Andreas Pohl

Well... color me impressed. I just got this up and running in Windows 11 on Parallels, so that I could continue working on an old song that uses a plugin no longer supported in Logic on Mac. It works flawlessly and with zero configuration on the windows side other than installing the VST and running the AudioGridder Server. Beyond that, it's an Audio Unit in Logic like any other. The only thing I wish is that it supported VST1 as Vienna Ensemble Pro does or did (VEP is broken in Parallels on ARM chips). There are a lot of legendary ancient plugins lost, but I will still get a ton of use out of VST2s and VST3s that are no longer being maintained. Andreas, I recommend removing the address requirement for PayPal donations. It isn't needed and might dissuade would-be donors.

if you are looking for an alternative to VSL this is a great piece of software and FREE at the moment.

definitely recommended (using 1.2 beta 15).

Just trying this on a single Mac (MacBook Pro max) and it seems to work well except for weird cursor behavior. When I move the cursor over the audiogridder plugin in Logic, it jumps to the window showing the instrument outside of Logic (which must be the audiogridder server) rather than letting me deal with the instrument in the audiogridder plugin in Logic.

I have the various permissions/access set in Settings/Privacy etc. Must be some other basic thing I haven't done right?

Audiogridder is the best addition to a DAW which you never knew you would need. But if you got it, you ask yourself why this isn't available in DAWs natively yet.

I'm using it with Ableton Live and it made my Computer so much more powerful.

Review is based on 1.2b6, although also 1.1 has most features, but is not as good to use on a local computer.

positive.

- sandboxing plugins (if plugin crashes, DAW does not crash).

- offloading work to other CPU cores (if you have a 4+ multi core processor), and this really works. I can load more plugins than ever before, especially on the master bus.

- offloading work to other computers.

- plugin chains within a single instance.

- open source.

- it's free.

negative.

- introduced latency is still quite high (it's by design because of the roundtrip time/renderning overhead), but I maybe this could be imrproved in future versions maybe a bit.

- no commercial product available (that means you have to hope the developer has an interest in supporting the product for a longer time and keep it compatible with previous versions).

- uses free JUCE framework with added overlays when loading (minor negative point).

All in all the pros outweigh the contras, but still it is unclear how long it will be supported. I encourage people to donate to the developer, even small amounts, to keep him working. Since this is the best thing that happened to multi-core CPUs/heavy DAW processing since a lot of years.

Great application, very stable the last version. Definately i will support it on future releases.

This is such a brilliant solution! Looking forward to a Windows version so that Mac and Windows systems can be used in parallel. Thank you so much for creating such an amazing tool.