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Hey Guys, I have a good work-around for Pro Tools 11 and Podfarm.. I use a VST/AU plugin host called Metaplugin by DDMF. It runs as an AAX plugin and you can run nearly any VST or AU plug-in inside it. Not the same as running natively, and means my old PT10 sessions won't translate, but it's a good stop-gap in the meantime. Line 6 is the last plugin manufacturer to come to the AAX party for me. Even the SSL Duende plugins have now been released as AAX-and they were very no-committal about doing it! To answer Triryche, the RTAS format was replaced by AAX to implement 64bit architecture as it was apparently easier than re-working the RTAS format. In any case, I daresay if they stuck with RTAS the old 32bit RTAS (current PODFarm Version) surely wouldn't work in the 64bit Pro Tools 11. If anyone from Line 6 reads this, now that the old Echo Farm and AMP Farm are obsolete with AAX & PT11 (I'm constantly seeing RIPs etc every time its mentioned in forums, so they still have lots of big fans), this would be a good chance to get some of those users onto POD Farm. When I transferred to a native PT system from HD/HDX, POD Farm saved me for delays and amp sims as I'd been using Echo & Amp Farm in almost everything I did in Pro Tools HD. Pod Farm could easily be an industry standard for delays and re-amping during mixing! Still sounds so good, but let's bring it into the "twentyteens!"

Hey Greg, I've found a work-around for using PodFarm in PT11 with a plugin called Metaplugin by DDMF. It works great! Metaplugin is a VST and AU plugin host in AAX format specifically for PT 11, and great for VSTIs as well. It's pretty affordable and works well with Podfarm. Give it a try! Cheers, Craig