Joachim's Forum Page

I just heard the mp3 demo, and I must say.. WHOA! It sounds like a millon dollars! 8)

Yes, please give me control over low frequencies in the reverb. Perhaps even provide control over cutoff frequencies for the two crossover bands as well? GUI-wise, this could be solved by having two parameter knobs on two rows. Name them”DampHigh” and “DampLow” for instance? This is how I “see” it.

The reverb, as it sounds now, has a very nice and warm character.
As a contrast, if attenuation control over low frequencies is provided, very cold sounding atmospheres will be in easy reach too.

For now, I only have two questions:
How do you weight flexibillity against ease of use?
What ranges does the parameters have?

The artifacts you mention.. I like ’em, no kidding! I’m looking forward to using this as a special diffuser effect for wierd ambient sounds using very small room sizes… 😉

Oh, and the clicking noises upon room size change? Negligible!
It even outperforms the RV-7000 in Reason 😮

Exellent work Frits! 😀
Looking forward to work with this.
/Joachim

I do a “File->Save Project” in the browser window,
yet still Podium asks me to save changes when I shut it down. ❓

/Joachim

I’ve always thought that Podium has way too many tools!
As of now, there’s 8 different tools It’s ok to have this many tools, but what really annoys me is that you cannot use just one key modifier to switch between a select & move tool and a draw tool.

From what I’m used to in Reason, is that you start with selecting the select & move tool and just use the Alt key to temporarly select the draw tool. It’s very simple, but it works perfectly. If I want to resize one note, i just click the note and drag the handle that appears at the end. If I want to resize a bunch of notes, I do a drag selection and use the shift key to inverse the selection on the notes i don’t want to affect and drag the handle at the end of one of the selected notes to resize the lenght of every note in the selection.
In Podium, I’m forced to edit the lenght of every note induvidually 🙁

Why is it that we have a segment tool? How useful is segment selections anyway?

I think having a seperate eraser tool is unnessesary when the delete key does the same. Same goes for the pan and zoom tools. They already have keyboard shortcut modifiers assigned to them, which I like by the way.

If you’re going to change tool shortcuts, please do so, but do it now while the userbase still is small. I’m more than willing to adapt.

When it comes to terminology, I would prefer using “linked copy” as the logical choice of words when referring to making copies of sequences that update one another when doing changes. I would also think of it as logical to always make unique copies of sequences by default, and employ a keyboard modifier to demand linked copies.

I am annoyed by the fact that the shift key is used to toggle selection state of events in the editors

I’m not! Reason and Live behaves the same way 😉
Changing it to be more consistent is wise by the way.

Remember, whatever you decide to do, try to follow the K.I.S.S principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid!) 😉

/Joachim

Hey Max! How are you doing? Enjoying Podium so far?

I once knew a guy who called himself Max, also from Russia, but his actual name was longer, like “Maxmillian” or something in that direction.

I have to agree with Mart, the community here is very friendly.
Podium is the best sequencer ever, and I love the way it puts you in control of everything with ease. The work Frits has done is simply sublime. 8)

/Joachim – from Norway