Podium is a modern production host that integrates audio recording, VST plug-ins and external MIDI and audio gear. An object based project structure allows for advanced media and device management. Limitations of Podium Free compared to the commercial version:. MIDI interface setup is limited to one input and one output. 64-bit mixer engine option is disabled. Plugin multiprocessing is disabled. ReWire is disabled.
Surround-sound playback is disabled. The disabled plugin multiprocessing option means that only one CPU core will be used when processing plugins. If you have a dual-core CPU you will be able to use 50% of your available CPU power before the Podium CPU indicator overloads. Podium Free still uses all available CPU cores for various tasks such as GUI updates and disk streaming. 5 / 5 Greatest free DAW available without any doubt!
In terms to versatility, Quality, Grafical Interface, it just comes up with everything that a composer needs to get his daily 'brain-o-gasm' on his DAW workarounds. Also, it's user friendly, PC Performance friendly and of course 100% free. Pdf file upload in joomla templates. What do you want more? The only other free alternative that is at least almost equal to this awesome DAW seems to be Reaper nowadays. It might be a matter of your personal taste, which one suits better for composers, but me at least, preferes this one.
REAPER is a professional Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). If you're unfamiliar with the jargon, essentially this means that the program is a high-end and very configurable digital recording studio. You can import any audio or MIDI source, maybe plug in a microphone to record something, then loop, pitch.