SerendipitySerendipityShhhh…don’t tell anybody, but I’m on VACATION 8)
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Serendipity@Conquistador wrote:
If the amazing response to Reaper is anything to go by, then you are not far off. It appears ease of use, simplicity and an impressive feature set are drawing in the crowds for Reaper over at KVR.
Not just over at KVR it seems. From everywhere..by word of mouth more or less.
The hard reality right now, for Podium as well as many of the other smaller hosts, is that Reaper is gaining momentum, and a userbase, like rapid fire. The developer is coding like crazy, giving the users what they want in a very accessable host, and if he doesn’t burn himself out in the process he’ll create a monster in no time. Just think what will happen when Reaper’s midi capabilities finally equals its audio capabilities. Reaper also has gained some extremely dedicated fans – celebrities and ordinary users alike, writing the documentation, wiki, video tutorials and what not in a frenzy! It sort of reminds me a bit of energyXT in that way. Just ten times faster! Talk about commitment! Even though Reaper won’t be free after 1.0 it seems the price will be quite modest so I’m betting the momentum won’t slow down much, albeit Justin’s pace might.
Unfortunately for Podium and for us I don’t see such a “movement” happening here anytime soon. We’re just too few and we don’t have users that truly “burn for the cause” in the same way! If we did I wouldn’t be writing this to begin with. I’m thinking that the long free introduction of Reaper must have helped it enormously to set things in motion.
Podium is, excuse the language, a bloody great program! However, will that be enough in the end?
SerendipityMy thoughts exactly! As an extra incentive, for those trying out the demo, not to quit after the initial five minutes of confusion – because there are people who only give a host five minutes or so to get it going before moving on to the next one 🙄
Ok, five minutes might be a bit low but you know what I mean 🙂
SerendipityI’ve put links to the web page and download on the wiki…links page 8)
SerendipityI’m happy for you guys that you understand the implementation so perfectly. However, there are people out there who doesn’t, believe it or not. 🙄 Many less fortunate people (myself included to some extent) might need a push (or boot in the a**) to “get it” by some other means, be it a more educational explanation, a flow diagram, video tutorials, by having someone read the manual to them s-l-o-w-l-y and a-r-t-i-c-u-l-a-t-e-l-y, by forcing Scott Garrigus to write a Podium Power book with mostly pictures in it and only three condensed sentences per page thereby helping us to help ourselves…umm or whatever. 😆
By the way xis23, thanks for the picture! Unfortunately it’s too small for me to read! Do you have a larger version? Why not put your method as a tutorial in the wiki? 8)
SerendipityYay, Frits WROOLS…or is that WRAAKS? 😆
SerendipityWow, it’s a..a..baby wiki 😯 😆
That was quick! Hopefully many of the not-so-vocal users or lurkers will chip in here as well. We need you guys and gals. I agree totally with your decision of not spending too much time on integration right now. Let’s see how this plays out first. We need the collective wisdom (and point of view) of the oldtimers as well as the newbies in this wiki since this, among other things, is meant to help lower the learning threshold for new and potential future users.
I have to admit that I don’t have any experience with wiki’s whatsoever 😳
Sure, I’ve quickly browsed a few in the past but I’ve never actively participated in one.
I also have to admit my extremely limited experience with Podium – I haven’t even recorded audio with it yet even though I’ve been a license owner for over a year 😯
Actually, I haven’t put down any SERIOUS time in a DAW or midi sequencer in the last 4-5 years. I have never used an automated track in my life! So..uh..I’m seriously out of the loop so to speak.
However, I’m willing to try to help to the best of my ability so put me up for an account as well.
One tip for our participants would be to check out established (music-daw-midi) wiki’s to see how they’ve done things – and possibly gain from their experience. I know I will.
SerendipityHey, Welcome 🙂
Serendipity@Podianer wrote:
by the way. could you please confirm a crash for me? I have the toneport, too, and everytime my Winamp is open and I try to open Podium, I get a blue screen. Is this the same with your DAW? Hopefully you have Winamp installed. 😕
The dll that causes the crash is the driver of the toneport.
Allright, I’ve tried to re-create this…with no BSOD or crash at all. Everything is working fine. But then the only things our computers have in common are the Toneport, Podium and Winamp. All other hardware might be different. Are you using the Toneport as a soundcard for Winamp as well? Or another soundcard?
SerendipitySerendipityWoohoo! You’re the best Frits! Thanks. I’ll try that.
Serendipity@Zynewave wrote:
since there’s no “Podium Power” book out yet.;) Maybe it’s too early?
It’s hard for me to find the time to expand on the documentation. There’s just so much coding to do still 🙂
Well, yes I can certainly understand that. 🙂 However, the more info and understanding the more users you’ll have I’m sure. I as a user will also benefit from this off course.
@Zynewave wrote:
As far as I can tell, the only difference in your two layouts, are that one has all the tracks inside a group track. Either is fine. The group track version is preferrable if your arrangement contains a lot of other tracks.
Sure, that was what I had in mind. I just wanted to know if there was a “better” way.
@Zynewave wrote:
I also notice that you have placed the MIDI channel tracks as children of the audio output tracks. That would only make sense if your plugin is set up so that anything played on MIDI channel 1 is only output on 1+2, and MIDI channel 2 only output on 3+4 etc. Otherwise I would recommend putting all audio and MIDI mappings on the same group level.
Well, the examples I gave would be easier to mix and apply specific effects to the specific channels wouldn’t you say? And it was just one..or two ways of doing it off course.
Thanks for the help.
Serendipity@Podianer wrote:
I assume you have selected “compact chained audio tracks”.
Hi Max,
Actually I had seen those features and played around with most of them…just not the “compact chained audio tracks” 😳
Thanks for the quick help. I’m relieved now and won’t have bad nightmares about lost DrumGroups 😆
I have the toneport, too, and everytime my Winamp is open and I try to open Podium, I get a blue screen.
Unfortunately I don’t have Winamp on my DAW partition so I’ll have to get back to you about that one.
Thanks
SerendipityYep, me too. Great program!