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Hey guys, when I first loaded Podium 2.20 I noticed that double-clicking on the arrangement took aaaages to load.

Then I tried a couple of other projects and it was shorter.

I realised I’d loaded the default setup, and that’s what made the difference for me. I’m not sure who does it this way anymore, but I don’t let Podium activate the arrangement as soon as I open it; but when I loaded the default setup, it switched it back on, and that’s why it took so long for me.

Otherwise it seems ok on mine; but I’m on a Core 2 Duo 7200 or something mobile processor, so it should be fairly snappy anyway.

I also noticed, before I loaded the default setup, that some of my settings vanished anyway, like my VST folder! So I had to load all projects and search missing plugins (after adding the folder back in) and resave them all. Kind of annoying.

All in all though, now that I’ve had a look at the new layout, I somewhat like it. I thought I wouldn’t like not having the mixer and editor in the same window, but as it turns out, I was confused about what was meant; I never use the inline editor anyway! So it’s even better for me, now! Heh.

Markus, whether you like it or not, paying someone some donations, then asking for some things, then getting angry when they don’t do them, looks very much like paying to get service. That’s not the service Frits offered, as far as I can tell. You’re being incredibly rude in the way you respond, and incredibly offensive in the way you expect to be heard and demanding attention. Language barrier or not (and in this case, not, because it’s emotions, not just slight word differences), there are boundaries beyond which it is rude and arrogant to act, and you have crossed them a few times now, especially with your most recent outburst.

I am sympathetic with you for not getting much response to what you like; that’s a bummer, but no one gave you a RIGHT to say how things should be. Frits might put some people’s suggestions in because they match what he wants for Podium, or it might be a reasonable compromise. Not all suggestions are equal in terms of what relevance they have to the update that Frits is planning.

You say the customer is always right, but the customer is not always right. And what companies bow and put any customer’s suggestions in? Cubase, Sonarand ProTools? No they don’t. If they did, they’d put a feature in one time, take it out the next, and god knows what after, because people want different things. No company does whatever the customer says. What good ones DO do is, have a vision, a goal, or idea of what to do, and take feedback from users, and use that feedback to further what they chose to do. That’s what Frits is doing, and mostly doing it quite well. Your demands (because they aren’t suggestions, they are demands, or you wouldn’t be angry when they aren’t done) are not customer being right, but customer trying to dominate.

Naturally, I can only speak for my own opinions, and I might be wrong about what Frits thinks and/or does, but I think I have the general gist of it correct.

I’m sorry everyone, but I had to have my say here (wrong thread, I know, but this thread was where the posts I’m referring to occurred). I have been feeling highly offended by some of Markus’ posts since he arrived; I don’t want you to go Markus, but I would greatly appreciate you keeping your tone civil and pleasant. I am by no means a forum administrator, of course, but it grates on my nerves when a person is unreasonably angry over something for no good reason.

I don’t know if it will help, but I found when I let it scan my entire VST folder (split into a few subgroups and then subsubgroups) it would crash, and so I, instead of scanning entire folder, got a new project, didn’t scan, and then manually told it to import VSTs from select folders. I found that I could import them all; I have no idea why it crashed when it does them all at once, but you might try this, if you have them grouped in folders. I assume you do, since you said you reorganised them.

Send another one. Almost two months? Too long. 😛

Yes, well, I wasn’t going to go into ALL the details… It taught me something though! 🙂

@thcilnnahoj wrote:

With the Fish Fillets, CPU use goes up drastically also.

I could be way off (since I can’t remember if they have this “problem” or not), but could it be denormals? Does it only happen during silence on the one track?

32-bit Podium 2.18 seems to be working fine. I only really have loaded projects I have and played them, see if they load. Don’t really know what else to do, and I’m not in full swing of production since a while ago so I don’t test things much, but at least on the surface, it seems fine.