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chagzuki · Post by **chagzuki** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:34 pm

I'm toying with the idea of buying something to appease my lack of spirital wealth and Podium looks interesting.
In what ways does it surpass other hosts?

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:38 pm

Spline editing was a big attraction for me with Podium before I got dug into Orion, eXT & Live..

I find it an attractive Host, but I'm not deviating from what I'm using now till I hit a solid obstacle.

My learning curve makes this essentially impossible

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:39 pm

chagzuki wrote:I'm toying with the idea of buying something to appease my lack of spirital wealth and Podium looks interesting.
In what ways does it surpass other hosts?

I haven't really tried it myself. But it looks like there are three steps to do anything in it, which could mean several things:

1. there are 3 steps
2. it's fantastically modular and those three steps can have other little personal steps dropped in the middle to make it worth the time

If you want to get some new toys, but want to save cash, give the fully functioning demo of Green Machine a try. I've had a blast these past few days routing different sounds through it.

http://www.kvr-vst.com/get/946.html

chagzuki · Post by **chagzuki** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:42 pm

Never even heard of Green Machine. How does it do as an authentic guitar amp sim?

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:44 pm

It's pretty decent. Check it out for yourself. If I was gonna buy one, I'd get that over Amplitube anyday.

chagzuki · Post by **chagzuki** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:46 pm

The mp3s sound nice. I've never heard an amp sim so far that rivals the real thing. I wonder if this gets any closer.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:46 pm

chagzuki wrote:Never even heard of Green Machine. How does it do as an authentic guitar amp sim?

I've been using it to slightly dirty up clean sounds, and add a little bit of cabinet "air" to them. Pretty cool for that.

For super chunky guitar stuff, a real amp can't be beat, but it does OK - try the Nu-"something" preset with a guitar in hand. Certainly it's conducive to writing quickly because you're only recording the dry guitar part yet hearing the sim. So you can slap a brutal nu-metal sound on the channel when inspiration strikes, riff it up, then play around with the amp to customize the sound after the fact. As a product, it has been tempting me for weeks now, but not just as a guitar thing.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:50 pm

chagzuki wrote:Never even heard of Green Machine. How does it do as an authentic guitar amp sim?

I should also mention that I don't personally feel the 'verb on it sounds that great, and it's turned on in a lot of presets. Kill that and add a better 'verb. The present one seems to add metallic gunk to the tone.

jens · Post by **jens** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:53 pm

Shane Sanders wrote: The present one seems to add metallic gunk to the tone.

you get a present when you buy the plugin?

chagzuki · Post by **chagzuki** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:03 pm

The GUI is refreshingly crap.

chagzuki · Post by **chagzuki** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:06 pm

Anyway, what about Podium?

jens · Post by **jens** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:20 pm

Podium is great - already totally stable - that's because Frits takes every little bug totally seriously and fixing it has always top-priority.
He wouldn't ever make any comment like: 'that can't be Podium's fault' - he's totally professional

Should I buy Podium?