The Telenator.
The TelenatorI’ve been desiring to take the final leap for sound editing, and I would like to be able to use MELODYNE products at home. But before I do, I want to know if Podium is completely compatible with Melodyne products. Not sure which one of their products. except to say it will not be their full bundle. I don’t want any funny surprises if I get this software. So . . . anyone have it, anyone use or tested Melodyne with Podium? I’d rather not be restricted to using it only with some other DAW.
Please post a bit regarding your experiences with Melodyne if you will.
The TelenatorSo . . . no one has used Melodyne stuff or knows what it is? With or without Podium? Hard to believe, considering it is perhaps the primo sound mangler-fixer of all time.
Zzzzzzzzzzzz . . .
LevendisFor my part, your assumption is true. I haven’t used Melodyne. Mum always warned me off dabbling with black magic. The power to isolate and manipulate parts within audio is the work of the devil 😈
Although it hardly gets used, I have Newtone (accessible through FL VSTi), and other granular synth/samplers for such duties.
Recently I heard of Vielklang, a cheaper alternative to Melodyne. Edits sound quite convincing! Though I haven’t had a play with it either.
The TelenatorVery cool, and thanks, Levendis. I ought to have a look at those you named. I suspect you have seen at the very least some of Melodyne’s demo video from their site or on YouTube, because it seems like black magic, some of it. Pretty clever how it can isolate, then manipulate any desired chunk of sound. I had no idea, though, that there was anything else yet even half as good.
The full Melodyne package costs an arm and a leg. That’s way beyond my budget, of course, but the basic editor part is much less. Still real money, though. I think that part comes bundled these days with the newest edition of the Presonis Studio One, which is a nice perk but doesn’t seem to be attracting too many converts nonetheless. It seems to me that hooking something like that up to Podium would be a rather powerful setup.
I wanted to mention, also — that was a totally professional job you did on alex’s “Podium Mixer” thread. The illustration was very clear.
Levendis@The Telenator wrote:
I wanted to mention, also — that was a totally professional job you did on alex’s “Podium Mixer” thread. The illustration was very clear.
Sweet! 😀
(I’m good at fielding the easy questions)
@On this thread The Telenator wrote:
Open Up the Quarantine text file, delete the rejected plugin, Save the .txt file, close it, and load the plugin again afterward.
So glad to know this! Up ’till now I’ve been uninstalling/deleting plugins that make it to that list. Including ones that have worked in Podium previously. Thanks Telenator 🙂
The TelenatorYou are totally welcome. Your illustrations were kick-butt.
The second part: It is technically a fault of Podium itself but no big deal, as long as everyone knows that plugin rejection is likely to happen. Frits can explain it better, of course, but, yes, Podium sort of chokes on the huge VSTs and their tonne of files and things that come with them. The next innocent plugin often pays the price. Probably should be a small caution notice about it in the guide, since this seems to keep coming up.
I should also emphasize that Podium, in my experience, is much more stable and solid handling plugins than several other DAWs. Ableton is notorious for having issues with some, and my very last use of Cubase, version 5, had a terrible time with many good plugins. It hated anything by TAL (Togu Audio Line), didn’t like some of the better SynthEdit types such as Bootsy or certain Nasty. Just ridiculous back then. They have fixed I think all of that now, being in edition 6.5, but it used to be so aggravating. I was playing with Proteus VX back then, which would really face plant Cubase while trying to load.
The TelenatorThanks so much for that mention of Vielklang — it does everything I’d wanted from Melodyne and was half the price.