> The ability to instantiate plugins with different channel counts and > layouts and unconnected ins/outs are not mutually exclusive, are > they? I think they're different things, with only some overlap. > > Maybe there is a third system, that covers it all? Yes, I think so. But I think that the disconnecting-i/o approach would be secondary to the host-setting-stream-count approach since the need to connect and disconnect i/o in the audio thread is rare and steps can be made to avoid that, and the ways for a plugin to adapt to those changes are not ideal in many cases (as I've been explaining). Marc __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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