Re: cross-platform audio software dev
Re: cross-platform audio software dev
- Subject: Re: cross-platform audio software dev
- From: NickMtl <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 07:06:30 -0500
Maissam,
I'm developing a cross-platform audio tool too. OpenAL is only
recommended if you are targetting the iPhone as a second platform.
I've also looked at PortAudio and while it woks fine in Audacity, this
is not the kind of thing you want to use without advanced knowledge of
digital audio. Things get messier if you want to support MIDI.
PortMIDI is really not there yet and doesn't provide full access to
CoreMIDI. I'm sure someone has figured it out and doing great software
with it, but I wasn't able to get too far. Not worth the effort.
I believe that it's better to understand both platforms correctly and
write specific code for each. We don't yet have an equivalent to
OpenGL for audio. OpenAL has chosen to implement 3D sound for games
with no MIDI, so it's kind of hard to do a implement a basic DAW on
it.
In the end, I chose to bite the bullet an learn CoreAudio on the Mac,
then do a port for Windows, reusing as much code as possible.
Regards,
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- Nick -
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