being notified of playback start in iPlug (WDL-OL)
I started developing my plugins using AU and VST to test and came to assume that I would get a Reset() call when playback is started. I found out today that VST3 does not do this. But it does call OnActivate, so I defined that in my plugin and had it call Reset() (it gets called twice on playback start, but I can work with that). Now I'm double checking AAX and finding that it does not call Reset or OnActivate when playback starts. I turned on TRACE and as far as I can tell, there is no call when playback starts.
Isn't it common to want to know when playback starts? Am I alone in wanting to do something special with my plugin state/processing when playback starts? Take latency for example...which should be a widespread need. If you have latency of X samples, then when playback starts you get calls to ProcessDoubleReplacing to supply the initial X samples without the normal sampling delay between the calls. Wouldn't most people want to handle these calls slightly different from a normal ProcessDoubleReplacing call? Without any indication of playback start, there is no way to distinguish them.
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