VST plugin VS Standalone, audio settings optional?

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hi everyone,
i am in doubt about that point, lets see in detail…

i am building an effect plugin that simply input a stereo (2ch.) and has 2 stereo outputs (4ch.)…this has also a selector to get the input channel from the DAW as well as its outputs channels to it. this selector shows a list of available channels to go with… nothing fancy here !

my question now… if i do want to get a standalone version of it, without DAW. how can i get directly the in/out list of the soundcard ports, as i got the DAW channels list for the plugin version, without building an other app ?

i am a bit confusing on that topic as it appears to be very different context and audio settings…
hope i am clear enough ! thanks

have a nice day
uriel

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Juce has an option to build a stand alone application from a plugin project. (Which should be enabled by default in the Projucer audio plugin project template, but maybe you have checked that out initially when starting your plugin project?)

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thanks Xenakios, i do this, but i have seen that it is not obvious that the plugin works the same way as the standalone
e.g: in the plugin, i dont need a soundcard selection, BUT in the standalone, i really need it !so this is why i am asking… if it doesnt work the same way, how can it be produce side by side ?
i am only seeing here that i would need to build 2 separate projects and codes

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Doesn’t your stand alone app plugin show the “Options” button on the top left of the application window? That’s where the user can choose the device and settings…

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yes, any of my standalone plugin get this options panel, and thats great… but:

  • in the vst plugin, i have a menu to show up the list of available DAW channels
  • in the standalone, want/need to have the list of available ports from the soundcard ! otherwise it will not output any sound… and it will look for channels that doesnt exist

i may be wrong thinking like that, and you can heavily correct me !
but in this case, i dont see the point of compiling both vst and standalone as it cannot work the same way… but like i said, if i am wrong, just let me know, please

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OK, that should be possible to do but can be quite a hassle because you would need to have a custom application wrapper for the plugin. (In order to get access to the AudioDeviceManager instance etc…) Juce does allow doing that but I don’t think there’s any example code of that around.