I’m currently in my bi-yearly “update Cantabile and lock myself in a room for 3 days to make use of all the new features” phase. While updating my instrument rack presets I’ve stumbled across this issue:
It seems like it’s not possible to bypass unloaded plugins. Is this normal? If yes, are there any obvious drawbacks or technical limitations that prevent this? I’m trying to set up a pre-configured FX chain where most of the plugins are unloaded by default to optimize loading times. I would like to to just enable and un-bypass an effect to add it to the signal chain.
By the way: I really like the new binding system. Creating bindings is so easy and enjoyable now. I completely rebuilt my background rack just to have an excuse to play with the new dialog :).
The problem here is not the bypassing, it’s that when a plugin is unloaded all routes to/from it are also disabled - so the audio’s not reaching the plugin for it to be bypassed. Let me have a think about this maybe I can tweak it to keep the routes alive if the plugin is bypassed. In the meantime, the best option is to set the plugin to suspended - that’ll keep the routes alive but the plugin won’t be processing anything.
Thanks for looking into this. Setting the plugins to suspended is not great because I want to avoid loading 3-4 unneeded effect plugins for each instrument rack in each song when I preload a big set list. For now I will just manually bypass the plugins by setting the routes accordingly.
Thanks for the additional information. It makes sense to be able to bypass an unloaded plugin but I’ll need to look into what’s involved - it may not be trivial and needs to be done in a way that doesn’t affect other setups.
