Looking for simple stereo inputs and outputs that have ‘invisible cables’ between them. The purpose is to clean up the places of a board where your cables cross over plugins and make a visual mess.
The ins and outs could come in stereo pairs, where each of the two jacks can be assigned a ‘channel’, let’s say from 1 to 8, so that you could use several instances of them.
I hope my explanation is sufficient, and that people can see a point in having such a thing.
Edit: Would be great if the channel number was shown on the jack.
So kind of like two patch bays with a kind of “snake” in between them?
While I think what you are proposing is certainly interesting from a UX standpoint I’m afraid this is not something that a plugin can solve by itself. This would really require a change in the UI/UX of mod-ui itself.
Of course the interface would be through a set of specialty plugins, but the functionality is not something that a plugin provides.
While we do have the portal-plugins, these also delay audio processing so a chain of plugins can run on separate cores on the device. Which I’m assuming is not necessarily the goal here.
Otherwise I’d consider this a kind of “multi-channel portal plugin” setup.
Yes, I had patchbays in mind. Or the portal plugin without the core separation functionality.
Probably due to my lack of knowledge, I did not think this to be a difficult thing. Any plugin connects an input to an output, with code in between that does something with the signal.
In my mind, my suggestion would be a very similar thing, just with an invisible cable between the in and out plugin. Or to put it differently, a plugin cut down the middle whithout any signal processing code in between.