Question

Edited the question due to progressive insights 🙂

I am creating an app that is listening to the audio input.
I want it to count peaks. (peaks will be at a max frequency of about 10 Hz.)

After a lot of searching, I ended up using the AudioQueue Service as that will be able to give me the raw input data.
I am using a stripped down version (no playback) of the SpeakHere example, but instead of simply writing the buffer to the filesystem, I want to look at the individual sample data.

Think I am on the right track now, but I don’t understand how to work with the buffers.
I am trying to isolate the data of one sample. So that for loop in the following function, does that make any sense, and
what should I put in there to get one sample?

void AQRecorder::MyInputBufferHandler( void *inUserData, AudioQueueRef inAQ, AudioQueueBufferRef inBuffer, const AudioTimeStamp *inStartTime, UInt32 inNumPackets, const AudioStreamPacketDescription* inPacketDesc)
{
    // AudioQueue callback function, called when an input buffers has been filled.

    AQRecorder *aqr = (AQRecorder *)inUserData;
    try {
        if (inNumPackets > 0) {
            /*          // write packets to file
            XThrowIfError(AudioFileWritePackets(aqr->mRecordFile,FALSE,inBuffer->mAudioDataByteSize,inPacketDesc,aqr->mRecordPacket,&inNumPackets,inBuffer->mAudioData),
                      "AudioFileWritePackets failed");*/

            SInt16 sample;
        for (UInt32 sampleIndex=0; sampleIndex < inNumPackets; ++sampleIndex) {


            // What do I put here to look at one sample at index sampleIndex ??


        }
        aqr->mRecordPacket += inNumPackets;
        }

    // if we're not stopping, re-enqueue the buffe so that it gets filled again
    if (aqr->IsRunning())
        XThrowIfError(AudioQueueEnqueueBuffer(inAQ, inBuffer, 0, NULL),
                      "AudioQueueEnqueueBuffer failed");
    } catch (CAXException e) {
    char buf[256];
    fprintf(stderr, "Error: %s (%s)\n", e.mOperation, e.FormatError(buf));
}
}

(maybe I shouldn’t have deleted so much of the original question… what is the policy?)

Originally I was thinking of using the AurioTouch example, but as was pointed out in a comment, that uses throughput and I only need input. It is also a much more complicated example than SpeakHere.

Answer 1

This loops through all samples in the buffer.

    SInt16 sample;
    for (UInt32 sampleIndex=0; sampleIndex < inNumPackets; ++sampleIndex) {
        sample = buffer[sampleIndex]; // Get the power of one sample from the buffer
        aqr->AnalyseSample(sample);
    }

Was a tricky part: aqr points to the instance of the recorder. The callback is a static function and can’t access the member variables or member functions directly.

In order to count the peaks, I keep track of a longterm average and a shortterm average. If the shortTerm average is a certain factor bigger than the longterm average, there is a peak. When the shortterm average goes down again, the peak has passed.