@Epic: yeah, there are several vst's that use the GPU... it is trending in that direction... It would just be better if a DAW and fx plugin design natively supported it.
@Time: that's just utter nonsense. If that was the case nothing would get done. There are many open specifications. OpenCL supports all architectures and can fall back on the CPU. C++ AMP has the potential to support all architectures as it is an open specification too. CUDA is from nvidia and was designed specifically for their cards... That is not a fault of GPU acceleration but one of nvidia cards.
In any case, a wrapper usually can be created, at a cost of performance, that will work in general. It's call an adapter. So the concept of "locking yourself in" is just nonsense. Just write an adapter around the tech. This is done all the time and is why you can run windows apps in linux for example... because someone wrote an adapter. This may not always be the best at first but generally opens the flood gates up if it is actually beneficial.
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