In hopes that this may be seen quite accidentally by anyone who may need it: if you're having a hell of a lot of trouble getting your DAW to play nice with one or more VST plugins that either keep crashing, going silent, or somewhat start devouring each other, I am loudly vouching for jBridge. It's been the only thing that actually gets several older VSTs to consistently load, save the correct data, and work with other instances of itself or other similarly difficult VST plugins that I've come across. I'm pleased enough to recommend it, in any case.
(As with all software, scan and monitor activity liberally, but not a single problem was been encountered here.)
I can get back to making noise without the extra frustration involved, is the very important point. Just the usual levels of frustration.
