Suggest plugin groups for boosting performance

I found that using plugin groups with the BBC Spitfire plugins can get
rid of all latency spikes I was getting when playing notes on 30
instances of them at once. After doing so the overall thread count
dropped from 332 down to 128.
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Robbert van der Helm
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- [Plugin groups](#plugin-groups) can also greatly improve performance when
using many instances of the same plugin. Some plugins, like the BBC Spitfire
plugins, can share a lot of resources between different instances of the
plugin. Hosting all instances of the same plugin in a single process can in
those cases greatly reduce overall CPU usage and get rid of latency spikes.
## Runtime dependencies and known issues
Any VST2 plugin should function out of the box, although some plugins will need