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I was thoroughly impressed with Twin 2 ever since it came out. The same goes for Zebra, really, but I didn’t need any of them, since I don’t make much purely electronic music nowadays. Instead, I had planned on getting Timeless at some point.
At this low a price for both, however, I wouldn’t have dared to say no.

Twin’ll probably be called into action for pretty much everything now, as replacement for the good ol’ Synth1. Wow, what a step up that is – with all of Twin’s modulation possibilities. 😯
Timeless is fabulous as expected, and Volcano – which I wasn’t particularly interested in – turned out to be quite a gem as well. Side-chaining is actually fun. 🙂

And the icing on the cake, they’re much, much lighter on CPU than I expected. Did I mention I also love their GUIs…? Happiness is a warm (hot!) plug-in bundle. 😛

Heh, if you hadn’t posted it already, I would’ve done this time around! 🙂
This one I couldn’t pass up… having fun with them in Podium right now! :D/

@LiquidProj3ct wrote:

You know… the sidechain compressors usually have two audio input and one audio output. The sidechain input usually is muted (in some compressors this could be optional), so you would only hear the carrier with its volume envelope modified 🙂

Argh… Side…chain…input! #-o
I really shouldn’t post when I’m not thinking straight, which is most of the time. Good morning! 😆

If I understand correctly, this would be specifically a plug-in to use on a track.
So from your first picture, wouldn’t you get the combined output of Nucleum, Sylenth1 and an audio input on this one track? Why would you want that?

In the same way with picture two, the actual Track 2 would still be playing normally whilst also feeding into the zRoute chain on another track – so you’d get the raw signal plus the side-chained one!?
Otherwise you’d have to completely redirect a track’s output/input whenever they’re loaded inside this plug-in. I think it’d start to become very confusing then, if the track was sitting there quietly while its output is actually inside a plug-in on some other track! 😕

In any case, personally, I can’t see Podium turning into energy XT 3, and I’m glad. Not saying it couldn’t be good, though. 😉 … Actually, looking at my crystal ball… yep, it’s right there in Podium 6.42! Just you wait and see! 😛

I’ve had a copy of Linux Mint lying around here for almost two months, waiting to be installed. I liked what the Live CD showed, and I figured I’d give it a chance as a dual-boot option… I never did, up until now, as there’s really no incentive for me! 😕

Windows always worked perfectly fine for me, I don’t have a personal problem with Microsoft, and most of the nice GNU/open-source/otherwise free software is available for my OS also.

What would be a good reason for me to to use Linux, even just as another option?

Also, whenever I think of Linux, “All completely free software” comes to mind. Isn’t that one of the reasons people like it – to be rid of the clutches of ‘blood-suckers’ like Microsoft or Adobe? I really don’t know, of course, but I wouldn’t be so sure there’d even be a big enough market for commercial products.

Hm, same here with the Fish Fillets.
When you start grabbing a knob in one of them, the Podium UI freezes, as it does when you move a plug-in window around or a standard Windows menu opens up inside a plug-in. Don’t know if that’s normal behaviour – in any case, it never bothered me. With the Fish Fillets, CPU use goes up drastically also.

The screen shift, however, I only get when the task manager’s open.
No such problems with other plug-ins.

Another little thing, though not related to this particular release:
MIDI patterns drag-n-dropped from Addictive Drums (the only plug-in I have to test this) are created in Podium only up to the end of the last note.
That means they’re almost always an 8th or 16th short, so I have to extend them by hand in order to duplicate them easily.

I tried with energy XT 2 and Ableton Live Lite 7, where it works fine. So I guess it’s probably something on Podium’s side.