Reply To: Feature Request

1.) On-board DITHERING.

I see that as a mastering thing. If I had to do mastering that really mattered (i.e. not just stuff to post on the internet), I’d be taking the output from Podium and sending it off to a proper mastering engineer.

2.) ON-SCREEN MIDI KEYBOARD.

It would be handy. Although the “keys” on the piano-roll editor are already playable with the mouse.

3.) PLUGINS OFF WHEN NO SOUND.

There’s an option in the preferences to turn off the plugins when you have a track muted.

I manage my CPU usage in Podium by using group tracks. For example, I usually have a drums group, a guitars group, a synths group, a vocals group, and an aux bus group. When the CPU load starts to creep up (which is almost always with my drums), I’ll bounce to the group track. That automatically mutes the tracks in the group and switches off all the plugins — neat.

4.) METRONOME PRE-COUNT.

Agreed. That would be handy.

5.) ONE-CLICK FULL IMPORT of FILES.

Yep. Although, I’ll probably end up doing it the hard way most of the time. If I’m using samples on a track, I’m generally previewing them before I’ve even loaded Podium, and I’ll copy them directly into my project folder.

I record tracks in huge numbers (averaging about 70 a year), and I’ve got my own little system going for how I like to keep things organized.

6.) Overall improvements to MIDI, namely full MIDI PLUGINS SUPPORT.

Yeah, I guess so.

I’ve used a plugin that outputs midi exactly once — an algorithmic music generator thingy, on a project where I was going out of my way to experiment with different plugins and recording techniques. On the whole, though, I much prefer to do all my own work. That’s one of my little foibles. So I’ll probably never need more out of midi than what Podium does now. But then, it’s not all about me, is it. 🙂