# How to get input/MIDI into a FMOD Studio plugin

**URL:** <https://qa.fmod.com/t/how-to-get-input-midi-into-a-fmod-studio-plugin/16457>\
**Category:** FMOD Studio\
**Created:** [November 22, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/how-to-get-input-midi-into-a-fmod-studio-plugin/16457 "2020-11-22T22:49:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rphael1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/rphael1/32/1716_2.png) [@Rphael1](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Rphael1)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/how-to-get-input-midi-into-a-fmod-studio-plugin/16457/1 "2020-11-22T22:49:44Z")

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I built and imported one of the Cabbage example instruments as a plugin instrument. Now I need to get input/notes from Unity/C# into the synthesizer and I can’t figure out how to do this myself, how do I do this? I am not talking about parameter updates, I know how to do those, but I need to get at least MIDI into the plugin even though my goal would be to get custom data into the plugin in order to create a microtonal synth. Is there a way to get a reference to the plugin instrument inside Unity that I missed so I can call a function to feed the plugin with Input (for example MIDI)? I’m kind of lost at this point and feel like I tried everything out…

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**Author:** ![mathew](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/mathew/32/431_2.png) [@mathew](https://qa.fmod.com/u/mathew)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 4:31am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/how-to-get-input-midi-into-a-fmod-studio-plugin/16457/2 "2020-11-23T04:31:02Z")

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I suggest you take a look at what is done in the Resonance plugin, that plugin needs side channel data from a Unity object to control it which sounds similar to what you want to do. `Assets/Plugins/FMOD/addons/ResonanceAudio/Scripts/FmodResonanceAudio.cs`

They dig through the FMOD object hierarchy to fetch the DSP, then use a data parameter to feed data in.

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**Author:** ![Rphael1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/rphael1/32/1716_2.png) [@Rphael1](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Rphael1)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 10:48am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/how-to-get-input-midi-into-a-fmod-studio-plugin/16457/3 "2020-11-23T10:48:50Z")

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Thanks a lot for the help! I’ll look into the code and I’m happy to hear there is a way to achieve what I’m trying to do. I really prefer to do have all the audio generated and mixed inside FMOD.