Core Audio in Mac OS X provides world-class support for adding audio features to your application. Whether your needs are as simple as playing user interface alerts or as complex as creating immersive, interactive sound environments for games—the wide range of services in Core Audio scales with you. Use Core MIDI for all the power of a state-of-the-art MIDI studio and live performance setup—in software. Add immersive audio to games with the OpenAL framework. To manage audio in the context of video, use Quicktime. If you provide hardware solutions, the Audio Hardware Abstraction Layer and the I/O Kit provide rock solid support for interfacing with consumer and professional audio gear. Together, these services shorten your hardware or software development cycle and let you do things that are simply not possible on other platforms. Read More...

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Audio Reference Library Guides Reference Sample Code Technical Q&As Technical Notes Release Notes Mailing List Core Audio discussion list Mac OS X provides Audio and MIDI APIs for applications - from a device IO level to higher-level services for audio processing and sequencing services. These APIs are presented as both C and Java APIs (where the Java API calls through to the underlying Core Audio frameworks). OpenAL discussion list Discussion of how to use OpenAL. Business Resources Mac Market Business Development Product Development Music/Audio Service Discounts for ADC Members Distribution Promotion Mac Products Guide