CoreAudio

[Stephen Barncard]

That's a big one - you might need externals for this...and a realtime 
audio coder if you can't do it. Do you know if Digidesign has an 
easily available SDK? Have you seen it? Are you sure you can get it? 
Surely you can't expect REV to support something this unique 
natively. The Digi developer scene is highly controlled - you might 
contact them before investing too much time before.

However....

 From the little technically I've discovered about CoreAudio (although 
I'm a major TDM system user) Coreaudio just seems to 'patch' third 
party apps in the audio streams system controlled by the OS. Latest 
versions of Core seem to address 8 or more channels.

So theoretically if you can use the proper hooks for audio inside the 
OS, then 'core' should work. It's a Digidesign shim to connect with 
Apple, while still putting limits on third-party hardware, nothing 
more. Perhaps you can accomplish some of this with Quicktime, which 
now includes stuff for multiple channels.

Consider that  a little 002 system can be used for surround playback, 
even if the 'little' Digi systems don't support surround mixing.

Also remember that CoreAudio can only work when PT is not running. I 
am not sure if it will support more than 1 third party app at a time 
either...and it won't send system sounds to the output -- that's a 
good thing.

sqb


>hi there folks... first time poster here, pleased to be a part of 
>this community.
>
>does anyone out there know anything about getting rev to communicate 
>with os x's coreaudio? i've got a rather involved situation that 
>needs coreaudio support. in a nutshell, i want to be able to matrix 
>audio from several quicktime players to several audio outputs. think 
>surround sound.
>
>i assume that what i need is an external to do the heavy lifting, 
>but of course the reason i use rev is that i don't care to muck 
>around in C...
>
>any insight, pointers, etc. would be much appreciated.
>
>thanks
>sam

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stephen barncard
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