To stream your Mac's system audio into your DAW, you'd go to the Sound pane in OS X's System Preferences and choose 'Soundflower (2ch)' in the Output tab. There are two-channel and 16-channel variants to cater for simple and more complex needs. With Soundflower installed, your Mac, DAW and other audio applications see it as if it were just another audio interface. That's similar in principle, of course, to what Audio Hijack Pro does, but in real time, and with no interim sound files involved.
Let's say you want to route system audio into an audio track on your DAW, so you can record it Soundflower can do this. Using these inputs and outputs, you can make virtual connections between applications. Soundflower is a system extension that adds virtual audio inputs and outputs to your Mac. Audio Hijack Pro lets you record audio from any application on your Mac. The app costs $32 and requires OS 10.6 or later. It's very easy to use, and the downloadable demo version is essentially fully featured for hijacks and recordings lasting less than 10 minutes. Need a computerised voice for a song? You can 'hijack' the TextEdit application, then use the Start Speaking command from its Edit menu to read out text.Īudio Hijack Pro outputs MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV files, so it's easy to drop the recordings it makes into your DAW. It'll record Skype conversations, YouTube audio from your web browser, soundtracks from DVD Player, and so on. Audio HijackĪudio Hijack Pro excels at one thing: recording the audio output of any application. There are some really useful utility apps available for the Mac that can enhance or extend your normal DAW experience. We tried through OSC messages between Max/MSP and OpenFrameworks, but we met several problems.This month, we take a look at some great little apps for problem solving. Very interesting, but I did not have the chance to test it.Īn interesting research is send audio samples buffer over network. Very flexible route audio for each application
Dante ViaĪfter numerous researches I finally found an alternative to Loopback for Windows, this is Danta Via. You can create persistent connection using PatchBay. After started the OF app, you can see the name of application in the Jack Audio Connection Kit and you can connect (using mouse dragging) the Output to the Input.
I tested with success OF 0.9.8 in a Windows 10 machine using Visual Studio 2015.
In Live 10 select Driver Type: ASIO4ALL, Audio Output Device: JackRouter. In my experience JACK with ASIO4ALL, the sound was generated using Ableton Live 10. JACK (in windows) works with PortAudio driver so audio application have to use that driver. Very flexible routing audio for each application Not ready to go, but there is a useful FAQ for Windows JACK Audio is “a professional sound server daemon that provides real-time, low-latency connections for both audio and MIDI data between applications that implement its API”. So I can’t explain if it is still available for the last Mac OS, but seeing the github repository it’s not updated from several years. We used often SoundFlower in the past, but now we use only Loopback.
We use Loopback for our interactive show Dökk and we are very satisfied: you need just select Loopback as audio device and create virtual channels. Static routing audio (you cannot select each application) Unlimited virtual channels (tested 12x channels) It’s not free, you need to buy the licence
Loopback is the best ready to go software for Mac OS, the natural successor of SoundFlower. Some other compatibility is available, but in this post we will only consider the combinations that we have personally tested.
So, from the bottom of my heart - I apologise to linux users (which I admire every day) - but I took into consideration only Mac OS and Windows. For this reason we divided software for compatibility, usually we work on MacBook Pro with Mac OS and our clients use Windows OS machine. Software compatibility is something very frustrating. Void ofApp :: audioIn ( float * input, int bufferSize, int nChannels )