Run your plugins outside your DAW and control them directly from the MP Controller.
Turn your computer into a powerful DSP server, or use additional computers across your network. Run more plugins, unlock more processing power and keep your DAW fast, responsive and lightweight.
EPS (External Plugin System) is a plugin hosting system designed to dramatically reduce DAW project loading times and expand plugin hosting capabilities. It allows you to load instruments and effects on a separate server app (on the same or other computer) and keep them running even when switching or closing DAW projects.
Even when running EPS on the same computer as your DAW, it can dramatically increase the number of instruments and effects you can run by hosting them outside the DAW process, without adding to the DAW's processing load. This is especially useful for large orchestral templates, samplers like Kontakt, and complex production setups.
EPS also supports loading plugins on demand, provides plugin crash isolation for improved stability, and integrates seamlessly with MP Controller for automatic parameter mapping and hands-on control.
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Run the EPS Server on your DAW computer and dramatically increase the number of plugins you run on that same computer. The plugins are hosted outside the DAW process, so they add no CPU load to the DAW itself.
When you need more power, run the EPS Server on multiple computers across your network and add their CPU resources to your plugin pool. A spare desktop, a rack machine or an old PC all become extra plugin power for the studio.
The platforms do not have to match. Keep your DAW on a Mac and put an old Windows PC to work as a plugin server, or the other way round. Macs and PCs both work as EPS servers, with any DAW on Mac or PC.
A quick look at the External Plugin System working with the MP Controller.
Watch on YouTubeAudioGridder moves plugin processing out of the DAW and into a separate server.
Run the server on your DAW computer to process plugins outside the DAW, or distribute the workload across one or more computers on your network.
Enjoy full cross-platform compatibility. Control Windows plugins from your Mac, or Mac plugins from Windows.
Heavy reverbs, convolution, amp sims and large instruments no longer compete with the DAW for CPU. Your session stays responsive and buffer sizes stay low.
The DAW keeps the timeline, the routing and the mix. The processing happens elsewhere.
Install the AudioGridder server on a spare Mac or PC and it becomes a dedicated plugin host. Load your VST2, VST3 and AU plugins there instead of inside the DAW.
The AudioGridder plugin sits on the DAW track and streams audio to and from the server. Add more machines as your sessions grow.
An old workstation, a second desktop or a rack machine turns into extra DSP for the whole studio.
Connect an MP Controller to a plugin server computer in your network and work with multiple MP Controllers.
Plugins opened in your DAW appear on the MP Controller of each AudioGridder server computer.
Plugins hosted on the AudioGridder server behave on the MP Controller exactly like plugins loaded in the DAW.
Select a plugin and the controller maps to its parameters automatically. Knobs and the touch screen follow it, with no manual mapping.
Nothing changes in the way you work. The processing simply runs on another machine.
Simply install it and start working.
Choose which plugins to offload, automate them as usual and enjoy complete control directly from the MP Controller.
See how the MP Controller maps VST2, VST3 and AU plugins across every supported DAW.
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