Alchemy now part of Logic Pro X

[stringtapper]

Wiretap Anywhere

[jcrystal]

Interesting, but quite pricey

Wiretap Anywhere

[H20nly]

Interesting, but quite pricey

Wiretap Anywhere

annnnd...

System Requirements
Macintosh

Mac OS X 10.5 to 10.6.8, PowerPC G5 processor or any Intel Mac. This is not compatible with OS X Lion, 10.7 or OS X Mountain Lion, 10.8

[beats me]

ADSR has 5 hours of tutorials on the new Alchemy.

https://www.adsrcourses.com

Might be a good time to jump on the $0.99 first month subscription deal.

[stringtapper]

Yeah, looking at it again it looks like they may have stopped development on it.

I beta tested it years ago and found it to be pretty powerful. You could bypass using ReWire altogether and get some complex routings going on between Live and Logic with a combination of WTA for audio and Max for MIDI.

[suhler]

Is there any way to load alchemy as a plug-in in ableton after having patched your logic pro x?

[beats me]

Is there any way to load alchemy as a plug-in in ableton after having patched your logic pro x?

Logic's Alchemy will only open in Logic.

[suhler]

Is there any way to load alchemy as a plug-in in ableton after having patched your logic pro x?

Logic's Alchemy will only open in Logic.

What a shame. But thx

[beats me]

Logic’s filter is lacking and dated. I hope some Camel magic gets thrown in there as well.

[H20nly]

Yeah, looking at it again it looks like they may have stopped development on it.

I beta tested it years ago and found it to be pretty powerful. You could bypass using ReWire altogether and get some complex routings going on between Live and Logic with a combination of WTA for audio and Max for MIDI.

it does (did?) look pretty cool... i'm not sure if i could justify the price, but maybe. that could be what did them in.

[broc]

For guys on a Mac and wanting to use Logic as a slave to Ableton. Just use Soundflower (free) to get the audio into Ableton and use the IAC Driver (already native to Mac) to route the midi from Ableton to Logic. That way you can use an External Instrument device (from Ableton) to get your Logic instruments into Ableton. Easy peasy.

Can you confirm that Soundflower works well on recent versions of Mac OS (10.9 or 10.10)?

[broc]

I'm using it on 10.10.5 and it works fine.

Cool. Just tried it with success but I'm not sure about the latency.
What is your audio buffer in Live and the latency setting of external instrument?

PS
With a phase test I got instrument latency about 80ms (@512 samples audio buffer).
So Soundflower itself seems to use some big buffers.

[broc]

I get about 13ms of latency on the External Instrument device, running a session at 44,1Khz and 256 samples buffer settings using an RME Babyface as output.

Interesting.
I've tested again with 256 samples buffer and still get latency on the external instrument much higher than 13ms.
And finally I even noticed that the latency may change if you just close and reopen the Live set.
So unfortunately, it seems not usable for me.

[Machinesworking]

I don't know how Sounflower is working for the rest of you? but it doesn't perform well as an aggregate device, I get crackles at any buffer size. I can set it up as an output in MainStage and Audio input in Live and it works fine however.

[Stromkraft]

I'm using it on 10.10.5 and it works fine.

Every time I use Soundflower on 10.9 I get massive distortion and dropouts. I'm not alone. It was wonderful on OS X 10.6.8.