Settled 2026-07-26: per-instance mono|stereo mode with automatic bus
negotiation (S3-core extension); ingest routes through the bank, extension-
owned, instrument stays read-only; bank-generation counter for hands-free
recapture refresh. ME + drop-target SDK limits verified; spikes flagged.
Native VST3, Windows-only, two-products-but-integrated. Retire the JSFX fork
in place, add grounded assessment of the raw Steinberg VST3 surface without JUCE,
and re-present the residual forks in priority order.
A VST hosted in REAPER can call back into REAPER's own API (name-resolved
via audioMaster), so a native ReaSampler instrument reads live project
ext-state directly. Re-frames the seam, D6, and the D1/D2 calculus.
Frame the option space for a MIDI-triggered sampler consuming ReaSampler
banks: the extension-format ceiling (verified vs. vendored SDK headers),
the bank-as-shared-artifact seam, scope tiers, and the forks for Daniel.
daniel