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TRADITIONAL APPROACHES

• Windows and MacOS users and developers face the same issues.
• What have they done?
• Write monolithic host applications, develop several plugin APIs, run many things as plugins (VSTi, DXi, etc)
• Plugin APIs require that plugins be shared objects that execute in the context of the host.

Something else?

• ReWire (Propellerheads) and DirectConnect (Digidesign) appear to be alternatives.
• Actually, just more high-level plugin APIs using shared objects run in a single process.