[LV2] Configurable channels for LV2 plugins

[Harry van Haaren]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 6:24 PM, David Robillard <d at drobilla.net> wrote:

> Yep, property wise we already have almost everything needed to describe
> this.
>
Cool


> The problem with this is it can only set *one* channel configuration for
> the instance.  For example it couldn't configure a plugin to mono in,
> stereo out, or stereo in + mono out, etc.
>
Ah yes, indeed my initial idea would limit input & output to be the same.
We definitely don't want that.


> For this reason, it probably has to be per-port, or per-group, not a
> single per-instance option.
>
Yeah ok.


> dyn-manifest is not designed for run-time changes.
>
Good to know.


> It would be much easier to create a new 'port' type that's really a
> group, and can be configured.

OK


>  Things would work as you described, but
> you'd configure the group(s) individually.  I guess the buffer type
> could be an array of pointers to buffers?
>
Sound pretty logical.
So we must define a new lv2:port
which has attributes of the Port group extension
-pg:inputGroup or pg:outputGroup
-pg:group subclass (mono stereo, ambisonic  etc)
-pg:mainInput or mainOutput attributes
..


> See my recent reply to Julien Pommier's thread "multiple channel
> configurations in lv2 plugin" about this.

Indeed that post and the fact I'm currently writing a plugin in mono
that I also want in stereo is the cause of the OP :)
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