[LAU] The future of audio plugins ?

[jonetsu]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 21:12:23 +0200
Robin Gareus <robin at gareus.org> wrote:

> The future of audio plugins ?
> 
> Hopefully none... the whole concept of loading some binary blobs into
> some host and expecting scalable reliable realtime performance is
> absurd to begin with. Oh well, I suppose it could be worse.

What would then be an alternative ?  To switch DAWs because of the
processing they offer ?
 
> > Plugins that network themselves together, sharing audio analysis, 
> > sharing data, taking decisions together on how to apply themselves
> > as a group to an audio track, to stems, to a whole session.
> 
> Would that not be like an instrument playing itself?

Something akin to Artificial Intelligence.  A small 'decisional' (don't
have the right word here) network, each node providing its own view on
the subject, with a decision taken as a common accord.