Can a instrument have multiple audio output channels?

[Frankbeat]

I‘m thinking about building a simple sampler. But a important feature would be to have up to 4 stereo outputs. Is this possible with HISE?

[Dan Korneff]

@Frankbeat yes

[Frankbeat]

Is it ```
Settings.setOutputChannel(int index)

for each one I want to have?

[d.healey]

Add these to your project's extra definitions

ENABLE_ALL_PEAK_METERS=1
HISE_NUM_PLUGIN_CHANNELS=6

Replace 6 with the number of mono channels you want (they will be stereo pairs).

I have some videos on my YouTube channel about making a microphone mixer that you might find useful.

[Frankbeat]

@d-healey Oh, cool! I‘m gonna watch that video today, thanks!

[Christoph Hart]

Actually you don't need to set this preprocessor, it should grab it from the number of channels of the master container.

[Frankbeat]

Hmm… I'm still having trouble with this.

I have two Samplers: Bass Drum and Snare Drum, each of them routed to one stereo out on the master container like this:

And I added

ENABLE_ALL_PEAK_METERS=1
HISE_NUM_PLUGIN_CHANNELS=4

Within HISE (standalone) its working all fine, just as in David's video on making the mix mixer.

However, when I load the plugin (.vst3) into a VST instrument slot in Cubase, both channel pairs are available:

But channels 3+4 are not putting out sound (and peak meters stay empty), so my Snare Drum is not playing back.

What am I missing? Is there some Projucer settings I might need to check?