This is done, and also works pretty well. You will have to ensure your DAW routing is updated to make this work properly of course, but internally at least this works as expected.
Now, one aspect of the old output management that I'm wondering about though is the "enable output" setting. In previous versions of TX16Wx, this flag does exactly one thing: it marks an output as inactive, and any voice that plays on that output just skips the dsp rendering.
Why this flag does not do more is because turning on/off output pins works with very varying results in most hosts. Reaper claims to accept increasing/decreasing the actual number of output pins of a plug-in, which in theory would enable removing/adding outputs dynamically. However, as I think about it; is this at all useful? The more I think about it, the more I feel that I should just remove this aspect, because:
- It _will_ break some hosts
- Having an output does not really cost anything unless you actually route it to something in the host/generate data on it in the instrument. Thus, if you don't need an output, simply don't use it. Problem solved.
- Having outputs fully dynamic makes the internal code more complicated for very little return.
Cheers