[Blueskytech]

If android can get its audio latency act together there is some real opportunity here to steal market share from Apple. Since the release of the 2nd iPad Pro Apple has forced audio processing onto the slower low power CPU core, this means that for the last three years I can run all my iOS synth applications at 96kHZ with a low buffer sample size without any drop outs on my first gen iPad Pro and an iPad mini 3. What I cannot do is get similar performance on last year's iPad Pro. It is absolute insanity that Apple has no work around to direct audio processing to the high powered cores for apps made for musicians. Presumably at some point they will allow you to do this with a documented programing call but it has been three years of bad performance on synth applications due to the necessity to have high sample buffers (ie high latency).

[Tade0]

I've noticed an increase in measured latencies, but didn't know about that slower CPU core thing.

Sad to see Apple take such a direction - musicians appreciated having proper hardware/software and Apple definitely made money on all the paid content. Why let this arrangement fall by the wayside?

[layoutIfNeeded]

The 10x engineers have either left Apple or were reorganized to gimmick projects like SwiftUI.

[aeontech]

Is there more details about this published somewhere? I’m very curious to learn more

[xenadu02]

> Since the release of the 2nd iPad Pro Apple has forced audio processing onto the slower low power CPU core

What makes you believe this?

[pjmlp]

On Android is even worse, specially if one gets an average model.