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Where we’re seeing that: You’ll find Spatial Audio playlists start to pop up in your region, though you’ll need Apple hardware (including headphones) to hear it properly.

And that could solve spatial audio’s pipeline/demand problem, by turning Apple’s empire of platforms into a reasonable combination of apps, services, headphones, and speakers that can play real 3D sound. Phew.īut – while the teaser announcements about Atmos and Spatial Audio with Apple Music were a bit vague, the biggest news by far for me from WWDC is that Apple is fully committing to spatial audio stuff everywhere. So, this stuff gets confusing as it involves a lot of different technologies, plus some proprietary formats like Dolby Atmos, which then for even more confusion become brand names applied to very different experiences depending on hardware. That boils down to new features for device integration, graphics and audio APIs, and a whole lot more machine learning, Augmented Reality, and spatial audio.
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So let’s talk about what’s new for us.Īnd the main thing here is, just as you’d expect at WWDC, Apple’s main pitch is what they can do with their custom software for their custom silicon. I’m biased I think the most interesting stuff with computers always happens with developers and advanced artists and people pushing the gear to its frontier. Apple is now a sprawling mega-company supporting a lot of tech across different OSes and services. More on that story soon, though, as now we do have some M1-native stuff to test by comparison.Īnyway, let’s get into what did get announced.
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It’s more likely that you’re waiting on Big Sur updates from your favorite software or hardware drivers than it is that you really need to wait on new Mac hardware. I understand some users may be waiting on greater memory capacity or expanded graphics capabilities, but most musicians would benefit from the current Mac lineup right away. It’s fast and reliable enough that I often don’t notice when loading plug-ins (or even all of Ableton Live) without native updates, via Rosetta 2. I’ll say this – the Apple Silicon available now is blindingly fast. Unpopular opinion: new Mac hardware is important to some, but it’s not the make-or-break story this month that a lot of folks are making it out to be. Look, the issue is – that data is often unreliable.
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Yeah, a lot of the Mac and tech press, informed by some rumors, hyped up the possibility of a new MacBook Pro or new Apple Silicon chip. Long-time Apple watchers know this pattern, too. That means you might have missed a lot of the advanced creative features, graphics, and developer tools buried in the fine print. Apple’s WWDC keynote kicked off yesterday with an event mostly focused on consumer features for WatchOS, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and home.
