[LV2] multiple channel configurations in lv2 plugin

[David Robillard]

On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 17:36 +0100, Julien Pommier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Suppose that I have an LV2 plugin that can provide up to five output 
> channels. Right now, when I instanciate it on an ardour 3 midi track, it 
> is created with 5 channels and its track has a 5-channel panner control 
> that is very different of the usual stereo pan control. I think users 
> will want to instanciate the plugin most of the time as a simple stereo 
> instrument, and sometimes as a 5 channels instrument. I would like to 
> know what is the recommended way to handle this (a variable number of 
> output channels) ? Is there some mechanism for that in LV2 that I have 
> overlooked, or maybe should I simply create a version of the plugin for 
> each channel configuration that I would like to provide (in this case, I 
> would make a stereo version of the plugin, and a 5-channel version) ?

Unfortunately there is currently no standard/suppoorted mechanism for
this.  Ports are inherently static.

Multiple variants are indeed the way to achieve this for now.

Cheers,

-dr

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