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.
LMMS now properly builds and runs with Qt5. Various deprecated functions
had to be replaced like QString::toAscii()/fromAscii(). Also occurences
of FALSE/TRUE have been replaced with false/true.
LmmsStyle now derives from QProxyStyle and sets a style instance as base
style (Plastique for Qt4, Fusion for Qt5).
MOC files are not included anymore but added as regular source files.
What's missing is support for embedding VST plugins into a subwindow
inside LMMS on Linux/X11 due to missing QX11EmbedContainer class in Qt5.
Build instructions can be found in INSTALL.Qt5
Minimum version requirement for Qt4 has been raised to 4.6.0 for best
API compatibility between Qt4 and Qt5.
- currently only affects Vestige
- no idea whether this can also be used for Zyn and OpulenZ, I'm not sure if Zyn has any kind of mechanism for communicating frame offset to the synth, as for OpulenZ, @softrabbit would know the answer better
- basically, I made it happen by simply adding an extra parameter in the processMidi{In|Out} functions, which is 0 by default, and made the necessary changes in instrumentTrack and nph to utilize it
- I based this against 1.1 because I didn't think it's a very big change, and I don't see much possibility for things going wrong here, since we're basically just using the existing functionality in Vestige (there already was a frame offset being communicated to the remote plugin, just that it was always set to 0). However, if @tobydox thinks this is better to bump up to 1.2, I can rebase it for master...
There'll be more and more flags for instruments. Handling them using
virtual and overloaded getter functions doesn't scale well and adds
unneccessary overhead.
The MIDI event handling in InstrumentTrack was complex and buggy. It has
been simplified now such that processInEvent() tries to handle note on,
note off and key pressure events. The actions taken should result in
equivalent calls to processOutEvent() by NotePlayHandle instances. The
processOutEvent() function sends according MIDI events to the attached
instruments. All unhandled MIDI events are directly forwarded to the
instrument in processInEvent().
It's possible that some corner-cases are not handled yet with the new code
and we have regressions now.
Furthermore renamed midiTime/midiEvent to MidiTime/MidiEvent to match
coding style.
Closes#72.
In order to provide smooth muting functionality (i.e. immediate proper
sound when unmuting) always render audio buffers for MIDI-based
instruments. This is more important than potentially reduced CPU usage
while muted.
Closes#69.
