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What happens when (as often happens with large GPO or EWQLSO projects) you need more than one instance of Kontakt?

You need to create separate sets of mappings for each Kontakt instance that you want to use. Importing the plugin multiple times will create additional sets of mappings (labeled #2 etc.), but will reuse the device definition for the first imported instance. I recently updated the devices section in the guide, including a chapter on the use of multitimbral plugins:

http://www.zynewave.com/guide/guide20_devices.htm#multi

I’m currently working on an example project using GPO. I’ve created several global instances of GPO dedicated for strings, woodwinds, brass etc. I’ve also configured a ‘GPO insert’ mapping for non-multitimbral use, which is handy to add e.g. a piano to the arrangement without having to set up multiple tracks for audio and MIDI.

a “rescan all” is needed for some plugins (when changing settings in them – such as different output-config

This requires a little more development time, so for now only filename check is implemented.

or settings which causes more latency

This does not require a rescan. Podium will dynamically update latency compensation whenever a plugin reports a change in latency.

Good idea. I have modified the normal ‘scan & import’ function so that it only imports a plugin if it is not already imported. Will be available in release 1.39.

No it just said program not responding at the top of the screen.

Then there’s a good chance this is the bug that I have fixed recently. Try again when 1.39 is released.

P.S Do you just press quote and then after you insert the text press close tags.

Yes. I normally drag-highlight the text I want to quote from the topic review box, press Ctrl+C, set focus to the reply box, press the ‘Quote’ button, press Ctrl+V, and then press the ‘Quote’ button again (or ‘Close tags’). Then write the reply below the end quote tag.

The limit for both program and bank library presets is 256 MB. If a plugin reports a preset size bigger than this, Podium will display an error message.

I notice that plugs like energyXT and DoppelMangler, which both need to save alot of data in presets, will crash when projects are reloaded.

Does the crash occur during the project load command, or when you activate monitoring of the loaded project? Maybe the crash occurs when the previous project is unloaded, so if you select ‘new project’ before reloading the project, when does the crash occur?

I briefly tried storing both program and bank library presets with eXT (1.4), and I could not provoke a crash when reloading the project. If you have a project file that crashes, please email it to me.

There seems to be quite a few people interested in plug in development. A small collection of plugs developed by Frits is an interesting idea.

For a long time I have had an idea for a multi-fx plugin. It would solve both the problem of missing EQ and dynamics in the Podium mixer, as well as offer a solution for multiple effects on a single track. I’ll probably start experimenting with this soon, after I wrap up a few minor things.

do you make use of the asio-offset-function?

After checking the ASIO documentation, I cannot find any reference to ‘offset’. Is this an RME specific addition to the ASIO spec?

Podium queries the ASIO driver for input and output latencies, but these values are global for the driver. The ASIO spec does not provide a means to specify individual latencies for each input/output. This is a problem with soundcards that have both analog and digital connections, because the AD/DA converters typically introduces additional latency.