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@adlaius wrote:

I’m planning to move to a nice, happy, green place (Austin looks pretty nice). I think I’ve been dehydrated since age twelve or so 😡

Austin is a real nice spot, good choice. I came from Ohio so in my world green = snow 🙂 I’m gonna ride out this dustbowl for a few more years but I hear what you’re sayin. I doubt that I’d want to retire here so I’m always lookin for a different place to land.

The only sequencer/DAW apps that score well to video (AFAIK) are Nuendo and Samplitude Pro. Vegas doesn’t handle vsti’s (vst’s yes but not instruments) so there is no solution there. With that said, most of the DAWs use a little thumbnail representation of the video and the results vary from app to app.

I’m pretty sure this dog ain’t gonna hunt but… 🙂

…wouldn’t it be cool if Podium could handle such things natively…

(**ducks down and runs out the door**)

@MelodyMan wrote:

Although Tracktion will always be the love of my life . Too bad Mackie seems to have abandoned it.

I felt the same way about it for a while, but now, I don’t know… An interesting side effect has been the shift on my end to focus on fewer apps. So far, Live/Podium & SoundForge have been filling the audio needs and Vegas/After Effects has been filling the video needs. Tracktion, eXT, Reaper and demos of FLS, Sonar and Samplitude have fallen to the wayside for me.

I haven’t transfered all of my projects out of T3 because I can’t mimic that functionality in Podium yet. I’m waiting ’til a little later this year when Frits tackles the midi/midi initiative. Until then it looks like the winning team of Live & Podium will continue on until further notice 🙂

This suggestion is something I have always liked in Ableton’s Live. Live has a small, context sensitive, help-box in the lower left-hand corner that you can collapse when not needed. However, if it showed up in a status bar instead that would be ok too.

@Pigini wrote:

I could not agree more and that’s exactly why I think that idea is so great. It is merely an additional routing rule for those building blocks. It actually offers great possibilities without the need for specialized complex functions. I don’t like bloat either, would not be here, if I did.

You know this is one of the things that made me like Tracktion. It was real simple on the surface. And then, once you understood what could be done with racks you knew you could get just about anything done.

Frits’ original idea of the zGrid made me think of T2/3’s racks. Ever since he sat that idea on the shelf I have wondered how he will implement some of the other routing schemes.

I’ll second that Bravo!!

@Conquistador wrote:

3. Much better use of the Event view…

The is a big space to the left of the Piano roll view…why not fill it up with the Event view which clearly will have info directly related to the Piano roll?

In no way, form or fashion am I trying to derail this discussion but could someone tell me how or why they use the Event View? I always thought of it as a nice thing but never found a use for it.

Another request:

When notes are moved with the snap “On”, I would like them to move relative to where they were. So let’s say…

I record a piece and I have a note that ended up @ 1.2.75
Nothing is quantized at this point.
I then go and set the snap to 1/8
I move that note, or maybe a group of notes to the second bar.

I want that note to sit at the same place in the second bar that it did in the first bar. I want that note to sit in the second bar at 2.2.75 not 2.2.5 or 2.3.0. The way it is right now the note would be quantized to the snap value if moved. That’s not preferable for me because I lose some of the subtleties that may have existed. If I set snap to 1/8 then I want the notes to move along that resolution. So, for instance, the possible snap points for that note would be 2.2.25 or 2.2.75 or 2.3.25 etc. And even though I used 1/16 divisions to make my point I am trying to find a way to retain the feel of the notes that fall inbetween even these divisions.

I hope that makes sense.