#interapp audio

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Apple Inter-App Audio coming in iOS 7

Apple may be seen as innovators who create trends rather than follow them – but it is the independent developers unrelated to Apple who seem to be making the big strides and taking the big risks.  They are the ones that take an idea and bring it to life, leaving Apple to catch on only after the attempts have been made.  This seems to work out for Apple who only feels the need to develop something once want has been created for it.  Inter-app audio has long since been the bane of music producers and performers who wanted to use multiple programs on their iPad for live performance.  Multitasking on a tablet is hardly close to the type of multitasking that can be done on desktop software – and developers wanted to bridge that gap. Along came AudioBus and JACK, who worked with several software developers to create a solution that linked audio from one app to another.  Their success was often slow and even hindered by iOS updates that threw a wrench in their workflow – but ultimately it proved to be successful.  This success was carefully monitored by the good Folks at Apple who decided it was time to introduce their version of it.  Rumor has it that AudioBus is now working with Apple. http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/apple-inter-app-audio-coming-in-ios-7-578067

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About iOS 7 and Audio: Patience for Users… Inter-App Code for Developers

iOS and all compatible devices are still on top when it comes to using your iPad or iPhone for mobile music production.  The problem of inter-app audio is nothing new, and developers on both sides have been working to find way to improve audio performance as well as their ability to work inside of other programs.  In terms of how powerful it can be, the iOS is far ahead of anything that Google has done.  A simple drumming app on Android is painfully slow and almost unusable in any real world setting – but the iOS is not without its bugs too. One of the biggest problems that OS faces is how to handle interruptions of audio.  Being able to switch between apps is something that has been around since Windows 3.1 – but doing the same thing on a mobile device has proved harder now that cameras and phones are involved.  If you receive a phone call in the middle of using a program that makes use of inter-app audio, you will struggle to recover from it, since the iOS has no good way of handling this conflict.  If calls are dismissed, the problem seems to disappear – but if they are answered, it will interfere with your work. http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/09/ios-7-audio-patience/