People who do home recording and basic stuff do get to see the whiz band stuff, think Garage Band here. The people who’s audio requirements are iTunes and some speakers won’t care about CoreAudio because they don’t see it directly. We’ve been holding CoreAudio as the gold standard – but looks like we may be ahead after OSS v4.0 comes out.ĬoreAudio is one of the best around for low latency.Īs for whiz bang features, it depends on who you are trying to impress. Sorry, I know this isn’t MacOSX related and should be modded down as Off-topic, but we thought Apple was head and shoulders above OSS, ALSA and MS-DirectAudio. ( ) and IMUX ( ) and OSS gives you builtin equalizers and Fidelity Enhance (aka DFX/SRS/QSound) OSS has this loop back feature in Virtual Mixer The format offers up to 8 channels of 48kHz or 96kHz sampling frequency and 16, 20 or 24 bits per sample but not all at the same time. Linear PCM (LPCM) is an uncompressed audio format that is similar to CD audio, but with higher sampling frequencies and quantisations. The audio unit will convert file data from any format to linear PCM so that it can be processed by other audio units, sources said. A file-playback audio unit will make it possible for applications to use an existing sound file as an input source.
