Reply To: The Guide Will Undergo an Update/Re-Edit

Haha, good one, adimatis! Good point, really, ’cause I’m not sure I truly do NEED the Guide. I’ve said it repeatedly before that, if this Podium was any more intuitive and “automatic” than it is already, it would actually play the darned instruments for me!

But, yes, seriously, people keep encouraging me to settle down and read the Guide, which I finally had time to do this week. My main reason is that Podium inspires me so much that I want to learn all the fine and tricky stuff, some of which I’m sure I must be missing at the moment. I’d really like to know Podium inside and out.

I consider your argument about the forum and particularly the video tutorials being better teachers and so on. It’s true, at least for the videos — there are indeed a lot of good ones, but don’t you think a guide or manual ought to be able to carry the full weight of explaining all of a DAW’s functions and features?

I have seen this before: You have a guy who is basically a near-genius designer/programmer who creates jaw-dropping stuff (and for extra examples, his Nucleum synth is a total gas, the Zverb is one of the best free reverbs I’ve ever used — only Ambience compares with it IMHO), but meanwhile he’s at somewhat of a loss to explain in plain, simple English how half of his gadget works!

You know, I was sort of hoping to avoid it, because “Side-tracked” seems to be my middle name when it comes to focusing on my main goals in music, but I just retired from 30 years of working as an editor and sometimes writer at the end of last year. It was a good day job to combine with playing music, especially when I could edit for music and arts publications.

The short of it is that I think I might be willing to do a complete overhaul of the Guide this year. Unfortunately, I can’t touch sections that I don’t fully comprehend yet, but once I get my arms around everything that’s currently included the editing is usually a breeze for me. My specialty was polishing up the work of a handful of brilliant writers, most recently a group of music journalists.

Whatever the case ends up being, in the meantime can you explain what’s going on around page 61? I’m just not seeing at all what’s being discussed. I’ve used plenty of editors in others DAWs, but this section has me stumped!

Thanks!