Creating an audio plugin. getReadPointer returns null pointer?

1

Hi!

I was getting started with some of the examples on writing a audio plugin. My problem is that when I call buffer.getReadPointer in my processBlock, it returns a null value.

Here is the code.

void FishTankAudioProcessor::processBlock (AudioSampleBuffer& buffer, MidiBuffer& midiMessages)
{
	const int totalNumInputChannels  = getTotalNumInputChannels();
	const int totalNumOutputChannels = getTotalNumOutputChannels();
 
	// If it ever becomes the point that there are more ouputs then inputs,
	// Then regenerate this file, and see what they did for that sitch :)
 
	// This is the place where you'd normally do the guts of your plugin's
	// audio processing...
 
	// Set up variables
	//AudioSampleBuffer mainInputOutput = busArrangement.getBusBuffer(buffer, true, 0);
 
	float sr = m_sampleRate;
 
	for (int chan = 0; chan < buffer.getNumChannels(); chan++)
	{
		for (int samp = 0; chan < buffer.getNumChannels(); samp++)
		{
			// Test values
			float testReadPointer = buffer.getReadPointer(chan)[samp];
			float testValue = calculate(buffer.getReadPointer(chan)[samp]);
 
			// Actual code.
			buffer.getWritePointer(chan)[samp] = calculate(buffer.getReadPointer(chan)[samp]);
		}
	}

Does anything appear to be abnormal, or could there be a problem elsewhere? Thanks!

2

…Ahem… Polite cough… :slight_smile:

3

Well that is an embarrassing mistake. Even after fixing the loop the value I get for testReadPointer is 0.000 according to my debugger.

4

Can you post your fixed code again?

5

…looks like the expected behaviour to me, if there is silence on the channel… what did you expect?