We develop virtual instruments for Mac/AU and are trying to get our AU-Plugins and our Standalone player to work with Audio Workgroups. When the Standalone App or Logic Pro is in the foreground and active all is well and as expected.
However when the App or Logic Pro is not in focus all my auxiliary threads are running on E-Cores. Even though they are properly joined to the processing thread's workgroup. This leads to a lot of audible drop outs because deadlines are not met anymore.
The processing thread itself stays on a p-core. But has to wait for the other threads to finish. How can I opt out of this behaviour? Our users certainly have use cases where they expect the Player to run smoothly even though they currently have a different App in focus.
