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yes, i hadn’t thought it through 😉

on a side note, as a podium user of 1.5 years, the heirarchical system feels great for me. maybe instead of changing how podium works, you should be focussing on getting new users across that first hurdle. because once they get over it, it’s all cruisin’ from there

before you go down that path, maybe it’s time to try reversing the order of the heirarchy… instruments at the top, followed by FX, and eventually all tracks trickle down to the master out. I haven’t thought through the implications of such a move, but I think it would be worth trying to see if all users would benefit from such a change. I suppose, the comfort would come from the fact that in most places in the western world (probably the majority of users, correct me if I’m wrong!) we read from top left to bottom right, so if the signal flowed in the same way it would be easier to understand.

I wouldn’t go down the way Tracktion does it (yet) but try reversing the direction

sorry to go off topic, but i’ve got a question

do you reckon you can you regedit to change the names of usb midi devices? I’ve got a number of usb midi controllers which come up with meaningless names such as “USB midi device 1” and “USB midi device 2″… could these names be changed in regedit so that when the devices appear in Podium the names mean something?

thanks

Yes, acousmod you raised a good point – I’d love to seem some plugins made by you Frits, as I’m sure they would be of impressive quality. You should still question whether it is worth developing these, when there’s a possibility of gaining permission to use other decent freebies. Just trying to give you all the options here 🙂

regarding UI: if they had the same look as Podium (even if they were seperate VSTs) that would be fine, ie using the same knobs that the mixer users… it’s a nice look, and doesn’t look like hardware. i realise if they were separate VSTs they could not use the same colour settings as Podium’s interface, so maybe a default grey/silver could be used with the green highlighted knobs

Another option is to make the VST plugins work only in Podium, with only the signal processing done in the plugins, and the UI code built into Podium. There are some technical advantages to this approach.

I think this option would work the best – it would also mean that the plugins would adopt the colours used by Podium, correct? That would look nice and consistent.

regarding paying 50euros for the synth/effects add on: it’s a question of what people would get for their money, and the actual quality of the synths/effects. what synths/effects will be provided? will the compressor and eq be transparent and smooth? will all the plugs be full featured?

I suppose you have the question the value of the plugins, really. What are these plugins for? Are they meant to be really simple, just to demonstrate how to use plugins in Podium in example projects, but not necessarily with good sound quality? Or, are they going to the reliable excellent sounding plugins that could be used without thinking in lots of projects? Obviously the second path would be alot more time consuming.

I’d like to you remind you of an idea I had a while ago and posted about. The idea is to get permission to use third party free plugins in podium, which could be bundled with Podium (or, links provided to download them – maybe a new section of the Guide is needed which would cover example projects). This would increase the exposure of these free plugins to the benefit of their developers, while saving you time in building new plugins. Some names that come to mind are PolyIblit, the smartelectronix plugs
http://www.smartelectronix.com/ (there’s an EQ, compressor and delay in there somewhere) and there are many more out there. Are you familiar with FruityLoops Studio? I’m pretty sure the MDA suite of plugins come bundles with FruityLoops, so you could follow a similar path…

you beat me to it Frits, I was gonna say the same thing 😉

@suges: you made me laugh and laugh (because it rang true so well!), great post 8)

@darcyb62: I’ll add my 2 cents. I own licences for Podium, Tracktion, energyXT and used to use Muzys. I only use Podium, all the time. The only edge that Tracktion has over Podium IMO is audio clip support, which is better in Tracktion at the moment because each audio clip is treated as an object and can have separate fade ins/outs, gain etc and I think multiple sample rates are supported. But that’s it, Podium wins hands down in every other way IMO. And, Frits has said he’ll be adding audio clips fades etc at some point. To be honest, I’m getting by alright without audio clip fades/gain control, as I can always edit audio files in third party wave editors if the need arises.

And I wouldn’t worry too much about losing FinalMix. There are alternatives out there which I know/or have heard sound as good 🙂

by the way, have used offline bounce quite a few times now with different plugs and it’s all worked perfectly so far