Will Patchwork ever have the feature to "put any plugin into hibernation" ?

[gtimmons]

You know, windows can hibernate by putting itself from RAM into disk, then loads itself into RAM and it's able to start off where you left off.

To my present knowledge, VST hosts tell the plugin to save it's own state.

To be able to hibernate a plugin would make Patchworks like platinum.

Let me know if you add this feature!

[Blue Cat Audio]

True hibernation (including full process state) can only be done at the system level. You can already save and restore an entire session with all plug-ins states in PatchWork as presets. What would you want to add to this?

[gtimmons]

Can you load those presets after a plugin has been initialized and loaded?

[Blue Cat Audio]

Can you load those presets after a plugin has been initialized and loaded?

What do you mean? If you load a preset it will load the corresponding plug-ins unless they are already loaded in the same slots (in this case it will just update their state).

[gtimmons]

Let's say you want the plugin to load first, wait a period of time, then have it load the presets. Either automatically or manually.

Can we set it up to do this?

[Blue Cat Audio]

Let's say you want the plugin to load first, wait a period of time, then have it load the presets. Either automatically or manually.

Can we set it up to do this?

Why would you want to do that?!?

[gtimmons]

My computer is very very slow (originally made for Windows XP and runs windows 10 and it can't run windows 11) and it takes a lot of time to load plugins. So, if you load a plugin and immediately apply a parameters, it will not apply them.

[Blue Cat Audio]

That's really odd - this should not happen, regardless of the speed of plug-ins. Does it happen for all plug-ins?!?

When you get the issue, reloading again the same preset should actually load the state of the plug-ins, unless it is another problem.