[linux-audio-dev] XAP: Some thoughts on control ramping

[Will Benton]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:57:59PM +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:00:13PM +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> > As to AU, I think the use of Objective C is a serious obstacle. I 
> > also dislike the way they handle scheduling, and the general lack of 
> > consideration for API overhead... But that's another topic!
> 
> I dont know that much about AU. I like objective C, but it has some
> performace issues. In some ways it would make sense for linux to support
> it, it would make porting plugins between MacOS X and Linux easier,
> especially if you can make X11 guis for it.

AU does not use objective-C -- the API is C.  CoreAudio and CoreMIDI are
somewhat accessible from ObjC, but all GUIs for AudioUnits are written in
Carbon, which is a C/C++ API.




best,
wb

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Will Benton
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