Well, this commit got a bit out of hand, what with 26 files changed. Oh well.
Basically, we're using the buffermanager to dispense temporary buffers for playhandles and audioports to use.
This allows us to change the way playhandles work. Earlier, playhandles of the same track were waiting in line
to push their output to the audioport. This was of course inefficient, so now they just register themselves to the port,
then the port handles mixing the buffers.
Caveat: this is still a work in progress, the vol/pan knobs on instruments are temporarily non-functional - will be fixed in
the next commit, but I have to get some sleep now.
The constructor was probably the wrong place to put it, run() is definitely executed in the new thread so that's where the setting should be applied I think?
There once have been huge efforts to implement FX send support in the
master branch. In order to make it available on a stable base here's
a backport which is non-trivial as there have been major rewrites of
the mixer's worker thread architecture.
There still seem to be bugs which we have to fix before merging into
stable branch.
Thanks to Andrew Kelley for the original work.
Lukas W