Re: out-of-process plug-ins
Paul Davis <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Hartmut Noack <[email protected]>wrote: > Am 29.01.2013 13:59, schrieb Paul Davis: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Just my stupid curiosity... Is it possible to make LADSPA/LV2/etc. > >> plugins run in a separate process, so that any crashes would not bring > >> Ardour on its knees? It's what Bitwig claims to do regarding VST. > >> > > > > it is possible. but as i've explained numerous time on createdigitalmusic > > and elsewhere, this does not scale. > > > > if you want to run 2 VST plugins like this, its fine. if you want > > EQ+Compression for every track in an N-track session, its like 1 JACK > > client per plugin, and adds notable CPU load. > > > So it would be nice, to have a choice here OK? > run an instance of jalv or similar, and use an insert from ardour to connect to it. this is silly enough to be a good enough solution for now. developers should spend time making things work, not creating bandaids for things that are broken, IMHO. _______________________________________________ ardour-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ardour.org/listinfo.cgi/ardour-dev-ardour.org