Topic: look familiar?

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  • April 2, 2009 at 13:56 #1889
    maximilians
    Participant

    http://www.presonus.com/products/SoftwareDetail.aspx?SoftwareId=11 😯
    looks like this is from the Krystal audio engine developers which was cool for its time

    April 2, 2009 at 14:43 #14824
    Conquistador
    Participant

    @maximilians wrote:

    http://www.presonus.com/products/SoftwareDetail.aspx?SoftwareId=11 😯
    looks like this is from the Krystal audio engine developers which was cool for its time

    Surprisingly familiar. If Frits secretly developed a DAW for Presonus on the foundations of the current version of Podium I would expect it for the most part to look just like that. Docked central Mixer, Start page, list / browser to the right e.t.c Very similar indeed.

    Podium clearly has some hidden fans in the dev. world. 🙂

    April 2, 2009 at 14:48 #14825
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    It even has an innovative Start page 🙂

    And no, I have nothing to do with the development of this product.

    April 2, 2009 at 15:35 #14828
    Conquistador
    Participant

    @Zynewave wrote:

    It even has an innovative Start page 🙂

    And no, I have nothing to do with the development of this product.

    The “Start Page” really caught my eye. While there is a degree of borrowing going on in the DAW world I was surprised at the similarity. What was equally surprising was…

    1. The location (and even the order to a degree) of the tools at the top left. Striking resemblance to Podium…

    Studio One

    2. Have a look at the dragged Looped region (bar 9 -17) …all very similar.

    3. The small icons in their file browser as well.

    4. Small colour bands on each track.

    5. Small thin track meters.

    While you can of course find similar features in other hosts the similarity to Podium is striking in certain areas. Large screenshot here.

    April 2, 2009 at 16:00 #14830
    kingtubby
    Participant

    I was just about to post here on the same topic…and yes the similarities are quite obvious 😯

    The price point is probably the biggest difference 😀

    Mart.

    April 2, 2009 at 21:02 #14836
    darcyb62
    Participant

    I thought it looked a lot like Logic 8.

    April 3, 2009 at 00:28 #14837
    thcilnnahoj
    Participant

    While I agree that it does look a bit similar to both Podium and Logic, I must say that I’m disappointed by the looks of this one.
    And having seen Kristal too, I’d proclaim the dev not to be the best designer in town. 😕
    (Track color bars to the left!? With huge flying shadows, too! 😯 Low contrast on the volume meters in the mixer. Start/Song/Project buttons completely out of place. And all the audio parts in that screenshot have one stray pixel in their bottom right corner!)

    On top of that, the whole interface just seems ‘flat’ to me, and those gradients and glossy displays date it excactly to the late 2000’s, where everything has to look like a Mac…

    Anyway, we’ll have to see what it’s really packing, feature-wise. Since if you’re willing to shell out what, €400-500? … well, you can get Cubase 5 for almost the same.

    I do wish the developer good luck though, seeing that he’s a fellow Austrian. 🙂

    [Edit: Just spotted, the pan faders have different colors for L&R – that’s a nice touch.]

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