The Telenator.
alexHi, evb!
How do you people add a sample to a kick (or replace a kick, same thing)? Since I can’t send anything midi anywhere I can’t create a trigger track.
alexDoesn’t matter. I downloaded REAPER. Those songs won’t mix themselves – they never do. And, that’s gonna be a nice New Year’s present, from me to me 
The TelenatorI’m sure I’ve posted this at least a couple of times before, but I use both REAPER and Podium, and the two really complement each other. Both have their own strengths and weaknesses, just like any DAW does, but since I’ve come up to speed on both I can say I’ve never been happier in recording. (There is much to learn in REAPER, although basic tasks are quite simple to get started, yet you can go as deep as you desire.) Consider that you can own both fully licensed and still pay far less than buying any other leading DAW. I believe the routing in REAPER is the best on the market, and there’s a couple of other things it does quite well. I prefer Podium’s MIDI editor, and I suppose we all know the other features that make Podium so pleasant to use.
These days I have my folders set up in Podium’s browser so that I can grab any work I’ve been doing in REAPER and drag it right into Podium and proceed. It’s almost as easy in reverse, bringing a file into REAPER from Podium, except Podium’s browser setup is divine and best.
I’m finding folks everywhere that are using two DAWs. I wouldn’t have debated the decision at all if I had known then how common this is. Although I’m in the minority, Podium does get some mention as the ‘other DAW’ in the REAPER Forum. More often, I see Studio One V2 listed as the other, followed by perhaps Ableton Live and some still using Cubase. I’ve looked over Studio One rather thoroughly. And it comes with the Melodyne editor as a big bonus. Still, this was not enough to take on another DAW, as I’m tired of learning new setups. (And personally, there are things about Studio One that annoy me to no end, starting with the corpse gray look that many DAW designers think is so vogue right now.) It did get me thinking about just adding the $99 editor version of Melodyne (or one of the other imitators) to Podium. Something like that, to me, would be perfection.
adimatisHi guys,
I haven’t been active at all lately, but I do follow the forum, I check every day. I guess it’s a good routine… 😉 But I just want to drop few lines here…
Right now I do not use Podium much at all. I downloaded Studio One Free and while obviously very limited, it did open my eyes towards this DAW. I plan getting the Artist version, for two main reasons:
1. I always felt very inclined toward the minimalistic aproach – hence the interest in Podium in the first place, and I decided that being restricted to only Studio One plug-ins (26) is not such a bad idea. It keeps you focused. And the true is, to me, these plugins actually covers pretty much all the bases. And I like htem, they just feel confortable to me.
2. Noise/sound making it’s covered between what it is bundled with S1 and my Korg synth.
There are some more reasons, but the bottom line is I can not wait undefinitely for things to happen and if there is a better alternative (good and acceptable for me) I had to just go that route.
I still love Podium, but it is just not there yet.
Happy music making to all!
Adi
The TelenatorNice to hear from you, adimatis. It’s also nice to hear other perspectives on something like Studio One. You probably have discovered that it is version 2 of that DAW that is receiving all the interest lately. They certainly have come a long way since their humble beginnings not so long ago. If there were no Podium or REAPER, Studio One v2 would be a possible choice; it’s that Melodyne editor that accounts for it, of course, but that DAW itself is indeed good enough I think.
One of the things I’ve come to like so much about REAPER and that I only realised very recently is the forum itself. It is much like the the tone and interest you find here, except more of everything — more posts, threads, traffic.
Once you get REAPER all set up the way you like it and choose, for example, a skin that is well-designed and fully functional, it’s clear sailing with discoveries along the way as you explore some of the deeper features provided by the SWS extension and easy construction of macros, if needed. However, as good as all this is, Podium has somehow managed to remain ‘home base’ for me. Some part of almost every project gets some kind of treatment or play on Podium at some point.
Some of it may be my own stubbornness. I might have never quit Cubase had the company not been so unbelievably arrogant and lacking in reasonably prompt support. And their forum was all that and more, which became the last straw — pay an arm and a leg for something, then get treated like dirt.
Love to hear a bit more of your experiences with Studio One sometime, especially anything having any relation to Podium or the functioning of DAWs in general.