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First things first. I think you are doing a great job of refining Podium. =D>

Further additions to the changelog:

• The installer no longer creates the “Zynewave Podium Projects” folder in the Documents folder. Instead the user is presented with a “project folder preferences” dialog the first time Podium is started. The user can let Podium build the default folders, or configure the folders in the preferences.

Nice!

• Removed the “Relative to project path” option from the sound properties dialog. Sound files are now always referenced with a relative path in the project file, if the sound file is located within the project folder.

Will this solve the problem PDM currently has with audio files being dragged / imported into a project but not being copied to the project folder? :-k

If your answer is no 🙁

…then please consider this additon as a solution. Manually copying imported clips can be very time consuming in PDM.

How about something like this instead…

…that pops up if..

A. You have not saved imported clips into the currently used project folder in PDM.

B. You are importing / dragging in a file into a project.

C. Or why not simply extend the functionality of the Save All Changes command on the Project Menu list to also copy any imported clips to a Project file?

• Multiple VST plugin scan folders can be specified in the preferences dialog.

:D/

• Added “automatically search for missing plugins when loading a project” option to preferences. This option is enabled by default.

Excellent. I wonder though could this idea not be extended to Auto Loading a device set up? I would really make use of this as I have to manually do this at the moment. Less clicks.

• The track inspector embedded in the project window is automatically opened/closed when an arrangement editor is opened/closed.

Makes sense. 🙂

More suggestions…

1. Move to new folder exists but what about Move to existing folder? I would love to avoid having to carefully drag mappings to existing folders. It can be quite tricky to do at the moment on the Devices area of the Start Page.

2. Direct Links to the WIKI tutorials. Presonus Studio one clearly borrowed the PDM Start Page idea, no problem of course as you can return the favour by borrowing the idea of providing a link to Tutorials (WIKI for PDM in this case). 😉 There are a lot of very helpful write ups now in the WIKI. This should help get new users up and running a whole lot faster.

3. Better management of colour presets. Loading and saving. I really think it would be better to add a colour saving option to the bottom of the colours menu. I think there should be a Load and Save Button at the bottom of this menu. That would be far more intuitive than having to make colour tweaks , click ok then go to the Setup menu and scroll all the way down to Save Colour Set Up. It can be much easier surely. I think this idea will place more logical Save / Load buttons for colour presets where they are far more likely to be looked for in the first place.

A user could also set and forget a path for Colour presets to be saved to in Preferences.

4. Download updates from the Start page. The Start Page can be even more engaging, Presonus have a link to download updates right on their start page. Why not Podium? A link to the VIP forum thread where updates can be accessed. Of course if you are not a paid customer you cannot get in. 😉

5. User Option to set an Audio Editor to use. An option to set a path for this in the Preferences area. (Browse for .exe file).

Hi Frits,

What about the suggestion Mike G made here…?

Any chance of adding that to 2.17 please?

I would definitely make use of a Linux port should it ever become available. Been dabbling with Linux for years.

I think I agree. 🙂

Would be very useful. Several hosts have some sort of groove related feature now.

@koalaboy wrote:

Whilst I would love everything to be 64bit, I think it’s more important to solve the problems that most people will have, and that’s likely to be one or two plugins needing to be 64bit due to memory usage – if this can be achieved sooner in a different fashion, it’s good.

There should be no need to choose between a fully native x64 version of Podium and some way to use x86 plugs inside it. As there are clearly related issues I would assume they would surely be considered for implementation at the same time anyway.

There’s also the issue of ReWire, which doesn’t work under 64bit I think.

A Propellerhead issue. This clearly (and thankfully) has not stopped all the other hosts I listed from moving on with x64 support.

I personally think that Podium has enough to help it ‘keep up’ as it is, without having to go 64bit, especially in the price range – after all, I bought it because I like the way it does the job.

Clearly yes there is plenty to keep any user busy with Podium and indeed IMO it competes very well with other hosts. Just not within the x64 arena. Yet.

In any case we can have the best of both worlds as there is no reason why Podium cannot have two versions. x86 and x64. Any user can simply install the version that suits their needs and supports their platform. That is probably the best way forward and has been offered by other devs already. 🙂

Hi koalaboy 🙂

Ultimately it boils down to Podium keeping up (in this area) with other hosts. Without a huge marketing budget features like x64 can add to the overall value of Podium. Leaving Podium as an x86 app for too long (talk less of pemanently) is IMO a very bad idea. Clearly Podium has plenty of catching up to do in this area already.

That gap will increase over time as more software devs with offerings similar to Podium add x64 support to their hosts. There are not many left frankly. I think even Magix have an x64 beta for Samplitude now. Magix of course have more than a few products near Podiums price point.

It might be tomorrow or two years (or more) from now but Podium will have to step up to compete with other hosts in this area at some point. It is being left behind already.

Of course Podium does not have to add every single feature other hosts have but this is quite different IMO as we are talking supporting an OS which many other host, FX, instrument and hardware developers have already embraced.

I think Frits does have to carefully choose where it is best to compete with other hosts and I think he has done a great job so far. The need for x64 support will not fade away though, it will only become even more pressing as time goes on.

It is strange in a way as Podium is ahead of many if not all hosts when it comes to Processor support (32 apparently) but is behind many other hosts when it comes to native x64 support (hosts above, within and below Podiums price point).

Whatever our personal preferrences are Podium must continue to compete with other hosts. It does already and very well, but it is behind in this area (at the moment). 😉