Thanks Frits!

Thanks, Frits. Personally, I appreciate any response at the moment. I’m very aware that the Feature Requests are numerous and all over the spectrum; you see this on every DAW forum. Even over at Cockos REAPER, where they are improving things at the speed of light, updates coming almost faster than I can install them, still users there whine on endlessly about needing more, more. It’s crazy to read, and suffice it to say they couldn’t cope for more than 15 minutes over here.

However, the point I have kept trying to drive home here is that Podium has enough of its own virtues and unique features, starting with its unsurpassed UI (which I happen to know is your specialty), that I seriously don’t believe you need to add every common feature found in every other DAW in order to achieve top ranking status and full professional use. Some will disagree, but I’m not even sure if you would need to implement much more than half of what are currently considered standard features. I’m not even pushing for time stretching abilities but have gone along with it because other users here seem to want it so badly. I’m not 100% sure it is a core need, so that should give some idea of where I stand on features. I won’t offer any list right now, but it truly only involves a relatively small handful of core features. Also, I think it is intuitive. Some of the most recent feature additions on other DAWs can basically considered ‘puff’ — interesting, perhaps attractive, but really not necessary for daily use.

I understand how much work it will be to allow greater flexibility for plugins, but I’ve focused on this as being so ‘core’ to full use of Podium and many plugins that I just don’t think you can put it off much longer. I see it as the one major handicap in Podium. As much as I have grown to like REAPER, I would still prefer to use Podium for almost all my work. I’ve become hesitant lately to purchase plugins that I can only use in REAPER if I want their full deployment.

One good ‘fix’ that would hold for quite some time is if Podium could be made ‘friendlier’ to accepting readily a handful of ‘subhosts’ — tested, approved, and listed by you and perhaps users. If we could combine multiple plugins there and also have the sort of flexibility I’m talking about it would go a long way. Up to now, though, I’ve had Podium reject practically everything I’ve tried, and I’ve read similar posts of other users. Additionally, Podium often has trouble accepting processes that need to be routed in from outside via cables and such. On one instance it nearly uninstalled MidiYoke to where I had to do a reinstall/repair on MidiYoke later. Back then I devoted a solid couple of weeks some months ago attempting several workarounds with virtually no success.