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Contents 1 CLAM Buffer Ports TODOs 1.1 Use audio-buffers whenever possible 1.2 Optimize Backends copies 1.3 Audio-buffer pool 1.4 Audio-buffer Processing policy 1.5 Benchmark 1.6 DONE

CLAM Buffer Ports TODOs

Use audio-buffers whenever possible

• Convert processings
  • Use audio-buffer ports
  • Use audio-buffer policy
• Remove duplicated processings
• Adapt networks that combine audio-buffer and audio-stream ports (using Buffer2Stream, etc)
  • Test them in dynamic buffer-size hosts (like ardour/ladspa)

• Port LadspaWrapper to audio buffer ports (instead of audio stream ports)
  • Duplicate [done]
  • Test in dynamic buffer-size host
  • Eliminate stream-port version

Optimize Backends copies

• AudioSources and Sinks should map the memory of the host
• Check that all the hosts (Jack, Ladspa, Portaudio) use 4 bytes floats
• Force clam audio samples format to floats

Audio-buffer pool

• reallocate a pool of audio buffers at Config time to avoid allocating memory at runtime, which is non realtime safe.

Audio-buffer Processing policy

1. Do not call port.SetSize(1) and portSetHop(1), since it is the default behavior.
2. Do not allocate audio buffers in ConcreteConfigure (since the connections could not exist)
3. Do an implicit allocation of output audios in the Do (that means that will allocate only once): outbuffer.SetSize( inbuffer.GetSize() ) where outbuffer and inbuffer are the port.GetData()
   1. This will change by using a pre-allocated audio-buffer pool

Benchmark

• Using callgrind to compare the efficiency with the buffer implementation.

DONE

• Test the BackendBufferSize to demostrate the correct function.
• Create AudioSink with Buffer.
• Create AudioSource with Buffer.
• Stream2Buffer and Buffer2Stream using the BackendBufferSize.
• (David) NetworkEditor: Allow connecting multiple channel into the single conection in AudioSink.
  • Ex. 15 channels (like Hoa) to single conection (AudioSink)
• Allow the hosts/backends to change its buffers size at runtime.
• optimization: do not reallocate audio buffers in Do() when resizing to smaller size.