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Saving the state of an AudioProcessorGraph

Audio Plugins
#1

I would like to save the state of an AudioProcessorGraph as XML. Ideally this would include:

  • The collection of nodes and how they are hooked together
  • The processor used by each node, including its filename (they are VSTs in my graph) so that it can be reloaded
  • The parameters for each processor

I can see that AudioProcessorGraph as a getStateInformation() method. But when I call it on a graph that I know is connected together, it returns an empty memory block.

It looks as though I’m supposed to use getStateInformation() and getXmlFromBinary() to do what I want, but I don’t get the binary data and getXmlFromBinary() is protected. So I can’t call it on my graph. I’m writing a VST hosting app, so I’m just using the various audio classes, rather than creating my own.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks,
Richard

#2

getStateInformation is only used with external plugins such as VSTs, AudioUnits, etc. AudioProcessorGraph doesn’t have a built in function to store it’s state but the Plugin Host Demo can save and reload the state of the graph so having a look at that should get you where you need to go.