>I haven't checked, but are things like the MIDI framework still badly documented in the Swift docs?
Documentation for the entire audio stack has actually gotten quite a bit worse. Many references have been removed without new replacements being provided. In many cases, there are broken links in what little documentation remains. (For example, TN2274, which describes the USB audio stack is still around, but several of the outgoing links, for example the documentation for developing a USB audio plugin, are now broken, with the sample code deprecated and removed with no replacement.) New frameworks like AVAudioEngine simply don't document important limitations, particularly for OS X.
The Core Audio mailing list used to be a good place to get help and answers in cases where the documentation is weak, but traffic has withered and no from Apple seems to reply to messages any more. There has been a total of only four messages on the mailing list this month.
It's really a shame, because the audio stack is well-designed, but the documentation is so poor except for the basics that newcomers would have difficulty getting anything tricky off the ground.
Documentation for the entire audio stack has actually gotten quite a bit worse. Many references have been removed without new replacements being provided. In many cases, there are broken links in what little documentation remains. (For example, TN2274, which describes the USB audio stack is still around, but several of the outgoing links, for example the documentation for developing a USB audio plugin, are now broken, with the sample code deprecated and removed with no replacement.) New frameworks like AVAudioEngine simply don't document important limitations, particularly for OS X.
The Core Audio mailing list used to be a good place to get help and answers in cases where the documentation is weak, but traffic has withered and no from Apple seems to reply to messages any more. There has been a total of only four messages on the mailing list this month.
It's really a shame, because the audio stack is well-designed, but the documentation is so poor except for the basics that newcomers would have difficulty getting anything tricky off the ground.