Routing iTunes through Live?

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 10:28 am

Any easy way to do this?

Would be useful to use Live's EQ/compression when listening to iTunes, especially web radio.

Cheers!

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 10:54 am

Sorted... just plugged Ozonic's A outputs into B inputs!

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 10:56 am

hambone1 wrote:Sorted... just plugged Ozonic's A outputs into B inputs!

Ahhh, ok, I was going to mention Soundflower as a possibility, but I guess you're ok.

Now when are we gonna be able to access the ITMS from Live's browser?

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 11:02 am

Pretty useful... recording iTunes radio straight into Live, warping & saving!

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 11:05 am

polyslax wrote:
hambone1 wrote:Sorted... just plugged Ozonic's A outputs into B inputs!
Ahhh, ok, I was going to mention Soundflower as a possibility, but I guess you're ok.

Now when are we gonna be able to access the ITMS from Live's browser?

I wish! I'm tired of downloading tracks from the ITMS and burning CDs just to make AIFFs for Live. I guess at least I've got a hard non-computer copy of each track that way.

Jim Hovelin · Post by **Jim Hovelin** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 5:51 pm

I route iTunes (internet radio, shuffle mode, etc) to Live all the time for realtime capture. I hijack iTunes (Audio Hijack Pro) and create an auxillary output to Soundflower.

Jim

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 7:34 pm

I'm still trying to figure this iTunes thing out... even though I'm on it!

tribalogical · Post by **tribalogical** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 7:43 pm

hambone1,

the only real downside to the "patch routing" using the Ozonic is that you're doing a roundtrip D/A-A/D conversion... convenient, but not the cleanest way to do things.

You know, you don't have to burn CDs if you already have the audio files. Live 5 imports MP3, so if that's your format, no prob, just drag them in from your hard drive.... if you need the conversion to AIF first (e.g. from AAC), iTunes can do that for you as well....

Then just drag and drop the AIF files into Live as normal.

Audio Hijack is probably the best way to record streams. Works a treat, and keeps it all in the digital domain......

From there, save as a file, or send it through Soundflower or Jack, and straight into Live... easier than it sounds, and no D/A-A/D conversion required......

peace,
tribalogical

computo · Post by **computo** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 8:52 pm

I dont see why you have to use audio hijack, if you are using soundflower.

Just select soundflower as your core audio driver...and itunes will just play into that virtual port.

Then select Soundflower as the Audio in for Live, make neccesary track input adjustments, and play away.

beatnik · Post by **beatnik** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:41 pm

hambone1 wrote:
I wish! I'm tired of downloading tracks from the ITMS and burning CDs just to make AIFFs for Live. I guess at least I've got a hard non-computer copy of each track that way.

i use a program called Jhymn which will convert restricted AAC files from iTMS to any format you need, mp3/AAC/WAV/AIFF. it will create an unrestricted copy from your existing tracks. i use it and it's great - i've had to convert about 60 tracks at one point and I just loaded up JHymn and let it work for a few minutes. give it a try, might save you a few cds

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:52 pm

I tried JHymn in the past and had problems. I think I'll give it another try.

Thanks for the tips & tricks!

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:36 pm

Soundflower... excellent!

Re-mastering my locked bought ITMS tunes straight from iTunes into Live as AIFFs for use in Live.

Hardtoe · Post by **Hardtoe** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:21 am

Yo,

For a very simple solution within itunes, try Octiv's Volume Logic plugin:

http://www.octiv.com/index.asp?content= ... icPlugins2

It's cheap and really makes shitty source material sound much better...

(I have even recorded its output into audio hijack because I like the multiband compression so much)

Orion