Thank you, hopefully something will come from this. I appreciate your input. Even though I want to take a pellet gun and shoot holes into my podfarm box, at least I am getting some credible response from someone. After I take a nap from podfarm I will try some of your suggestions.

I just downloaded the latest version (3.14) and nothing changed. I tried the volume thing and nothing, I use Vista 32, all of my other vst's work fine, then I try podfarm and everything goes silent. You know, all that I really want to do is put this pod farm fiasco behind me because the entire experience sucks. If any of you people who are responsible for developing this nightmare are willing to give me back the money I have already spent-- podfarm for about $125 bucks from music center canada in camrose, and an additional ilok for $50, a total waste of $150, let me know. I'd gladly take $100, return both, and never again look back at this ilok podfarm nightmare. Let me know. I'm sure I'll never hear from y'all again and will be stuck with this garbage can of xmas nightmares.

If I can hear all of my other vst's, as well as ezdrummer and drumkit from hell, then I should also be able to hear something from this pod farm fiasco aligned with ilok. Ezdrummer is a plugin that works without needing some "ilok" garb and it works fine. I see no reason why, if all of these other plugins work fine, that this podfarm nightmare shouldn't also work nicely in the newest version of reaper in vista 32.

Yes, that is exactly what I did. I also downloaded the newest version on my work XL computer and used the ilok. Same thing. I got sound with the other vst plugins but as soon as I added podfarm the sound stopped. I unchecked podfarm and the sound on other added FX choices could again be heard, I again checked on podfarm and the sound stopped.

Exactly the same thing is happening with 2 computers, one, my home vista 32, and at work, my xl.  I also copied the POD farm.dll into the reaper plugin to see if that helped (something that shouldn't be necessary, imo, because it shouldn't take a technician mentality to get this stuff working).

Clearly something is screwy with the podfarm software or how it interacts with reaper, even t he newest version, which says to me that "podfarm" is the trouble.

Look, I appreciate your help for sure and I am trying to hang in there, but this is extremely frustrating. I'm not a technician. I am a musician who wants to use this plugin to touch up a dry track. This "silence" thing is crazy. Especially when every other plugin works fine.