The CoreAudio framework is very stable and extremely flexible.įor instance, you can pick a specific input or output device right from the menu bar without opening System Preferences (Control Panel). It's one of the many reasons musicians will choose Macs for serious production or live performance: audio routing is just brain dead easy and the decisions you make are really obvious. DirectSound has gotten better but it cannot touch ASIO. You can't even do anything remotely serious without a dedicated interface and an ASIO Driver the basic Windows Multimedia Extension (MME) or even DirectSound do not offer real-time priority with low latency.
Audio routing and driver support in Windows has always been second rate compared to Apple. As a former PC guy, I have to agree with you on this one.
