When people talk about audio buffers they’re talking about something that’s filled and drained from RAM when an interrupt fires every 1ms, not the data that’s p

When people talk about audio buffers they’re talking about something that’s filled and drained from RAM when an interrupt fires every 1ms, not the data that’s processed every few nanoseconds as the CPU moves on from running one filter/plugin to the next. The latter doesn’t even leave the CPU cache.