Native Web Audio API Plugins

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Implements native VST-style plugins by embedding Chromium Embedded Framework inside plugin DLLs, routing plugin audio into Web Audio as a virtual media stream source and grabbing context.destination back into the host. Proof-of-concept runs synchronous DSP at 128 sample buffer sizes without extra fibers, shares one input so only one plugin instance currently works, and measures 24 ms MIDI latency on average. Second iteration plans to break backwards compatibility to fix MIDI and multi-instance issues.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:52Native Dog Hosting
3. 1:06Native Plugins
4. 5:02Virtual Audio Manager
5. 7:10Safe Library
6. 8:38Demo
7. 9:33OBHD
8. 13:12Free Plugin
9. 13:51Evaluation
10. 16:28Outro

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