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@thcilnnahoj wrote:

The GBP top-align bug seems to be fixed in beta 8. Here’s another one, though:
– It’s aligned to the middle position of any visible drum key lanes instead of the whole editor’s height. Just deselect all but one key and it’ll be top-aligned.

That’s on purpose. It will do that in the piano roll as well (if you zoom out and have a big vertical pixel resolution). My intention was to align it as close as possible to the event lines. Would it be less confusing if the panel was always top aligned?

@LiquidProj3ct wrote:

Drumazon, Nithonat and Nepheton update their names in Podium 🙂 It fails with Phoscyon, but Phoscyon fail too with other host, so I think it’s a problem of the plugin.

Poise fails with Poise, podium don’t extract the names even. Reaper does it.

Beta9 is uploaded, which works with Poise. Unfortunately Poise does not notify the host when the pad/key names change, so you will need to close and reopen the drum map editor to make Podium retrieve the updated key names. I’ve sent an email to the Poise developer about this, so perhaps a future Poise update will support it.

Some more thoughts:

I’m considering dropping my previous idea about global drum map files, and instead store any customized key names directly in the track properties, similar to how the note enable/solo/mute state is stored. Thus if you save a track template with your drum plugin, the imported track will automatically have the customized key names. No need for messing with drum map selection etc. The copy/paste commands in the drum map menu will also include the note names.

I also intend to implement the custom note naming in the piano roll. This will be particularly useful when you for example work with large sample based instruments that support key switches for selecting different articulations. You could name the keyswitches in the piano roll with “Legato”, “Pizzicato” etc. so that they match the key switches used in the sampler. A custom color option here would probably also be useful, in the case that you are zoomed so far out that there is no room for writing the note name on the black/white keys.

Am I getting colder or warmer? 😉

Beta7:

Some UI adjustments and bug fixes.

The drum map enable/solo/mute is now added to the undo history.

The note audition will stop when the mouse is released.

I’ve given the drum kit preset feature some thought:

I developed the current drum kit preset feature many years ago, back when the focus was external MIDI modules and their proprietary ways of handling drums. Fortunately it has become much easier to work with drum plugins. I think it is time to retire the drum kit preset feature completely, and implement a simpler solution for reordering and renaming drum keys in the drum map editor.

Instead of having the drum maps in the project file, the drum maps could be stored in the global setup. One solution could be to include all drum maps in the Podium.ini file, but this means you would lose all the drum maps if you select the “restore default setup” command. A more advanced solution could be to have each drum map as a separate .ini file in a new “Drum Maps” folder, similar to how the color setup files are handled.

The drum map editor menu will then have a submenu for selecting between the drum map files found, along with commands such as “create new drum map” etc.

Comments?