+ /* special method for meter, to ensure that it can always handle the maximum
+ number of streams in the route, no matter where we put it.
+ */
+
+ void reset_max_channels (const ChanCount&);
+
+ /* tell the meter than no matter how many channels it can handle,
+ `in' is the number it is actually going be handling from
+ now on.
+ */
+
+ void reflect_inputs (const ChanCount& in);
+