Channel number in NoteOn event always zero?

Developer VST 3 SDK
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My multi-timbral VST3 plugin uses 16 MIDI channels in the Event bus (see code below). I set my MIDI keyboard to output all notes & CC on channel 2. I verify that the keyboard is outputting on channel 2 by playing the keyboard into VST2 plugins and confirm channel 2. But when running the VST3 plugin, all incoming Note events arrive in Processor::process() with channel zero (channel number gotten from event.noteOn.channel ).

In my DEF_CLASS2 macro for the Processor, I’m using value zero for ComponentFlags (I use neither kDistributable nor kSimpleModeSupported).

What is the plugin doing that would cause Cubase host to change the noteOn channel # from 2 to 0 before it sends the event to the plugin?

Here is software in ::process() that is receiving the NoteOn event:

IEventList* eventList = data.inputEvents;
int32 numEvent = eventList->getEventCount ();
	 ....
		Event event;
		if (eventList->getEvent (i, event) == kResultOk)
		{ 
		switch (event.type)
			{
 				case Event::kNoteOffEvent:
  				case Event::kNoteOnEvent: {
                                    if ( Event::kNoteOnEvent == event.type ){  
                                          unsigned char channelNumber = BOUND ( 0, event.noteOn.channel, 15);

Here is software that defines 16 MIDI channels for the event bus:

tresult PLUGIN_API VST3_Processor::getBusInfo (MediaType mediaType, BusDirection dir, int32 index, BusInfo& info)    {
    if (( dir == kInput  ) && ( index >= kNumInputBusses)) return kResultFalse;
    if (( dir == kOutput ) && ( index >= kNumOutputBusses )) return kResultFalse;
    info.mediaType = mediaType;	///< Media type - has to be a value of \ref MediaTypes
    info.direction = dir; ///< input or output \ref BusDirections
    if ( kAudio == mediaType  ) {
        info.channelCount = 2;  // numer of speakers, e.g. 2 == stereo
    } else {  // Event aka MIDI events
          info.channelCount = kNumMidiChannels;  // 16
    }....
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Bumping this.

Is the NoteOn event’s channel always equal to zero? Or are there situations where the host will to provide the (sometimes non-zero) MIDI channel in the NoteOn event?

If channel can be non-zero, what must the plugin do to instruct the host to relay the non-zero channel number?

As shown above, my plugin’s method ::getBusInfo() is defining 16 MIDI channels per input event bus.

Thanks in advance for any tips!

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I think you have setup Cubase wrong. This works with other plug-ins.

Cheers,
Arne