Having too many plugins causes crashing in the plugins panel

helio-fm / helio-sequencer

Libre music sequencer for desktop and mobile platforms

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Having too many plugins causes crashing in the plugins panel #11

Open Tacolizard opened 7 years ago

Tacolizard commented 7 years ago

I have Logic Pro X installed, which includes mabye hundreds of AudioUnit plugins. When I go to the instruments panel and click 'search for plugins', it starts to search and then stops responding and freezes.

peterrudenko commented 7 years ago

Thanks for reporting. Hopefully someday I'll have plugin sandboxing implemented like in grown-up DAWs. At least, the next release will do the search in a separate process, not a thread.

mourner commented 7 years ago

I have the same problem because of Waves bundle (which contains TONS of plugins). Another way to approach the issue would be to allow specifying a concrete folder (instead of searching everything), and maybe add checkboxes for types of plugins to scan for (e.g. if I want to skip AudioUnit and only scan for VST).