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[FR]: Direct (Juce audio buffer like) access to channels in the input and output buffer

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp

Research direction

The request concerns the audio graph's input/output buffer handoff, but it names no file, so start by tracing how a plugin's process context receives its input buffer and returns its output buffer, and read JUCE's AudioBuffer as the model the issue asks to mirror. Nothing here is scoped to a component or an entry point, and the thread has had no maintainer answer in over two years, so a design discussion with the maintainers should come before any code. Done means an agreed, documented API for per-channel access to the input and output buffers at the start and end of processing.

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
People are asking to send certain channels to multiple outputs. If we can just copy channels on the output buffer, adding this would be super easy.

Describe the solution you'd like
Some kind of API to have juce audiobuffer like access at the start and at the end of processing.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Set multiple output tracks of 1 track could be a "simpler" but less flexible solution.

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