[Ardour-Dev] out-of-process plug-ins

[Paul Davis]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine <
alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> 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.
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