why did you stop support for sound flower
is there any other way to use Max to receive audio input from the computer and distribute it multi channel wise
i think it's just opensourced, developpement is kinda continued, on github ; https://github.com/RogueAmoeba/Soundflower-Original
other than that you may want to try jack audio connection kit
... another option, very pricy but better in performance and quality would be to use a sound card that supports loopbacks (e.g RME FireFace models).
From what I understand Cycling '74 handed Soundflower over to Rogue Amoeba and they turned it into Loopback. A bit pricey but it looks good.
Loopback is awesome - well worth it.
-A
Yep...I was a tester for loopback for months and it's absolutely phenomenal. Opens a lot of new possibilities. Send audio from Max to external hosts and back, much easier than dealing with rewire, for example.
ugh
not exactly cheap
Yeah, I was a little surprised by the relatively high price but like a lot of specialty tools, the market is not that huge so I guess they have to try and make a profit from a smaller base. I've used it a lot to route audio among several standalone soft synths, e.g. connect Kontakt and Massive into GuitarRig and PianoTeq into ARP V2600 and control them all from Max. Each of those soft synths is running in its own address space and you can mix and match 64-bit and 32-bit synths.
but, are those all things you can't do with SoundFlower, Jack or a mix of the two ?
I used sound flower to bring in a stereo signal and wrote a Max patch to send it out on 8 channels. Now, under Max 7, sound flower is not working anymore and I am looking for a way to support multi channel output from system input
Here you find the latest Soundflower:
https://github.com/mattingalls/Soundflower/releases
It works well for me (also with Max 7).
@VICHUG - I don't know the answer to that but I do know that I don't want a "mix of the two" --- I want to be running as few apps as possible, less permutations that can cause problems, easier to trouble shoot ('it's a soundflower bug, no, it's a Jack bug, no....it's a soundflower bug....no it's a.....) and so forth
I was dissatisfied with jack and soundflower and ended up getting a Motu ultralight avb. It has a routing matrix which lets you route up to 64 channels in the computer.
Could @Jan or @DHJDHJDHJ or @Andrew Pask, or @Anyone Else ( :) ) point me to or provide a clear explanation how to use loopback with RME, I can't find one... Thanks
you can activate it in totalmix on the ("physical") output settings. when activated e.g. on channel 1 the signal will be routed back to the input 1. on old versions of totalmix, there was a key/click combination (don't remember which one). newer versions have a loopback button on each channel strip.