ZynewaveBeta6:
I have been looking into improving the meter animation in the mixer. Previously the meters would freeze when you were scrolling or zooming. There also was a problem with “old” meter values being displayed shortly when scrolling previously hidden mixer strips into view. This is now changed so that meters will keep animating no matter what.
To make this change, I ended up revising some of my old UI code for realtime animation of the play cursor, meters and other indicators. These animations would freeze in previous versions, when you for example dragged/resized windows or opened a menu in a plugin editor.
I would appreciate if you would test this new beta with some of your old projects, and check if the UI is responsive and repaints properly during playback, especially at high CPU loads.
I’ll get back to the other issues reported in this topic later this weekend.
ZynewaveUse the “restore default editor profiles” command in the setup menu.
Zynewave@ omar misa
Thanks for the files. The crash was caused by the “Show bypass buttons” option, which you have enabled. Let me know if you still experience crashes with the new beta that I’m going to upload within a day or two.
Zynewave@omar misa wrote:
Hi Frits,
@Zynewave wrote:
@omar misa wrote:
Podium is guaranteed to crash on my system when a particular zoom level is set in the mixer.
Can’t reproduce the crash here. Can you give me some more details about how you provoke the crash?
In your screenshot I can see you were dragging the zoom slider. Did you drag from below or above the point where it crashed?
– From above.
@Zynewave wrote:
Does it happen with any of your arrangements?
– Just one so far.
@Zynewave wrote:
If not, then please email me a project file with the track layout that causes the crash.
Here is the project file which crashes (a work in progress). I have limited technical abilities thus struggle to give you more details.
Thanks for your time.
Thanks for the project file. I still can’t get it to crash though, so I expect it is related to something in your Podium setup. Could you please send me your Podium.ini file (email: infoATzynewaveDOTcom). You can find the file by using the “explore setup folder” command in the setup menu. I really would like to find this bug.
Does the zoom crash happen also when playback is stopped, and the power button in the transport toolbar is off?
Zynewave@omar misa wrote:
Podium is guaranteed to crash on my system when a particular zoom level is set in the mixer.
WinXP. No problems with beta4.
Can’t reproduce the crash here. Can you give me some more details about how you provoke the crash?
In your screenshot I can see you were dragging the zoom slider. Did you drag from below or above the point where it crashed?
Does it happen with any of your arrangements? If not, then please email me a project file with the track layout that causes the crash.
ZynewaveZynewaveI’ve grabbed a shortcut to this topic, and will examine the latency issues at some point. Right now I’ve got my hands full with the mixer update.
Zynewave@thcilnnahoj wrote:
Could you give a reason why you separated the color strips from the tracks like this? In my opinion, it just makes it seem like they don’t belong together. Besides, the rounded corners on mini-mixer strips make me think of towers in Islamic architecture. 😉 Also, it looks, um, weird now when you don’t use vertical meters on track headers.
In the latest beta, the 1-pixel gap between the group bar and the header is toned down. In 2.35 and previous releases, the separation between the two was made by painting a 1-pixel drop shadow on top of the left side focus frame. What I didn’t like about that was that the left side of the the frame did not appear identical to the right side. The problem became more apparent with the new 1-pixel rounded corner.
– Are you going to switch to using rounded corners on most other interface elements, too? Just my opinion, but mixing the two (or even three) styles doesn’t go very well. Also, what about scrollbars?
In this case I assume you mean the 1-pixel rounded corner, and not the adjustable button roundness. I intend to make most other clickable areas use the 1-pixel rounded corners. What about the scrollbars?
– Why did you decide to keep button and scrollbar size separate? It would seem natural that they’d be resized together.
Some users, myself included, always use mouse shortcuts for zooming and scrolling, and so the scrolbars only serve as visual indicators. In that case it’s nice to keep them smaller than regular buttons. On a touchscreen interface it may be more relevant to increase the scrollbar size so that they are the same clickable size as buttons.
ZynewaveBeta5:
Using the mixer zoom slider will lock the zoom on the focus track. To lock zoom on a specific track, hold Ctrl+Alt and use click+drag or the mouse wheel over the strips.
The slide tool can be used on the mixer strips. Hold Shift+Alt and click+drag, or hold Alt and use the mouse wheel.
Changed the mouse wheel horizontal scroll shortcut from Shift to Alt, to match the Ctrl+Alt shortcut for horizontal zoom.
This beta also includes a lot of minor graphic tweaks to the mixer layout. It can now extend down to 20% instead of 25%.
Let me know if you still have issues with the mixer layout.
Zynewave@LiquidProj3ct wrote:
But I didn’t have any bypassed plugin when I bounced ❓
Then your problem is probably not related to the bounce issue I’m currently working on.
Sounds like the plugins you experience randomly stops during bouncing, are all tempo synced? Do you have other tempo synced plugins that you can bounce without problems?
ZynewaveThere is a problem with bouncing bypassed latency plugins, which I’m looking at for the next release. The problem can be avoided by setting the bounce on an effect track that doesn’t have a plugin assigned.
I don’t own any of the d16 plugins, but if you can recreate the problem with other freeware plugins, I’d very much like to receive the project file.
ZynewaveThis one should default to USD:
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ZynewaveDoes the tempo change problem also exist if you use realtime bounce mode?
ZynewaveI scrambled my account name, at the request of Conquistador in the above post. You should replace AT and DOT in the name with the corresponding characters.
I just experimented with creating a “Donation” button using the PayPal tools. This forum is not set up to allow HTML code, so I can’t paste the button in here, but this link should take you to a secure page where you can enter a donation amount:
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ZynewaveBeta4 is up. It has bug fixes and more refinements to the graphics. The track header BSMR buttons and the group bars (with the collapse buttons) now resize with the button size setting. The blank bounce button row in the mixer is removed if there are no bounce tracks.
Tomorrow I’ll start implementing the slide and zoom tools for the mixer.
