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Is the Podium CPU indicator constantly showing 100%, or is it only spiking occasionally?

If it is constantly 100%, does the Windows Task Manager also show CPU usage close to 100%?

Try bypassing one effect at a time to find which plugin is causing the heavy CPU usage. Bypass is the X button next to the effect selector. If you find the plugin that causes the CPU overload, then try to change the preset in the plugin. Sometimes CPU overload can be caused by denormal issues, which can be dependent on how parameters are set.

Hi,

@Nebulae wrote:

1. Can you take the output of one track and patch it into another and record? In Live, this is so simple, and my workflow involves doing this all the time. I don’t mean bounce…I mean like a virtual patchbay.

You can’t route a track output into another track for recording. You can use busses to route audio between tracks, but a bus return will not be recorded like a normal audio input will. To record track outputs you need to use the bounce feature. Bounce in Podium is a bit more flexible than the bounce/freeze feature you may know from other hosts. The bounce mode can be assigned to any track you like, and it will render/record the audio output of that track. You can keep the bounced audio in place (effectively muting the sources you bounced), or you can move the bounced recording to a new track.

2. Can you route midi from one track into another and record – same as in my first question?

No.

3. Can you record the output of a midi VST or VSTi?

If you mean audio, then you do that with the bounce feature. If you mean MIDI note output: Enable the “enable recording of VST plugin MIDI output” option in preferences, and then you can record the MIDI output of a plugin to the track. You can move those recorded MIDI sequences to other tracks for use with other plugins. You cannot realtime route MIDI output of a plugin into another plugin.

4. Can you assign an LFO from a midi plugin or vsti to another track’s parameters, such as pan or fader, or the parameter of an inserted effect in another track?

No.

Hello,

Try the “restore default editor profiles” command in the setup menu. Let me know if that doesn’t make the curve editor available.

Confirmed. I’ll fix this for 2.29. I’m doing minor stuff in 2.29, so I plan to release it within a week or two.

Hi,

was there a significant change in Podiums UI???

Yes, there have been significant changes to the Podium UI over the last year. All changes have been made in an effort to improve user friendliness.

From all pictures or videos I´ve seen, there was a visible “trackhierarchy”… Installed 2.28 today (I am a new user) and I don´t see any hierarchy anymore??? Neither in at the tracks, nor in the mixer…

The hierarchy is still there, but in the case of chains of effect tracks, these have been consolidated into an effect chain panel that you can find embedded in the inspector, track headers and mixer strips.

Another question: In many pictures of the mixer, the busses appeared at the right of the window…
If I create a bus (create a track, choose return 1 as source), it appears as “normal” track in the same order as normal tracks…

That was a recent change to the default setup that came with the introduction of track tags. You can dock the bus returns by selecting View/Customize Region/Mixer and then set Bus Returns to “Dock at right side”.

In another post here, I´ve read something about create a childtrack…How can I do this??? My guess would be to create a track and set it to group, create another track and drag it onto the group track…

Yes, that’s one way to do it. You can also right click the group track and select “add new child track”.

The features in the 2.28 release was implemented based on user requests, so it was not on my original plan. This means that 2.28 and maybe even 2.29 won’t have the improvements to the Mackie support. Sorry about that.