Forget the AI (and please refrain from posting any AI output in the future, that is against our our Terms of Service - Ardour).
The real reason is that: some Audio Unit plugins (notably those built using an older version of JUCE) use high-priority timer to redraw. And since every plugin manufacturer thinks their plugin is most important and should redraw as fast as possible, it made Ardour grind to a halt. So we called Gandalf to impose a rate limit:
JUCE has meanwhile fixed this for AUs, and VST3 nicely integrates with the event-loop and isn’t affected.
~Thank you @x42 very much for this insightful help!
And that’s exactly why I asked here…
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But this:
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I mean come on, guys. I didn’t copy and paste entire paragraphs directly from an AI (nor would I). I simply asked an AI system what might be the issue, and highlighted a few that I then thought might be plausible. But as it turns out, it was likely way too esoteric to know about, hence why I ended-up asking here. -And again, I’m very grateful for the response!
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Look, AI doesn’t have to be a threat, in and of itself.
→ It’s merely another tool at one’s disposable, and it can be used for ugly reasons, or not.
Does it currently come with disgustingly-large data centers? → Yes.
Is it being utilized by the fundamentally-exploitative market-hell to manipulate people into buying endless trash and/or consuming propaganda? → Yes.
Is it being used to replace human labor? → Obviously yes.
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But can it be used by a novice to help them learn Lua in Ardour? → Also yes.
Etc., etc…
The real cancer isn’t the AI technology in and of itself, it’s how and why it’s being implemented: most often to exploit others for financial gain. ← THAT is the cancer, and always has been.
I’m not using AI to extract money, and I never will.
I’m using ‘it’ as a rough guide to help me work on my music project.
And I have learned soooo much in the process, and I am grateful for that.
Do I still feel bad about giving OpenAI even a dime if just temporarily? -Yes, of course… : / (-Life in the market system is full of contradictions and disgusting/unfortunate options…) -Yet, it has no doubt served my goals very well given my level of coding knowledge when I began using it 2 months ago (i.e. none).
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Sorry if I offended anyone.
-Not trying to.
Thanks again for the help, and I will have to consider what to do from here.
The main problem I have with AI is how often the answers provided by its search results are completely wrong or irrelevant, like they were here. Not exaggerating, when I am searching for specific information about a niche topic either at work or at home, it is more often inaccurate than accurate. I have much better luck sourcing good information from Google’s non-AI algorithm.
I would be concerned that further reliance on it providing information will create a garbage-in/garbage-out echo chamber that makes it even harder to find reliable information over time, but I am starting to get old. Soon it will be the next generation’s problem to do something about humankind becoming more stupid over time, a fate I honestly didn’t see coming when the Internet reached the mainstream. I’ll teach my kids critical thinking skills to the best of my ability in the meantime, but there is only so much one person can do.
→ But when I run them in Ardour 8.12.0, I get this (~2-3fps):
