Is there a version of the Auricle for Apples Macintosh computer?
No, and there is not one planned. We have nothing against the Apple’s Macintosh (a couple of them are powered up around here all the time – the Auricle’s manual is produced on the Mac, for example, and many of the Auricle’s functions are ‘modeled’ on the Mac before written in assembler on the PC). In fact, when we first undertook to rewrite the Auricle for a new platform in 1986-87, our first choice was a Mac given its then established installed base in the music community. But when testing it (then Plus’s, SE’s and Mac II’s) for its ability to accurately run a click track ‘wild’ (without external SMPTE lock), we became quite concerned about its ability to be SMPTE failsafe on the scoring stage: Against pro laboratory test equipment (a Hewlett-Packard interval counter), the Mac was always running slightly fast… lets say a 120 BPM pulse (500 milliseconds per click) ran at 499 milliseconds/click! Small though this may seem, the result a run length error which make ‘wild’ film sync impo
