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nice_plug_core/
buffer.rs

1//! Adapters and utilities for working with audio buffers.
2
3use std::marker::PhantomData;
4
5mod blocks;
6mod samples;
7
8pub use blocks::{Block, BlockChannelsIter, BlocksIter};
9pub use samples::{ChannelSamples, ChannelSamplesIter, SamplesIter};
10
11/// The audio buffers used during processing. This contains the output audio output buffers with the
12/// inputs already copied to the outputs. You can either use the iterator adapters to conveniently
13/// and efficiently iterate over the samples, or you can do your own thing using the raw audio
14/// buffers.
15///
16/// TODO: This lifetime makes zero sense because you're going to need unsafe lifetime casts to use
17///       this either way. Maybe just get rid of it in favor for raw pointers.
18#[derive(Default)]
19pub struct Buffer<'a> {
20    /// The number of samples contained within `output_slices`. This needs to be stored separately
21    /// to be able to handle 0 channel IO for MIDI-only plugins.
22    num_samples: usize,
23
24    /// Contains slices for the plugin's outputs. You can't directly create a nested slice from a
25    /// pointer to pointers, so this needs to be preallocated in the setup call and kept around
26    /// between process calls. And because storing a reference to this means a) that you need a lot
27    /// of lifetime annotations everywhere and b) that at some point you need unsound lifetime casts
28    /// because this `Buffers` either cannot have the same lifetime as the separately stored output
29    /// buffers, and it also cannot be stored in a field next to it because that would mean
30    /// containing mutable references to data stored in a mutex.
31    output_slices: Vec<&'a mut [f32]>,
32}
33
34impl<'a> Buffer<'a> {
35    /// Returns the number of samples per channel in this buffer.
36    #[inline]
37    pub fn samples(&self) -> usize {
38        self.num_samples
39    }
40
41    /// Returns the number of channels in this buffer.
42    #[inline]
43    pub fn channels(&self) -> usize {
44        self.output_slices.len()
45    }
46
47    /// Returns true if this buffer does not contain any samples.
48    #[inline]
49    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
50        self.num_samples == 0
51    }
52
53    /// Obtain the raw audio buffers.
54    #[inline]
55    pub fn as_slice(&mut self) -> &mut [&'a mut [f32]] {
56        &mut self.output_slices
57    }
58
59    /// The same as [`as_slice()`][Self::as_slice()], but for a non-mutable reference. This is
60    /// usually not needed.
61    #[inline]
62    pub fn as_slice_immutable(&self) -> &[&'a mut [f32]] {
63        &self.output_slices
64    }
65
66    /// Iterate over the samples, returning a channel iterator for each sample.
67    #[inline]
68    pub fn iter_samples<'slice>(&'slice mut self) -> SamplesIter<'slice, 'a> {
69        SamplesIter {
70            buffers: self.output_slices.as_mut_slice(),
71            current_sample: 0,
72            samples_end: self.samples(),
73            _marker: PhantomData,
74        }
75    }
76
77    /// Iterate over the buffer in blocks with the specified maximum size. The ideal maximum block
78    /// size depends on the plugin in question, but 64 or 128 samples works for most plugins. Since
79    /// the buffer's total size may not be cleanly divisible by the maximum size, the returned
80    /// buffers may have any size in `[1, max_block_size]`. This is useful when using algorithms
81    /// that work on entire blocks of audio, like those that would otherwise need to perform
82    /// expensive per-sample branching or that can use per-sample SIMD as opposed to per-channel
83    /// SIMD.
84    ///
85    /// The parameter smoothers can also produce smoothed values for an entire block using
86    /// [`Smoother::next_block()`][crate::params::smoothing::Smoother::next_block()].
87    ///
88    /// You can use this to obtain block-slices from a buffer so you can pass them to a library:
89    ///
90    /// ```ignore
91    /// for block in buffer.iter_blocks(128) {
92    ///     let mut block_channels = block.into_iter();
93    ///     let stereo_slice = &[
94    ///         block_channels.next().unwrap(),
95    ///         block_channels.next().unwrap(),
96    ///     ];
97    ///
98    ///     // Do something cool with `stereo_slice`
99    /// }
100    /// ````
101    #[inline]
102    pub fn iter_blocks<'slice>(&'slice mut self, max_block_size: usize) -> BlocksIter<'slice, 'a> {
103        BlocksIter {
104            buffers: self.output_slices.as_mut_slice(),
105            max_block_size,
106            current_block_start: 0,
107            _marker: PhantomData,
108        }
109    }
110
111    /// Set the slices in the raw output slice vector. This vector needs to be resized to match the
112    /// number of output channels during the plugin's initialization. Then during audio processing,
113    /// these slices should be updated to point to the plugin's audio buffers. The `num_samples`
114    /// argument should match the length of the inner slices.
115    ///
116    /// # Safety
117    ///
118    /// The stored slices must point to live data when this object is passed to the plugins' process
119    /// function. The rest of this object also assumes all channel lengths are equal. Panics will
120    /// likely occur if this is not the case.
121    pub unsafe fn set_slices(
122        &mut self,
123        num_samples: usize,
124        update: impl FnOnce(&mut Vec<&'a mut [f32]>),
125    ) {
126        self.num_samples = num_samples;
127        update(&mut self.output_slices);
128
129        #[cfg(debug_assertions)]
130        for slice in &self.output_slices {
131            use crate::nice_debug_assert_eq;
132
133            nice_debug_assert_eq!(slice.len(), num_samples);
134        }
135    }
136}
137
138#[cfg(any(miri, test))]
139mod miri {
140    use super::*;
141
142    #[test]
143    fn repeated_access() {
144        let mut real_buffers = vec![vec![0.0; 512]; 2];
145        let mut buffer = Buffer::default();
146        unsafe {
147            buffer.set_slices(512, |output_slices| {
148                let (first_channel, other_channels) = real_buffers.split_at_mut(1);
149                *output_slices = vec![&mut first_channel[0], &mut other_channels[0]];
150            })
151        };
152
153        for samples in buffer.iter_samples() {
154            for sample in samples {
155                *sample += 0.001;
156            }
157        }
158
159        for mut samples in buffer.iter_samples() {
160            for _ in 0..2 {
161                for sample in samples.iter_mut() {
162                    *sample += 0.001;
163                }
164            }
165        }
166
167        assert_eq!(real_buffers[0][0], 0.003);
168    }
169
170    #[test]
171    fn repeated_slices() {
172        let mut real_buffers = vec![vec![0.0; 512]; 2];
173        let mut buffer = Buffer::default();
174        unsafe {
175            buffer.set_slices(512, |output_slices| {
176                let (first_channel, other_channels) = real_buffers.split_at_mut(1);
177                *output_slices = vec![&mut first_channel[0], &mut other_channels[0]];
178            })
179        };
180
181        // These iterators should not alias
182        let mut blocks = buffer.iter_blocks(16);
183        let (_block1_offset, block1) = blocks.next().unwrap();
184        let (_block2_offset, block2) = blocks.next().unwrap();
185        for channel in block1 {
186            for sample in channel.iter_mut() {
187                *sample += 0.001;
188            }
189        }
190        for channel in block2 {
191            for sample in channel.iter_mut() {
192                *sample += 0.001;
193            }
194        }
195
196        for i in 0..32 {
197            assert_eq!(real_buffers[0][i], 0.001);
198        }
199        for i in 32..48 {
200            assert_eq!(real_buffers[0][i], 0.0);
201        }
202    }
203}