Category Archives: Audio

Announcing DimSong

Posted on October 3, 2011 by steve

Today is the official release of DimSong, an interactive music remix app from VenLabs, LLC, available now for iPhone and iPod Touch on the Apple App Store.  We’re particularly excited about this app because not only is it powered by … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a cross-platform iOS/Android app

Posted on June 15, 2011 by steve

There hasn’t been a lot of news posted lately, which is just because we’ve been busy making some big changes to the Cricket Audio code; we’ll post more about that when we’re ready, we promise! In the meantime, though, I … Continue reading →

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Native audio programming on Android without OpenSL ES, part 2

Posted on April 11, 2011 by steve

In my last post I described how we use JNI and the Java AudioTrack class to output audio from native code on Android versions prior to 2.3 (that is, before the release of OpenSL ES).  But actually, that’s only half … Continue reading →

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Native audio programming in Android without OpenSL ES

Posted on April 5, 2011 by steve

Android 2.3 introduced OpenSL ES to the NDK, which is certainly a welcome addition for those of us interested in writing native audio code. Unfortunately, since few if any mobile carriers have yet released the update on their networks, only … Continue reading →

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MultiChannelMixer Audio Unit on Mac OS

Posted on March 10, 2011 by steve

I’m using the Audio Unit API in Core Audio to play sound on iOS.  Since there is a similar API on OS X, it’s been mostly trivial to port the iOS audio code to OS X; for the most part, … Continue reading →

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