Plugin Question
As I understand it, every instance of a particular plugin (Space Designer, say, or Amp Designer) in a given concert has to run on a single processor core. This is why we use auxiliary buses, rather than having multiple instances of a giant convolution reverb running on every channel strip that needs reverb. But does this mean there's a separate instance of each plugin in the entire concert, all running on a single core?
For example, I'll set up a concert with a dozen patches. Since I'm a guitarist, each of those patches will have one or more channel strips with an insert of either Amp Designer or Amplitube. My question is, are all of those instances of the plugin running simultaneously, or are only the ones in a particular patch running? If I've got ten patches, each having two channel strips with an insert Amp Designer plugin, an I running twenty instances of Amp Designer concurrently, or only two?
I'm hoping it's the latter.
iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)