Debugging an Audio Unit is not as straightforward as debugging a Cocoa application, because your freshly coded component doesn't show up until you insert it in a bus of your favorite DAW.
In this article, we review some methods for automating your debugging sessions using XCode 4. Concerning the DAW, our preference goes for a free host available in the CoreAudio SDK: AU Lab. In only a few steps, you will be able to setup some breakpoints and look into all potential devilish bugs as if you were debugging a simple Cocoa application.
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