pylibresidfp

pybind11 binding of libresidfp (the reSIDfp SID emulator) with chip state save/restore, a deterministic output and a GIL-free render loop.

from pylibresidfp import SID

sid = SID(model="6581", clock_hz=985248.0, sampling_hz=44100.0, method="decimate", filter=True)
sid.write(24, 15); sid.read(27); sid.peek(27); sid.reset()
sid.cycle                      # absolute cycle count, starts at 0
sid.clock(cycles)              # np.int16 samples for those cycles
sid.run(writes, until)         # writes: (N, 3) ints or [(cycle, reg, value), ...], absolute cycles
sid.serve(writes, cycle, reg)  # run to `cycle`, then read(reg): the body of a NativeSid on_read
sid.voices()                   # per-voice envelope (LFSR, rate, counter, state, ...) and oscillator state
sid.trace(writes, until)       # run without audio: (cycle, voice, envelope, state) at each envelope change
sid.envelope_trace(v, writes, until, lfsr=None)  # one voice's envelope alone from a copy (its
                               # rate counter's LFSR set to lfsr if given): the chip is untouched
sid.envelope_phases(v, writes, until)  # envelope_trace for every rate-counter phase at once: Phases
                               # (pieces, events, count, states) with .trajectory(k), exact for each k;
                               # events are ramps of envelope steps; .expand(table) -> (ids, times)
state = sid.envelope_state(v)  # that voice's envelope generator as bytes: equal states, equal bytes
trace, end = envelope_run(state, writes, until, start)   # from pylibresidfp import envelope_run:
                               # envelope_trace from `state` (taken at cycle start) with no chip,
                               # event-driven; regs 4/5/6 are control/AD/SR, others ignored
runs = envelope_runs(state, [writes_a, writes_b], until, start)  # several candidates, one call
grid = envelope_grid(states, programs, cycles)  # (N, P, 2) digests of every program from every state
                               # (an ENVELOPE_STATE array): equal digests, same envelope and future
state = sid.save_state(); sid.restore_state(state)
twin = sid.copy()              # same parameters and state; SID is also picklable

run clocks to each write's cycle, writes it, then clocks to until. Write cycles must not precede sid.cycle or each other and must not exceed until; violations raise ValueError. serve discards the samples it produces (use run to keep audio).

trace clocks the oscillators and envelopes only (libresidfp's clockDigital), so a chip used for tracing no longer renders the same audio as one that was not. voices and trace read libresidfp's internals through patches/0002-probe-access.patch, which befriends a reSIDfp::Probe class. patches/0003-zero-state-padding.patch zeroes the saved state's struct padding, so save_state is reproducible byte for byte; patches/0004-initialise-params.patch gives the filter parameters libresidfp keeps for it their defaults rather than uninitialised memory.

clock, run, serve, trace, envelope_trace, envelope_phases, envelope_run, envelope_runs, envelope_grid, save_state and restore_state release the GIL. Each instance has a busy flag: use from a second thread while a call is in progress raises RuntimeError. Distinct instances run in parallel.

Fed directly from vagrant_moses: sid.run(native_sid.drain_writes(), until).

Determinism

Two instances with the same parameters and writes produce identical samples, for both models and both methods. Upstream libresidfp dithers the filter's float-to-int conversion from a table indexed by a counter held in the process-wide filter-model singleton; patches/0001-deterministic-rounding.patch (applied at build time) replaces the dither with plain rounding. Other process-wide state is immutable after first use (filter and waveform tables). The static setters Filter6581::setFilterRange/setCaps are not exposed. The pinned libresidfp has no noiseLevel, so there is no noise_level option.

State is not portable across builds. sid.cycle is part of the saved state.

Build

git clone --recurse-submodules, then pip install .. Needs CMake >= 3.20, patch and a C++17 compiler. libresidfp is the submodule extern/libresidfp, pinned to a release tag; its version is read from the submodule's configure.ac, and .github/workflows/libresidfp.yml opens a PR when a newer release appears. The build copies its sources and applies patches/ to the copy. Tests: pip install -e .[dev], then pytest -n auto --cov=pylibresidfp. docker build . (build arg PYTHON_VERSION) runs the full lint and test suite.

GPL-2.0-or-later (see COPYING).