Core Audio

Apple's Core Audio interfaces

Core Audio is a fairly low-level API for dealing with sound in Apple's Mac OS X operating system. It includes an implementation of the cross-platform OpenAL library^[1].

Apple's Core Audio documentation states that "in creating this new architecture on Mac OS X, Apple’s objective in the audio space has been twofold. The primary goal is to deliver a high-quality, superior audio experience for Macintosh users. The second objective reflects a shift in emphasis from developers having to establish their own audio and MIDI protocols in their applications to Apple moving ahead to assume responsibility for these services on the Macintosh platform."

History

It was introduced in Mac OS X 10.3.

See also

• Audio Units

References

1. ^ Core Audio Overview: OpenAL (Open Audio Library) (English). Apple Inc (January 08 2007). Retrieved on 2007-09-16.

External links

• Apple's Core Audio page
• Apple's Core Audio documentation developer page
• Apple's Audio developer page
• Apple's Core Audio Technologies developer page
• Apple's mailing list for developers using Core Audio and MIDI APIs (C or Java) on MacOS X
• A simple Cocoa Core Audio demo application for developers

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