Number of MIDI input channels hard coded

Audio Plugins
#1

We found that the latest version of our plugins accept 16 MIDI input channels, that was not the case with olders builds. Looking into the VST2 wrapper of JUCE I found out that the number of MIDI in/out channels is hard coded to 16:

pointer_sized_int handleGetNumMidiInputChannels()
{
   #if JucePlugin_WantsMidiInput || JucePlugin_IsMidiEffect
    return 16;
   #else
    return 0;
   #endif
}

pointer_sized_int handleGetNumMidiOutputChannels()
{
   #if JucePlugin_ProducesMidiOutput || JucePlugin_IsMidiEffect
    return 16;
   #else
    return 0;
   #endif
}

For our plugins, we think that is quite confusing for the user to show 16 MIDI inputs (for example in Ableton Live that gives a huge long list of MIDI inputs…), as our plugins only require a single MIDI input.

Capture_2

JUCE team, could you please consider to make the channel count adjustable?

#2

It looks like this is required for multi-MIDI VSTs in Live, see this thread.

#3

Hi, yes I remember when asking fir this change to be made. I guess there is def a case fir this being configurable tho.

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#4

The number of MIDI inputs should definitely be configurable to provide a good user experience.

Right now, if we’d have for esample 3 plugins on that channel that’d show 48 MIDI ins… that’d definitely be very ugly + confusing to the user, so I’d appreciate it a lot if we could configure that number.

#5

JUCE team, will we see this happen, that the number of MIDI Input Channels can be defined?

#6

It’s on the to-do list but I’m afraid I can’t give a more specific timeline.

#7
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#8

Wonderful - thank you a lot!

#9

Hey I’m happy to find this post – is it possible for anyone to confirm whether or not this is configurable for other wrappers?

Having the same issue in AU – but not seeing any way to configure this on audio units