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Dear Frank and friends,

Certain VST plugins have different settings for real-time operation and render-time operation in sequencers. Such plugins include famous Cytomic The Glue compressor, all respected 2CAudio plugins, etc. For example, 2-4x oversampling options for better quality can be configured for such plugins to be automatically switched on, but, say only upon final rendering to disk.

I have two questions in this regard:

1) Can Polac VST loader determine whether it's running in "faster than realtime" WAV render mode (which is half way/fully? supported by Buzz now -- correct me if I am wrong), or in standard "play" mode?

If yes, can Polac VST Loader employ this detection, so that render or real-time plugin settings are automatically taken into account in appropriate situations?

2) If not, can it be done that Buzz and Polac have a better integration with each other, so as to allow Polac know the fact in which mode it is running?

I hope I make myself clear. I would appreciate some feedback on the above suggestions.

Thank you for your attention,

Andrejs

Hi, as a host you can tell the vst if it's running in realtime or offline mode, but I don't think that buzz informs a machine if it's in realtime or render/offline mode. However I could make the mode user-definable, so one can switch to render mode on demand.

polac wrote:Hi, as a host you can tell the vst if it's running in realtime or offline mode, but I don't think that buzz informs a machine if it's in realtime or render/offline mode. However I could make the mode user-definable, so one can switch to render mode on demand.

I think that is already a great feature! So anyone could switch render mode [globally?] when needed.

In the meantime, perhaps at some point Oskari will be able to find a way to tell Polac VST [or other buzz machines for that matter] in which mode it is running?

Andrejs

There's IBuzz.OverrideAudioDriver but you'd have to access the managed api.

It's possible to switch to offline processing mode now, accessible via the edit menu. This is an global setting which means that all vsts run in offline mode then. I tested it with the cytomic plugin it seems to work fine here.

You are the man! Works great.

Best wishes!

Andrejs