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Re: Question about OSX audio routing



why are you using soundflower for that? Live is quite capable of
recording its own output as you play.


cheers,
os.


2009/5/15 Raul Bonell <raul.bonell@gmail.com>:
> ... not much related but i need to know.
>
> if i try to capture through soundflower, and providing that
> soundflower always sends 32bits streams, my ableton's impro's into
> logic (under leopard) ... does this implies that logic will truncate
> from 32 to 24 bits, since logic can't open 32 bits files? ... i know
> logic operates with 32 bits internally, but what about recording from
> soundflower? is ableton really sending 32 bits in realtime? any
> workaround per?
>
> 2009/5/15, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Sjaak <tcplugin@scarlet.be> wrote:
>>> But what if you run both Mainstage and Bidule as host? Suppose I sent
>>> Mainstage to output 3/4 of the
>>> Motu and I add a duplex audio device to Bidule. I can now use the
>>> Mainstage output in Bidule, add effects etc
>>> and route it to output 3/4 again. This works, but I'm wondering if 
>Bidule
>>> output 3/4 are mixed into and thus
>>> added to the original output 3/4 of Mainstage yes or no.
>>
>> If you target the same Motu output from two parallel applications -
>> like here Mainstage and Bidule - these two streams will of course be
>> summed at that Motu output. It doesn't matter if you think about your
>> way as "Bidule being mixed into Mainstage" or the other way around. It
>> is simply two audio streams getting summed in the Motu device (and
>> that's OS X code at work, since OS X runs the CoreAudio driver for the
>> Motu box).
>>
>>> Or does Bidule operate at a lower level so Mainstage and Bidule work in
>>> series?
>>
>> No. Not unless you set it up like that with some sort of hack.
>>
>>> Btw: could JackOSX add anything extra for a live looping situation?
>>
>> Not in my opinion. The reason is that any live looping situation is
>> highly timing dependent, being a real-time activity, and the latency
>> of both Jack and SoundFlower (Cycling74) induce a latency that does
>> vary depending on what else is happening on the computer. There's no
>> way of compensating for varying latency.
>>
>> For non timing critical routing Jack and SoundFlower works fine
>> though. I use SoundFlower to record mp3 files of phone conferences and
>> any sort of audio streaming like iTunes, Spotify etc.
>>
>> Per
>>
>>
>
>
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