Apple M3

[Aymara]

pgrep won't be able to find a PID if Logic isn't running at the time.

Ah, ok ... the output will then look something like this (copied only the first of a lot of lines):

PID STAT TIME SL RE PAGEIN VSZ RSS LIM TSIZ %CPU %MEM COMMAND USER TT PRI STIME UTIME
30736 S 0:14.68 0 0 0 43850560 1927624 - 0 11,7 5,7 /Applic Chris ?? 46T 0:01.77 0:06.58

 

[Nick Batzdorf]

Yes. As someone who has never used VSL VEPro – does this eliminate, to some degree, the need for using VEPro?

That's sort of a tangential question.

VEP came out when the only way to load a decent-sized template was to use sample-streaming slave computers. Machines today have much more memory and horsepower, so that's not always the case.

But VEP was and still is a brilliant solution, sending audio and MIDI over ethernet to make them behave as if your instruments are running in a window on your host machine. (That's in conjunction screen sharing, either Microsoft Remote Desktop or built into macOS.)

It can also run on the host machine. At one point it used processing cores more efficiently than anything else; whether that's still true is open to debate (and the answer is probably not). Another advantage is that you can keep things loaded while you switch sessions in your DAW - although Digital Performer can do that too.

The reason your question is tangential is that crashing plug-ins bringing down a DAW were never the point to using VEP. I suppose that could have been an argument for it, but it wasn't the big fish.