Abstract: A digital audio workstation software package is provided with computer readable instructions that, when executed, direct a multi-core processor to perform acts comprising accessing an audio signal. The digital audio workstation software package further includes computer-readable instructions that, when executed, direct the processor to utilize, at least in part, pipeline parallelism to enable a plurality of serially ordered plug-ins in an effects rack to process the audio signal utilizing a plurality of available processing cores to create a processed audio signal.