On Tuesday 12 Apr 2005 02:18, Paul Davis wrote: > >The VST-per-server implementation might not, but there's no very > >compelling reason not to have multiple VSTs in a single server serving > >multiple clients. That would be less reliable than a dssi-vst type > >service can be, but no less reliable than fst, and it should scale > >nearly as well. It's been on my todo list for ages... > > i still don't think that scales. the cache might still be warm, since > the server is repeatedly invoked, but its still 2 context switches > per-plugin invocation DSSI has a mechanism for coalescing these (which is what I was thinking of) but of course it's for synths only, and makes no sense (in the host) for effects. Chris