by iankinzel » Sat Jun 03, 2023 7:23 am
3rd-party VST host that operates as a "pedal" or rack effect.
There's an occasional overdrive/fuzz/delay/modulation sound not available in AT5 that's so useful, so iconic, that I get so much mileage out of it. But if I want to use those effects with AT5, I have to run multiple instances of AT5: e.g. one instance might have the AT5 pedal boards & the amp head, running into the external effect, then the second instance of AT5 afterward might have the cab etc.
Needless to say, this is quite the drain on CPU. And it's not even really a solution, since some of the external effects I want to use would be better served in the effects loop of the amp - and I don't know of a way to simulate that with multiple instances of AT5.