What's new in Podium 3.4.2
Apr 2, 2022
- Fix: Release 3.4.1 had a bug causing timing issues when sending SysEx messages to some types of MIDI interfaces.
New in Podium 3.4.1 (Apr 2, 2022)
- Updated MCU control surface support. Multiple control surfaces can now be configured in a group. Removed the help mode on the control surface and moved all help info to the Podium guide.
- Track tags can be selected using the eight global buttons on MCU compatible control surfaces.
- Added options menu to the help panel. When the “Control Surface Help” option is selected pressing a button on the control surface will show context help.
- Added “Detected device” fields to the Control Surfaces page in the Interfaces dialog.
- Removed the outdated driver time stamp option from the MIDI interfaces setup.
New in Podium 3.4.0 (Apr 2, 2022)
- The entire Podium codebase has been revised to bring it up to date with modern coding practices and standards. The 3.4.x releases will be the last to support Windows XP.
New in Podium 3.3.3 (Apr 2, 2022)
- Added “Plugin Database” command to the Setup menu. This will open the plugin database on a separate project page.
- The plugin database page has a new panel with controls for configuring and scanning plugin folders.
- The New Project page has been redesigned. The plugin and arrangement options have been removed.
- Added dye and center options for the project wallpaper image.
- Added a visual separation of the recent project tiles on the Start page.
New in Podium 3.3.1 (Oct 24, 2018)
- The menu commands for saving project and track templates opens a standard file dialog instead of the previous custom dialogs.
- Track template files can be dragged from the file browser onto the tracks region.
- Included “Save Project As” in the arrangement editor File menu.
- Fix:
- Saving track templates was not working properly in the 3.3.0 release.
- Keyboard image in notes region was not drawn properly when contrast was set to less than 100%.
New in Podium 3.2.4 (Mar 18, 2014)
- Added four new toolbar buttons for toggling visibility of navigator, marker, tempo and velocity regions. The buttons are not included in the default editors, but can be added with the toolbar properties dialog
- Added ‘Show draggable title bar’ option to Mixer and Embedded region dialogs
- Removed line height setting from the Event List region dialog
- Podium can create a PodiumDebugLog.txt file for diagnostics of ASIO drivers. Add the line “DebugLog=1? under the “[Settings]” line in Podium.ini to enable creation of the log file
- Fix: Solved an issue with Prodipe ASIO driver initialization
New in Podium 3.2.3 (Feb 7, 2014)
- Moved the help panel from below the inspector to a separate sidebar on the right side of the project window. The sidebar can be shown/hidden by clicking the “Help” tab above the sidebar.
- Adjusted the layout of the inspector rack panel.
- The preferences “Default button size” setting now also controls the line height of list boxes.
- The default font is changed to Segoe UI when running Windows Vista or later.
- Reduced contrast in default metal texture background and updated the design of the splash screen.
- Added “Sound cache maximum memory usage” setting to preferences. Default is 512 MB. Previously Podium would use up to half the available free memory for sound caching. This new maximum setting can help reserve memory for loading memory intensive plugins.
- Fix: The auto-assigned audio input mapping was not assigned properly when loop recording on a composite track.
- Fix: Podium x86 running on 64-bit Windows did not properly detect VST folders in Program Files (x86).
- Fix: The project browser context menu showed a blank line for the “New Object” sub menu.
New in Podium 3.2.2 (Dec 23, 2013)
- Podium licensees with an active upgrade period can download a new bonus plugin zip file from their account page. This includes a licensed full version of the Tone2 Warmverb multi-effect VST plugin (both x86 and x64). Tone2 are kindly offering this as a gift for Zynewave Podium licensees, representing a value of US$65
- Changed the default installation path for the bundled zPlugins to the Steinberg recommended “VST2? subfolder in the Common Files system folder. This makes it easier to use the zPlugins in other hosts. Previously the default installation path was a subfolder of the Podium installation folder. Users that upgrade from a previous Podium version may need to add the VST2 path to the VST scan folders in the Podium preferences
- Updated the ReWire.dll support libraries bundled in the Podium installer to the latest ReWire 2.6.4 version
- The Audio/MIDI dialog shows an error message if a MIDI interface is selected as both a MIDI device and a control surface
- Fix: Check for disconnected USB MIDI interfaces was not done properly on Podium startup. An error dialog will appear on startup if any interfaces have become unavailable
New in Podium 3.2.1 (Dec 23, 2013)
- The Podium Guide PDF file has been removed from the installer and replaced by an updated Podium Guide html document.
- Context help is using the installed Podium Guide html document instead of the old online guide on the zynewave.com wiki website. Context help can be opened by clicking Help buttons in dialog windows or by pressing Shift+F1 with the mouse cursor positioned on an element in the Podium UI.
- Included a new Podium Release History html document that collects all release notes starting with the first public release in 2004. The document can be opened from the Podium Help menu or the Podium program group in the Windows start menu.
- The Podium setup file stores plugin paths separately for 32-bit and 64-bit. This eliminates the need to reconfigure the plugin paths when switching between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Podium.
- When Podium tries to detect VST plugin folder locations, it now also looks in “Program Files\Common” and any subfolders named either VstPlugins or VST2.
- Improved security when saving project and sound files. A saved file is now flushed to disk before the temporary backup file is deleted. This should prevent cases where a file could become corrupt if the PC power was switched off before the harddisk had flushed its write cache to the physical drive.
- Fix: The plugin quarantine list and plugin crash logfile used during plugin scanning were not working correctly due to a Unicode file format mismatch.
New in Podium 3.2.0 (Dec 23, 2013)
- Note editor: Added “Adjust Velocities…” to the edit menu. The edit dialog contains controls for: Value, strength, offset, randomization and preview. Enabling the “Clipboard” option will fetch the velocity value from the first available note event on the clipboard
- Note editor: Added “Adjust Transposition…” to the edit menu. The edit dialog contains controls for octaves and semitones as well as a preview option
- Note editor: Added “Invert Notes”, “Reverse Notes”, “Invert Velocities”, “Reverse Velocities” to the edit menu
- Velocity region: Alt+Click+Drag over note bars to offset velocities. Offset amount is controlled by dragging up/down. A horizontal offset alignment line is drawn while dragging
- Velocity region: Ctrl+Click+Drag to adjust velocities of selected events. Up/down offsets velocities. Left/right compresses/expands dynamic range centered around clicked velocity value
- Velocity region: Shift+Click to start dragging a marquee selection of note events whose velocities fall within the marquee
- Curve editor: Added “Adjust Points…” to the edit menu. The edit dialog contains controls for: Value, strength, offset, randomization and preview. Selecting the “Clipboard” option will fetch the point value from the first available point event on the clipboard. If the edited curve sequence controls gain or send levels, the values are entered as dB. MIDI parameters use 0-127 value range, and all other paremeters use percentage values
- Arrangement editor: Added “Adjust Sound Events…” to the edit menu. The edit dialog contains controls for: Gain value, gain strength, gain offset, panning, fade-in/out times and curve shape, and clipboard option
- Reorganized the edit menu. Inactive menu commands that were previously hidden are now shown as grayed out, to make the appearance of the edit menu more consistent
- The bus return section (optionally shown docked in the mixer) no longer includes parent group tracks
- Updated the bundled zPlugins to support Unicode preset and parameter names