Comment Re:qualcomm is right (Score 1) 526
Virtual instruments and effects run at the very least in their own thread within the host process, and some run as their own process and use a form of IPC to communicate with the host. Sure, the single virtual instrument won't parallelize, but a typical project has dozens of effects/instruments, and a bunch of threads that pretty much just read data from one buffer and write data to another buffer without any inter-dependencies is pretty trivial for the kernel to schedule across as many cores as available.