Multi-bus synth plugin: routing bus buffers in processBlock( ) when using the Synthesiser class

Audio Plugins
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I’m currently working on a synth plugin that requires multiple (at least 10) outputs. So far I’m unable to figure out a good way to route the buses in processBlock( ) while using the Synthesiser class. I’ve done it before while using AudioSource by having a separate AudioSource for each output buffer and it worked out great.
So for AudioSource, in processBlock( ) I had:

AudioBuffer<float> outputBus1 = getBusBuffer(buffer, false, 0); //here I have an AudioBuffer for each bus buffer, as seen on Fabian's helpful multi-bus API presentation on youtube
AudioBuffer<float> outputBus2 = getBusBuffer(buffer, false, 1);
...

source1->getNextAudioBlock(AudioSourceChannelInfo(outputBus1)); //an AudioSource for each output buffer
source2->getNextAudioBlock(AudioSourceChannelInfo(outputBus2));
...

However, it’s not as straight forward with Synthesiser since it is a single object that holds all of the sounds which will be separated into different output buffers depending on the user’s selection. With AudioSource I would just pass the audio from the main source to a specific AudioSource based on the user’s bus selection. Should I use a separate Synthesiser for each output buffer? If so, is there no better way? Is there something that I’m missing?

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This is currently not possible without adding multiple synthesisers. Have a look at the MultiOutSynth example code to see how this can be achieved.

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I see, brilliant! I should have looked through the JUCE examples more thoroughly.
Thank you Fabian.