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Shells
Shells
Shells provides you with a 1-click, powerful virtual desktop environment, driven by a cloud computer, without leaving your browser! It's your personal workspace in the cloud. Shells are virtual desktop cloud computers. Access Shells with any web-enabled device. Shells gives you the cloud for your computer! Shells are Intel powered cloud computers that are always on, just like a desktop computer. Additionally, you’ll never miss anything with push notifications! The one-device-life has arrived! Run full desktop software, including but not limited to desktop grade browsers, desktop grade office applications, and even software development, music and media production applications and much more! Shells lets you run multiple apps at the same time and position them however you want. There are no rules or restrictions here! Run anything you want, anywhere you want, in any way you want!Starting Price: $4.95 per month -
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Ashampoo Soundstage Pro
Ashampoo
Surround sound is something to behold. But is your PC system connected to a surround system? With Ashampoo Soundstage Pro, you can experience vivid surround sound through your regular headphones! You won't believe how rich your audio can sound without a dedicated surround system! The virtual sound card sits between your real sound card and your headphones. Ashampoo Soundstage Pro processes all audio signals on your PC and alters them to simulate how they would sound on an actual surround system. The altered signal is then sent to your headphones, giving you the full surround experience without dedicated audio hardware! The audio environments built into the software were created by experts in world-class recording studios! Since they are spaced apart, our ears enable us to hear in 3D based on which ear the sound hits first. Ashampoo Soundstage Pro uses this to create a true surround experience without surround equipment!Starting Price: $27.99 -
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AudioDirector
Cyberlink
No production is complete without sound design. Visually intuitive and stocked with tools and effects to master your production, AudioDirector is the comprehensive audio workstation for multi-tracking, mixing, editing and sound restoration. Export your entire audio project from AudioDirector directly into PowerDirector and vice versa. Your audio and video project edits synchronize perfectly between the two apps. Let powerful AI tools create the perfect recording environment, anywhere. Remove wind gusts, reverb, and echo from audio clips intelligently so dialogue and ambient sounds are clearly heard. Throw your vocals through professional tone filters – or create your own. Instantly fix pitch issues and achieve perfect intonation. Want to use a music track without the distracting vocals? Extract pristine instrumental tracks from your favorite songs. Get the most out of your mix with complete track control and comparison. Combine and apply multiple effects at the same time.Starting Price: $96.99 -
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Beatformer
accusonus
Effortlessly shape the sound of your beats with 4 intuitive controls, Boom, Punch, Squash and Air. Blend analog-style processing with modern digital technology. Transparently fine tune or fully transform your beats with the turn of a simple dial. With over a dozen different processors under the hood, Beatformer allows you to breathe new life into your beats. Glue your drum mix together, bring energy into overprocessed loops, easily enhance your beat’s dynamics, add colour and personal character to your beats. Add substance to thin sounds, and instantly transform the sound of your beats. Behind the simple and intuitive user interface of Beatformer is a complex signal flow which is described in the diagram. In the following sections we will discuss each of Beatform control in more detail. You can use Air to excite the high end or tame excessive high frequencies. Air is a bipolar control. From 0.0 to 10.0 Air will dynamically add harmonics to the high frequencies of the signal.Starting Price: $99 one-time payment -
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Regroover
Accusonus
Use Regroover's Artificial-Intelligence engine and get previously-unreachable sounds from inside your audio samples. Craft the isolated beat elements to create your personal drum kits. Instantly remix your loops and create your own loop variations. Unmix your loops and create new drum kits from isolated beat elements. Independently adjust the volume, panning and add effects on seperated sound layers. Create and remix new patterns from seperated sound layers of your audio files. Export and save the isolated beat elements and layers as WAV / AIFF audio files. Extract sounds from Layers and drag them to their own trigger pads. Edit extracted sounds via the expansion kit mixer and effects. Use multiple pattern lengths to create new straight beats or polyrhythms.Starting Price: $219 one-time payment -
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Rhythmiq
Accusonus
Rhythmiq allows you to instantly jam with your beats. Get unlimited beat variations with the turn of a single knob. Generate and save new Rhythmiq patterns and instantly create fills and build-ups. Enable your A.I. Beat Assistant and let Rhythmiq perform your beats in real-time like when you are jamming with a human band-mate. Jam with your beats like never before. Get unlimited beat variations with the turn of a single knob. Generate and save new Rhythmiq patterns and create breaks and build-ups. Enable your A.I. Beat Assistant and let Rhythmiq perform your beats in real-time, like you were jamming with a human band-mate. Your new "virtual electronic drummer" analyzes your beats and introduces nuanced micro-variations or musical, evolving changes. This will allow to focus on other parts of your music while your beat is organically evolving.Starting Price: $149 one-time payment -
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Acoustica
Acon Digital
Acoustica 7.5 is the perfect solution for audio editing, podcast creation, mastering and audio restoration on both Mac and PC. The application is available in a Premium Edition and a lower cost Standard Edition. Both include a powerful and sample accurate clip editor that lets you navigate and edit single track audio with pristine quality. You can also create multitrack sessions where you can import or record audio clips to separate tracks that you can mix and process. The new spectral editing mode in Acoustica Premium Edition 7.5 allows precise restoration work since processing can be limited to isolated regions in time and frequency. Selection tools such as brush, freehand or magic wand are available. The retouch tool removes noise based on a freely selectable reference from the surrounding audio. Mix audio from different tracks in real-time, insert audio effects or create cross-fades easily in multitrack sessions.Starting Price: $61.12 one-time payment -
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Auto-Tune
Antares
Auto-Tune Pro is the most advanced edition of Auto-Tune. It includes auto mode, for real-time correction and effects, graph mode, for detailed pitch and time editing, and the Auto-Key plug-in for automatic key and scale detection. Auto-Tune Pro also includes classic mode, for the celebrated “Auto-Tune 5 sound,” Flex-Tune and Humanize for more transparent and natural-sounding tuning, Throat Modeling for subtle or extreme vocal transformations, and Transpose for real-time pitch-shifting with automatic formant correction. Low latency processing lets you perform through Auto-Tune Pro in real-time on stage or in the studio, without worrying about distracting delay. Both the auto mode and graph mode interfaces are designed to offer the most efficient, flexible, and intuitive workflow for professional users and beginners alike. Auto mode includes two unique screen views, basic view gives you quick and easy access to the core features of auto mode, and advanced view unlocks the powerful MIDI.Starting Price: $399 one-time payment -
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Melodyne
Melodyne
Your key to the music in the audio files. Melodyne is used every day in major studios worldwide and by thousands of professionals. To correct, perfect, reshape and restructure vocals, samples and recordings of all kinds in the highest quality. In a far-reaching, intuitive and musical way only Melodyne makes possible. Find out more about the Grammy-award-winning tool that has revolutionized the way audio is handled and become an integral part of modern music production. Melodyne grants you unrivaled access to all the musical details in your recordings and samples, note by note. This is made possible by a sophisticated analysis that delves deeply into your recordings and samples and recognizes and understands the musical relationships within them, the individual notes and their characteristics, the scales, keys and chords, the timing, the tempo, the tone color. And with Melodyne you can edit all these things intuitively.Starting Price: $99 one-time payment -
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AudioLava
Acon Digital
AudioLava is the ideal audio cleaning software for restoring and recording high-quality audio from LP or tape to CD. The new version now runs on both Macintosh and Windows PCs and comes with a modern dark theme that appears crystal sharp on retina-style displays. The user-friendly interface helps to find the best way to bring old recordings back to life and guides the user through all the steps from recording, file import and track splitting to restoration and CD burning. You can remove noise such as tape hiss, hum or clicks and crackle on LP records as well as improve clipped audio. The algorithms are based on our award-winning audio restoration technology but offers a simplified user interface that makes the restoration process easier. Recordings are automatically split into separate tracks, which can also be edited manually. The large set of integrated tools range from dynamic processing and equalization to highly realistic reverb.Starting Price: $30.50 one-time payment -
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Krotos Reformer Pro
Krotos
Design, automate, and perform sound effects in real-time. You do your best sound design work when you get the right sound from your head in sync with the scene. Reformer Pro offers a new and intuitive way of designing sound, helping you achieve this as quickly as you can think of it. Discover inspirational ways to refine your sound design workflow. Reformer Pro’s patented technology allows you to quickly perform Foley, add textures, and easily replace any sound, saving you hours of editing time. Perform your Foley, animal, sci-fi, or impact sound effects instantly and intuitively within your DAW, saving you hours of editing. Easily capture subtle movement and nuance that elevate your project’s quality. Reformer Pro’s award-winning patented technology allows you to quickly add textures, easily replace any sound and discover inspirational new ways to maximize your sound design workflow.Starting Price: $399 one-time payment -
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Krotos Dehumaniser 2
Krotos
Dehumaniser 2 gives sound designers the tools to process countless vocal scenarios from within one plugin. No need for additional software. Dehumaniser 2 is a powerful vocal processor for designing complex vocal sound effects and processing dialogue. Create creatures, monsters, and robots easily and quickly with Dehumaniser 2’s intuitive and modular workflow. Customize and combine effects modules for unlimited creative possibilities, or get started straight away with 100 ready-to-go presets. Dehumaniser 2 is the all-in-one solution that puts vital vocal sound design features at your fingertips, making it the ideal plugin for use in film, TV, video games, live performance, and more. This versatile vocal processor eliminates the difficulty of setting up complex processing chains and allows designers to jump right into their creative work. Use Dehumaniser 2 to sound design voice processing that reacts to the dynamics of the incoming signal.Starting Price: $399 one-time payment -
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Krotos Concept 2
Krotos
Concept 2 is everything you want in a modern synth plugin, beautiful sounds without the complexity of operation found in many other synths. Your time is valuable, and so we wanted to give you access to a rich sound design palette without having to spend time learning how to use it. With Concept 2, you can get lost in the music, not the manual. We designed Concept 2 for musicians, producers, composers, sound designers, and post-production professionals who want to create sounds fast. Here are just some of the highlights of the benefits of creating sounds with Concept 2. With tons of great-sounding presets from top artists, including Roni Size, Richard Devine, and Kayla Painter, there’s every chance you’ll find a sound that works right out of the box. Cinematic lush pads, organic soundscapes, stirring strings, killer bass synths, screaming leads, and more. Presets are a great starting point, but Concept 2 gives you access to almost limitless routing parameters to shape the sound.Starting Price: $149 one-time payment -
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Krotos Igniter
Krotos
Igniter is a one-stop solution for designing, performing, and automating vehicles directly in your DAW. From everyday vehicles, sports cars, motorbikes, planes, helicopters, spacecraft, drones, or anything you can imagine. Select from over 20 high-quality performable vehicles including Ford F150, Harley Davidson, Audi R8 and more. Process vehicle sound effects as part of a powerful, hybrid workflow using granular, synth, one-shot, or loop modules. Igniter will save hours of editing and will allow you to perform your vehicle sound effects via MIDI or change the length or type of sound in a complex vehicle scene in seconds. Design vehicles with automation and eliminate the time-consuming elements of vehicle sound effects. Follow along to your footage on-screen as you design, with a flexible and quick workflow. Add a doppler effect to any preset in Igniter instantly, and perform the movement of a vehicle through a space, or as it moves past the viewer.Starting Price: $478.80 one-time payment -
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Free Audio Editor
Free Audio Editor
Free Audio Editor can digitize sound recordings of your rare music cassette tapes, vinyl LPs, and videos, creating standard digital sound files. Timer and input level triggered recording is included. There is a button to activate the system Windows Mixer without visiting the control panel. The recording can be directly loaded into the waveform window for further perfection. You can edit audio using the traditional waveform view or the frequency-based spectral display which makes it easy to isolate and remove unwanted noise. Intuitive cut/copy/paste/trim/mute and more actions can be performed easily. The selection tools make the editing operations performed with millisecond precision. Enhance your audio with more than 30 native signal and effects processing engines, including compression, EQ, fade in/out, delay, chorus, reverb, time stretching, pitch shifting, and more. It significantly increases your audio processing capabilities.Starting Price: Free -
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Switch
NCH Software
Switch is one of the most stable, easy-to-use, and comprehensive multi-format audio file converters available. With Switch, you can convert WMA, WAV, CDS, AIFF, MPEG, AVI and more to MP3 files or vice-versa. You can extract audio from your video files and instantly normalize sound levels. Switch MP3 converter supports more than 75 common audio file formats, so you will always have the file format that you need.Starting Price: $50 -
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Dexster Audio Editor
Softdiv Software
Dexster is a perfect audio editor tool for your music production that supports many popular audio formats. Dexster allows to edit an audio file visually; apply effects; Insert noise and silence; Vocal Reduction;Mix Stereo;Insert marker; Apply filters; Record audio file; Convert audio from one format to another; Extract audio from video. Dexster supports WAV, MP2, MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, VOX, Audio CD, WMA, RAW audio, MPC, AVI, Ogg, G.721, G.723, G.726, AIFF, AU.Starting Price: $45 -
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My Audio Cutter
Softdiv Software
My Audio Cutter is software that lets users cut audio files into pieces. The software's interface is friendly and intuitive. It allows you to define in visual or manual mode the start and end time or length to perform the cut.Starting Price: $19 -
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SpectraLayers
Steinberg
The expert in spectral editing and AI-driven audio processing. SpectraLayers delivers audio empowerment by showing sounds as visual objects. You can explore, reach in, take, and transform, working wonders on tasks ranging from repairing and restoring audio to freeform sound design. Unmatched selection tools developed over many years are now joined by new artificial intelligence-driven audio extraction and repair processes, making this the most significant version of SpectraLayers yet. Looking at audio on a spectrograph display is one thing, but the ability to easily touch, sculpt, and shape what you see is what sets SpectraLayers apart. And now you have a skilled, highly trained AI partner who can sense patterns, perform operations, and speed you on your way to perfect audio. The manual selection tools in SpectraLayers allow everything from broad brush editing to microscopic intervention. AI-assisted processes bring even more speed and precision.Starting Price: $1,748 one-time payment -
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iZotope Aurora
iZotope
Aurora reacts to your audio to easily and dynamically unmask instruments and vocals, creating lush, three-dimensional space that won’t drown out your tracks. Aurora is so much more than a state-of-the-art reverb engine. With the intuitive and powerful Unmasking section, you can give your tracks pro-quality depth without the headache of muddy, cloudy mixes. Aurora dynamically reacts to incoming audio, carving space out of the reverb signal to let your instruments and vocals stay focused and clear. Whether you're working with subtle ambiance or lush effects, Aurora gives you instantly clean reverb without muddy mixes or long plugin chains. Powered by Exponential Audio’s legendary reverb algorithms, Aurora isn’t just helpful for focused mixes, it sounds incredible too. Choose from one of six different reverb types and easily fine-tune your reverb amount, pre-delay/decay times, width, tone, and more.Starting Price: $49 one-time payment -
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iZotope Plasma
iZotope
iZotope's Plasma is an innovative audio plugin that enhances your sound with adaptive tube saturation. Unlike traditional saturators that apply a static effect, Plasma's Flux saturation technology analyzes your audio and applies dynamic processing, adding precise warmth, depth, and character to your mixes and masters. It offers 24 target profiles tailored for various audio elements, from drums and vocals to full masters, allowing you to guide the saturation effect effectively. With intuitive attack and release settings, an overdrive fader for added intensity, and frequency handles to boost specific frequency ranges, Plasma provides comprehensive control over your sound. Channel modes enable enhancement of the center of your mix or widening of the stereo field, as well as shaping the attack and tail of your sound for more precise control. The plugin includes 49 custom-built presets, offering quick starting points for different vibes, whether bright, deep, balanced, or warm.Starting Price: $49 per month -
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iZotope Total Balance Control
iZotope
Tonal Balance Control 2 is a plug-in designed to help audio professionals achieve balanced mixes that translate well across different playback systems. It allows users to visualize the tonal balance of their audio and compare it against 12 target curves representing popular music genres. Users can also load an audio file to create a custom reference curve. The plug-in facilitates communication with compatible iZotope plug-ins like Relay, enabling adjustments to tracks without leaving the Tonal Balance Control 2 interface. Additionally, it offers the ability to open and control EQs from Ozone and Neutron for more precise adjustments. The included iZotope Relay allows for adjustments to gain, pan, stereo image, and more, providing a lightweight mixing tool that integrates seamlessly with Tonal Balance Control 2. This integration ensures that users can view the frequencies of any track against their tonal balance target, aiding in the creation of mixes that adhere to genre standards.Starting Price: $19.99 per month -
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iZotope RX
iZotope
RX is the industry trailblazer for audio repair and enhancement. Powered by machine learning technology, RX’s comprehensive suite of tools tackles everything from common audio problems to the trickiest of sonic rescues, for music, audio post-production, and content creation. RX is available as a standalone audio editing application that includes a suite of software plugins for use with digital audio workstations. Visually target and replace unwanted sounds like dog barks, string squeaks, and sirens with RX’s spectrogram. Tackle specific issues like clicks, clips, hum, rustles, and background noise with bespoke repair modules. Get even more surgical with tools that can re-shape the intonation of dialogue, remove reverb, match ambiances and EQ profiles, and much more. Plus, if you’re looking for a helping hand to get great results fast, RX’s repair assistant intelligently recognizes and proposes fixes for specific problems that you can tweak to your liking with easy-to-use dials.Starting Price: $29 one-time payment -
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SoundCraft
ArtCraft
SoundCraft is an open-source digital audio workstation for recording, editing, arranging and mixing audio. Its Edit window supports multitrack arrangement, playlists, comping, fades and tempo maps; the Mix window provides channel strips, buses, sends, automation and plugins. Users can record audio and MIDI, edit MIDI in piano-roll and score views, import common audio formats, and bounce mixes or stems. CLAP, VST3 and Audio Unit plugins are supported, and a CLI, JSON control channel and MCP server expose commands for scripts and AI agents. Native releases are available for macOS, Windows and Linux; FreeBSD and a browser-based WebAssembly build are also documented. It is aimed at audio engineers, musicians, producers and developers working on music, recording, mixing, soundtracks or other multitrack audio. SoundCraft is currently labeled pre-alpha, with development ongoing.Starting Price: $0 -
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AVS Audio Editor
AVS
Record audio data from various inputs like microphone, vinyl records, and other input lines on a sound card. Extract and edit audio from your video files. Remove noise and irritating sounds like roaring, hissing, crackling, etc. Turn written text into a natural sounding voice with Text-to-speech function. Select between 20 built-in effects and filters including delay, flanger, chorus, reverb, reverse, echo and more. Mix audio and blend several audio tracks together. Edit all popular formats MP3, FLAC, WAV, M4A, WMA, AAC, MP2, AMR, OGG, etc.Starting Price: AVS Audio Editor -
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ERA Bundle
Accusonus
Tackle all the audio issues you routinely face, literally in seconds. Salvage tracks which cannot be recorded again. Get professional audio results with minimal effort. Improve the quality of your recordings by miles, even if you’ve never edited audio before. Complex software just doesn’t get easier to use! Use the Noise Remover to automatically clean up your noisy indoor or outdoor recordings. Make your voice sound more intelligible, without artifacts. Reduce the unavoidable background noises such as air conditioners and fans or electric hum and hiss. The Noise Remover allows you to clean up your audio with one button, everything else is under the hood. It’s as simple as turning it on and off! Every actor’s voice sounds more thin & high-pitched when recorded. The Voice Deepener will make your talent’s voice sound more like they hear it themselves and less like it sounds in recordings.Starting Price: $9.99 per month -
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Mixbus
Harrison
With dozens of DAWs to choose from, there's only one that is designed to work like a Harrison, with an analog paradigm that embodies form, function, and sound. Where other DAWs use a computer paradigm, MIXBUS grows from Harrison's distinguished 40-year heritage of platinum records and blockbuster films such as Thriller, Graceland, and Spider-Man. Mixbus is the first full-featured DAW with true analog-style mixing. Harrison has a unique history. In the mid-80s, we developed fully-automated, digitally-controlled analog mixer technology which was adopted by premiere film-mixing facilities around the world. When the digital revolution came, we were asked to convert the analog "processor" into a digital processor, while leaving the control surface unchanged. Film mixers wanted the control surface to work and sound exactly like the analog mixer they were using for previous projects. This required us to develop a digital audio engine that operated and sounded exactly like an analog mixer.Starting Price: $93.90 one-time payment -
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Hydrogen
Hydrogen
Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 4. Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats. Support of samples in compressed FLAC file. Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song. Up to 192 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length. Unlimited instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities. Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument). Time-stretch and pitch functions via rubberband cli. Require the rubberband-cli package. Director Window with a visual metronome and song position tags. Export/Import single patterns into song projects. Midi learning via Shift+MouseClick on many gui-cotrollers combined with a midi settings editor. Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions. -
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Helm
Helm
Helm runs in GNU/Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. Run Helm as a standalone synthesizer or as an LV2, VST, VST3 or AU plugin. Comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. This means you are free to run Helm anywhere without the pains of DRM, you can study and change the source code and redistribute exact or modified copies of Helm. Helm is a software synthesizer. You use it to create electronic music on your computer. Helm is free as in freedom. This means you control this software, it doesn't control you. In terms of money, Helm is pay what you want. So you are free to pay nothing. Any sound that comes out of Helm belongs to the person who played it. You are the copyright holder to any sound you create with Helm. You can turn some modules on and of. They have little power buttons in the top left that you can click to turn them on or of. The SUB module is one of the three sound producers in Helm. It controls a single oscillator that by default plays one octave below the currently played note. -
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Podium DAW
Zynewave
Podium is a modern digital audio workstation (DAW) for Windows. It supports recording and editing of audio and MIDI, and hosts VST instrument and effect plugins. You will need to configure the audio and MIDI interfaces that you want to use with Podium. On the MIDI page you should click the checkbox next to all the interfaces you want to use. On the audio page it is highly recommended that you select an ASIO audio driver to get the best low-latency performance. The first time you run Podium, the selector will default to Build and load plugin database. When you create the project, Podium will build a database of all the plugins it finds. In the following projects you create, the selector will default to Load plugin database, to avoid repeating the time consuming plugin scanning. If you have installed new plugins since you last built the database, you can select to rebuild or update the database.Starting Price: $35 per year
