It's a bit RAW but I talk about an easy way to promote yourself, using Loopback audio to route tracks from different apps. To help you guys, I've published a free guide to setting up for Live. Put simply, Synchronous Audio Router lets you route audio from any Windows application through a DAW (digital audio workstation) application, giving you an immense amount of control over your system's audio. You can apply sophisticated effects, routing and switching, and combine the audio streams from each individual application any way you.
Rogue Amoeba, developers of Audio Hijack and other audio tools for OS X, yesterday released Loopback, a new app that lets you route audio between Mac applications.
Route Audio between Mac Applications with Loopback
According to Rogue Amoeba, you can easily route audio between Mac applications with just a few clicks.
Loopback’s virtual audio devices make it trivial to arrange complex audio setups that were difficult or even impossible before.
Routing Examples
Some examples of what Loopback can do:
- Take audio from your macbook's microphone, combine it with Logic Pro's audio, then patch that audio into Skype or Facetime to discuss your project with collaborators or clients.- Podcasters can record a Skype conversation in Logic Pro, Garageband, or any other DAW and audio recording application.- Webcasters can record audio from both a USB microphone and a Mac application during screen recordings.- Similar to your Mac's native Audio/Midi Setup application, Loopback lets you make aggregate devices by combining multiple physical input devices (i.e. multiple audio interfaces) into a single virtual device with many channels.
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Pass-Thru Devices
Loopback lets you create Pass-Thru Devices, these will appear as both an audio input and an audio output throughout your system - similar to using Soundflower. Unlike Soundflower however, Loopback allows you to create as many of these devices as you need, with an exact number of audio channels. Any app that receives audio from hardware input devices will also be able to receive audio from Loopback's virtual devices.
Set and Forget
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Loopback does not need to be running for your virtual audio devices to appear throughout OS X. Once you’ve configured and created a virtual audio device, you can quit the app. The virtual audio device will still be there, even after you've restarted your machine.
Pricing
Loopback 1.0 is for Mac OS X 10.9+ and is available for download now, you can visit the Loopback page for more details and download a fully functional free trial (the quality of the audio will degrade after ten minutes of use). If you would like to get a refund, you can contact the developers within 14 days of your purchase. Refunds are issued on a case-by-case basis.
Price: $75 for a limited time (regularly $99). The app includes a manual with audio routing examples.
A recurring need at fuse* is the ability to have a strong interaction between audio and video. The starting point is to have the possibility to have the audio signal inside the generative software (usually written in OpenFrameworks).
For this reason we have studied several possibilities to have audio rewire for OFenvironment available both for Mac OS and Windows 10.
First we created a base OF example to read multi-input audio channels.
MultiAudioInExample
MultiAudioInExample is an extension of audioInputExample (included in OF workspace) with the possibility to see more than 2 input audio channels.
You can setup the number of input channels and the buffer size changing the const variables declared in ofApp.h
and the other parameters of ofSoundStream
ofSoundStream, after setup, called the method audioIn using ofSoundBuffer
alternatively you can use the float buffer directly (now is commented). In my experience it’s more boring but it solved me an annoying vector error in Window 10 using audio jack.
#Audio rewire
Software compatibility is something very frustrating. For this reason we divided software for compatibility, usually we work on MacBook Pro with Mac OS and our clients use Windows OS machine.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.
Some other compatibility is available, but in this post we will only consider the combinations that we have personally tested.
Loopback
Loopback is the best ready to go software for Mac OS, the natural successor of SoundFlower.
Pros | Cons |
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Easy to use and very easy configuration | It’s not free, you need to buy the licence |
Continuous updates | It’s not open source |
Autostart | Available only for Mac OS |
Unlimited virtual channels (tested 12x channels) | Static routing audio (you cannot select each application) |
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.
SoundFlower
We used often SoundFlower in the past, but now we use only Loopback. 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.
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##Jack Audio##
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”.
Pros | Cons |
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Free | Not ready to go, but there is a useful FAQ for Windows |
Open source | It doesn’t work with all audio software [1] [2] |
Unlimited virtual channels (tested 12x channels) | |
Very flexible routing audio for each application |
[1] JACK (in windows) works with PortAudio driver so audio application have to use that driver. In my experience JACK with ASIO4ALL, the sound was generated using Ableton Live 10.
[2] In Live 10 select Driver Type: ASIO4ALL, Audio Output Device: JackRouter.
JACK with OpenFrameworks
I tested with success OF 0.9.8 in a Windows 10 machine using Visual Studio 2015. After started the OF app, you can see the name of application in the Jack Audio Connection Kit Zbrush 4r7p3 download free. and you can connect (using mouse dragging) the Output to the Input. You can create persistent connection using PatchBay.
Dante Via
After numerous researches I finally found an alternative to Loopback for Windows, this is Danta Via.
Pros | Cons |
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Easy to use and very easy configuration | It’s not free, you need to buy the licence |
Available for Windows and Mac OS | It’s not open source |
Very flexible route audio for each application | Limited to 16x16 channels |
Possibility to route sound over network [3] |
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[3] Very interesting, but I did not have the chance to test it. Expandrive 6 2 0.
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An interesting research is send audio samples buffer over network. We tried through OSC messages between Max/MSP and OpenFrameworks, but we met several problems. If you have some suggestion or ideas, you are welcome!