PlugInChain documentation - Universität Oldenburg

All settings which are necessary to process the audio material are initialized and stored for
every plugin in the Plugin structure as a sub-structure of ConfigStruct. The PlugInChain
GlobalSettings stores information about the plugin list, paths and some other needed control
parameters.
1.4.2 Run processing
The block-based processing of the input signal can be started by
[Signal,ConfigStruct]=pluginchain_process(Signal, ConfigStruct);.
Note that the input arguments of the function pluginchain_process.m require the initialized
Signal and the initialized ConfigStruct structure (contains the plugins as well as the ‘GlobalSettings’).
If no block processing is needed it is recommended to process the whole signal in one, because
it’s much faster and therefore is chosen as the default constellation.
The actual progress is reported by a waitbar showing the percentage of completed processing.
It can be turned off by redefining the value in the GlobalSettings as
‘showProgessbar = false’.
The processed signal is stored in the Signal structure. But depending on the last plugin of the
actual plugin list, the output also can be
• stored to a wavefile,
• stored to a file,
• plotted into a figure
just to name a few examples.
1.5 Examples of starting the PlugInChain
In the directory where all files and folders for the PlugInChain are stored, two functions are
available to run the PlugInChain without or with GUI:
‘pluginchain.m’ (without GUI) and
‘pluginchaingui.m’. (with GUI)
For the pluginchaingui function most parameters are optional. If used, they always must appear
in pairs of variable name and variable value. In the following the possible commands are
shortly described:
1. pluginchaingui();
Starts the PluginChain with GUI in the directory ‘base’ with the default plugin list.
2. pluginchaingui (‘pluginlist’,‘pluginlistname.cfg’)
Starts the PlugInChain with GUI using the specified plugin list ‘pluginlistname.cfg’,
as long as not specified GlobalSettings.guidefault = false.
3. pluginchaingui (‘pluginlist’,‘pluginlistname.cfg’,’gui’,’true’)
Starting the PlugInChain with GUI loading the plugin list ‘pluginlistname.cfg’, the last
two arguments are optional.
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