While a VST2 plugin is being initialized in a plugin group, all host
callbacks would go over that new plugin instance's sockets. This would
cause a race condition if the host processes audio while loading
plugins. This issue has been there since the introduction of plugin
groups, but it's only noticeable in Bitwig Studio, and only when using
over thirty instances of the same plugin in a plugin group.
PG-8X in REAPER has the same mutual recursion limitation the Voxengo
plugins had in Renoise, but with `effGetProgramName()` instead of
`effGetProgram()`.
This basically changes the default small vectors during VST2 event
processing from 256 bytes to the size of a `DynamicVstEvents`
object (which also includes a small_vector to hold MIDI events without
allocating) and makes them thread local. We already have a similar
optimization for VST3. There it's a bit neater since we already had to
separate audio processing functions from non-time critical functions.
Here we don't have that separation, so we just made these buffers thread
local, large enough to hold our predefined number of events, and we then
just shrink them to fit if these buffers grow even more (which can only
happen after reading or writing chunk data).
The change doesn't specifically target `effProcessEvents()`, but that's
where you would see the differences. This is also relevant for
`audioMasterProcessEvents()`.
I once read years ago somewhere on Stack Overflow that `std::vectors`
with that are preinitialized to a default size would allocate the
initial capacity on the stack. This of course doesn't make any
sense (run time sized stack allocations can cause all kinds of issues),
so we were still allocating with our default 64-byte sized buffers, but
just not as often.
For individually hosted plugins this will behave the same. For plugin
groups it would have been nice if we could shut down individual plugins,
but dangling threads are apparently a real issue. This should be
equivalent in all use cases.
This also reverts commit bda9a0b75f.
This will let us more or less gracefully handle failing host callbacks
during initialization. We cannot catch this from anywhere else since
this these functions get called from unmanaged code.
Since that makes it much clearer what we're actually doing. With old
`cache_time_info` was actually caching the response, but now we're
querying it before the plugin has even requested the information.
After a quick round of testing it seems like REAPER doesn't always
enable this on the audio thread, but Bitwig, Ardour, Carla and Renoise
do. So it should be safe to just get rid of the option and to leave this
enabled all the time.
This prevents Kush Audio REDDI from taking down the DAW when the host
passes it denormalized audio to process. I've discovered that the issue
with this plugin had to do with denormals in the issue linked below, but
I didn't realize that we can just enable the FTZ flag for plugins that
don't already do so.
https://github.com/osxmidi/LinVst/issues/174
I don't know how I've never noticed this, but we should of course only
be handling `audioMasterGetTime()` this way. This also explains why
enabling this permanently in the past broke some plugins.
So far only PSPaudioware InfiniStrip needed this. but it may be a good
idea to make this visible since it's probably an issue with the
plugin (even if most Windows hosts will have COM initialized).
The `LoadLibrary()` call for PSPaudioware InfiniStrip would fail because
the plugin would always expect COM to be initialized. Now if loading a
VST2 or VST3 module fails, we'll initialize COM and try again before
throwing an error. This may fix#94.
Plugsound Free by UVI will pass random garbage to the data parameter for
this function call for whatever reason, and we'll run into a memory
error if we try to read it. Mentioned in #93.
This fixes Native Instrument's FM7 crashing on MIDI input. The plugin
expects the last received MIDI event to always be alive during audio
processing, even if there have not been any new events in this
processing cycle.
Or technically, two, since the group bridge also does the same loop. We
no longer need special handling for VST2 and VST3 plugins, so we can
simplify things a bit here.
It sort of goes against yabridge's principles to not do these
unnecessary `audioMasterGetTime()` calls if the plugin does that, but it
also hurts the user experience to not have this as a default.
We'll periodically copy the scheduling priorities from the host's audio
threads to the Wine plugin host's audio threads. The overhead of doing
this is about 1 microsecond on my system, so doing this every cycle
really adds up. But getting the Unix epoch time and comparing some
timestamps has a neglegible overhead, so this should give you the best
of both worlds.
Next we'll do the same thing for VST3 plugins.
As suggested by @jhernberg
It's pretty hard to find a solution that checks all of the boxes. I want
something that:
- Closes instantly when you close the editor, and in REAPER you should
be able to instantly switch between docked and floating modes
- Where there should not be a delay in user interaction when quickly
reopening the editor (or doing that switching thing in REAPER since that's
the same thing)
- Where the window manager should not try to reparent the window during
the losing process as that can cause some jarring flickering
- And, of course, there should be no weird Wine X11Drv crashes
And it should do all of that in Bitwig, REAPER, Carla, Ardour and
Renoise. Apparently it's quite the task to find an approach that checks
all the boxes there.
This also changes the refresh rate for most plugins. You can now lower
this setting if your computer is struggling to keep up with rendering a
certain heavy plugin.
This fixes EZdrummer not producing any sound, as the plugin presumably
schedules some task on the Win32 message loop to load its resources,
which won't happen if this is run from any other thread.
Although it hasn't shown up, this will get rid of the possibility of
off-thread effEditIdle calls causing issues. And since we need some way
to run call this function while the event loop is running anyways, doing
it entirely from a timer similar to how hosts on Windows would do it
seems like the best solution.
Robbert van der Helm