Ardour's Tracks/Routes are not capable of handing more than one
MIDI port per per route properly. Most Plugin standards don't support
this either.
However, at this point in time IO::ensure_ports_locked() is not
limited by this restriction!
It is still possible to indirectly add a 2nd MIDI data-buffer
and output-port via plugin pin-management, or simply plugins with
two MIDI output ports when using flexible I/O.
In theory different UIs can show different meter-types, so it
can make sense to maintain the type in different places.
MeterType is a bit-set and PeakMeter implementation provides for this.
However, this is not being used, and the current implementation
was rather fragmented, cross-connected signals to keep types in sync,
allowed inconsistent meter-types in GUI and backend.
MeterType is now kept by meter itself, however it is still
saved/restored as part of the Route state.
N.B. This change breaks the API, various methods have been renamed
for consistency.
Instead of uniformly demote configurations with a non-matching audio
input count (using a penalty offset of 1000), also grade the
impreciseness of the configuration so that those with the nearest input
count are preferred. As for outputs, give a slightly higher handicap to
configuration with too many inputs with regard to the actual audio
inputs that can be fed to the plugin.
POLICY CHANGE: when only imprecise configurations are found the actually
selected one can be different (better) than before this commit.
Just make the code responsible for possible_in > 0 also handle
possible_in == 0 since it nearly does the same thing.
The only difference is that the possible_in == 0 case, by using
FOUNDCFG(), acted as if possible_in was audio_in. The consolidated code
uses FOUNDCFG_IMPRECISE which will add some penalty to the
configurations where desired_in == possible_in != audio_in.
There is thus a small POLICY CHANGE, but the selected configuration will
stay the same unless a better matching configuration is available.
Still no policy change, since when a configuration is chosen that would
have belonged to the second pass, then its penalty will be increased by
1000 and it will be selected only as last recourse.
Merge the cases in == -1 and in == -2 since those are both wildcards,
almost symmetric in the AU spec, and handled completely symmetrically by
the code here considering it accepts invalid or unspecified demands.
Also merge the cases in > 0 and in < -2 since they are handled exactly
the same as far as outputs are concerned.
No policy change
Instead of doing an initial loop for detection of exact matches, then
letting the following loop set \audio_out yet ignore its value, merge
the two loops but give exact matches a negative penalty so that the
\audio_out value they set won't change afterwards.
No policy change.
