the beat. That causes the first notes to be dropped, because the notes are interpreted as having been played before the recording starts. I don’t know if it is Podium that calculates the note position incorrectly. I’ll verify that at some other time.

For now, you can record the repeated loop, and then crop the sequence to the start of the second cycle.

@elysianforest wrote:

Hi there! I just dicovered Podium and have been messing around with the free version a bit and you’ve really got a nice thing here. I’m really enjoying it as a compositional tool for VST instruments. It’s easy to figure out and use immediately – which is rare and a delight …

BUT, in addition to being a composer, I am a professional audio engineer, and not having phase inversion, mono summing, and Pre/Post controls in the mixer at my fingertips is a real hindrance – and an immediate dealbreaker to be honest. I don’t want to have to instantiate a separate vst (or an individual bus for Post fader FX) to accomplish these things which you’d find on most any serious mixing console from the last 35+ years.

I’m keeping my eye on Podium though. The engine sounds nice and it really seems like you’re getting close. And again I really, really enjoy much of the rest of the workflow. Cheers!

-Forest

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback. The things you mention in your post are on my future plan. So please do stick around, as I would value your input when discussing new features in the preview topics.

I’d like to keep the track concept simple, so my plan is to support mono/stereo, phase invert, L/R dual panning, M/S, and phase correlation/goniometer display through a new zStereo plugin. This plugin will embed into the mixer strips the same way the current zPEQ editor embeds in the strips.

About the pre/post. Are you talking about faders or meters? As thcilnnahoj mentioned, if you enable the grid control in the mixer menu, you can toggle meter pre/post by single-clicking the grid control on each strip. With key shortcuts you can click the squares on the grid control to set fader or meter at a specific effect in the chain.

Frits

From the report, it seems that the driver is counting the sample position in negative direction (subtracting the buffer size instead of adding). I don’t have an Mbox2, so I can’t test this. Perhaps the driver update is flawed. How old is this driver update? Have you checked PT support forums to see if people have reported problems in other hosts?

If this driver works in some hosts, then these hosts probably ignore the sample position counter, and just assume the sample position is incremented with the buffer size. I’m using the counter to check for buffer overflow errors.