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@ronin wrote:

I’ve tried beta4 yesterday and wanted to share some thoughts:
Honestly, I have to admit that I don’t really understand what the controls are doing. I had to read through this thread to get an idea. After that I knew that it wouldn’t be very useful to me but I can imagine that other users might have a good use for it.

If you have time to read over the help page I uploaded to the wiki (link provided in an earlier post), and you still have questions about the controls, please let me know what needs to be clarified further.

1. I don’t like modal dialogs at all. Sometimes I wish to inspect another part of the arrangement while tweaking. Maybe the new dialog can be non-modal and just stay on top?

That will require a bit of work, so maybe something I will do in the distant future.

2. There is “Adjust timing” in the piano roll editor and in the arrangement editor. I couldn’t figure out how “Adjust timing” works in the arrangement. I’ve selected events etc. but nothing happend during tweaking the knobs ( “preview” was activated). Only the timings editor in the piano roll did change something.

When you use it in the arrangement editor, the quantization is applied to the sequence/sound events, and not the events within the selected sequences. In the arrangement editor the adjust command is thus mostly useful if you for example want to adjust the timing of the slices of a beat-sliced loop.

3. A double-left-click action resetting the knobs to their initial value would be great.

Ctrl+click will do this. This shortcut applies to all controls in the Podium UI. Double-click is used for opening stuff. I’d rather not mix up those conventions, even though this is in a dialog.

4. How about something like “randomize velocity/volume”? That would be useful to me in conjunction with the other timing commands to humanize drum parts.

Coming in a later release.

@psychesonic wrote:

Hi. Just on the subject of plugins – since the last few Podium updates I’ve had a couple of plugins that have lost the ability to save presets at all, and thus lose the settings when I close the project. In particular, Kjearhus MPL-1 , and Ruction – I don’t know if it’s me or a bug so I thought I’d mention it. Cheers.

This can happen if the preset has been removed from the track with the plugin. To test, try and create a new project, import the plugins in question, set them up in an arrangement, and see if preset changes are saved with the project.