Reply To: Plugin Overhaul Needed in Podium

Trancit, I’ll keep this one shorter — mustn’t be posting too many “walls of text” that might force one to engage in what was once called ‘reading’!

But to answer your first question: REAPER’s MIDI editing UI and normally somewhat buggy assortment of features within it makes it hard to use. I can barely see the notes on full zoom. Not too long ago, they began offering the ability to link outside, external editors. Yes, it works once you’ve set it up. I have Podium as my primary and currently have Audacity as my secondary (for certain audio use). Further, REAPER, using ReWire, can be used as a slave to Podium. This works, too, and I need to explore this more to accomplish some of what I posted about Podium’s missing features, namely the routing and plugin implementation. It has been a struggle to keep Podium as my main recorder, but options such as these keep the situation from becoming hopeless.

As for the rest, I have to agree with most of the points you made — the Host Market, the greater complexities of a DAW to even a complex plugin design, and so on. REAPER, the other DAW which I currently know best, is an anomaly as far as design and feature improvements right now, and I avoid suggesting that Podium could or should be able to achieve similar. But you are correct — the software coming out nowadays is so far advanced, even in a version 1, that it is almost mind-boggling to comprehend and even harder to keep pace. Therefore, part of this discussion is about how users and its designer struggle to keep Podium relevant in this rapidly changing state of the art.