ight total channels (known as “7.1”) yet there are three different channel format specifications to deal with. In addition, your plugin may feature very different configurations from input to output; a fold-down plugin may accept a 7.1 input and deliver a plain stereo output.<br />
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 Following the channel I/O information is the frame counter variable. This will indicate which frame of the buffer is being processed. We will pass this variable to the MIDI event queue firing mechanism. The <a class=