[LAD] Lv2 port replication [for dummies]

[Steve Harris]

On 14 Aug 2009, at 00:48, David Robillard wrote:
>> Several channels on a mixer should be doable with the 1/N channels
>> restriction.
>
> A mixer usually has several 'strips', each of which may have different
> counts.  Like the ardour mixer, for example.  This is a simple,
> realistic, and useful case where simply having a single global value
> doesn't cut it.  The same goes for virtually anything with several
> signal paths.

I don't see a) how having multiple channel counts makes any difference  
b) how the hell the host would deal with it.

Lets see, in a typical mixer setup, we have

Audio:
in X N
out X N
master out X 2
bus out X 8

Control:
master gain X 1
channel gain X N
low shelf X N
high shelf X N
trim X N
pan X N
bus sends 8 X N

all looks fine to me.

- Steve