Re: [Audacity-devel] pluggo

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

| From "Michael Chinen" <mc...@gm...> 
| Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:02:52 -0400
| Subject: [Audacity-devel] pluggo
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Richard Ash <ri...@au...> wrote:
> > This is on Mac OS, right?
> > Audacity loads Audio Units plug-ins from the default system directories
> > and they appear in the Effects menu. So if the MAX / MSP stuff is on
> > your machine in the system wide path, then you will get it loaded by
> > default (and unloaded at the end).
> >
> > The easiest proof of this would be if you built with audio units support
> > disabled (option to configure), and the problem went away.
> It takes about 10 seconds to unload all the pluggo stuff.  Is there an
> option to disable this in preferences?  Ten seconds is the world to
> me, being longer than my short-time attention span, so In my view
> there should be an option.  If it isn't there I'd be willing to
> implement it.

Or move MAX/MSP to a non-system path?  If we were to do this I think it
would be just as important to have a (non-Linux??) VST option to ignore
system paths (only look in the Audacity plug-ins folder). Third-party VSTs
in system folders often cause Audacity to fail to launch, and the only
other solution is to remove the VST bridge and do without any VSTs at
all until the culprit plug-ins are identified.


Gale