What is the best way to play sound quickly upon fast button presses Xcode?

Question

I have a soundboard it\'s just a screen with about 8 buttons. each individual button will have its own sound which will be played upon button press There are a couple of way

Answer 1

22/03/2014 - Update: Got rid of my overly excited post (which was written a long time ago) and updated to portray a more appropriate answer.

I had to achieve fine control over audio so opted to use OpenAL. WOW is one way to sum it up. As soon as I took it upon myself to use OpenAL which required a bit of extra leg work, getting all the required methods implemented and setting everything up; I found myself with practically no noticeable latency at all. I was absolutely pleased with the excellent results.

I was able to achieve both fine control and no latency at all. I remember jumping in joy at the time when I had it working.

Here are the resources I used that helped ease the endeavor of implementing OpenAL for the first time:

1. OpenAL on the iPhone
2. It was because of this link this video tutorial that I was able to create an excellent sound manager singleton. This allowed me to play all the sounds that I needed from any class that I wanted with little sound management, the singleton took care of everything for me.

I humbly suggest everyone to use OpenAL if you require fine control over your audio, and more importantly if you require a low-latency on-demand audio, specially for games when you need to make sure sound is played there and then when you require and expect it to, an audio based application for example.