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on 5/3/02 5:41 PM, logic-ot@yahoogroups.com at logic-ot@yahoogroups.com
wrote:

> Hi Garth,
> 
> I was addressing a single example (release audio) someone else had posted.
> The information was incorrect regarding what ASIO can or cannot do, that's
> all.
> 
> Since I'm on PC I don't really know much about Core Audio, however...
> the lowly SBLive audio card can handle multiple streams of audio playback
> (up to 64 streams I think) using DirectX. Multiple applications can address
> the card at the same time, no problem. In some ways I think Core Audio
> is quite similar to DirectX. Core Audio drivers will be equivalent to
> the recent Microsoft low latency WDM driver standard. 12Tone's Sonar has
> adopted this standard. Like Core Audio, DirectX is part of the OS, not an
> add-on like ASIO.
> 
> This is not an OS war, just clearing things up.
> 
> Actually have to hand it to Steinberg... when no one else had low latency
> drivers they came up with ASIO. We tend to take it for granted, but look
> how
> much we owe to that standard... VSTinstruments, real time monitoring
> w/effects, efficient drivers...etc..etc.
> 
> 
> howard

Hey there,

Yeah I think the discrepancy lies in what can be done on a PC vs Mac, and
it's not about a platform war, as you said.  On a Mac, AFAIK, you can't get
ASIO to split the use of an audio interface between multiple programs,
simultaneously.  Core audio will give us that and more, you are right.

I always praise Steinberg for being there with VST and ASIO, when no one
else was willing to go there, and wanted proprietary stuff instead.  I am
glad that I won't have to use ASIO forever though.  Just because I think
Core Audio will eventually be more stable and do more for us.

Garth