[PD] smartphone advice

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 8, 2009, at 3:59 AM, loic kessous wrote:

>
> The only real missing piece is the audio I/O, but that is not too  
> hard to do.  Ideally, the rjdj crew would release their audio I/O  
> code to be included in Pd-vanilla and we should share the work of  
> maintenance and improvements.  But that's not the only way to get it  
> done.  I'm here at Mobile Art & Code talking with Memo Akten and  
> Zach Gage, the two openFrameworks/iPhone developers, and they have  
> open source audio code that should be pretty easy to plug into Pd.   
> SuperCollider has been ported to the iPhone too, but I haven't been  
> able to find that code.
>
>
> as I understood, openframeworks is using rtAudio, which is certainly  
> a good choice, as it is designed for real-time. But why portaudio  
> (the current audio implementation in pd if I'm right) would not work  
> on an iPhone ?
> loic

The iPhone uses the AudioQueue API for sound I/O, which portaudio does  
not support.

.hc




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