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No one here isn’t to tell how he should run company. People just want to get hearded, or how ever that word should spelled. You cannot do music with fonts or recording support. Well, maybe in 1999, but we are now in 2010. If you want success with todays host market, you need at least regular features.

He’s only one man people. Try to think in his shoes for a second and then see what you would do. He doesn’t have a dev team working on Podium, HE IS the dev team.

One man cannot do it all.

Gol is one man developer too. In 12 years of FL development vs podium 20 years development, FL has like 100 more features. Orion is too one man team, same mulabs. That isn’t real excuse.

Last time i was here, i kinda criticise everything very harsh. Because of me, Frits lost his joy of work. Well, i’m deeply sorry about that. However, what more and more i follow this develope route and Frits priorities, i remember why i start to critique in first hand.

I have told before that Podium goes where developer want, not where customers want. If customers want mousewheel support for plugins, plugins to stop steal shortcuts, or other very very wanted features, Frits going to edit fonts.. This is just one pointless example on these two years what i have followed.

If the engine coding start to annoying, then you are in the wrong job. That is you’re job, you have choose it. But yes, i do understand you’re point. If you feel you need break, then you should simply take week or two vacation.

I remember wanted so badly just ONE SMALL feature. Allowing streching on default cursor tool. Nope, i didnt get it. I even offer him to 100-200€ to do it, but guess what? nope.

You dont’t change your software if YOU DON’T LIKE THE FR. With this policy, you shouldn’t sell you’re product at all. You should keep it for yourself and use it only for your own purpose.

Also, I am pretty sure many of users would appreciate having “all in one” tool. I personally don’t know anything such a annoying thing than change tools all the time. Ye, there is shortcut, which lead another question, why to make stupid shortcuts if you can do everything via mouse / without shortcut?

Time-Streching is thing what isn’t going to happen, cause if i remember Frits told that zplane license cost 3000 dollar$ or €uros, but the point is, there is no enough sales to buy that license. Which lead to another question, should podium try something new to sell more. Maybe start to listen customers and add those very wanted features?

While ago, i mention harsh that podium is for wnb bedroom guitarist, and i won’t change my opinion. Not at all.

This is overgeneralize, sorry for that, but i think it goes something like this.

For guitarist / hardware users, important things are

1. Recording
2. Audio editing
3. Time-Streching
4. …?
5. …?

As you are guitarist too, you have done these features well. But..

For Electronic music producers

1. Sidechain
2. How piano roll is working
3. Keyboard focus fix
4. Automation
5. Swing
6. Time screching
7. Performance

..There is a lot of things what can do much better.

This is MY OPINION.

For me sidechain is perhaps number one. It need to set up fast. I have 10-20 different sidechain triggers in every track. I don’t bother to set up that “podium style sidechain” million times. It is too hard, and it is takes way too much time.

Pianoroll is good, but not perfect. Ghost notes could done better, i have emailed about this, cause sometimes it is hard to notice difference between real and ghosted notes. No answer.. Again. Well, my much wanted feature, allowing that stupid streching. You can abide for it little while, but after 30-> times to press another shortcut you start to lose you’re nervous.

Well, maybe it is just me, but i simply cannot understand why things needs to make so difficult. There is more easier way, why we don’t go there? You’re explanation for why you don’t do it was ridiculous. “..avoid accidental resize/velocity adjustment”. If you manage to do that by “accidental” there is ctrl+z for it.

Can’t really tell how f*king annoying this keyboard shortcut stealer is. It’s totally kills you’re creativity. I used to tolerate it about 50+ unnecessary clicks to host native part, but today, after 5, i see totally red and i quit that software right away. How many others feels the same? How many potential customers will don’t buy product cause of that? You never know. Could be 0, could be 100.

Every producers automation is very important feature. Gladly podium has good automation system. (Y)

Last time there wasn’t swing option, now there is which is okay. Would love to see global swing too..

Time-Streching is important cause many use loops, especially hihat and other bongo style loops.. I use them too, but i always slice it to midi and make it total new.

Since today, everyone use software, host cpu performance is pretty important. To me, Podium “feels” pretty heavy and it use more cpu than my FL or Live. Not much, but it goes more easily over 50% than FL or Live.

Even this is just my opinion, i claim to represent “todays typical musician”. We live in 2010, where software can do almost everything. I claim that 60-80% world musician use only or mainly for software for their music.

You can’t do everything on software. Orchestral and guitar stuff is maybe the hardest to sample, but we have amazing violins, pianos, flutes etc sounds on kontakt. We have nexus for bass and leads. We have everything to do quality music at bedroom.

When i say “electronic music producers”, i would mean, rnb, trance, dance, sadly today pop, TV-Commercials, ambient etc. producers. List is endless. I would only count out rock and orchestral stuff. These would still need real instruments (to sound good). Of course you can do such a music with kontakt too!

But the point is, you don’t clearly see how big commune NEED those features. By ignoring this all the time, you piss your own corn flakes every morning. You are doing great job, you are hardworking, which i respect a lot, but you make bad decisions. You’re prioritize are hopeless.

IF I WERE YOU, i would throw you’re “to do” list trash bid right away, and i would take your competion “what to do” list and start to fill those ideas. Many people would be happy and in the end i’m pretty sure you would get more customers too. People as need features to make music.

I know you hate me, you already hated, and now you hate me even more. I’m fine with that. I’m still going to support you’re work, you can be sure that i will buy update when my license going to end. Even i dont currently use podium at all.

I promise to you “behave” better this time, and i have done this. You can’t denied that. So please don’t offer me refund again just to shut me up.

I just opened my chest now with others and i hope you finaly realize that something need to do different. It’s not only me who want changes. People simply aren’t happy with your prioritize.

Don’t lost you’re joy of your work again, that isn’t my or other purposes. Don’t take it personal. Don’t get depressed. Just start to make right decisions. I’ll promise you that everyone will be more happy if you let you’re own attachment go and start a do what your customers want.

Only way to make things better, is to get feedback. Customers told you what to fix, and you jobs is fix it. Same is in music. If no one doesn’t give you feedback, you never become better producer. We are humans, we make mistakes, and we are blinds to our own mistakes. Some learn on first mistake, some on fifth and some doesn’t learn ever. Don’t belong that latest category.

Peace and sorry for my bad english

Wohoo! :D/ Looks way more better =D>

If i can suggest, do something about those faders. To me, they don’t even look like a faders.

Also you could try to put fader center and left channel output meter goes left side on fader, and right channel output meter goes right side on the fader.

Wohoo! thanks for fixing insert 🙂 Now we have proper duplicate command! Next all in one pianoroll tool 😉

1. All in one pianoroll tool (option to turn on allowing strech notes via regular cursor) (everyone doesnt want to reach keyboard all the time to find another shortcut = kills your creativity

2. Option to avoid keyboard focus for devices, allowing switch focus from device to Podium with a hotkey. This will allow use space bar to play/stop while program a plugin. = fucking annoying

3. Proper duplicate command (fix for insert to support bunch of notes)

4. Native compressor or simple ducking plugin to allow us to use “easy sidechain”

5. Audio timestreching

to caco, there is swing already