thcilnnahoj.
ras.sHello folks,
I purchased Podium yesterday and I’m waiting for the money to go through and the license to come etc.. But I’m afraid I acted a bit hastily. I acted on impulse, as I’ve been getting fed up with the sequencer I’ve been using and last night was just pure nightmare with it. I’ve been looking through different options on the market and decided to go with Podium as it fills certain criterias; actively being developed by a one-man company, stability, workflow&looks and some interesting options I didn’t even think of a DAW could have (the suggest a chord-option, for instance).
But I acted a bit hastily still. I didn’t make sure it does what I need it to do. I make reggae/dub music, and live mixing is a essential part of that – now that I’ve been more thoroughly demoing and reading this forum as well I figured out I can’t use my (general) midi controller with the program. I mainly need it to ride volume faders, solos&mutes, send amounts, not so much for controlling plugins. That’s a major show stopper for me.. As it’s weekend and my money won’t be going through until early next week, I’m seriously considering canceling my order at Share-it. 😥 Feeling quite frustrated about this… Is this feature how high on the priority list?
Another one is that I can’t figure out how to set up Podium to use multiple outputs on my soundcard (actually a asio4fall combined two soundcards..). I bet it does that though, I just have to go through the manual a bit more thoroughly.
I really got quite excited about this sequencer. It looks like a good combination of ease-of-use and still complex and innovative options. But then some rather important features, for me atleast, are missing.
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ZynewaveHi,
@ras.s wrote:
But I acted a bit hastily still. I didn’t make sure it does what I need it to do. I make reggae/dub music, and live mixing is a essential part of that – now that I’ve been more thoroughly demoing and reading this forum as well I figured out I can’t use my (general) midi controller with the program. I mainly need it to ride volume faders, solos&mutes, send amounts, not so much for controlling plugins. That’s a major show stopper for me.. As it’s weekend and my money won’t be going through until early next week, I’m seriously considering canceling my order at Share-it. 😥 Feeling quite frustrated about this… Is this feature how high on the priority list?
Unless your MIDI controller is capable of emulating MCU (Mackie Control) mode, then I’m afraid there are still many months to go before MIDI control changes can be used to operate the Podium mixer.
If this is essential for you, I’d recommend you cancel your share-it order ASAP. I had a look at my share-it control panel, but it doesn’t seem like I can cancel the order for you.
Another one is that I can’t figure out how to set up Podium to use multiple outputs on my soundcard (actually a asio4fall combined two soundcards..). I bet it does that though, I just have to go through the manual a bit more thoroughly.
Podium can only use one ASIO driver. If it’s possible to configure two soundcards in the ASIO4ALL control panel, then that should work. I have not tried this myself.
kyranUsing two soundcards through asio4all is perfectly possible. I do it all the time.
ras.sThanks for honesty and sorry for starting out with such a rant. I’m still intrigued by this application, it has lot of features I like. Might as well stick with it and see what happens. Heck, in a month or so I’m going out of music making for another five months (a long story, I tell ya) — so by the end of the year I come back it might be that this feature I need will be there. And I just figured I can drag’n’drop plugins from the project browser – this is an excellent workflow thing. I’m using the 2.27 and I understand it has been developed even further.
And anyway dub is about bending what you already have to make something even more special — maybe I’ll just use a keyboard shortcut to mute tracks I select with the mouse. 😉 (muting allows me to do tricks with summing)
Kyran (I suppose we’ve spotted each other on Kvr, eh? 😉 — how do you do it? I mean how can I make a track to go to a certain output? I’ve only got the master bus that allows me to select a single stereo output at a time. I just can’t figure it out, tried it with sends already and that didn’t work either.
Zynewave@ras.s wrote:
I mean how can I make a track to go to a certain output? I’ve only got the master bus that allows me to select a single stereo output at a time. I just can’t figure it out, tried it with sends already and that didn’t work either.
You need to drag the second audio output from the inspector list, and drop it below the last track, to create a new master track. Under this new master track you can then either place the track you want to output to the master, or place a bus return and use the corresponding bus send on the tracks under the first master.
ras.sÄhh… I’m sorry, I’m going to back down on this. It’s probably the combination of my soundcards and that asio4all beast. It works in some hosts (eXT/Windows and Jack in Linux) but not with others (this one, Reaper, Sonar — all the serious ones, eh?). And if I’d carried on anyway, along the way I’d probably miss the modularity of my earlier setup.
Have to say though, that I was impressed with your sequencer. You’ve spent good time thinking about the interface and it shows. And probably under-the-hood as well – atleast I couldn’t make it crash. Interesting feature was that I was able to make it feedback with some strange Rewire connections; I’d love that in a host (but then I’d still need that darned controller to make sure it doesn’t make my monitors explode). The audio editor was well thought of as well. Overall it was a smooth experience – except not getting things working on my particular hardware.
Okay, now I shall return to my underground lair with that troll some call a sequencer…. Damn.
thcilnnahoj@ras.s wrote:
I didn’t make sure it does what I need it to do. I make reggae/dub music, and live mixing is a essential part of that – now that I’ve been more thoroughly demoing and reading this forum as well I figured out I can’t use my (general) midi controller with the program. I mainly need it to ride volume faders, solos&mutes, send amounts, not so much for controlling plugins. That’s a major show stopper for me..
Sorry it didn’t work out for you at this time… You can always check back later, though, or get a licence anyway and do a little lobbying for your missing features. 😉
In all fairness, I have to tell you that channel solo/mute states cannot be recorded/automated at all right now (thought that may possibly be changed when general surface controller support gets around, hopefully). You could still record all tracks live, including soloing and muting, but there’d be clicks and pops sometimes.