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.