Doug BDoug BDoug B@Zynewave wrote:
Under the current setup you will be entitled to upgrades. License transfer terms may change in the future.
Understood, thanks for the help and quick response.
Cheers
Doug BDoug BDoug BDoug B@Zynewave wrote:
And will there be an upgrade charge and if so what will the price be.
At the moment I have not planned to charge for updates. I may introduce an add-on license if I develop more zPlugins or if I license dither/SRC/time-stretch technologies from third parties.
I do however intend to gradually increase the license price for new customers, as the Podium feature-set grows. No date set for this either.
In other words-wait and see. 😆
Cool! 8)
Doug B@kingtubby wrote:
When Podium reaches V2 will it be another incremental release (as good as they usually are!) or will something more substantial appear to herald it’s arrival?
And will there be an upgrade charge and if so what will the price be. (No, I don’t mean ‘something reasonable’ or ‘quite good’, I mean in actual currency $$, etc.)
😀
Doug B@Zynewave wrote:
What the heck is a beat slicer and why would I ever want one?
Beat slicing is mostly for people who like to use libraries of prepared drumloops. Beat slicing a drumloop does not by itself change the sound, but once you have sliced the individual beats you can quantize or manually move the beats around to change the timing of the loop. This has no ugly artifacts compared to time-stretching which slightly warps the sound. Having the beats split up also allows you to e.g. move kick, snare drum, hihats etc. to separate tracks with individual effects processing.
Ahhh, ok. Thanks Frits. I don’t use loops, probably why I’ve never heard of beat slicing. Sounds like a way of preparing your vegtables for dinner/supper! 😆
8)
Doug B@Zynewave wrote:
implement simple beat slicing in Podium.
Anyone find this useful?
What the heck is a beat slicer and why would I ever want one?
Is that that st-st-st-st-uddering effect?
🙄
Doug BDoug B@haiku wrote:
I think it’s good he poasted this. It confused me at first too – maybe theres a more friendly way of doing it?
When you’re new to the program you see it with fresh eyes.
Lets hope so…
Doug B@Zynewave wrote:
Haven’t we seen this kind of Steinberg announcement/public outcry regularly on each major update of Cubase?
Uh..no-it’s way more than the usual whinging about Cubase.
The update to Cubase 3.x has been promised for six months and they kept acting like it was coming, just wait for it. Now they announced ‘Ooops, sorry we changed our mind-it’s not coming out’. That is out and out abuse of your customer base.
You don’t seem to have the whole story, but then you’ve been busy developing a quality piece of software, so it’s understandable. It’s worth spending 1/2 an hour reading that thread on Cubase forums though, just to see the depth of feeling about this. Many long time SX users saying ‘that’s it’.
As one user at the Cubase Forums said: ‘Disrespectful at best, downright dishonest at worst. ‘
People aren’t leaving of their own decision, Steinberg is pushing them out the door. 🙄
Doug B@Conquistador wrote:
Two things though could be deal breakers…
1. Notation.
2. Video support
No.1 I suspect might be too far to go for some Cubase users. I think notation has been present long before SX1!
Have you actually used Cubase Score? It’s a dog’s breakfast compared to other scoring software. I went and bought Finale-what a world of difference. Anyone that’s serious about using notation software usually will go out and buy software like Finale or Sebilius (sp?)
As for video, that may be a deal breaker for some, but only a small percentage of Cubase users do a lot of video. If they did, they would have been better off using Nuendo.
Doug B