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That’s great about the Zplugs – they were already decent on CPU to begin with. I tried looking up info on installer tools, but quickly learned that I don’t know what I’m doing. Good luck on all of it.

For those having difficulties with MIDI Yoke on 64, I found LoopMIDI, runs fine on both 32 and 64 systems.
http://www.tobias-erichsen.de/loopMIDI.html It seems to be quicker than MIDI Yoke—

Hi.
Did some quick testing this morning, with Athlon X2 dual core, 3 ghz, 4gb ram.
It opened fine, but with an error message: “Could not access midi input interface. Midi yoke nt:1. Interface either not connected/powered on or is locked by another running application.” I checked midi options and couldn’t find any available. Could this be due to the fact that I opened everything (Podium 64, plus 64 bit plugs) from the desktop?
When first opening the plugs I had no problems at all, but when I closed the gui of any plug and then tried to reopen it, Podium would freeze and crash. But if you notice at the bottom of any JBridged plug, there’s a small bar with an options button. Go inside options and check the option which states “Prevent main host control when gui window is closed” and abracadabra, no further problems opening/closing gui.
Oh yeah, I checked the “performance mode” in options and my CPU for just about any plug would drop to very low levels. Super cool! The creator of JBridge said you might notice some aliasing in the sound but I couldn’t hear any.
64 bit plugins I tried included the Melda free series, Poor Plate reverb, TAL Noisemaker and TAL Dub 1 and 2, Molot, one or two others. 32 bit plugs included Tyrell No6, Oatmeal, Short Circuit, Nasty DLA, IIEQ Pro.
Molot scanned in fine a few times, but then the 3rd or 4th time an error window came up: “Molot has crashed- Last audiomaster opcode:1 – Last dispatcher opcode: 42”
The 32 bit version of Poor Plate opens with a default Podium parameter list, no gui. But the 64 bit version, even though I could control it by controlling parameters from the inspector, would only open up an empty frame where the gui would normally be, with a frozen picture of Podium filling in the background.
But these individual problems may have to do with the individual plugs, no?
And even though it’s not your fault, JBridge drives me nuts with the way it assigns mappings to each plugin. It adds a lot of clutter to my already overcluttered VST lists. But I think there’s some options to streamline the mappings, which I’ll look at later. EDIT: I just reread your message about autowrapping, Frits, so there’s the solution, alright!
Despite the issues, I may go 64, though I’m normally a 32 kinda guy. The Performance mode alone makes it worthwhile. The JBridge developer said you should have lots of cores to make a big difference, but my dual core brightened the hell up! You’re well on your way Frits–
John

ps Next time around I’ll get a hold of some high CPU “big” 64 plugs to push this new Podium to the limit. Be seeing you-

pss Since I have many more 32 bit plugs than 64, should I use just the 64 bit Podium and bridge all the 32s? That way I could use performance mode all the time(if the sound doesn’t degrade) and kill all cpu issues.

+1. I dig the browser setup in Podium…I bet it would take some work to do this, but it would be a great add.

Nope, sorry mate…but it was being worked on a few months ago:
http://www.zynewave.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2557&start=0
Frits said he’d eventually return to it.

+1

I was wondering: are the fixes made for the next version, or is there an updated current version with fixes? Thanks-

A one synth competition, maybe? Not very original, as KVR’s been doing it for a while…but, hey, it’s one idea.
Use a freeware synth, basic effects if any at all. Release song as mp3/wav with accompanying .pod file. Then comes the remix eh? Other people take the winning .pod file and mangle it to their heart’s content. I guess the remix could be the second part of the competition, or whatever-
Sorry, Chase, if I jumped in too soon there. Suggestions anybody?