This improves fading between HRIRs as sources pan around. In particular, it
improves the issue with individual coefficients having various rounding errors
in the stepping values, as well as issues with interpolating delay values.
It does this by doing two mixing passes for each source. First using the last
coefficients that fade to silence, and then again using the new coefficients
that fade from silence. When added together, it creates a linear fade from one
to the other. Additionally, the gain is applied separately so the individual
coefficients don't step with rounding errors. Although this does increase CPU
cost since it's doing two mixes per source, each mix is a bit cheaper now since
the stepping is simplified to a single gain value, and the overall quality is
improved.
NFC filters currently only work when rendering to ambisonic buffers, which
includes HQ rendering and ambisonic output. There are two new config options:
'decoder/nfc' (default on) enables or disables use of NFC filters globally, and
'decoder/nfc-ref-delay' (default 0) specifies the reference delay parameter for
NFC-HOA rendering with ambisonic output (a value of 0 disables NFC).
Currently, NFC filters rely on having an appropriate value set for
AL_METERS_PER_UNIT to get the correct scaling. HQ rendering uses the averaged
speaker distances as a control/reference, and currently doesn't correct for
individual speaker distances (if the speakers are all equidistant, this is
fine, otherwise per-speaker correction should be done as well).
Configure CMake to require the installed backend libraries. This should
help to find build system regressions.
On TravisCI with Linux this requires the ALSA, PulseAudio, PortAudio, OSS
and JACK backend.
On TravisCI with Android cross compile Linux this requires the OpenSL
backend.
On TravisCI with MacOSX this requires the CoreAudio backend.
ON AppVeyor with Windows this requires the WinMM, DSound and MMDevAPI
backend.
Install Ubuntu development packages for PulseAudio, PortAudio, ALSA and
JACK to enable the building of most Linux backends on TravisCI.
Intall Ubuntu development packages for Qt5 to enable `alsoft-config`.
Chris Robinson