> if the host send LtRt as stereo signal to a plug-in. The plug-in consider > this signal as usual stereo signal. Right, in my followup email I boiled it down to a simpler question: Does a plugin have to specifically support an encoding, or does a plugin only support the channel-counts? That is, if I connect an LtRt stream to a stereo reverb, does it just connect, or does it complain? > As far as i know, LtRt encoding, is a linear computation (mathematically LtRt is just an example - I don't think we can make ANY assumptions about any consistencies across encodings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe