How to tell if signal is mono?

[intalentive]

Hi all,

Long time Reaper user, first time developer + forum poster.

I am working on a CPU-intensive plug-in that I'm building with JUCE and testing in Reaper. I would like to be able to do less work when the signal is mono, but mono .wav files are still sent out to two channels. From the point of view of JUCE, it seems that every Reaper instrument track is stereo.

Is there any straightforward way to test whether the audio stream is actually mono, despite coming in on two channels? (I mean other than explicitly checking that the two channels null.)

Thanks in advance.

[nofish]

Hi,

Is there any straightforward way to test whether the audio stream is actually mono, despite coming in on two channels? (I mean other than explicitly checking that the two channels null.)

Hm..generally I wouldn't think so as that's how it's defined (S=L-R).

Reaper specifically, tracks always have an even number of channels, so they are at least stereo, and mono tracks don't exist (you probably figured that out).

To check if a plugin receives a mono stream one could check via TrackFX_GetPinMappings() Api (similar for Take FX), which is possible for (VST) plugins to access via the VST extension SDK.

As you're using JUCE, there's an example in the JUCE source how to access the Reaper API:
https://github.com/juce-framework/JU...ewPluginDemo.h