![]() Sure, a cheap PC could do the same - but it’s tough to find a $300 Mac this portable, let alone one that does all the Apple TV does. With networked music and sound and input from MIDI devices and alternative controllers just behind, this gets all the more interesting. That makes the ATV a reasonable live music, DJ, sound art, or (once Quartz Composer and Max/MSP/Jitter and VDMX and Modul8 and such are running) live visuals. ![]() This is big news for one primary reason: it means the Apple TV is capable handling multi-channel audio with real-time virtual instruments and time stretching. (Plenty of people use Ableton Live with equal or lesser hardware the aTV should easily beat many older G4s.) ![]() He’s gotten the real-time audio and music workstation Ableton Live working even the demo song runs. Imagine the Apple TV as live music and visual instrument, and not just a way of watching archived Battlestar Galactica? Our friend Jeff Gambera has been busy hacking his Apple TV for just such unusual purposes.
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