Capture sound card audio?

bohemian.surrealist@gmail.com's icon

Is there a way to capture audio directly from the outputs of my sound card with MaxMSP?

f.e's icon
bohemian.surrealist@gmail.com's icon

No, unfortunately adoutput only captures signal coming from MaxMSP. What I want to be able to do is capture any and all audio being sent to any and all output channels on my soundcard.

Stefan Tiedje's icon

Andrew Allen schrieb:
> Is there a way to capture audio directly from the outputs of my sound
> card with MaxMSP?

Yes, its called "cable" and is not software, best used in combination
with a tool called mixer (also not software... ;-)

If you want to capture only what MSP is putting out, you can use adoutput~.

Elsewise try Jack, which can route and mix any soundsources together and
feed it into Max. It works well on OS X, and I know there is a Windows
version in developement at least in beta state...

Stefan

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bohemian.surrealist@gmail.com's icon

Yeah, but Patching my outputs to an input is too messy, plus it adds unnecessary noise and ADC/DAC converions, and I do know what a mixer is. I'm trying to poll my overall output amps.

I've been using JackOSX, but it's not great about finding certain apps that may start and close while Jack's started (Audacity,Firefox,etc). Any news on when a better port of the linux qjackctl is going to be out? now that's a tool I could use... and then you're not really polling the output to your soundcard device, so determining the overall amps going out just exponentially more messy.

justin's icon

soundflower from C74?

i've managed to get itunes to play through soundflower driver (set via system prefs/sound) and back into msp (set DSP status / input to receive from soundflower).

but its only for macosx...

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Andrew Allen schrieb:
> Any news on when a better port of the linux qjackctl is going to be
> out? now that's a tool I could use... and then you're not really
> polling the output to your soundcard device, so determining the
> overall amps going out just exponentially more messy.

There are only two ways to get this, one is Apple is providing a
seperate driver which grabs the audio form the sound card, which is
hardware dependent and too messy to be something to hope for (there is
no practical use for the average user for this feature)
The second is to script/program Jack or Soundflower in a way, that it
provides the output automatically on a seperate bus. That's much more
likely to be possible. Jack as well as Soundflower are open source,
maybe somebody who needs it desperately will dive into the code...
(its not me... ;-)

Stefan

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hendrik's icon

ambrosia - wire tap pro ???

ahoi,

ms

Am 16.01.2008 um 21:14 schrieb Stefan Tiedje:

> Andrew Allen schrieb:
>> Any news on when a better port of the linux qjackctl is going to be
>> out? now that's a tool I could use... and then you're not really
>> polling the output to your soundcard device, so determining the
>> overall amps going out just exponentially more messy.
>
> There are only two ways to get this, one is Apple is providing a
> seperate driver which grabs the audio form the sound card, which is
> hardware dependent and too messy to be something to hope for (there
> is no practical use for the average user for this feature)
> The second is to script/program Jack or Soundflower in a way, that
> it provides the output automatically on a seperate bus. That's much
> more likely to be possible. Jack as well as Soundflower are open
> source, maybe somebody who needs it desperately will dive into the
> code...
> (its not me... ;-)
>
> Stefan
>
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