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# preferredInputChannelsForStereo

An array of two UInt32s, the first for the left channel, the second for the right channel,
that indicate the channel numbers to use for stereo input IO on the device.

```
var preferredInputChannelsForStereo: [UInt32] { get throws }
```

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