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Maybe to display the VSTs. The more recent ones can be quite complex.


VSTs draw their own graphics. They're basically separate applications that have an audio/MIDI pipe to the host.


Sure, but if you're doing intensive graphics of any sort you really need to use OpenGL for compositing. Doing it at the OS layer is really inefficient.




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