Maintaining session compatibility with new main AU type?

Audio Plugins
1

Hi All-

We want to add MIDI control to one of our existing plug-ins, which is currently just an Audio Unit with JucePlugin_AUMainType set to kAudioUnitType_Effect. We've successfully been able to route midi to the plug-in by changing the type to kAudioUnitType_MusicEffect, but as a result, when reopening a session saved with an older version of the plug-in, the host complains that it can't find the plug-in (because the types are different). We're able to load new instances of the MIDI-enabled plug-in, but it doesn't maintain session compatibility.

Has anyone experienced this before, or know of a workaround for maintaining session compatibiliy with a different main type for an Audio Unit? Or is there another way to get MIDI input into the plug-in, without changing the type?

Thanks!

Tom

2

Bump, has anyone had this issue before?

3

Don't know a workaround.. It's really entirely up to the host how it chooses to match plugins, but usually they'll match the whole AU signature, which includes the type.