Programmatically stream audio in Cocoa on the Mac
Question
How do I go about programmatically creating audio streams using Cocoa on the Mac. To make, say a white-noise generator using core frameworks on Mac OSX in Cocoa apps?
Solution
One way is using the CoreAudio DefaultOutputUnit.
You can configure it with parameters such as output sampling rate, resolution, and output sample format. Then you can programmatically create a raw sound wave and provide this to the output unit.
Take a look at this example on your machine at /Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/SimpleSDK/DefaultOutputUnit/
Which uses the default output unit to play a programmatically rendered sine wave. Using that as a starting point and you can write a routine to render any thing else to output.
This location at /Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/ also contains tons of other core audio examples.
OTHER TIPS
Look at Audio Queue Services.