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CLAP: add macro to use MIDI MPE dialect #443

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@jfrey-xx jfrey-xx commented Dec 9, 2023

This is related to #441

In the end I could not help but try a little something. At first I wanted to let people select any of the different dialects, but I was not sure how to properly retrieve the definitions in DPF (include the corresponding CLAP header or duplicate its #define somewhere? Neither seemed pretty). So I settled with just the "MPE" option for now, especially considering that the other dialects (MDI 2 or CLAP) might need to be properly parsed to reach the plugin.

Then I started to add flags to let user configure MPE for input or output separately, to declare it as supported only (and not "preferred")... but that started to look bloated without other use cases.

Hence the trivial modification. I still hope that can be of some help. I tried my best to mimic how the flags are set. Tell me if I can improve something.

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falkTX commented Dec 9, 2023

While I agree with the base idea, I think making this clap specific is wrong.
Best to me seems to have a generic hint (0/off by default if unset) to report a plugin as supporting MPE. Then DPF takes care that the host knows about this, which is already covered here for CLAP.
The value is only a hint anyway, so it is fine to be generic.

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falkTX commented Dec 9, 2023

While I agree with the base idea, I think making this clap specific is wrong.
Best to me seems to have a generic hint (0/off by default if unset) to report a plugin as supporting MPE. Then DPF takes care that the host knows about this, which is already covered here for CLAP.
The value is only a hint anyway, so it is fine to be generic.

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falkTX commented Dec 9, 2023

also please make the PR target develop branch, not main.
new commits should always go into develop first. thanks

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falkTX commented Dec 9, 2023

actually I think the best is to have default value as "undefined", where we do nothing special if unset.
but plugins can manually specify through 0 or 1 value that they support MPE (or not)

most plugin specs dont have a way to report this property anyhow

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jfrey-xx commented Dec 10, 2023

Thanks for the feedback! I rebased on develop and used a generic name for the macro -- maybe there is a better name for that (DISTRHO_PLUGIN_USE_MIDI_MPE?), maybe you wanted no default value in DistrhoInfo.hpp.

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