On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:22:07 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> For what it's worth, many plugs already have internal parameters for soft 
> bypass (all Powered Plug-Ins have one or more bypass params that provide 
> both glitch-free bypass and a DSP load reduction), and I believe this is a 
> better approach because it supports automation and remote control surfaces 
> better. For this reason, I see no reason to support setBypass unless it 
> simply maps directly onto a bypass parameter. A more consistent interface 

I agree with this entirely...

> would be to add a getBypassParamId() call to return the parameter ID for 
> the bypass parameter, and use the standard get/setParameter() interface to 
> control it.

...but as we're not using vst, we can simply have a well known port name.
I nominate "bypass".

votes++;

- Steve

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