darcyb62I would think that zGrid should be high on the list as should zDither. The others are nice to haves as opposed to must haves.
darcyb62darcyb62I think the key here is to trust Fritz’s vision. While you may not know what exactly he has on the plate at any given moment, I do believe that he has a very good sense on Podium’s direction and what wants and doesn’t want Podium to be. If you’re in line with that Podium will continue to be a great little application for you. For those that are not aligned well poo poo to them as they will miss out on a truly outstanding piece of software.
darcyb62@Jaegerteam wrote:
Would be good if not too many features would be taken over to Podium.
Podium must not be an application for everybody.
Best piece of advice yet… Here is an analogy…
I’m a very proud owner of 2005 Ford Mustang GT. I bought it for looks and the rush of adrenalin I get when I stomp on the gas. I didn’t get it for its’ fuel economy (gas mileage truly sucks) . I didn’t get it for its passenger carrying ability (it has a back seat but I pity the people that have to sit back there). I didn’t get it because it was cheapest car to buy (it was on the high end of what I wanted pay). So if someone comes out and says I would buy a mustang if it were better on fuel economy (lets take some performance away), and if I could put three people in the back seat and maybe rear doors so those passengers could get in easier (okay lets hit the looks) and lets cut the price back so more people could afford… It would no longer be a Mustang but just another boring sedan… If I wanted all that I would’ve bought fugly sedan or SUV but that’s just not what I wanted. (been there done that).
DAW’s are much the same. The more you to try to make it something that everyone likes the greater the impact you will have on the people that found that particular to be unique. You are just as apt to drive the truly passionate people away as you are in attracting new people.
Podium fills a particular niche right now and although you want to continue to improve its capabilities and subsequently market share, you don’t want it to change so much that it becomes just another DAW and competes with the rest of the ho-hum applications out there.
Darcy
darcyb62darcyb62danke…
that’s as much German as I know…
darcyb62darcyb62darcyb62darcyb62@francois wrote:
Here we are , Bagpipe midi(you like or not …some people cant support!):wink: , recorded with podium of course , effect Masterverb , the snare drum of my sw1k , guitare fender acoustic , (could be better now with my new BerhingerB4),so its an old traditional Scottish song.Tell me…
So what’s a person in the Philipines doing playing pipe music?
Actually its pretty good… I’m not all that into the pipes but it’s a well put together song… Very nice feeling to it… And I like the way the lead guitar comes in…
darcyb62Ohhh…. I like that very much…
darcyb62@Zynewave wrote:
only as an optional feature because I like the minimal amount of real estate the current faders take.
But the faders will need more space than the dials. Or are you saying you want the faders next to the meters? This will make the channel strips wider, and it will not fit well with the existing parameter automation strips. The gain setting cannot be automated (you need to use the level parameter for that) so I think it would be confusing to place the gain setting as a fader in the same place as normal parameter faders.
What I’m saying is that I really like the current rotary faders as they take up so little real estate on the screen. As soon as you go with linear style faders the real estate requirements go up. So my point is this: don’t replace the rotary faders for those of us who prefer them, but provide linear faders as an option for those who do.
darcyb62@Zynewave wrote:
How do you picture this would be implemented then? Should the option be to replace the gain dial row with a taller row containing faders?
Ummm… only as an optional feature because I like the minimal amount of real estate the current faders take.
darcyb62@xis23 wrote:
i would like an ‘open in external audio editor’ button….. this would save you having to locate the file of the audio again in the external audio editor….
I like this…
darcyb62@Podianer wrote:
When you export to MP3 in Tracktion, there is only one file created for the export, a MP3 file. If you have the option in Podium’s sound editor, you would have bounced your master file before. Thus you have the original uncompressed sound file, and your MP3 file. That is different to Tracktion.
I got it… But if I want both a wav and an mp3 file it is still a two step process both ways as you may not always want to bounce the master…
Thinking about this… Here is a real life example where I see a one step process working… Last year I collaborated with a guy on a song with both of us using Tracktion. In transferring files back and forth we exported tracks in Tracktion and then compresses using ogg-vorbis (Tracktion did not have the mp3 format yet). As we worked on the song we forward these ogg files back and forth (don’t forget that Tracktion has native support of the ogg compression format) and once we were done I exported and sent him a lossless encoded ogg file. In this type of scenario I see it working quite well. But nobody wants to collaborate with me anymore… 🙁 🙁
Darcy