adimatisWhat do you exactly mean by that?
@Randi wrote:
… then the icon for new software disappeared and nothing else happened.
Normally, once you’ve connected the keyboard’s MIDI OUT to the computer (either through USB or MIDI IN on the sound card) the software should see it.
Check the MIDI out settings on your Casio though. There could be issues at that level.
No additional software needed, unless you are using USB for MIDI communication. Then you’ll need some driver to install perhaps.
adimatisYes. Touch screen is a big hype these days. And will continue to be, so Audio Production Systems like this is to be seen more and more.
Not a bad thing altogether.
I am much more agreable with large touch screen for using a DAW (21″ and up) with a proper PC system (even in the form of all-in-one) than small tablets/mobile devices that are simply not right for this purpose, IMO. Not at this stage of development.
So, even for Podium, taking it to touch, not bad. Taking it to mobile (Android, iOS) not good. Just my oppinion.
adimatis🙂
I think alot of these ”updates” are just a matter of making feel up to date. In some cases necessary, but in most cases, it’s just about being itchy to try new things.
This is in my case anyway.
I think if it aint broke, don’t fix it. But maybe it’s broke. 😉
Adi
adimatisThanks, interesting, I’ve never used the linear timeline. But I see the use of it.
adimatisHi,
Not to answer to that, as I do not know, but actually to ask: what are the differences between the two and when do you need using one or the other?
Thanks,
Adi
adimatisI think we’re just spoiled with Podium’s easy and intuitive interface. EVERYTHING seems more complicated by comparison. 😉
adimatisHi MLS,
I do simple recordings, nothing fancy most of the times. I need time-stretching for:
1. matching loops tempo with the song tempo, in the host.
2. adjust little time errors in guitar or vocal takes mainly, by splitting them and align to perfection. The classic alt+drag in other DAWs.
3. create variations in some more elaborate loop or sound creation, from within the DAW multitrack environment.
Pitch correction I imagine is more difficult to implement, but a form of basic correction could be very nice addition for tuning the pitch when needed, within on-two semitones range. Monophonic would be great! 😉
Anyway, I did try UVI before, for tempo matching and stretching. Even though it has the very nice drag feature, whereby the loop should nicely become tempoed to DAW, in Podium Free never really worked for me for some reason. The loop either stays at the original tempo, or it does get to a different tempo, but not in sync at all.
Have you tried UVI for this and worked properly? If so, please let me know how you did it. The last one I tried was UVI 2.0.6. Now I noticed they are at .9.
Still, nothing would beat a proper time-stretching alghoritm in Podium.
Thanks,
Adi
PS. Another great feature that I think is unique to Podium and very useful is “set loop around selection”. That is a nice one indeed!!!
PSS: I installed a fresh copy of UVI 2.0.9. It seemes now the rx2 files at least can be set in sync with Podium. I am not sure of regular wav though.
adimatisMy believe is that Podium is actually very competitive, but unfortunatelly it is not quite there yet. But IT COULD be, no doubt, in a very short while, if the attention and focus was on that.
Anyway, there are several features that makes Podium extraordinary. The simplicity in use, along with a very simple and clean GUI, is probably among the highlights of it. Simple things like zoom slider for the mixer, “auto-find” of a track when clicking it in the mixer, render/bounce implementation, easy VST adding and some more are cream!
On the other hand, some other small things like no ability to select and handle multiple tracks at a time, no copying effects between tracks, unpolished implementation of markers and segments, great but incomplete beat slice function and some more makes it a little behind.
These are bigger, but just as well: time-stretch, pitch-correction…
For example, I love that in the audio editor I only have the basic, most needed, most used 8-10 functions when selecting a bit of the wave… And I hate that for adding a simple low-cut in the mixer I cannot copy a simple eq between tracks, but have to insert a new one each time.
All simple, but either a great usage or a great frustration… 😉
From the DAWs mentioned, none comes even close to Podium in ease of use, IMHO, but this is about workflow and getting used to, I suppose.
The great point for Frits, for which I think he is to be very much appreciated, is Podium FREE, the BEST by far!!!
adimatisThere is at least one other DAW that is a serious contender:
I believe this one is the one! 😉
adimatisThank you Frits for posting on the subject, I apreciate it. You were a little shorter than I would’ve liked though!… 😉
Now, in all honestly, I’d propose there was an update every two or three months, when these smaller issues get solved and people do get that feeling of something is happening. Truth is, there’s a good while since the last update. Could it be the longest ever in Podium history? I don’t know, but I am sure it could…
Anyway, if a count-in feature, alongside with some other optimization, so on and so forth would be released in updates in several updates a year, there is action, something happenes, people are sticking to it, they are happy they het something more. You know how that works. Is it impossible to do such thing?
Take Tracktion for example. Now they are trying very hard to get back some interest from people, but it’s quite difficult as for years there was no updates at all. Why not? People felt they were just using a dead product and slowly they moved on. Well, some die-hards will try it again, but the large user-base disappeared.
Well, thanks again for posting – maybe doing this once in a while will be actually really beneficial for us all.
All the best!
Tele, you might have been wrong about me this time! 😉 No actual request for TS. But of course, if you brought it up… [-o< 😀
adimatisCris, congrats on your new release!
I hope all is good with you and your future projects!
Bafta pe mai departe! 🙂
adimatisThanks Alex.
Always liked VOS plugins.
Have a nice day!
adimatisToo bad the website is not english…
🙂 Thanks anyway.
What format are the libraries in? Is it .sfz by any chance?
Or is it a proprietary format?
adimatisYeah, what a weird situation with these downloads from Adobe…
I downloaded alot of what it was there. But it seems that I am not authorized to use. Adobe offered volunteerly the software, the link,the serials, the broadband, everything. For a second, I thought they embraced the Cockos or Zynewave marketing strategy! 😀
Whatever – I downloaded Audition and it was like opening an old photo album. I used to use CEP 2 (just like you, was my first piece of software to use, I actually use the multitrack for many recordings I did back in those days) and I thought now Audition will be a great tool. But…
I remember very well how much I loved CEP, but now it seems outdated and too different from today’s DAWs. I did try their TS, thanks Alex, and maybe that would be the only point in getting to use it again, for the audio parts. But beside that, it just didn’t feel very interested in it. Especially after I found out Adobe did not actually offered for free (eventhough they did) I am not so interested anymore… weird feeling.
Anyway, it’s an interesting situation and I will follow it too see what it gets to. If I can keep use them, I might do. If not I already have authorised software for music production, photo editing, video editing, desktop publishing and web. Pretty much all of it.
adimatisI am sorry Alex. Was not at all intentional and maybe I just let myself carried away with the topic. I do apologize for the offending words. It shouldn’t really be so passionate, after all we’re talking about a software… 0s and 1s…
And to end my (large) bit of OFF-TOPIC, I should not really say much, probably that’s why I didn’t actually, regarding Podium, as I am not even a paying user. I only used Podium Free and tried the demo version for a while… If I was a paying customer, probably there were quite a few issues I will have mentioned.
Again, sorry Alex for being offending to you. I’ll see you again on better times.