diff --git a/src/common/communication/clap.h b/src/common/communication/clap.h
index eb0679eb..053bde60 100644
--- a/src/common/communication/clap.h
+++ b/src/common/communication/clap.h
@@ -328,6 +328,28 @@ class ClapSockets final : public Sockets {
             request_ref, response_ref, request_ref.get().instance_id, logging);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Send a message from the Wine plugin host to the native plugin to handle
+     * an audio thread callback. Since those functions are called from a hot
+     * loop we want every instance to have a dedicated socket and thread for
+     * handling those. These calls also always reuse buffers to minimize
+     * allocations.
+     *
+     * @tparam T Some object in the `ClapAudioThreadCallbackRequest` variant.
+     *   All of these objects need to have an `owner_instance_id` field.
+     */
+    template <typename T>
+    typename T::Response send_audio_thread_callback_message(
+        const T& object,
+        std::optional<std::pair<ClapLogger&, bool>> logging) {
+        typename T::Response response_object;
+        thread_local SerializationBuffer<256> audio_thread_buffer{};
+
+        return audio_thread_sockets_.at(object.owner_instance_id)
+            .callback_.receive_into(object, response_object, logging,
+                                    audio_thread_buffer);
+    }
+
     /**
      * For sending messages from the host to the plugin. After we have a better
      * idea of what our communication model looks like we'll probably want to
diff --git a/src/wine-host/bridges/clap.h b/src/wine-host/bridges/clap.h
index ed55db75..66bfaf23 100644
--- a/src/wine-host/bridges/clap.h
+++ b/src/wine-host/bridges/clap.h
@@ -246,6 +246,17 @@ class ClapBridge : public HostBridge {
             object, std::nullopt);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Send a callback message to the host from a plugin instance's audio
+     * thread. This is separate from `send_message()`, which shares one socket
+     * for all plugin instances.
+     */
+    template <typename T>
+    typename T::Response send_audio_thread_message(const T& object) {
+        return sockets_.send_audio_thread_callback_message(
+            object, std::pair<ClapLogger&, bool>(logger_, true));
+    }
+
     /**
      * When called from the GUI thread, spawn a new thread and call
      * `send_message()` from there, and then handle functions passed by calls to