Topic: Whats Podium like??

Download the demo and have a play planist.

You may find it tricky getting up to speed with it, so have a look at the videos on the web page.

Podium requires setting up before being used. More-so than most sequencers. But this is they key to its flexibility and ultimately its ease of use: when actually producing music.

Spend the time setting it up (which is only the once), and it will save you loads of time actually producing your music in the future…all your plug-ins, external devices are all set-up (exactly how you like them) and are ready to go.

This I feel is one of Podium strengths.

Also get to grips with the mixing concept. Its a very slick one, and has none of the old hardware based concepts that people have learnt to get used to. This is, after-all, software. Why copy hardware….which is in itself limited.

Its a very new program. So still lacks several features. But these are being worked on as we speak. Even-so Podium is a very capable sequencer. Maybe not as mature as the big-boys, but it has potential, and lots of it.

Let us know what you think 😀

Hi Spe3d, and welcome,

As to direction for this app. What is the target audience? Are you going to be competing against the big boys like Cubase and Cakewalk or are you setting your sites lower?

I am aiming at making Podium into a professional tool. So yes, I will eventually try to compete with the big three/four/five. There are many months of development still to come before this will happen though. There are tons of features in the big sequencers that are not included in Podium. This is the force of these tools but also their disadvantage. Many users, including myself, tend to be discouraged when they are flooded with more or less weird options when trying to do simple things. So I am not aiming at implementing all the features of the big sequencers. My goal with Podium is simplicity in the song-writing process.

Also is there a quick at a glance ‘full’ feature list that I can see – it’s not clearly evident and lots of people like me won’t want to hunt round a whole site and forum to get the full specs – good tip this

There is sort of a ‘negative’ feature list 😉 by which I refer to the ‘future development’ topic. At some point I need to write down that detailed feature list.