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What ASIO buffer size do you use?

If you get constant overload during realtime bounce, try to increase the ASIO buffer size.

Often these kind of crashes are caused by plugins. If you have effect plugins on your kick drum track, try bypassing them, and see if it still crashes. Also try bouncing some of the other tracks. If some of these bounces do not crash, then try step by step to enable plugins, until you find the plugin that causes the crash.

@ishkabbible wrote:

Although I do find it a bit odd that the Podium CPU load indicator is bouncing between 60 – 90, yet the windows performance monitor is showing one core at around 40%, and the other 3 below 10% (yes, I am monitoring kernel time as well).

The Podium load indicator shows the amount of ‘time’ spent within the time available for each ASIO buffer. If you e.g. use only one plugin and that plugin uses all the time available, the Podium indicator will show 100%, even though only one core can be utilized.

I have been (incorrectly, it seems) assuming that the DAW simply spawns each instance of a given plugin off in its own thread, and lets Windoze manage them from there.

Your assumption was correct. A single plugin cannot be spawned on multiple cores though, unless the plugin itself has been coded to utilize multiple cores (like e.g. NI Kontakt).

Which VST SDK version does Podium use?

The latest before VST3, which is 2.4.

Any forums you can recommend for plugin developers?

The developer forum at kvr is a good place:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=33

If you select the track, and then click the “Track” menu button in the editor toolbar, do you see the “Bounce” submenu?

If you right-click a track header (not parameter tracks), there should be a Bounce submenu. If you have bounced a track, you can move the bounced audio to its own track with the “move bounced audio to new track”.