Third Party Node + Offline processing?

[iamlamprey]

Do third party nodes when loaded into hardcoded effect slots allow offline processing via the regular dsp network calls?

If not, what's the easiest way to process an IR through a third-party node? Something like:

const myCoolThirdPartyNode = Synth.getEffect("myCoolThirdPartyNode"); 

// or 

const myCoolThirdPartyNode = Synth.getSlotFX("myCoolThirdPartyNode");

inline function offlineProcess()
{
	local impulseSize = 1024;
	myCoolThirdPartyNode.prepareToPlay(44100.0, impulseSize);
	
	local buffer = Buffer.create(impulseSize);
	buffer[0] = 1.0; // Dirac delta
	local channels = [buffer, buffer];

	// process through third party node somehow here

	// then save the modified buffers as a stereo IR file or do other processing after
}

[griffinboy]

@iamlamprey

If by offline, you mean doing a heavy process without freezing the program / spiking cpu, you can create a new thread and run the process on that thread / chunk the process into blocks and do a chunk at a time.

[iamlamprey]

@griffinboy Yeh I just mean running an audio file (dirac delta impulse) through a single hardcoded FX module and saving the output as a .wav (while ignoring any other incoming audio signal)

I've been doing it with a AudioLoopPlayer, MIDI Sequence and Engine.renderAudio() but it's a bit clunky. I could also do it inside the C++ node but that involves global cable shenanigans and potential race conditions.

[griffinboy]

@iamlamprey

Ah right right. I think this is a question for Christoph then! However he did answer something similar very recently. And I think global cables was the answer he gave

[ustk]

a buffer can be sent via cable data or external data (and maybe received by cable data only, as I don't know if an external data is bidirectional).
This might allow offline processing

[iamlamprey]

@ustk You can generate the buffer inside the node without needing to pass anything in, the global cable would be used to pass the export filepath since C++ nodes don't support strings or file objects.

Best case scenario for me would still be using DspNetwork.processBlock() but I'm not sure if it works in a hardcoded FX module, I think it's a pretty old method.