Topic: quick question

No.

It is my perception that the DX standard is slowly fading out in the audio industry. Steinberg dumped support for DX in their latest Cubase version. It also seems that there are very few new plugins released that are DX only. So the problem is mainly with older plugins which are no longer being updated by the developer.

There are some DX to VST wrappers available, but I have no experience using those.

is there anything else that comes immediately to mind that might be significant in the difference between Podium and it’s competitiors?

That’s a big question, with many possible answers depending on what you are looking for. Since you mentioned DX, I would also say that Rewire currently is not supported, but I plan to add support for it.

Stability is one of my primary concerns. Feedback from users seem to confirm that Podium is stable, but there are of course systems where Podium will not perform well. With the plethora of plugins and soundcard drivers, it’s close to impossible to write a host that is stable under all conditions. So I recommend users try Podium on their music PC and check that it performs well, before they purchase a license.

The full version installer is not much larger than the demo version.

Me too. Podium has never crashed on me, while Live 6 has crashed many times, and Tracktion 2 clicks and pops with very little CPU load (maybe the dual processor support in Tracktion 3 while reduce that). Podium, to me, is the best deal in music software that I’ve experienced.

@sam c wrote:

does Podium recognize dx plugs?

thanks

I use Console. It supports for VST/VSTi and DirectX (DX) audio plug-ins.

http://www.console.jp

I don’t think Podium should support DX anyway, it’s pretty much a dead plug-in tech, and will be something else to worry baout gettign to work right.

VST and ReWire are the most important if you ask me.

Just read this. Well, many people agree that DX-plugins are not longer used much. My first purchase was a horribly expensive Timeworks reverbX plugin, DX-only, and I still love it (but 249 Euro…i had no clue way back then 😳 ).

Sometimes I’d like to use it (I could in Orion and Reaper), but there is the freebie-converter from VB audio or similar (forgot the name), and the reverb was more for offline work too because of the cpu-hunger.

So all in all agreed, no new DX-only-plugins came out since years it seems.