Apparently this can actually make a difference in some cases, and the
C++ Core Guideliens recommend doing this on all default constructors,
destructors, and all functions that can not throw (and thus also don't
allocate).
This is very ugly so hopefully I can think of a neater way, but now the
response object is just a set of pointers, so we can avoid all copies
and moves on the Wine side.
We do this by using this new `MessageReference<T>` type to avoid copying
our `YaAudioProcessor::Process` struct and the contained `YaProcessData`
object. This is only part of the work, but this redesign lets us keep
the these objects alive on both the plugin and the host side. On the
plugin side, we'll simply serialize the data from the referred to object
without copying it. On the Wine side, we'll write the data to a
persistent thread local object, and then reassign the
`MessageReference<T>` to point to that object. This lets us serialize
'references', thus avoiding potentially expensive allocations. With
these last few changes alone VST3 plugins are already at the same
performance level as our optimized VST2 plugin groups.
Bitwig prepends some data when passing an `IBStream*` to the plugin, and
when we do copy it iZotope Rx7 plugins cannot load their state (even if
we also copy over the same seek position). Not copying that preamble
fixes the issue, and it seems like it doesn't break anything.
This is embarrassing. Because the bus index was not being serialized,
all lookups were done for the bus with index 0. This meant that
sidechaining in Renoise didn't work because Renoise only allows
sidechaining to `kAux` busses and the first bus is always marked as
`kMain`. This would also cause Ardour to crash or freeze more often then
it should because while it does not support arbitrary bus I/O
configurations, it does support plugins with both a `kMain` and a `kAux`
input bus but since we would never get `kAux` busses Ardour just didn't
pass any buffers for the sidechain input.
`std::char_traits<wchar_t>::length()` would return the wrong length for
a wide string under Wine, and thus also for `String128`. This would
cause parts of the strings to get cut off. As a workaround we'll just
serialize the entire container including all null bytes at the end.
We didn't initialize the field, and we also didn't copy the updated
value back (since everything else is a pointer to the original data).
This fixes audio channels in REAPER randomly being silence, as this
field would otherwise be uninitialized.
Thanks a lot to @kytdkut for finding this issue!
This is a breaking change. Old projects containing VST3 plugins running
through yabridge will no longer work without modifications. I'll write
some scripts to convert the class IDs stored in those project files soon
a migration path.
The UIDs reported by the plugin were apparently wrong, which meant that
the native Linux VST3 version of plugin X and the normal Windows VST3
version of plugin X used different class ideas than the Windows VST3
version of plugin X running through yabridge. Those things are supposed
to be compatible, so we sadly needed to make this change at some point.
As pointed out on the Discord. Fixing this will require a breaking
change, but right we report incorrect plugin IDs meaning that projects
saved under Windows cannot be opened under Linux with yabridge so this
really needs a fix.
We still need to do a lot of testing, and before that there are quite a
few things I need to fix or take a look at, but now we at least
technically support all VST 3.7.1 features.
Robbert van der Helm