well it seems i have loads of questions 
i promiss to make a nice demo with src when i get me head around all this OpenAL stuff.
Is there anyway of getting the Volume Level Meter from the sound that is playing. for example:
la LA la
the first ‘la’ would be a level meter of say 50 the space would be 0 the next ‘la’ 100. so this ‘la LA la’ would be ‘50, 0, 100, 0, 50’
i would like to get this from the source sound not the from the listener at this point. will ask that later :).