{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":1},"content":[{"text":"Introduction","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"This document describes Audio Weaver’s MATLAB automation API. It allows you to leverage the power of MATLAB to configure and control Audio Weaver. The API can be used for parameter calculation, visualization, general automation, regression tests, and even full system building. The API is an advanced feature and assumes that the user is familiar with MATLAB.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The most straightforward use of the API allows MATLAB to interact with the Audio Weaver Designer GUI. This is documented in ","type":"text"},{"text":"Interacting with Audio Weaver Designer","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https://dspconcepts.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOCHUB/pages/2879293241/8.D.1.3%2BMATLAB%2BScripting%2BAPI#Interacting-with-Audio-Weaver-Designer"}}]},{"text":" and is sufficient for most users. More advanced scripting features are described in later sections.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"MATLAB is an interpreted scripting language and all of the commands shown in this section can be typed in directly into MATLAB, or copy and pasted directly from this User's Guide.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"text":"Requirements","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The API is compatible with MATLAB version 2017b or later. You’ll need a standard MATLAB license and the Signal Processing Toolbox. 32-bit and 64-bit versions of MATLAB are supported.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The MATLAB API is included with the “Pro” versions of Audio Weaver; it is not part of the Standard version.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"text":"Setup","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"After installing Audio Weaver Developer or Pro, update MATLAB's search path to include the directory:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"\\matlab","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"where represents the installation directory. This directory contains the primary set of MATLAB scripts used by the tool. Note that you only have to add a single directory to the MATLAB path and not all of the subdirectories recursively. The MAT","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"LAB menu item \"File -> Setup Path…\" can be used to update the path. Once the path is set, issue the command:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"awe_designer","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"This launches the Audio Weaver Server followed by the Designer application. It also configures additional directories, and initializes global variables. If you just want to launch the Server and configure MATLAB to run scripts, then simply execute:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"awe_init","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"If you accidentally shut down the Server while using Audio Weaver Designer, then press the Reconnect to Server button found on the toolbar.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center"},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":67,"id":"cdeffaf3-3ef0-4141-80d4-d07f6312aa69","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":72}}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"If you are not using Designer, then you can reconnect to the Server by reissuing the awe_init command.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"If you forget to rerun awe_init.m, you'll get an error similar to the one shown below next time MATLAB tries to communicate with the Server:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"??? Error using ==> awe_server_command at 47\nServer Command Failure:\n Command sent to server: \"get_target_info\"\n Server response: \"failed, transmit error 0xffffffff\"\n \nError in ==> target_get_info at 89\n str=awe_server_command('get_target_info');","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Audio Weaver supports multiple simultaneous installations. Install each version in a separate directory. Then, select the version to use by configuring the MATLAB path to point to the appropriate \\matlab directory and then run the associated awe_init.m script. 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A partial list is shown below:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":">> awe_help\nGPIO_module - Misc\nabs_fract32_module - BasicAudioFract32\nabs_module - BasicAudioFloat32\nacos_module - MathFloat32\nadder_fract32_module - BasicAudioFract32\nadder_int_module - BasicInt32\nadder_module - BasicAudioFloat32\nagc_attack_release_fract32_module - BasicAudioFract32","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":" ","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Each of the modules appears as a hyperlink, and clicking on an item provides detailed module specific help. The help provided is above and beyond the comments shown in the file header and accessed via the standard MATLAB “help” command. You can also obtain help for a specific module using the MATLAB command line. For example, to get help on the FIR filter module, type:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"awe_help fir_module","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The help documentation is provided in HTML format.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":1},"content":[{"text":"Interacting with Audio Weaver Designer","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The most basic way of using the MATLAB API is to get and set parameters in a system that is loaded in Audio Weaver Designer.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"text":"Manipulating Parameters","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Assume that you have the system “Example1.awd” open in Designer.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center"},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":748,"id":"e0a4438f-c2aa-4691-9266-86e17a478003","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":176}}]},{"type":"paragraph"},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Then from the MATLAB prompt, type","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"GSYS = get_gsys('Example1.awd');","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"This returns a MATLAB data structure which contains the entire state of the Designer GUI. 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Looking more closely at Scaler1 we see all of the internal parameters of the module:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"GSYS.SYS.Scaler1\n\nScaler1 = ScalerV2 // General purpose scaler with a single gain\n\n gain: 0 [dB] // Gain in either linear or dB units.\n smoothingTime: 10 [msec] // Time constant of the smoothing process.\n isDB: 1 // Selects between linear (=0) and dB (=1) operation","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The first line displays 3 items:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"orderedList","attrs":{"order":1},"content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"“Scaler1” – the name of the module within the system.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"“ScalerV2” – the underlying class name or type of the module.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"“General purpose scaler …” – this is a short description of the function of the module.","type":"text"}]}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The next three lines list exposed interface variables that the module contains. A variable may display applicable units in brackets (e.g, [msec]) and have a short description.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"To change the gain of the module, type","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"GSYS.SYS.Scaler1.gain = -6;","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The gain change occurs locally in the MATLAB environment; the system in Designer is unchanged. 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Changes made by MATLAB update the target processor directly when in tuning mode but don’t update the system in Designer until you issue set_gsys.m.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"text":"Commonly Used Commands","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"This section describes commonly used MATLAB commands. More details can be found in subsequent sections.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":3},"content":[{"text":"Showing Hidden Variables","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"By default, the MATLAB API does not show hidden variables (e.g., filter state variables). If you would like to make these visible, type","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"global AWE_INFO;\nAWE_INFO.displayControl.showHidden = 1;","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"AWE_INFO is a global variable which controls various aspects of Audio Weaver. 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Modules of the same class share a common set of functions.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"“Gain control with…” – this is a short description of the function of the module.","type":"text"}]}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The next two lines list exposed interface variables that the module contains. A variable may display applicable units in brackets (e.g, [msec]) and have a short description.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The scaler_smoothed_module smoothly ramps the gain using a first order exponential smoother. The time constant of the smoothing operation is controlled by the variable \"smoothingTime\".","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The module M is implemented using MATLAB’s object oriented programming techniques. The module corresponds to the class @awe_module. 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A subsystem is one or more audio modules together with I/O pins and a set of connections.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"SYS=target_system('Test', 'System containing a scaler', 1);","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The first argument is the class name of the subsystem and the second argument is a short description. The third argument specifies that the subsystem will be run in real-time. The subsystem is assigned to the variable SYS and we can examine the subsystem by typing “SYS at the MATLAB prompt:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":">> SYS","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":" = Test // System containing a scaler","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"This looks similar to an audio module except that it is missing variables and instance names.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":4},"content":[{"text":"Adding I/O Pins","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"A subsystem also has “pins” that pass signals in and out of the subsystem. 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This can be longer and appears in some of the automatically generated documentation.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"new_pin_type(2, 32, 48000, 'fract32') – this specifies that the pin contains 2 interleaved channels, each with 32 samples, at 48 kHz, with 32-bit fractional data.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"In the same manner, add an output pin:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"add_pin(SYS, 'output', 'out', 'audio output', new_pin_type(2, 32, 48000, 'fract32'));","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The astute MATLAB user will recognize that we are violating MATLAB’s basic method of updating arguments in the calling environment. The commands above modify the object SYS in the calling environment. 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For example, the add_pin() function updates the argument SYS and thus the return argument may be omitted.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":4},"content":[{"text":"Adding Modules","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Now add an instance of the ScalerSmoothed module to the subsystem:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"add_module(SYS, scaler_smoothed_module('scale'));","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The add_module function always takes a system as the first argument and a MATLAB @awe_module object as the second argument. In doing so, there is no need to assign the module to an intermediate MATLAB variable. 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You can also set variables directly as:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"SYS.scale.gain=0.5;\nSYS.scale.smoothingTime=SYS.scale.smoothingTime*2;","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"We then find that:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":">> SYS.scale\nscale = ScalerSmoothed // Gain control with linear units and smoothing\n\n gain: 0.5 [linear] // Gain in linear units.\nsmoothingTime: 20 [msec] // Time constant of the smoothing process.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"This type of hierarchy is maintained throughout Audio Weaver. Arbitrarily complicated subsystems within subsystems are presented as nested structures with individual variables being the leaf items at the lowest level in the hierarchy.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Since the input and output of the system are defined as fractional data, and the ScalerSmoothed module operates on floating-point data, we add two type conversion modules.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"add_module(SYS, type_conversion_module('toFloat', 0));\nadd_module(SYS, type_conversion_module('toFract', 1));","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The second argument to the type_conversion_module.m specifies the data type. 0 = floating-point, and 1 = fract32.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":3},"content":[{"text":"Connecting Modules","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Three modules exist in the subsystem but they have not been wired up yet. 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A first order lowpass filter is applied, scaled, and then added back to the input. When the scale equals 0 (in linear units), then the input signal is unchanged. Positive scale factors increase the amount of bass energy. Negative scale factors – up to a maximum of -1 – decrease the amount of bass energy.","type":"text"},{"type":"inlineExtension","attrs":{"extensionType":"com.atlassian.confluence.macro.core","extensionKey":"anchor","parameters":{"macroParams":{"":{"value":"BassToneControlDiagram"}},"macroMetadata":{"macroId":{"value":"30bf7ce490208b3e95270aade813f6f4"},"schemaVersion":{"value":"1"},"title":"Anchor"}},"localId":"0f99ed40-f63f-4bd6-81c3-c1f24b891fb6"}}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center"},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":1296,"id":"9c8abb46-4f26-45bb-9e70-210a091bf6d8","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":452}},{"type":"caption","content":[{"text":"Figure 1. Schematic diagram of the bass tone control system that will be constructed as a subsystem.","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]}]}]},{"type":"paragraph"},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The MATLAB function bass_tone_control_module.m accepts a single input argument, NAME, which is a string specifying the name of the module.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"function SYS=bass_tone_control_float_subsystem(NAME)","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The first step is to create a new subsystem of class “BassTone”, provide a short description, and then set the .name field of the subsystem:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"SYS=awe_subsystem('BassTone', 'Bass tone control');\nSYS.name=NAME;","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Then we add three modules to the subsystem","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"add_module(SYS, butter_filter_module('filter', 1));\nadd_module(SYS, scaler_smoothed_module('scaler'));\nadd_module(SYS, adder_module('adder', 2, 0));","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The first module is a first order Butterworth filter. 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This is later updated by the pin function\nadd_array(M, 'state', 'float', zeros(L, 1), 'state', 'State variable array');\nM.state.arrayHeap='AE_HEAP_FASTB2SLOW';\nM.state.arraySizeConstructor='ClassWire_GetChannelCount(pWires[0]) * S->numTaps * sizeof(float)';\nM.state.isHidden=1;","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":4},"content":[{"text":"Subsystem Constructor Function","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The call to create a new empty subsystem is similar to the call to create a new module described in ","type":"text"},{"text":"@awe_module","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https://dspconcepts.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOCHUB/pages/2879293241/8.D.1.3%2BMATLAB%2BScripting%2BAPI#%40awe_module"}}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"SYS=awe_subsystem(CLASSNAME, DESCRIPTION);","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"You have to provide a unique class name and a short description of the function for the subsystem. 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You can use standard MATLAB programming syntax to access this information. For example, to determine the number of modules in a subsystem:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"count=length(SYS.module);","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Or, to print out the names of all of the modules in a subsystem:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"for i=1:length(SYS.module)\n fprintf(1, '%s\\n', SYS.module{i}.name);\nend","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":4},"content":[{"text":"Adding Pins","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The syntax for adding input and output pins to subsystems mirrors the syntax for adding these items to modules. Refer to ","type":"text"},{"text":"Input, Output, and Scratch Pins","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"#InputOutputandScratchPins"}}]},{"text":" for the details. 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","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"If the module has only a single input or output pin, then you need only specify the module name; the pin name is assumed. Since the sine wave generator module in the multiplexor example has only a single output pin, the example above reduces to:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"connect(SYS, 'sine1', 'mult.in2');","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Inputs and outputs to the subsystem are specified by the empty string. Thus,","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"connect(SYS, '', 'mult.in1');","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"connects the input of the system to the first input of the multiplexor. 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User editable.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The .isHidden field can be used to hide variables that the user typically does not interact with. For example, allocate a 2","type":"text"},{"text":"nd","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"subsup","attrs":{"type":"sup"}}]},{"text":" order Biquad filter:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":">> M=biquad_module('filter')\nfilter = Biquad // 2nd order IIR filter\n\n b0: 1 // First numerator coefficient\n b1: 0 // Second numerator coefficient\n b2: 0 // Third numerator coefficient\n a1: 0 // Second denominator coefficient\n a2: 0 // Third denominator coefficient","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"All 5 of the tunable filter coefficients are shown. After the filter is built, state variables are added. 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To automatically show hidden variables in the MATLAB output window, set","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"AWE_INFO.displayControl.showHidden=1;","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Then, looking at the Biquad filter, all of the hidden variables will be automatically shown:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"filter = Biquad // 2nd order IIR filter\n\n b0: 1 // First numerator coefficient\n b1: 0 // Second numerator coefficient\n b2: 0 // Third numerator coefficient\n a1: 0 // Second denominator coefficient\n a2: 0 // Third denominator coefficient\n state: 0\n 0]","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"See ","type":"text"},{"text":"AWE_INFO","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https://dspconcepts.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOCHUB/pages/2879293241/8.D.1.3%2BMATLAB%2BScripting%2BAPI#AWE_INFO"}}]},{"text":" for a description of all user settable fields in the AWE_INFO structure.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":4},"content":[{"text":"Advanced Variables: add_argument()","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"There are certain cases where runtime tunable parameters do not contain enough information for correctly sizing memory blocks within a system. Arguments are created from information passed in at module creation. An example for using an argument is usually to set an upper bound for runtime memory such as to set a maxDelay parameter on a delay module. This can allow the user to set a max delay at construction time, and then use a runtime delay setting bounded by maxDelay. 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This is primarily used when debugging and you want to monitor the communication between MATLAB and the audio Server.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"AWE_INFO.plotControl","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" – Used internally by DSP Concepts.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"AWE_INFO.diaryControl","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" – Used internally by the awe_diary.m command.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"AWE_INFO.windowsVersion","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" – a string indicating the currently used version of Windows. This string is returned by the DOS command \"ver\". The string has the form \"X.Y.Z\" where X is the major build version and Y and Z are minor build versions. 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","type":"text"}]},{"type":"orderedList","attrs":{"order":1},"content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"If an input pin of the top-level system has more channels than the corresponding pin of the target hardware, then Audio Weaver passes all target channels to the system and fills the remaining channels with zeros.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"If an input pin of the top-level system has fewer channels than the corresponding pin of the target hardware, Audio Weaver ignores the remaining channels from the target hardware.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"If an output pin of the top-level system has more channels than the corresponding pin of the target hardware, Audio Weaver ignores the remaining channels and just outputs the lower channels.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"If an output pin of the top-level system has fewer channels than the corresponding pin of the target hardware, Audio Weaver outputs the lower channels and fills the remaining channels with zeros.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The target hardware has an underlying block size (which usually equals the size of the DMA buffer). 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When generating standalone code, the CLASSNAME is required.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"DESCRIPTION ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"– a string containing a short description of the purpose of the system. This argument is optional and can be set to the empty string.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"panel","attrs":{"panelType":"note"},"content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Note:","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" MATLAB target systems do not have an RT argument. That is because the MATLAB target only simulates the processing and is not restricted by the properties of physical output pins.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":3},"content":[{"text":"prebuild.m","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"SYS=prebuild(SYS);","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"This function prepares an Audio Weaver system for execution. The function is called automatically by build.m, but there may be times when it needs to be manually executed. The function performs the following operations:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"orderedList","attrs":{"order":1},"content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Determines the execution order of the modules in the system.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Propagates pin information starting from the input inputs, through all of the modules, to the output pins. This resolves pin sizes and sample rates.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Calls any prebuild functions associated with modules and subsystems. In some cases, this resolves array sizes.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Allocates wires buffers and scratch pins.","type":"text"}]}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"For example, consider a system containing a single meter module:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"SYS=target_system('Test', 'Meter prebuild example');\nadd_pin(SYS, 'input', 'in', 'audio input', new_pin_type(2, 32));\nadd_pin(SYS, 'output', 'out', 'audio output', new_pin_type(2, 32));\nadd_module(SYS, meter_module('meter'));\nconnect(SYS, '', 'meter');","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The system has 2 input channels and the meter module has an internal array .value which stores a separate value for each input channel. The .value array should be of size 2x1. 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Prebuilding the system clears up the array size and initializes the values to 0:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":">> SYS=prebuild(SYS);\n>> SYS.meter\nmeter = Meter // Peak and RMS meter module\n\n meterType: 0 // Operating module of the meter.\n value: [0 // Array of meter output values, one per channel\n 0]","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Because prebuild.m updates variable sizes in some cases, it is good practice to use the following steps when creating and configuring systems:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"orderedList","attrs":{"order":1},"content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Create the overall target system.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Add input and output pins","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Add audio modules","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Connect audio modules","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Build or prebuild the system","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Configure variable values","type":"text"}]}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Step 5 ensures that all variable sizes are cleared up before you start setting them.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":3},"content":[{"text":"build.m","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"SYS=build(SYS);","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Builds an audio system and gets it ready for real-time execution in Audio Weaver. 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If the data type of a system input or output pin does not match the data type of the target hardware, then Audio Weaver inserts a fract32_to_float_module.m or float_to_fract32_module.m. For example, consider a system with a stereo floating-point scaler module. ","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"SYS=target_system('Test', 'Scaler match example');\nadd_pin(SYS, 'input', 'in', 'audio input', new_pin_type(2, 32));\nadd_pin(SYS, 'output', 'out', 'audio output', new_pin_type(2, 32));\nadd_module(SYS, scaler_module('scale', 1));\nconnect(SYS, '', 'scale');\nconnect(SYS, 'scale', '');","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"All Audio Weaver targets pass data in fract32 format to and from the audio processing. The system SYS has floating-point inputs and outputs. Audio Weaver automatically inserts format conversion modules to the system. 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Then the floating-point result is converted to fract32 to match the target's output pin.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center","width":100.0},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":468,"id":"b54c38ec-d0de-4ad7-a55b-5593e8c34d7d","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":86}}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"You can disable data type matching by setting:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"AWE_INFO.buildControl.matchDataType=0;","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"When disabled, building the above system will fail. You have to manually insert the type conversion modules yourself.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Audio Weaver also automatically matches the number of channels in your system to the number of channels supported by the physical hardware. If there is a mismatch, then router modules are automatically inserted. ","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Consider the scaler example again. The system has 2 input and 2 output channels. If the system is built on the Audio Weaver Demo Board, which has 2 inputs and 4 outputs, then there would be a mismatch at the output: 2 channels from SYS connected to 4 channels on the target. Audio Weaver automatically corrects this by inserting a router module. After building, the system will be:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":">> SYS\n = Test // Scaler match example\n\n autoInputConvert_1: [Fract32ToFloat]\n scale: [Scaler]\n autoOutputRouter_1: [Router]\n autoOutputConvert_1: [FloatToFract32]","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center","width":100.0},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":468,"id":"0ea79063-559d-458b-a506-18178e952ccc","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":76}}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"You can disable matching the number of channels by setting:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"AWE_INFO.buildControl.matchNumChannels=0;","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"panel","attrs":{"panelType":"info"},"content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Automatic matching of data types and number of channels is a new feature introduced in Audio Weaver 2.0. 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Arguments:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"SYS ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"- @awe_subsystem or @awe_module object","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"FORMAT ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"- an optional string that is passed to profile_display that controls the formatting of the output data. Refer to the function profile_display.m for an explanation on how to use this argument.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The system or module SYS must be running in real-time when the profile is computed.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"When called with no output arguments, the function displays detailed profiling information to the MATLAB output window. 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Then, profile the system as:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"target_profile(SYS)","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Without a trailing semicolon, the following information will be displayed to the MATLAB output window:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"Wire Index Type numChannels blockSize FAST_HEAP FAST_HEAPB SLOW_HEAP \n---------- ------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------- --------- \n1 Input 2 32 69 0 0 \n2 Output 2 32 69 0 0 \n3 Scratch 2 32 69 0 0 \n4 Scratch 1 32 37 0 0 \n5 Scratch 2 32 69 0 0 \nTotals ------ 313 0 0 \n\n\nTotal ticks per block: 2330.7\nAverage ticks per block execution: 196.5 (8.43 %)\nInstantaneous ticks per block execution: 204.0 (8.75 %)\nPeak ticks per block execution: 8029.0 (344.48 %)\n\n\n\nModule Name Class %CPU Ticks/Process FAST_HEAP FAST_HEAPB SLOW_HEAP \n-------------------- -------------- ------- ------------- --------- ---------- --------- \n test 4.3841 102.2572 106 0 0 \n.autoInputConvert_1 Fract32ToFloat 0.60327 14.1237 10 0 0 \n.scale ScalerDB 0.58582 13.6902 12 0 0 \n.inputMeter Meter 0.8056 18.2739 18 0 0 \n.agc AGC 1.172 26.6096 38 0 0 \n.agc.core AGCCore 0.65698 14.9027 27 0 0 \n.agc.mult AGCMultiplier 0.51497 11.7069 11 0 0 \n.outputMeter Meter 0.69979 15.9085 18 0 0 \n.autoOutputConvert_1 FloatToFract32 0.51764 13.6514 10 0 0 \n = test // \n\n autoInputConvert_1: [Fract32ToFloat]\n scale: [ScalerDB]\n inputMeter: [Meter]\n agc: [AGC]\n outputMeter: [Meter]\n autoOutputConvert_1: [FloatToFract32]","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The top section reports wire usage. The system requires a total of 6 wires and there is detailed size information for each wire. All together, the wires require 313 words of storage, and all words are 32-bit integers in Audio Weaver. The memory break down is per heap, and the wires are allocated within the memory heap named \"FAST_HEAP\".","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The second half of the information pertains to the modules. The first line with the class name \"test\" is the overall system. Below is a break down by subsystem and by module. The overall system requires 4.3841% of the CPU, which in this case is a 263 MHz SHARC 21371 processor. The column \"Ticks/Process\" is target specific and indicates the average number of clock ticks needed to execute the function. On the SHARC, each clock tick represents 1 processor cycle, or about 3.8 nanoseconds. On the PC, each clock tick represents 100 nanoseconds. The clock tick measurements are smoothed in real-time by a first order IIR filter. 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Arguments:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"SYS ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"- @awe_subsystem object.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"MOD ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"– string specifying the name of the module. An empty string specifies a system input pin.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"PINNAME","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" – name of the pin on the module or subsystem.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"As an example, refer back to system created by the script limiter_example.m shown in the ","type":"text"},{"text":"Limiter Example Figure Drawing","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"#"}}]},{"text":". To locate the output pin \"out\" of the module \"scale\" use","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":">> [MODINDEX, PININDEX]=findconnectionsrc(SYS, 'scale', 'out')\n\nMODINDEX =\n\n 2\n\n\nPININDEX =\n\n 1","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"This points to the module at index 2:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":">> SYS.module{2}\nscale = ScalerDB // DB multichannel scaler\n\n gainDB: 30 [dB] // Gain in DB","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"And the first output pin on this module:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":">> SYS.module{2}.outputPin{1}\n\nans = \n\n type: [1x1 struct]\n usage: 'output'\n name: 'out'\n description: 'audio output'\n referenceCount: 0\n isFeedback: 0\n coord: [NaN NaN]\n wireIndex: 3","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":3},"content":[{"text":"findmodule.m","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"MODINDEX=findmodule(SYS, MOD)","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Locates a named module within an Audio Weaver subsystem. The function returns the index of the module. Arguments:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"SYS ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"- @awe_subsystem object.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"MOD ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"– string name of the subsystem.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The function returns MODINDEX, the index of the named module within the .module{} cell array. If MODINDEX=-1, then the module was not found. Set MOD equal to the empty string to specify the overall subsystem. In this case the function will return MODINDEX=0.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"As an example, refer back to system created by the script limiter_example.m shown in the ","type":"text"},{"text":"Limiter Example Figure Drawing","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"#LimiterExampleFigure"}}]},{"text":". To determine the index of the module \"secondMeter\", use the call","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":">> index=findmodule(SYS, 'secondMeter')\n\nindex =\n\n 5","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Peering into the system, the 5","type":"text"},{"text":"th","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"subsup","attrs":{"type":"sup"}}]},{"text":" module is","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":">> SYS.module{index}\nsecondMeter = Meter // Peak and RMS meter module\n\nmeterType: 0 // Operating module of the meter\n value: [1.0018\n 1.00951]","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":3},"content":[{"text":"findpin.m","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"INDEX=findpin(M, IO, PIN)","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Searches a module or subsystem and returns the index of a named pin. Arguments:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"M","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" - @awe_module or @awe_subsystem object.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"IO ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"– a string set to either 'input' or 'output'. This specifies whether the input or output pins should be searched.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"PIN ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"– string name of the pin to locate.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The function returns the index of the named pin. If the named pin is not found, the function returns -1.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"For example, consider the limiter_example.m shown in ","type":"text"},{"text":"Limiter Example Figure Drawing","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"#"}}]},{"text":". The agc_multiplier module has two input pins as shown below:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center","width":50.0},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":139,"id":"575b8611-b2f9-4414-89bc-37bd5e56fa5a","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":124}}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"To locate the index of the input pin 'in', issue the command:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":">> index=findpin(SYS.lim.mult, 'input', 'in')\n\nindex =\n\n 2","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":3},"content":[{"text":"flatten.m","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"SYS=flatten(SYS)","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"This function operates on subsystems and promotes all internal modules to the upper level. It ends up eliminating hierarchy and returning a “flattened” subsystem. Arguments:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"SYS ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"- @awe_subsystem object.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The flatten.m function traverses a subsystem and searches for subsystems with virtual hierarchy. When a virtual subsystem is found, all of the modules in the subsystem are promoted one level to the upper system, reconnected, and finally the original virtual subsystem is deleted. This process repeats until all virtual subsystems have been flattened.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"As an example, consider the subsystem created by the test script limiter_example shown in the ","type":"text"},{"text":"Limiter Example Figure Drawing","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"#"}}]},{"text":". The system shown is the one prior to flattening. The actual system running on the target is","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"draw(flatten(SYS))","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center","width":100.0},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":468,"id":"95c24ef5-005a-4f54-bb4d-86d90ab73739","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":148}}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"What is happening here? Well, the limiter subsystem, SYS.lim, uses virtual hierarchy. The limiter contains the 4 modules shown below:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center","width":100.0},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":468,"id":"b93ae36b-708e-4173-9239-dc42028cd192","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":159}}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"During the build process, all 4 of the modules comprising the limiter subsystem are promoted one level in the hierarchy and rewired. The delay module, lim_delay, however, is not flattened out. It uses full hierarchy and the target processor contains a module of class DelayMsec.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The standard Audio Weaver build.m command performs flattening as part of the overall build process.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Examining the last figure closely, one sees that the names of the modules from the limiter subsystem have been ","type":"text"},{"text":"mangled.","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":" That is, the names have been prepended with the name of the original subsystem. This can also be seen in the flattened system shown below:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":">> flatten(SYS)\n = test // \n\n autoInputConvert_1: [Fract32ToFloat]\n scale: [ScalerDB]\n lim_max_abs: [MaxAbs]\n lim_core: [AGCLimiterCore]\n lim_delay: [DelayMsec]\n lim_mult: [AGCMultiplier]\n firstMeter: [Meter]\n secondMeter: [Meter]\n autoOutputRouter_1: [Router]\nautoOutputConvert_1: [FloatToFract32]","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Typically, the user does not need to be concerned with flattening – it occurs automatically behind the scenes. The flattened system is hidden and the user continues to interact with the original hierarchical system. However, the flattened system is in fact instantiated on the target. The hierarchical system SYS maintains the mapping from the hierarchical system to the flattened system. Making a change to the hierarchical system causes a corresponding change in the flattened system. The mapping is maintained within the .targetInfo.mangledName field of each module. For example, the mangled name of the limiter core module on the target is:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":">> SYS.lim.core.targetInfo.mangledName\n\nans =\n\nlim_core","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":3},"content":[{"text":"get_variable.m and set_variable.m","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Extract and assign individual awe_variable objects. These functions apply to audio modules and subsystems. These functions are needed at times, because of the object oriented nature of the Audio Weaver MATLAB functions. When accessing a variable \"var\" within a module \"M\", as in:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"M.var","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Audio Weaver returns the ","type":"text"},{"text":"value","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":" of the variable, not the variable object itself. If you wish to gain access to the actual variable object, use the call:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"V=get_variable(M, NAME)","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"where","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"M","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" – the @awe_module object.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"NAME ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"– a string specifying the name of the variable.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The function returns an awe_variable object. For example, the following code gets the underlying awe_variable object for the \"gain\" variable of a smoothed scaler module:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"M=scaler_smoothed_module('scaler');\nV=get_variable(M, 'gain');","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Similary, the set_variable.m command can be used to overwrite an existing variable to a given awe_variable object. The term \"overwrite\" is used because the variable must already exist within the audio module. The syntax for this command is:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"M=set_variable(M, NAME, VAR)","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"where","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"M","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" – the @awe_module object.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"NAME ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"– a string specifying the name of the variable.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"VAR ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"- awe_variable object.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The get_variable.m and set_variable.m functions are typically not used in practice. You can always access the internal fields of a awe_variable object even when it is part of an audio module. For example, to access the \"range\" field of the variable \"gain\", use:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"range=M.gain.range;","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":3},"content":[{"text":"4.5.17. isfield.m","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"This function is similar to the standard isfield function within MATLAB applied to @awe_module and @awe_subsystem objects. The function determines if a module or subsystem has a specified variable. The syntax is:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"BOOL = isfield(M, FIELDNAME)","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"where","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"M","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" – the @awe_module object.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"FIELDNAME ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"– a string specifying the name of a variable.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The function returns 1 if the module M has a field named FIELDNAME. Otherwise, the function returns 0. Note, the function only queries variables that are part of the audio module or subsystem and not any of the private object fields.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":3},"content":[{"text":"module_count.m","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"COUNT=module_count(SYS)","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Returns the number of modules at the top level of a subsystem.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"COUNT=module_count(SYS, 1)","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"An optional second argument allows you to specify that the count should be recursive. In this case, the function returns the total number of modules within the entire subsystem including any modules within subsystems. For example, the system created by limiter_example.m contains 6 modules at the top level:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":">> module_count(SYS)\n\nans =\n\n 7","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"and a total of 9 modules when modules within the LookAheadLimiter subsystem are counted:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":">> module_count(SYS, 1)\n\nans =\n\n 10","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":3},"content":[{"text":"new_pin_type.m","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Creates a structure that represents a pin on an audio module or subsystem. A pin contains information about the current number of channels, block size, sample rate, data type, and complexity, as well as the allowable range for each of these items. Refer to the discussion in Section 4.1.3.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":3},"content":[{"text":"process.m","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"[SYS, WIRE_OUT]=process(SYS, WIRE_IN, NUMBLOCKS)","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Sends audio data block-by-block through an audio system in non-real-time. This function is primarily used for regression testing. Arguments:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"SYS","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" - @awe_subsystem object. This must be a top-level system.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"WIRE_IN","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" – cell array of input wire data. The data for each input pin is represented by a matrix of dimension [L x blockSize numChannels], where L is the number of blocks. Note that each channel of data is in a separate column of the matrix. WIRE_IN contains a cell array of matrices.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"NUMBLOCKS","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" = the number of audio blocks in the simulation, equal to the variable L above. ","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Note that each input pin must contain the same number of blocks. If this condition is violated, the function will return an error. (You may be wondering why NUMBLOCKS needs to be specified as an argument; can't the function determine this from the size of the input pin data? The reason is that some modules, such as the sine wave generator, do not have any input pins and therefore the number of blocks needs to be explicitly stated.)","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The function returns the updated system object SYS (state variables are updated) and a cell array of output wire information. WIRE_OUT has the same form as WIRE_IN, with one cell array entry per output pin. For each output wire, there is a matrix of data of size [L x blockSize numChannels].","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"When the system is built using a MATLAB target system, all processing occurs natively within MATLAB. When the system is built for the Audio Server, then the processing happens on the target processor (PC or SHARC) itself. Module regression tests generally rely on the process.m function. (The approach used by DSP Concepts to validate the audio module library is to perform the processing twice; once in MATLAB, and a second time on the target processor. The outputs of both implementations are then compared to detect errors. The MATLAB implementations of the audio module processing functions are not provided in Audio Weaver Developer or Designer; they are used internally by DSP Concepts. The MATLAB target system is provided to allow you to test your own custom audio modules.)","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The example shown below is contained within the script file process_example.m. The script demonstrates how to send data through an Audio Weaver module and then plots the output results.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"We start by creating a MATLAB target system with 1 input, 1 output, and operating at a sample rate of 44.1 kHz:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"% Create a subsystem with a single second_order_filter module.\nblockSize=64;\nSR=44100;\n \nSYS=matlab_target_system('test', 'Process.m example system');\n \nadd_pin(SYS, 'input', 'in', 'Audio input', new_pin_type(1, blockSize, SR));\nadd_pin(SYS, 'output', 'out', 'Audio output', new_pin_type(1, blockSize, SR));\n \nadd_module(SYS, second_order_filter_module('sof'));\n \nconnect(SYS, '', 'sof');\nconnect(SYS, 'sof', '');","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The second order filter module is configured to be a peak filter with Q=1 and 12 dB of gain at 2 kHz:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"SYS.sof.filterType=12;\n \nSYS.sof.freq=2000;\nSYS.sof.Q=1;\nSYS.sof.gain=12;","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Configure the build process to disable automatic data type matching. This prevents fract32_to_float and float_to_fract32 modules from being inserted and allows us to send floating-point data directly to the module. Then build the system:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"global AWE_INFO;","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"global AWE_INFO;\nAWE_INFO.buildControl.matchDataType=0;\nSYS=build(SYS);","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Since this system operates natively in MATLAB, no commands are sent to the Audio Server.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"A linear chirp signal with duration 0.25 seconds is created in MATLAB. The length of the signal is rounded up to the nearest 64 sample block size.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"duration=0.25;\nL=SR*duration;\n \nnumBlocks=ceil(L/blockSize);\n \nL=numBlocks*blockSize;\n \nn=0:(L-1);\nn=n(:);\nT=n/SR;\n \nx=chirp(T, 0, duration, SR/4);","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The input wire cell array is created, the data passed through the system, and the resulting data extracted from the first output wire:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"WIRE_IN={x};\n[SYS, WIRE_OUT]=process(SYS, WIRE_IN, numBlocks);\ny=WIRE_OUT{1};","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Lastly, the results are plotted.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"subplot(211); \nplot(x);\nset(gca,'YLim', [-5 5]);\ntitle('Input data');\n \nsubplot(212); \nplot(y);\nset(gca,'YLim', [-5 5]);\ntitle('Output data');","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The resulting figure is shown below. The top subfigure shows the input to the system. Note that it has an amplitude of +/-1dB. The bottom subfigure shows the output of the system. Note that it has a peak gain of 4, which equals 12 dB, at 2kHz:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center","width":100.0},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":373,"id":"58d8a9bf-d5d4-464b-b120-f6f3f597db4f","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":218}},{"type":"caption","content":[{"text":"Example of the output generated by the process.m function. The top figure is the input signal, a linear chirp. The bottom figure is the output of the second order filter module. The filter is configured as a peaking filter centered at 2kHz.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":3},"content":[{"text":"readd_module.m","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"SYS=readd_module(SYS, HNAME, OLDNAME, NEWNAME, ARGS)","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Updates a module by recreating it using different sets of instantiation arguments. Arguments:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"SYS","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" - @awe_subsystem object.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"HNAME ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"- hierarchical name of the subsystem containing the module. 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This function is used only in a few instances; typically all updates happen automatically. For example, if you instantiate a scaler_smoothed_module.m, and then change the smoothing time:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"M=scaler_smoothed_module('scaler');\nM.smoothingTime=15;","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Audio Weaver will automatically call the function scaler_smoothed_set. (This function is an internal function defined within scaler_smoothed_module.m). This function computes the smoothing coefficient based on the sample rate and smoothing time.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The only time that the update function is called explicitly is at the end of the module constructor function. 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This is illustrated in the figure below:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center"},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":1106,"id":"fb98e4c3-8403-4ad5-810d-47dd5bf2c7fa","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":209}}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The interface between the 32- and 128-sample block processing is accomplished by two modules:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"buffer_up_subsystem.m","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" – handles the interface between smaller and larger block size processing (e.g., 32 to 128)","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","marks":[{"type":"indentation","attrs":{"level":1}}],"content":[{"text":"buffer_down_subsystem.m","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" – handles the interface between larger and smaller block size processing (e.g., 128 to 32)","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The arguments to buffer_up_subsystem are:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"buffer_up_subsystem(NAME, OUTBLOCKSIZE)","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The second argument specifies the output blockSize. 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The figure below shows processor activity when audio is processed in 32- and 128-sample blocks (1 msec and 4 msec).","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center"},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":1407,"id":"7f5e7c6d-7631-49b2-88be-b5213e8d495b","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":429}}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The top line of blue blocks indicates when 32-sample audio processing is active. This happens at regular intervals and since this is the smallest block processing (and thus the highest priority), the 32-sample processing always runs to completion. The blocks are sequentially numbered from 0 to 7. The second line of yellow blocks indicates when the 128 sample block processing is active. Block 0 of the 128-sample processing actually starts at the same time as block 0 of the 32-sample processing. However, since the 32-sample block processing is higher priority, the 128-sample thread pends until the 32-sample processing is complete. Once the 32-sample processing is done, the 128-sample processing begins. Block 0 of the 128-sample processing takes some time to complete and during this time it is interrupted by the high priority 32-sample block processing. That is why block 0 of the 128-sample processing is divided into 3 different segments. Block 0 of the 128-sample processing completes and this leaves some unused processing shown in blue. The entire process repeats every 128 samples.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"An important question to consider is which samples are available at each time slice for processing. This is illustrated below. The diagram has been slightly simplified to make it easier to follow. Although the 128-sample block processing is shown continuously processing, it is in fact interrupted by the 32-sample block processing. 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Then the delay will be inserted at that location:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center","width":65.0},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":737,"id":"9e33067f-d557-4db8-8cdc-7787d4f1d4cd","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":280}},{"type":"caption","content":[{"text":"Specifying the connection between module 4 and module 2 as feedback inserts the delay at the location shown.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"where n = blockSize. Note that the delay occurs as a result of the buffer management. 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This subsystem realizes the system shown below:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center","width":65.0},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":623,"id":"9d81e0b7-98b1-4812-95a5-4cd9cb1d17b7","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":273}}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The feedback connection lies between the delay and the scaler modules, and redrawing the system to explicitly show the feedback yields the diagram below:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center","width":65.0},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":679,"id":"d5493b89-4641-4629-b942-a681a804a697","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":341}}]},{"type":"paragraph"},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The total delay in the feedback path equals the blockSize+delay.currentDelay.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Portions of the MATLAB source file are shown below. 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The user interfaces are designed by MATLAB commands and translated into Audio Weaver script. The user interfaces created are drawn by the Audio Weaver Server and exist outside of the MATLAB environment. This section begins with a brief tutorial that demonstrates how to use existing user interfaces and to create interfaces for a custom subsystem.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":1},"content":[{"text":"Quick Tutorial","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Run the example system agc_example.m. The script instantiates the system shown below and begins real-time execution.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center","width":100.0},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":468,"id":"ff893429-dc3c-4e36-81d2-793974f7277a","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":187}}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The script also draws the user interfaces, called ","type":"text"},{"text":"inspectors","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":", shown here:","type":"text"},{"type":"inlineExtension","attrs":{"extensionType":"com.atlassian.confluence.macro.core","extensionKey":"anchor","parameters":{"macroParams":{"":{"value":"Figure10"}},"macroMetadata":{"macroId":{"value":"018c7388b05b3f30731fdfa7f06250c5"},"schemaVersion":{"value":"1"},"title":"Anchor"}},"localId":"c8cfd662-ac00-49a1-bac5-3c8fadd41e15"}}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center"},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":1157,"id":"67ab2831-8c01-47fa-bd64-4ec48a87f4e4","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":802}},{"type":"caption","content":[{"text":"4 inspector panels drawn by the agc_example.m script.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Looking at the end of the agc_example.m file, the commands to configure the inspectors are:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"SYS.scale.gainDB.range=[-20 20];\nSYS.scale.gainDB.guiInfo.size=[1 3];\nSYS.inputMeter.value.guiInfo.size=[1 3];\nSYS.inputMeter.value.guiInfo.range=[-30 0];\nSYS.outputMeter.value.guiInfo.size=[1 3];\nSYS.outputMeter.value.guiInfo.range=[-30 0];","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"These commands specify the ranges of controls and their sizes on the inspector panels. The commands to draw the inspectors are:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"awe_inspect('position', [0 0])\ninspect(SYS.scale);\ninspect(SYS.inputMeter);\ninspect(SYS.agc.core);\ninspect(SYS.outputMeter);","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The first command, awe_inspect('position', [0 0]), specifies the screen position at which to draw the first inspector. The remaining 4 commands draw an inspector for each of the 4 internal modules. The inspectors are positioned from left to right (and the order of inspector drawing was purposefully chosen to mimic the audio signal flow in the subsystem.)","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"If you double-click on the title bar of a window, the inspector dialog may increase in size revealing additional \"extended controls\". For example, the scalerDB module reveals two more controls:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center"},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":205,"id":"e9227a8a-d2ee-4c8e-9d97-ed22a9fd885e","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":416}}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Double-clicking on the title bar returns the inspector to its \"normal\" size.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"text":"Using Controls","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"This section contains a few tips for using the inspector controls.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"orderedList","attrs":{"order":1},"content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Clicking on a slider advances the control part way.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Grabbing and moving a slider updates the variable continuously.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"An edit box directly above a slider or knob shows the current value. Clicking on an edit box allows you to type in a value.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Left clicking on a knob instantly turns the knob so that it is positioned over the click location.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Turn a knob by left clicking, and holding, a point on the knob. While you are actively turning a knob, you can increase the turn radius to more precisely adjust the value.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Knobs can wrap around from the minimum to the maximum value. Beware!","type":"text"}]}]}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"text":"6.3. Creating Subsystem Control Panels","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Now let us go a step further and draw a single control panel containing the individual inspectors for all 4 modules. 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To expose individual controls for the left and right gains, you would use the commands:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"add_control(SYS, 'L.gain');\nadd_control(SYS, 'R.gain');","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"However, to gang the controls together, supply a cell array of variable names to the add_control command:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"add_control(SYS, {'L.gain', 'R.gain'});","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Both gain variables are then attached to the same inspector control.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center","width":100.0},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":468,"id":"e41eb8d6-f13e-409d-b21e-f337650debbc","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":137}},{"type":"caption","content":[{"text":"Example system used to demonstrate ganging of inspector controls.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Similarly, we can gang together the set of inspector controls for the second order filter modules. The second order filter module has six different controls; four are on the non-expanded panel and two are on the expanded panel:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center","width":50.0},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":490,"id":"66b1d3bb-7d3a-40b1-9701-08ba7d3ee7e9","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":573}}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"To gang together all inspector panels, use the commands:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"add_control(SYS, {'eqL', 'eqR'}, 'right', 0);\nadd_control(SYS, {'eqL', 'eqR'}, 'right', 1);","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The first command gangs together the controls for the base inspector while the second command affects the controls on the expanded panel.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"There are a few things to keep in mind when ganging together controls. First, the same inspector value is written to all of the variables. If you need finer control, such as a balance control that uses different gains for different scalers, you'll need to develop a custom audio module with its own set function. Second, the variable updates are not truly simultaneous. Instead, they'll be separated by a few milliseconds in time. If you need truly simultaneous updates, then develop a custom inspector.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":1},"content":[{"text":"Overriding Default GUI Settings","type":"text"},{"type":"inlineExtension","attrs":{"extensionType":"com.atlassian.confluence.macro.core","extensionKey":"anchor","parameters":{"macroParams":{"":{"value":"OverridingDefaultGUISettings"}},"macroMetadata":{"macroId":{"value":"c98d319f4135e8aeb8b65e7652ba0690"},"schemaVersion":{"value":"1"},"title":"Anchor"}},"localId":"ba3985fb-4170-4517-b551-0777dfa18690"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Compare the combined inspector panel with the ones shown in ","type":"text"},{"text":"the 4 inspector panels","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"#Figure10"}}]},{"text":". All of the controls are there, but some of the (quite useful) labels shown in the window title bars are gone. For example, what do the first two level meters graphs correspond to? 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For example, the knobs and sliders in the overall dialog shown in ","type":"text"},{"text":"the combined inspector panel","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"#Figure11"}}]},{"text":" have been vertically aligned by setting the control sizes:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"SYS.scale.gainDB.guiInfo.size=[1 3];\nSYS.inputMeter.value.guiInfo.size=[1 3];\nSYS.outputMeter.value.guiInfo.size=[1 3];","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"text":"Changing the Inspector Layout","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The inspector panel shown in ","type":"text"},{"text":"the combined inspector panel","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"#"}}]},{"text":" consists of 4 separate \"sub-inspectors\", one for each internal module. By default, Audio Weaver draws sub-inspectors and individual controls from left to right. Subsequent controls are added to the right of the last control. ","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"An optional 3","type":"text"},{"text":"rd","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"subsup","attrs":{"type":"sup"}}]},{"text":" argument to add_control.m allows you to specify the position of the control. The syntax is:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"M=add_control(M, HNAME, POSITION)","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"where POSITION is either:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"orderedList","attrs":{"order":1},"content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"A 1x2 vector [offsetX offsetY] of normalized control units. The control is drawn at position [X Y] + [offsetX offsetY] where [X Y] is the position of the last control drawn.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"One of the relative positioning strings 'right', 'topRight', 'below', 'bottomLeft', or 'bottomRight'. 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For each allowable integer value, you can specify a string to provide an easy-to-read drop list.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"mediaSingle","attrs":{"layout":"center","width":10.0},"content":[{"type":"media","attrs":{"width":51,"id":"aecb7b68-5764-401f-b0cd-4bef5dd764d7","collection":"contentId-2879293241","type":"file","height":46}}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"If the variable has usage 'parameter', has type 'int', and there are 10 or more items, then controlType='knob'. 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The interfaces shown in ","type":"text"},{"text":"4 inspector panels","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"#Figure10"}}]},{"text":" and the ","type":"text"},{"text":"Overall inspector panel","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"#Figure11"}}]},{"text":" have two controls shown for both the meter1 and meter2 modules. That is because these modules are displaying stereo information and thus a pair of meters is shown.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"text":"Base and Extended Controls","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"We saw in the ","type":"text"},{"text":"Quick Tutorial","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https://dspconcepts.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOCHUB/pages/2879293241/8.D.1.3%2BMATLAB%2BScripting%2BAPI#Quick-Tutorial"}}]},{"text":" that some inspectors could toggle between showing and hiding an \"extended\" panel by double-clicking on the title bar. 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