This uses a separate container to provide the relevant properties to the
internal update method, using atomic pointer swaps. A free-list is used to
avoid having too many individual containers.
This allows the mixer to update the internal listener properties without
requiring the lock to protect against async updates. It also allows concurrent
read access to the user-facing property values, even the multi-value ones (e.g.
the vectors).
Instead of looping over all the coefficients for each channel with multiplies,
when we know only one will have a non-0 factor for ambisonic mixing buffers,
just index the one with a non-0 factor.
This uses a virtual B-Format buffer for mixing, and then uses a dual-band
decoder for improved positional quality. This currently only works with first-
order output since first-order input (from the AL_EXT_BFROMAT extension) would
not sound correct when fed through a second- or third-order decoder.
This also does not currently implement near-field compensation since near-field
rendering effects are not implemented.
There were phase issues caused by applying HRTF directly to the B-Format
channels, since the HRIR delays were all averaged which removed the inter-aural
time-delay, which in turn removed significant spatial information.
This mixes to a 4-channel first-order ambisonics buffer. With ACN ordering and
N3D scaling, this makes it easy to remain compatible with effects that only
care about mono input since channel 0 is an unattenuated mono signal.
This helps the stability of transforms to local space for sources that are at
or near the listener. With a single-precision matrix, even FLT_EPSILON might
not be enough to detect matching positions.
This is essentially a 12-point sinc resampler, unless it's resampling to a rate
higher than the output, at which point it will vary between 12 and 24 points
and do anti-aliasing to avoid/reduce frequencies going over nyquist.
Code provided by Christopher Fitzgerald.
The extension's not going anywhere, and it can't do anything fluidsynth can't.
The code maintenance and bloat is not worth keeping around, and ideally the AL
API would be able to facilitate MIDI-like behavior anyway (envelopes, start-at-
time, etc).
