Put like this, what's not to like? Answer: some unforeseen drawbacks. When you restart the Mac the sleepimage is read back from disk and you carry on where you left off. It's essentially a dump of your RAM contents, written as the Mac goes to sleep, or when battery power gets very low, preventing any unsaved work being lost in the event of total battery depletion. The sleepimage is part of Apple's 'safe sleep' feature which dates back to 2005 and OS 10.4, but in fact it's only created by default on Mac laptops. But for the time being iOS-based musicians will be better off staying with iOS 6. The lovely new full-screen app switcher in iOS 7. It revealed the mysterious 17GB chunk in a part of OS X usually hidden from view.
Have you heard of your Mac's 'sleepimage' file? I hadn't until a few weeks back, when I was using the third-party disk-scanning utility DaisyDisk to help me free up some space on my solid-state system drive. More news here on all things iOS 7 as it comes in.
I'm not sure anyone has used it in anger yet, but it's bound to become an important feature. All very Audiobus-like, for sure, but the difference is that there's no 'front end', with all settings taking place in the individual apps themselves. It'll also launch apps when necessary, apparently. It's a system-level mechanism that lets the audio output of one app appear as an input in another for recording or processing. Meanwhile, back on the cutting edge, some more information is starting to emerge about iOS 7's inter-app audio feature, with a few apps, like Yamaha's TNRi v1.5, already supporting it. Things will work out in time, no doubt, but right now the only really safe bet is to stick with iOS 6 for a while longer.
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Sadly though - and in a depressingly familiar echo of OS X update practice - the very first release version, 7.0, causes instability in a number of music apps, particularly when used in conjunction with Audiobus.
The release of iOS 7 happened as expected on September 18th, delivering on the clean visual design that Apple trumpeted in their June WWDC keynote.
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We root out a little-known hard-disk hog and tell you why musicians shouldn't rush to upgrade to iOS 7.