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Ok,

I don´t know, what problems others have here or not… I can only tell you my experiences and test/comparisons I have made with different hosts:

First of all: There is definitely a problem with some spiking of the Podium engine, especially if you drive the CPU usage quite high, there are spikes about 20% or more…

Second: the specs of a computer are secondary as long as it works (or works better) with more than one other host on the same system with the same settings…

Third: The performance of Podium at least on my system is far behind other competitors….

I wrote already about the first test I did with an everyday situation, where Podium took about double CPU than Reaper and FL Studio…

In a second test I did (of course not a normal situation) I tried to get as many voices out of Sylenth as a host can handle on my systems without audible underruns…
Here I left Reaper out of the game, because I tested it before and can run much more voices than every other host on the market, so i only compared FL Studio and Podium:

In FLS I can run 45 instances of Sylenth each playing 96 voices…

In Podium to me happend the following:
I ran 35 instances with a CPU use (Podium´s own meter) of 72% as it started to spike up to 96% about 5 seconds after the sequence was started with of course audible underruns…

Again… first 5 seconds were ok at 72% CPU…than Podium intodruced spikes of more than 20% higher CPU for everytime about 100ms with audible underruns…

No other host do have that problem on my system, it´s definetely a Podium problem… and that means to me 960 synth voices less!!!!!!!!!!

My specs:

CPU: Intel Q 6600 @ 2,4GHz
Ram: 2 gigs
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R
Graphics: Geforce 8400 GS
Audio EMU 404 with own ASIO drivers @ 440 samples latency @ 44.1 KHz
Windows 1 32 bit / Service Pack 1

The system is completely optimized and runs fine on everything except Podium…period