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		louhike on Feb 3, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Retina iMac owners can greatly improve graphics pe... Maybe to display the VSTs. The more recent ones can be quite complex.

illicium on Feb 3, 2017 | [–]

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

astrodust on Feb 6, 2017 | [–]

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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