Audio routing when developing an effect?

[dannytaurus]

What's the general audio routing setup for developing an audio effect in HISE?

How do I route audio in to be effected? Or should I just drop a sampler in there to play an audio file while I'm developing?

I'm on macOS Ventura 13.4.

[d.healey]

@dannytaurus use a sampler or synth for testing. Only modules in the master chain will be processed in fx plugins.

[aaronventure]

Build HISE plugin version with HISE_BACKEND_AS_FX=1

Then you can drop the hise plugin version in the effect chain (it will still be VSTi so make sure your daw/host allows it, iirc Ableton used to be specific about this) and it will process the incoming audio input.

Its somewhat simpler to just use a sampler and load your test audio files in there to be used during development.

[dannytaurus]

@d-healey @aaronventure Great, thanks!