Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Core Audio is a low-level API for dealing with sound in Apple's macOS and iOS operating systems.It includes an implementation of the cross-platform OpenAL. [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.
Audio Stream Input/Output (ASIO) is a computer audio interface driver protocol for digital audio specified by Steinberg, providing high data throughput, synchronization, and low latency between a software application and a computer's audio interface or sound card.
The Apple Lossless Encoder (and decoder) were released as open source software under the Apache License version 2.0 on October 27, 2011. [10] [11] [12] On May 17, 2021, Apple announced that they would begin offering lossless audio in Apple Music in June 2021, with all lossless music being encoded using ALAC. [13]
Tobias Erichsen in 2010 released a Windows implementation of Apple's RTP-MIDI driver. [7] This driver works under XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10, 32 and 64 bit versions. [8] The driver uses a configuration panel very similar to the Apple's one, and is fully compliant with Apple's implementation.
The USB specification defines a standard interface, the USB audio device class, allowing a single driver to work with the various USB sound devices and interfaces on the market. Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux support this standard. However, some USB sound cards do not conform to the standard and require proprietary drivers from the manufacturer.
The Sound Blaster X7 is a USB audio device that can work without a computer. It was announced on 3 September 2014. It was announced on 3 September 2014. It supports Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X computers but requires a power supply to work.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Boot Camp currently supports Windows 10 on a range of Macs dated mid-2012 or newer. [9] Apple Silicon is not supported due to being ARM-based. Although Windows 11 supports ARM64, the ARM64 version is only licensed to OEMs, and there are no drivers for the Apple silicon SoCs, so it cannot run on Apple Silicon Macs natively. [6]