Audiounits, the beginning of the end! Options

[damann]

I love X so much these days, 9.2 already seems ancient.
CoreAudio and CoreMidi seem to have genuinely provided an
inspiring future for developers, Emagic, Steinberg, in fact, apparently
every developer on our wish list!
I've heard recently that CoreAudio has a native plugin framework that
seiously out-runs ASIO or any of the 3rd party stuff by Digi, Motu etc.
AudioUnits: a direct replacement, with 1ms latency reported, already implemented by Emagic, 100% cocoa, a potential industry standard in the making!
i've already backed up my 4.8.1 logic folder to CD, DVD, AND firewire drive 'cos i just know that VST etc are ultimately doomed.

this experience, although slow, will be the equivalent of completely replacing a studio and it's equipment in order to stay current.
of course there are carbon versions of a lot of the best plugins around
but this is more a question of support from OS & developers for VST etc!

[shahasad]

The only drawback to using the Carbon Library to port apps is that it is not as optimized for OS X. It was initally intended as a quick fix for developers to use in the meantime until they get their apps ported to Cocoa. The foundation frameworks and NS object classes (As weel as core audio and other Cocoa frameworks) operate at the lowest level of the OS. Carbon does not. Carbon apps can import classes from these, but it is not the same as writing a stright cocoa app.


As for Java, I would never use a Java-based recording app as java is not written for any particular hardware platform and does not contain any low-level memory managent and would be deathly slow.

Internet Explorer is a carbon app. Take that how you will.