ALLEGRO_MIXER(3)

💖 ALLEGRO_MIXER 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro 5 API corner of the Allegro reference manual — this one's all about the mixer, and it's honestly kind of the main character of your audio setup 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

ALLEGRO_MIXER — the Allegro 5 API's very own mixer, no cap 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro5/allegro_audio.h>

typedef struct ALLEGRO_MIXER ALLEGRO_MIXER;

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So like, a mixer mixes together all the streams you've attached to it into a single buffer. That's the whole vibe. 🫶

And the way that it's doing all this while it goes — it converts the channel configurations, sample frequencies and audio depths of the attached sample instances and audio streams accordingly. Like it just handles it, periodt. ✨

You can control the quality of this conversion using ALLEGRO_MIXER_QUALITY — iykyk, go tweak that if you care about the conversion being extra crispy 🔊

Now for the deets on the volume math, because this part is important and lowkey iconic:

• When going from mono to stereo (and above), the mixer reduces the volume of both channels by sqrt(2). 🙈
• When going from stereo (and above) to mono, the mixer reduces the volume of the left and right channels by sqrt(2) before adding them to the center channel (if present). 💀

fr fr, don't sleep on those sqrt(2) numbers — they're literally in there, bestie, and they're doing real work 🧚

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💜 this little love letter came to you straight from the Allegro reference manual, repping ALLEGRO_MIXER(3) — mwah, go make something sound gorgeous 🌈⭐