Topic: Podium 3.5 status

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  • January 4, 2025 at 00:48 #45183
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    It’s been a while since the last Podium update, so I want to give a development status of the next 3.5 feature release.

    The current Podium plugin support is very much tailored for VST2, so I needed to work on updating the Podium codebase to support multiple plugin formats. I have looked at the VST3 and CLAP formats. I realize that VST3 support is currently more requested, but I decided to start out with CLAP support because that made the most sense from a development perspective. Podium 3.5 will hopefully introduce basic CLAP support. Implementation of VST3 support will come in a later version.

    As a consequence of my ongoing work on updating the Podium codebase, the time has come where I need to drop support for Windows XP. This is necessary to be able to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements and new programming language features in the latest Microsoft development tools. For some years I’ve had to work with older Microsoft tools to be able to build Podium as a Windows XP compatible app.

    The Podium 3.5 release is still a few months away.

    January 12, 2025 at 14:21 #45193
    lurdin
    Participant

    hi, almost perfect DAW but not without VST3,i needed to change to another DAW support multiple plugins Formats, special VST3.I dont think Clap will be successful in the Future so many DAW’s not in use.
    Good Luck with Podium 3.5

    February 19, 2025 at 20:03 #45287
    Guy Mayberry
    Participant

    Mr. Zynewave,

    Consideration for your efforts in providing VST3 support and/or multiple plugin format support in Podium:

    Don’t mix plugin formats from the same company

    That article does get a bit techy – kinda’ at the edge of my understanding. Nonetheless, seems it would be prudent to consider including some capability to identify plugin format in a Podium project. Some plugin vendors (like Arturia) provide both VST2 and VST3 plugins in their products.

    Hopefully you’re already ahead of me on this one.

    December 15, 2025 at 06:33 #45961
    z_sfyr
    Participant

    Just wondering how the next evolution of Podium is going?

    February 12, 2026 at 22:04 #46068
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    Development progress in 2025 was unfortunately slow. The work on adding support for new plugin formats (CLAP and VST3) led me through a rewrite of my plugin handling code, which should also result in improvements for the VST2 support. In addition to that I also needed to deal with a death in the family late in 2025. Development now continues, but I cannot say when the next release will be ready. Due to this situation I have extended the upgrade period to January 2027 for all users that have an upgrade period that expires between January 2023 and January 2027.

    February 13, 2026 at 03:06 #46069
    z_sfyr
    Participant

    This is very exciting.My way of working in a DAW does not require endless gadgets and options. Podium is the DAW par excellence sans bloat. With updated plugin formats, it will be all I need.

    February 16, 2026 at 23:40 #46076
    lurdin
    Participant

    My deepest condolences.

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