feat(audio): suspend SoundGraph voices instead of muting them (#745) - #885
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A virtualized graph voice used to be muted, so the concurrent-voice budget bounded what you heard but not what the CPU did — the graph kept being stepped every block. `SoundGraphSource::SetVoiceSuspended` freezes the runtime instead: while it is set, `ProcessSamples` emits silence and skips the whole graph step (no `BeginProcessBlock`, no `SoundGraph::Process`, no event pump, no frame-counter advance). `SoundGraphSound` drives it from `OnVoiceStart` / `OnVoiceStop`, and `ReleaseVoice(resumePlayback=false)` now leaves a stopped or completed voice frozen as well as silent. The audit that decided the design (issue #745 asks whether the graph can be resumed deterministically at all): it can, and it needs no per-node save/restore, because a freeze destroys nothing. Every node's state — envelope stage, oscillator phase, delay counters, WavePlayer cursor, RNG stream — is advanced only by its own `Process(numFrames)`, and nothing in the runtime path reads a clock (the only two `std::chrono` reads under `Nodes/` are noise-seed init). So "not stepped" and "stepped later" are indistinguishable from inside the graph, and the resume is a bit-exact continuation rather than the restart-from-initial-state bug that stopping-and-re-raising-SendPlayEvent would have been (#730 acceptance criterion 2). What a graph voice still cannot do, and this is inherent rather than missing API: come back at the position it *would* have reached. Advancing to frame N is exactly the DSP work of frames 0..N, so reclaiming the CPU and preserving that phase are the same computation. `OnVoiceStart`'s `positionSeconds` is therefore honoured where it is reachable (a fresh start) and self-corrects everywhere else, because `OnVoiceQueryPosition` is authoritative while a voice is audible. Written up in `docs/agent-rules/audio-voice-budget.md` §8. Measured on this box (Debug, 32 graph voices x 200 blocks of 480 frames, one-node sine graph): running 92.5 ms, suspended 0.4 ms. Tests: `SoundGraphVoiceSuspendTest` (headless, no device). All of them were checked against the old behaviour by neutering `SetVoiceSuspended` to a no-op — every one fails there, so none of them passes trivially on muting, which is the trap the issue calls out. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… over the cap Found while wiring the suspend transport, unrelated to it in cause. `VoiceManager::Acquire` emits transitions only for state *changes*, and every voice *enters* `Virtual` — so a voice that starts over budget and stays virtual is never handed to `OnVoiceStop`, and nothing else put `SoundGraphSound` into its virtualized state on that path. `Play()` then raised the graph's Play event with the gain scale still at 1.0, i.e. the sound was fully audible while the budget's records said it was virtual, quietly putting the mix over `MaxVoices`. The clip path never had this: `AudioSource` starts `ma_sound` only from `OnVoiceStart`, so a voice that never wins a slot simply never starts. The graph path starts the runtime itself and relied on the mute, so it needed the check `Play()` now does explicitly. Covered by `AGraphVoiceThatNeverWinsASlotStartsSuspended` and `AVoiceSuspendedByTheBudgetProducesNoSamples`, which fail without the guard. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSound graph voice virtualization now mutes and suspends graph processing. Resumption preserves graph state and sample position. Voice lifecycle handling covers over-budget acquisition, stopping, completion, and teardown. Headless tests validate suspension and resumption behavior. ChangesSound graph voice budget
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant VoiceManager
participant SoundGraphSound
participant SoundGraphSource
participant SoundGraph
VoiceManager->>SoundGraphSound: update voice budget
SoundGraphSound->>SoundGraphSource: suspend or resume voice
SoundGraphSound->>SoundGraph: mute or restore gain
SoundGraphSource->>SoundGraph: skip or continue graph processing
SoundGraphSource-->>SoundGraphSound: preserve or advance current position
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In `@OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Audio/SoundGraph/SoundGraphSound.cpp`:
- Around line 371-388: Update SoundGraphSound::OnVoiceStart to clear graph-swap
suspension and reset normal replay state while the source remains
voice-suspended, then thaw the voice and restore its gain so a naturally
completed voice can produce audio when replayed. Add a test covering natural
completion followed by Play and verifying processing resumes.
- Around line 427-442: Keep the source virtualized throughout the resume path
until VoiceManager::Acquire resolves the budget: update the
ReleaseVoice(/*resumePlayback=*/true) flow so it does not thaw via
SetVirtualized(false) before Acquire. Preserve virtualization for over-budget
handles, and only clear it in OnVoiceStart or the invalid-handle unmanaged
fallback.
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| bool SoundGraphSound::OnVoiceStart(f64 positionSeconds) const | ||
| { | ||
| // Thawing resumes the graph at the exact frame it was frozen on, which satisfies | ||
| // positionSeconds whenever positionSeconds is that frame — a fresh start (0.0), and | ||
| // any resume the budget's own clock has not yet run past. It cannot satisfy a LATER | ||
| // position: for a procedural graph, getting to frame N means computing frames | ||
| // 0..N, so honouring the extra would spend exactly the CPU the suspension saved, | ||
| // in one audio callback. (The graph runtime is roughly real-time in a Debug build — | ||
| // docs/design/soundgraph-metasounds.md — so even a bounded catch-up burst is an | ||
| // underrun, not an optimisation. That is why there is no seek here rather than | ||
| // that nobody wrote one.) | ||
| // | ||
| // The engine self-corrects rather than carrying the lie: OnVoiceQueryPosition is | ||
| // authoritative while a voice is audible, so VoiceManager::Update pulls its record | ||
| // back to the graph's real frame on the very next tick. | ||
| (void)positionSeconds; | ||
| SetVirtualized(false); | ||
| return true; |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Resume graph-swap suspension before thawing a completed voice.
SoundGraphSource::Update calls SuspendProcessing(true) after natural completion at SoundGraphSource.cpp Line 498-502. OnVoiceStart only clears m_VoiceSuspended. It does not clear the source's graph-swap suspension.
A completed voice can therefore win a slot on a later Play() call but remain permanently silent because ProcessSamples still exits through IsSuspended().
Clear the graph-swap suspension and reset normal replay state while the source remains voice-suspended. Then thaw and restore gain. Add a natural-completion-to-Play test.
Also applies to: 823-823
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In `@OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Audio/SoundGraph/SoundGraphSound.cpp` around lines
371 - 388, Update SoundGraphSound::OnVoiceStart to clear graph-swap suspension
and reset normal replay state while the source remains voice-suspended, then
thaw the voice and restore its gain so a naturally completed voice can produce
audio when replayed. Add a test covering natural completion followed by Play and
verifying processing resumes.
| ReleaseVoice(/*resumePlayback=*/true); | ||
| const auto handle = OloEngine::Audio::VoiceManager::Get().Acquire(this, BuildVoiceParams()); | ||
| m_VoiceHandle.store(handle, std::memory_order_release); | ||
| if (handle == OloEngine::Audio::kInvalidVoiceHandle) | ||
| { | ||
| // Only reachable if Acquire was handed a null host, which cannot happen here; | ||
| // fall back to unmanaged playback rather than silence. | ||
| m_VoiceGainScale.store(1.0f, std::memory_order_relaxed); | ||
| ApplyEffectiveGain(); | ||
| SetVirtualized(false); | ||
| } | ||
| else if (OloEngine::Audio::VoiceManager::Get().IsVirtual(handle)) | ||
| { | ||
| // Acquire only emits transitions for state CHANGES, and every voice ENTERS | ||
| // virtual — so a voice that starts over budget and stays virtual is never | ||
| // handed to OnVoiceStop and nothing else would put it in the virtualized state. | ||
| // Without this the SendPlayEvent below starts it at full gain, over the cap. | ||
| SetVirtualized(true); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Keep the source virtualized until Acquire resolves the budget.
ReleaseVoice(/*resumePlayback=*/true) calls SetVirtualized(false) before Acquire. A live audio callback can then process a playable graph at normal gain before Line 436 restores virtualization for an over-budget handle.
ProcessSamples does not require m_IsPlaying before it processes a playable graph. This can emit a block and consume DSP for a voice that lost the budget.
Release with non-resume semantics, or explicitly virtualize before Acquire. Only OnVoiceStart and the unmanaged fallback should thaw the source.
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In `@OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Audio/SoundGraph/SoundGraphSound.cpp` around lines
427 - 442, Keep the source virtualized throughout the resume path until
VoiceManager::Acquire resolves the budget: update the
ReleaseVoice(/*resumePlayback=*/true) flow so it does not thaw via
SetVirtualized(false) before Acquire. Preserve virtualization for over-budget
handles, and only clear it in OnVoiceStart or the invalid-handle unmanaged
fallback.
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Quality gate failed on new_maintainability_rating (3, threshold 1) with five new-code smells, all in the suspend transport. None needed a suppression: - `cpp:S126` (CRITICAL) — `SoundGraphSound::Play`'s `if / else if` had no terminating `else`. The missing branch is a real case worth naming: the voice won a slot, so `Acquire` already drove `OnVoiceStart` and there is nothing left to do. - `cpp:S1116` — `OLO_PROFILE_FUNCTION();` in `SetVoiceSuspended`. Dropped rather than reshaped: the body is a single atomic store, so the Tracy zone costs more than the work it measures. - `cpp:S1116` — the input-event drain's empty `;` body is now an empty block. - `cpp:S8417` x3 — the explicit `memory_order` arguments on `m_VoiceSuspended`. Removed in favour of the default. This flag publishes nothing: it is a lone boolean gate with no data hanging off it, so a weaker order buys nothing, and on x86-64 a seq_cst load is the same plain `mov` as an acquire load while the store only happens on a virtualize / devirtualize transition. Its neighbour `m_Suspended` keeps release/acquire because that one really does publish the `m_Graph` swap — the header now says why they differ. No behaviour change. `*SoundGraph*:*Voice*:*Audio*` — 200/200 pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes #745.
Outcome: implemented, not won't-fix. The issue offered two legitimate exits and asked
for the resumability audit first. The audit says the graph can be suspended and resumed
deterministically — and needs no per-node save/restore at all, because the blocker the issue
feared is a blocker for stopping and restarting the graph, not for freezing it.
Part 1 — the resumability audit
Every
NodeProcessorsubclass underAudio/SoundGraph/Nodes/(27 types acrossArrayNodes.h,EnvelopeNodes.h,GeneratorNodes.h,MathNodes.h,MusicNodes.h,TriggerNodes.h,WavePlayer.h), plusSoundGraphandSoundGraphSource's own playbackstate, was checked for anything whose value depends on when it is processed rather than on
how many frames it has processed.
ADEnvelope,ADSREnvelopeProcess(numFrames)m_PhaseAccumulator)Process(numFrames)m_FrameTime = 1/sampleRate)DelayedTrigger,RepeatTriggerProcess(numFrames)TriggerCounterWavePlayer/WaveSourceBeginProcessBlockrefill +ProcessRandom,GetRandom,NoiseProcess/ triggerSoundGraph::ProcessChunk+= numFramesSoundGraphSource::ProcessSamplesfetch_add(frameCount)Nothing in the runtime path reads a clock. The only two
std::chronoreads anywhereunder
Nodes/are noise-seed initialisation (ArrayNodes.h:32,GeneratorNodes.h:315),consulted once when a seed is 0 and never during playback.
So a graph that is not stepped is a graph that has not moved. There is nothing to save and
nothing to restore: freezing needs zero state machinery, and the resume is a bit-exact
continuation of the same sample stream. "Not stepped for 4 blocks" and "stepped 4 blocks
later" are indistinguishable from inside the graph.
The issue's worry — that stateful nodes would need their own save/restore — is real, but
about the other implementation: stop the graph and re-raise
SendPlayEvent(). Thatdestroys state and restarts from the initial state, which is exactly #730 acceptance
criterion 2's bug. That is the design this PR avoids, not the one it implements.
The one thing that genuinely cannot be done
Resuming at the position the voice would have reached (§3 rule 3, what
ma_sound_seek_to_pcm_framegives the clip path) is unreachable for a procedural graph,and not for want of API: advancing to frame N is the DSP work of frames 0..N. Reclaiming
the CPU and preserving that phase are the same computation, so you get one or the other.
The clip path escapes it only because a decoded PCM stream has an O(1) seek — its position
is an index, not a result.
A bounded catch-up burst on resume is not a way out either. The graph runtime is roughly
real-time in a Debug build (
docs/design/soundgraph-metasounds.mdgates oneffectiveRateHzstaying within 10% of the sample rate), so fast-forwarding 85 ms of silence inside one audio
callback costs ~85 ms of CPU in a callback with a ~10 ms budget — an underrun, not an
optimisation. Amortising it over later blocks re-pays the entire saving and leaves the
voice audible-but-out-of-phase while it catches up.
So the shipped trade is explicit: exact continuation + full CPU reclaim, instead of
exact would-have-been phase + no CPU reclaim. Nothing in the engine carries the resulting
inconsistency —
OnVoiceQueryPositionis authoritative while a voice is audible, soVoiceManager::Updatepulls the record back to the graph's real frame on the first tickafter devirtualization, and nothing else reads a graph voice's logical position
(
DurationSeconds == 0means no auto-retire and no loop wrap).Part 2 — the transport API
SoundGraphSource::SetVoiceSuspended(bool)/IsVoiceSuspended(). While set,ProcessSamplesemits silence and skips the whole graph step: noBeginProcessBlock, noSoundGraph::Process, no outgoing-event pump, no frame-counter advance.It is a second, independent suspension axis from the existing
SuspendProcessing, anddeliberately so: that one is the graph-swap handshake and its resume zeroes the playback
counters, so reusing it for the voice budget would have silently turned every resume into
a restart. No ack handshake here — nothing is torn down, so a one-block overlap either way
is inaudible, and the owner mutes before freezing / thaws before un-muting to cover the click.
While frozen, queued parameter writes are still applied (O(1) endpoint-cell writes, not DSP,
so a preset applied to a virtual voice is not lost); queued external input events are drained
and discarded, because they are scheduled at a sample offset inside a block that is not
happening.
Part 3 — the voice host
SoundGraphSound::OnVoiceStart/OnVoiceStopuse the transport instead of gain alone, andReleaseVoice(resumePlayback=false)now leaves a stopped or naturally-completed voice frozenas well as silent — so a finished one-shot graph costs nothing until something plays it
again.
OnVoiceStopalso reports the frozen frame counter rather than-1.0, so the budgetanchors its record on the truth. The class comment at
SoundGraphSound.hthat stated thelimitation is replaced by the real trade-off.
Part 4 — the tests
OloEngine/tests/SoundGraphVoiceSuspendTest.cpp— headless, noma_engine, no audiodevice, no mounted asset. Six tests, both halves the issue asks for:
Process()call count does not move across asuspension, the frame counter is frozen with it, and the output bus is silent.
bit-identical samples to a continuously-running twin at the same processed-block ordinal,
and specifically not the graph's opening block.
Every one of the six was verified to FAIL on the old behaviour, by neutering
SetVoiceSuspendedto a no-op (i.e. mute-only) and re-running: 6 failed, 0 passed. That isthe trap the issue calls out — a phase test alone passes trivially on a graph that never
stopped running.
Measurement
Not a forecast. Debug build, this box, 32 graph voices × 200 blocks of 480 frames each
(a one-node sine graph, so this is a floor on the saving for a real graph):
Measured with a temporary test that is not committed (a timing assertion here would be a
flake in CI).
Ride-along fix (separate commit)
fix(audio): a graph voice that loses the budget at Play() time played over the cap—VoiceManager::Acquireemits transitions only for state changes and every voice entersVirtual, so a voice that starts over budget is never handed toOnVoiceStop, and nothingput
SoundGraphSoundinto its virtualized state on that path.Play()then started thegraph at full gain while the budget's records said it was virtual. The clip path never had
this because
AudioSourcestartsma_soundonly fromOnVoiceStart. Found while wiring thetransport; unrelated to it in cause, so it is its own commit with its own two tests.
Verification
OloEngine-TestsDebug (clang-cl,build-cached):*SoundGraph*:*Voice*:*Audio*—200/200 pass.
Docs
docs/agent-rules/audio-voice-budget.md§8 rewritten — the comparison table now has "yes"in the graph column, plus the freeze-vs-stop distinction, the audit summary, why the
would-have-been phase is unreachable, and the two consequences (the
Play()guard, andstopped voices staying frozen).
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