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Ability to disable multiple plugins

Open valankar opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. UAD plugins consume resources when bypassed. The 'Disable' functionality in Element effectively removes that consumption. However, it seems I can only right-click on one plugin at a time to disable them. When there are a lot of plugins I would like to disable, it can take some time.

Describe the solution you'd like Shift-clicking on multiple plugins seems to highlight them, however then right-clicking and selecting Disable only disables the last selected one. It would be great if it would disable all selected plugins.

Describe alternatives you've considered Not sure if this could be scripted in some way. Ideally I'd like to just disable all plugins that start with 'UAD' in the graph.

valankar avatar Jan 31 '22 09:01 valankar

It would be great if all VST in graphs that are not currently in use got "disabled" automatically. With exception for parallel-processed graphs ofc.

I did some testing, and the CPU load goes higher with every existing graph, whether it is active or not (all graphs set to single processing). Which is sad for my particular use case described here #474

Should I open other feature suggestion for this particular feature?

nemomode7 avatar Feb 09 '22 03:02 nemomode7

@nemomode7 - yeah, go ahead and open another issue if you want to. Although auto-disabling could cause some other problems: namely with plugins like Kontakt which take a long time to load and unload. But worth exploring the possiblities.

mfisher31 avatar Feb 11 '22 17:02 mfisher31