. . . that are grossly inaccurate in their features lists on the several that I’m familiar with.
I can’t remember how I stumbled onto this site, but it’s worth a look if only to see how many of these you’ve never heard of.
http://sound-editing-software.findthebest.com/
There are some bizarre inaccuracies, such as listing Podium as unable to handle WAV files, but some of the others fair little better. The site claims to be “objective” and it is — objectively wrong throughout. I think this is what happens when IT geeks attempt to deal with a topic that is a little out of their league. (Or maybe somebody just can’t read specs?)
The problem is, websites such as these use other people’s reviews to base information from. There are no nerds or geeks involved. It’s simply trying to shift different bits of information and collaborate them. Sadly, this is not effective. The reviews for Podium that this information is based off, could be from 1.x for all we know. But where do we see that it’s out of date?
That is the true problem here. There are no claims there that the information is accurate, and they couldn’t; or else they’d need experts in each industry having to review all software for updates and changes.
Big software makes it better on these pages due to being well known, and therefore reviews are biased and/or based on versions that, as a big company, DO have a lot more features. It’s like the difference between selling occasional finished paintings, versus works in progress with the agreement to keep updating them. Podium has always been something that is continually worked on; that means snapshots at moments of time (i.e. reviews) will always be incomplete and misleading, at least to some degree.
Good points. I believe their only stated claim was that the information was objective, which I think is a ‘bridge too far’ on that website. You noticed that in one section of the grid they simply rehashed and posted each manufacturer’s sales pitch for their products.
And the winner is…
“Your favorite DAW is… summary”
“4% of respondents to the survey relies on other programs not listed here, among which, judging by the number of redirects, dominates Zynewave Podium.”
this is my doing too 🙂
I’m on a Linux system today that can’t translate the article from Polski to English, but your chart within it says a lot. Note how tiny the percentage of AVID/Pro Tools users has become. It was always well behind, for example, Cubase, but it continues to dwindle. (A lot of Pro Tools’ issues has always been the price and before that hardware requirements.) I think Cubase seems to me a little lower in percentage than I would have guessed, also.
@The Telenator wrote:
Without any VST support, the new free version of Studio One is nothing but a sound editor that is pretty to look at. I may install it just to time stretch some clips there and bring them back into Podium. Can’t see any other use or reason for it.
I may sound as a broken record, and it’s not the topic, but how much I wish Podium would offer time-stretch! I am soooo looking forward that, and I wish – like a child – to happen NOW.
😉