Pulsar, Mac OSX and the Messe

Gregory · Post by **Gregory** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 3:28 pm

Anybody hear any faint hint of support of OSX at the Messe? If Creamware wants to be considered serious in professional audio circles they'll have to go this route sometime (actually not something I'm looking forward to it, I like OS 9.xx).

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 3:32 pm

I'm not quite so sure.. DigiDesign doesn't run on OSX as far as I read, and that's "pro" right?

Air_PoLLo · Post by **Air_PoLLo** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 6:45 pm

But they are in development of OSX support. (might take some time before they release them)

With apple having over 80% of the total "pro" market, cw would be stupid not to release them drivers for OSX.

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borg · Post by **borg** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 5:41 am

i think with this new cubase SX, creamware doesn't have much of a choice. this can only be good for the cubase/pulsar/mac users. (never had osX on my system so far, and only had a quick look at it on a friends comp. it looks kinda 'toyish' to me. i want my system to look sober, professional, easy to navigate in. maybe these colors and butterflies could bring something new to my music

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coc999 · Post by **coc999** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 8:38 am

hi,Pz people as i'm a mac user(with my old g3 blue and os8.6 oms 2.3.i don't remember) i am happy to discuss sometimes about macs here.What i understand discussing and reading (hope i don't go on wrong sites

is that for programmers it is not so easy for "carbon works".I must say i understand nothing iin that kind of stuff.When i try to find audio infos i always see "it comes it comes" but what is coming?
I will be happy if one day i can create multiple desktops with my computer and put for example vst instruments in background tasks,allocate processing time for that or that app,open 4 or 5 pulsar projects at same time(Unix sys allows you that way of work maybe other computers too?,geeks know that ok,he he).
But anyway for the moment i still stay under 8.6(even if under osx they announce 1ms latency on some app,i'm not sure it is realistic to announce that,even if i have no arguments to to say that) we are approching the big-bang time don't you think?
some links for who wants.
http://www.apple.com/creative/music/gea ... esign.html
http://www.digidesign.com/compato/hd.html
http://developer.apple.com/audio/xaudiooverview.html
http://www.apple.com/macosx/technologies/audio.html
see you and enjoy the wik and:)

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 9:58 am

I definitely agree OSX support would be nice. It would make sense for them to announce support at some point. Maybe Messe? or maybe after they finish up a few other things.

Air_PoLLo · Post by **Air_PoLLo** » Sat Mar 16, 2002 8:58 am

OSX uses something called "Core Audio". This means the audio streaming has direct access to the kernel.

1ms is true. I tested it with the built-in soundcard. 1ms without any extra load on the CPU is rather fantastic.

Also Core Audio has smaller divisions:

Sample Rate convert
Virtual Instruments
Multiple I/O's
MIDI
ect..ect...

Imagine how tight MIDI->AUDIO will be with OSX when it's all handled by the kernel and not the audioapp....

Fantasic, Apple!