Recording Audio From Computer straight into Live

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novation1
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Recording Audio From Computer straight into Live

Post by novation1 » Thu Aug 23, 2018 3:43 am

How do i record Audio or any sound from my Mac either streams from the net, podcasts , music ,speech etc straight into Live.

I arm a track in session view to record but cannot get the sound to come through from my audio i/f. I use the Novation Nio 2 in 2 out.

I know there is audio capture and various recording software but it would be great to just get the audio source straight in to Live for quicker and easier recording.

Any help would be much appreciated. :)
Electronicman

McAnix
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Re: Recording Audio From Computer straight into Live

Post by McAnix » Thu Aug 23, 2018 8:16 am

1st choice, audio interface with audio loop back. The reason you aren't able to do it now is because you computer's audio is only going out and not into anything. With loopback you send the audio going out back into the interface and then from there you can route it to an input from Live.

I sometimes use soundflower for this. I heard of others using Virtual cable. You route your computers output to eg soundflower, then live's input to soundflower then live's out to your soundcard.

As my interface doesn't have loopback I use two interfaces and I find that to be the most stable.

novation1
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Re: Recording Audio From Computer straight into Live

Post by novation1 » Fri Aug 24, 2018 4:55 am

Thank you , and your recomendations will try those .

:)
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attack or decay
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Re: Recording Audio From Computer straight into Live

Post by attack or decay » Fri Aug 24, 2018 6:11 am

download sound flower.
https://soundflower.en.softonic.com/mac

after that you want to change your sound card output to sound flower.
then you arm a record whatever is playing 8)

i use this.

novation1
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Re: Recording Audio From Computer straight into Live

Post by novation1 » Fri Aug 24, 2018 3:43 pm

Thank you :D
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almostable
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Re: Recording Audio From Computer straight into Live

Post by almostable » Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:39 pm

attack or decay wrote:
Fri Aug 24, 2018 6:11 am
download sound flower.
https://soundflower.en.softonic.com/mac

after that you want to change your sound card output to sound flower.
then you arm a record whatever is playing 8)

i use this.
I am unable to install this on Big Sur. :shrug:

florian_bl
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Re: Recording Audio From Computer straight into Live

Post by florian_bl » Sat Mar 20, 2021 5:38 pm

For routing audio on your Mac, you might want to try this one:

https://existential.audio/blackhole/

I use it instead of Soundflower on Catalina and so far it just works. Without any problem. According to the website it is also compatible with Big Sur.

novation1
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Re: Recording Audio From Computer straight into Live

Post by novation1 » Mon May 03, 2021 6:45 am

Thank you .
Electronicman

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