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Tiger

2005-04-29 by GAmoore@aol.com

Here is an article that just came out about Tiger and its features. I can't see a single reference to any of the optimizations you guys are talking about :

 Mac OS X Tiger: All roads lead to Spotlight
By Jim Dalrymple MacCentral Thu Apr 28,12:09 PM ET

OS X 10.4 — the much-anticipated update to Apple’s operating system — hits retail shelves Friday at 6 p.m. local time. But the company has already begun talking up the massive OS X update known as Tiger.
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While many of OS X 10.4’s marquee features — including Spotlight, Automator, and an updated version of Safari — have been publicly known for almost a year, Apple executives say there is a lot in the OS that will make Mac users’ lives easier. And they add that you’ve been hearing a lot about Tiger’s Spotlight search technology for a good reason.

“We think that people using Mac OS X Tiger will be in the Spotlight menu all the time,” Brian Croll, Apple’s senior director of Software Product Marketing, told MacCentral. “You can go there to find documents, pictures, applications or anything else you want. All roads lead to Spotlight.”

Spotlight and its ability to create and automatically update Smart Folders in the Finder will help users find and organize files on their hard drives. This has become more of a problem in recent years because “hard drives are so big we never throw anything away,” said Chris Bourdon, Apple’s product manager for Mac OS X.

Besides Spotlight, Tiger features other new tools, aimed at helping Mac users in their everyday lives, including Automator. While the built-in Automation utility has been linked to AppleScript and has sometimes been referred to as visual AppleScript, Bourdon said that is not the right way to look at things since AppleScript is only one piece of the Automator puzzle.

“AppleScript has been an extremely great technology for people that wanted to automate things on the Mac — it’s great for people that want to dive in their and learn some scripting,” Bourdon said. “There are a ton of people that know what they want to do with their computer and how they want their applications to work together, but they don’t know scripting. We’ve broadened the market of people who can take advantage of automation in the operating system without having to write any code.”

Other major additions and enhancements in OS X 10.4 include:

• an update to Safari that adds RSS-friendly capabilities to Apple’s Web browser;

• Dashboard, a new layer of the OS for housing mini-applications called widgets;

• a new version of iChat AV that adds multi-person video and audio chats;

• the updated QuickTime 7, featuring the new H.264 video codec;

• built-in .Mac syncing;

• enhancements to the built-in Mail application; and

• under-the-hood changes to OS X’s Unix underpinnings.

“Tiger is an unbelievably deep operating system,” said Croll. “This by far the richest release we’ve done.”

Mac OS X Tiger will be available on Friday, April 29, 2005 for $129. Tiger requires a minimum of 256MB of memory and 3GB of available space on your hard drive (4GB, if you install Tiger’s XCode 2 developer tools). The update is designed to run on any Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G5, G4 or G3 processor and built-in FireWire.

Re: [Logic_Cafe] Tiger

2005-04-29 by Maurits van de Kamp

> Here is an article that just came out about Tiger and its features. I can't
> see a single reference to any of the optimizations you guys are talking
> about :

This article is typical markestpeak and details only the new bells and 
whistles, and summarizes the real important stuff in one item:

> • under-the-hood changes to OS X’s Unix underpinnings.

:o)

Go to www.apple.com/macosx and click on tech specs, there you get a long list 
of not only applications but also services that have been improved. For the 
audio things, click on CoreAudio. Still not very detailed but at least it 
gives an indication of what to expect. :o)

Maurits.

Re: [Logic_Cafe] Tiger

2005-04-29 by Chris Coccia

GAmoore@... wrote:
> Here is an article that just came out about Tiger and its features. I 
> can't see a single reference to any of the optimizations you guys are 
> talking about :
> 

Thats probably because Apple caters to alot more than just the audio 
community. Do you really think the grandparents that just bought a new 
Mac Mini care about improvements to CoreAudio or CoreImage or the BSD 
Subsystem? No they wanna see the gimmicks.. This is marketing.. This is 
how it always goes..

Check out Apple's Tech Specs on the OS at Apple's site if you want your 
list of features and optimizations.

-- 
Chris

http://www.descentrecords.com

Re: [Logic_Cafe] Tiger

2005-04-29 by GAmoore@aol.com


In a message dated 4/29/05 5:12:15 AM, maurits@... writes:
This article is typical markestpeak and details only the new bells and
whistles, and summarizes the real important stuff in one item:
Go to www.apple.com/macosx and click on tech specs, there you get a long list
of not only applications but also services that have been improved. For the
audio things, click on CoreAudio. Still not very detailed but at least it
gives an indication of what to expect. :o)


Hey Thanks Mauritis! I'm glad I didn't ban you afterall! ;-)

I got an e-ad for Tiger for $79 at the Micro Center so I might bite - if I can find some justification. (I think we shouold all go to a local Apple store and request one of the "...for DUmmies" books which they have just banned because Jobs doesn't like people to know his wild side.) Even looking at the details, 99% of it is rehash of Panther or new consumer applications, but very little hard hitting improvement of performance. There is talk of 64 bit computing, but haven't we heard that for a few years? Remember the Apple tv ads, with the tanks around a mac...because it was so powerful it could not be exported...two years ago.

There is a lot of info, but its hard to tell what is new and what is just talking about X in general. Here is the Core Audio bit. The only direct mention of something in Tiger seems to be the ability to run to multiple devices at the same time, which is of no importance to me.

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Musicians, audio pros and music educators have long recognized the Mac as a superior platform for creativity. Historically, third-party developers augmented the native capabilities of Macintosh with a wide variety of hardware, software and system add-ons, making it possible to use the Macintosh as a virtual recording studio.


Mac OS X Core Audio integrates a range of audio functionality directly into the operating system in ways never before possible, enabling unprecedented performance and ease of use in your virtual studio. Core Audio lays a new foundation for the next generation of world-class audio and music applications from innovative developers.
Breathtaking Performance

Mac OS X delivers the best audio performance in desktop computing. The most fundamental measure of audio performance is throughput latency — the time it takes for audio to enter your Mac, travel through the system to your application and then pass back out to your monitoring system (speakers).


The Core Audio HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) allows multiple applications to share the same device, while maintaining ultra-low latency performance. So you could assign channels one through six of a eight-channel output device to a multi-track program, such as Logic Pro 7, while leaving a virtual studio rack like Reason with channels seven and eight.

And because this performance is built directly into Mac OS X, you experience the same ultra-low latency out of the box on any Apple system. Go from the Power Mac G5 in your studio to your PowerBook on the road — you get consistent performance every time.
Device Aggregation

Mac OS X Tiger now allows you to use multiple audio devices together to increase the number of input and output channels. You can combine devices of like sampling rate together, whether via FireWire, PCI or built-in, into a single aggregated device. Set up is easy via Audio MIDI Setup and your new “virtual” device will automatically show up in all applications on the system.
Core Audio Format

Core Audio Format is the latest addition to the dozens of audio formats supported natively in Mac OS X. Developed by Apple, Core Audio Format (CAF) combines virtually infinite capacity with rich support for metadata in an optimized-for-audio package. As a 64-bit file format, you can record a thousand channels of audio for a thousand years in a single file. And it can store any audio data, whether uncompressed PCM or compressed such as AAC. Application support for these files is available today in QuickTime 7.

Plugged In

Working digitally lets you easily manipulate audio and add special effects. It’s trivial to reverse a sample or add simple reverb to make your music sound as if it were recorded in a huge concert hall or the in the bathroom at CBGB’s. Mac OS X Core Audio provides a system-level plug-in architecture called Audio Units. This allows developers to deploy their plug-ins in a single format that any Mac OS X application can use.

Apple includes several Audio Units in Mac OS X, including one that adjusts timing without affecting pitch, a Velocity Engine-optimized reverb and a matched pair to stream audio over a network. Apple also provides a software instrument that supports both the industry-standard DownLoadable Sounds (DLS) as well as SoundFont formats; giving you high-quality, low-latency sample playback.

MIDI Thru and Thru

Mac OS X integrates MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) Services directly into the operating system for increased stability and performance. Audio MIDI Setup allows you to easily manage your MIDI needs and define a system-wide MIDI configuration that is available to all of your applications. Mac OS X also includes a MIDI Network driver, allowing you to send and receive MIDI over a network connection.

Optimized for G5
The Power Mac G5 is the ultimate machine for audio professionals, with capabilities that are not usually found on personal computers. The state-of-the-art optical digital audio in and out ports use the S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) protocol over Toslink cables for connecting to devices such as decks, receivers, digital instruments and even 5.1 surround-sound speaker systems. And Mac OS X is specially tuned for the G5 processor, providing a seamless transition to 64-bit power with optimized math libraries that let today’s applications take advantage of tomorrow’s power.

Re: [Logic_Cafe] Tiger

2005-04-30 by amgmamgma

GAmoore@... <GAmoore@...> wrote:
: 
: I got an e-ad for Tiger for $79 at the Micro Center so I might bite - if I 
: can find some justification.

Well, you're probably going to have to upgrade eventually, so why not buy
a copy for a good deal and let it sit on the shelf until you're ready to
upgrade?

-- 
 agreenbu @ nyx . net                             andrew michael greenburg

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