Each MIDI message is sent twice to VST plugin [fixed in 2.0.3]

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Robson
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Joined: June 25, 2009

Hello!

I'm going to write a VST plugin that both receives and sends
MIDI messages. Let's say it will be a kind of sequencer with ability
of being triggered by incoming MIDI messages. And I want
it to work with AudioMulch. AudioMulch with its new MIDI
routing feature seems to be well suited for such kind of plugins.

To test the feasibility of my idea I've created a simple plugin
(I'm using MS Windows) in which I have set
AEffect::numInputs and AEffect::numOutputs to 0,
AEffect::flags to (effFlagsCanReplacing | effFlagsProgramChunks).
I send audioMasterWantMidi in my effOpen handler, and also
respond with: receiveVstMidiEvent, receiveVstTimeInfo,
and sendVstMidiEvent to effCanDo message.

After loading it into AM it shows up with no audio in/outputs,
but with MIDI input and output, just as one would expect.
However there is a problem: AM sends each MIDI message
repeated twice at the same sample frame. For example
when I press a key on my MIDI keyboard, the plugin receives
effProcessEvents with two NoteOn messages with
exactly the same parameters including the same deltaFrames value.
The same applies to NoteOff and every other message.

Curiously enough, this only happens when something (some VST synth) is connected
to MIDI output of my plugin. When I disconnect the other plugin the problem goes away.

Is this a bug in AudioMulch, or am I doing something wrong?

BTW, I'm not calling audioMasterProcessEvents to forward messages to
the output, so it's not the case that I'm receiving what I have sent myself,
I'm just logging the incoming messages.

Ross B.
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Joined: April 11, 2009

Hi
Sounds like a bug to me -- hard to say what's causing it right now though. Would it be possible for me to get a copy of your plugin so I can test it here? You can email me at rossb@audiomulch.com
Thanks!

Ross.

Robson
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Joined: June 25, 2009

Hi, Ross.
I've sent you my plugin, from this email account: robert3.1415 at gmail.
Thank you for investigating the problem.

Ross B.
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Joined: April 11, 2009

This has been resolved in version 2.0.3. Please advise if you encounter the problem again. Thanks -- Ross.