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Multi-channel output for the CoreAudio driver. #1081

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Hi, this pull request does two things:

  • Enable the synth.audio-channels and synth.audio-groups settings to work with CoreAudio as they do on other platforms.

    • This required modifying the AudioStreamBasicDescription, which was hardcoded as interleaved stereo. A nice efficiency improvement we can make here is adding the kAudioFormatFlagIsNonInterleaved flag, which allows us to skip the allocation and interleave + copy step and pass the buffers filled by the fluidsynth render callback directly.
  • Adds a audio.coreaudio.channel-map setting to make use of CoreAudio's standard channel mapping facility to arbitrarily route output channels.

As an example of why these changes are helpful, I use them for live performances to route MIDI instruments, samples, and cues to different channels on a digital rack mixer where they can be adjusted by a front-of-house sound engineer as if they were separate instruments.

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That looks pretty excellent. Thank you! I have some minor comments below. And I'm pinning @pedrolcl as he might be interested in this change as well.

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I'm pinning @pedrolcl as he might be interested in this change as well.

I don't use macOS anymore. My MBP is useless after the update to Catalina, so I'm planning to install Linux on it. Bye, bye, Apple!

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LGTM, Thank You!

@derselbst derselbst merged commit 486e3f3 into FluidSynth:master Apr 21, 2022
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