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crawford
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CRASH CRASH CRASH

Post by crawford » Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:55 pm

Selecting Soundflower (2 Ch) does nothing in Live at all, and selecting Soundflower (16 Ch) as the inputs and outputs in Live Crashes Live every time. I officially give up here and now.
Don't bother replying on this thread anymore, because I say F*CK Soundflower. I'll just continue to use Audio Hijack Pro if I want to sample crap from a DVD or some other source of audio running on my system.

Your help has been hugely appreciated though Forge!

thanks

crawford
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updated to OS 10.4.5 & Soundflower 1.1

Post by crawford » Sun Feb 19, 2006 9:20 pm

....and the same problems... I would have to see this in person to believe that this is actually possible... 'cause I just don't believe right now...

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Post by crawford » Sun Feb 19, 2006 9:22 pm

forge wrote:just in case you missed it:
How To Use Soundflower

Soundflower presents itself as one of two audio devices (2ch / 16ch). The 2-channel device is sufficient for most situations.

To send the output of one application to another, select Soundflower as the output device in the first application and Soundflower as the input device within the second application.

If an application does not allow you to specify audio devices, you can make Soundflower the default input or output device inside the Sound panel in the System Preferences, or with the Audio MIDI Setup utility application.

The 16-channel device is provided for more complex routing situations, and can be used with more than two applications simultaneously if the applications support audio routing to any channel, as Max/MSP does.

Note that Soundflower's audio channels represent a global audio space. If more than one application is sending its output to the same channel, the audio will be mixed. If you want an application to send and receive audio through Soundflower, (for instance using Max/MSP to manipulate and return another application's audio) you must send and receive the audio on different audio channels or a feedback loop will be created.

If you are hearing clicks or breakups, try increasing the buffer size of both applications (set within each application).
just thinking - do you have to go to "input/output" settings in live's prefs and enable it?
I have read the documentation by the way, and followed it to a tee, nothing.
thanks for posting that though...

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Post by forge » Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:00 am

looking at that I remembered how I used to do it:

set the default outputs in audio/midi setup to soundflower, go to in'out setup in live in the prefs under audio and enable it, then set the input in live to soundflower

did you enable it in lives prefs?

if you did that's as far as I can help

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Re: CRASH CRASH CRASH

Post by forge » Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:01 am

crawford wrote:Selecting Soundflower (2 Ch) does nothing in Live at all, and selecting Soundflower (16 Ch) as the inputs and outputs in Live Crashes Live every time. I officially give up here and now.
Don't bother replying on this thread anymore, because I say F*CK Soundflower. I'll just continue to use Audio Hijack Pro if I want to sample crap from a DVD or some other source of audio running on my system.

Your help has been hugely appreciated though Forge!

thanks
sorry didnt see this..... 8O

shame, I found it worked a treat

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Post by The Mysterious Flying Pum » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:28 am

I support your request Crawford... it would be nice to select the application you want to hijack directly from Live input. This would remove some steps in the process such as launching Audio Hijack, recording the application and then import the file in Live.
13" MacBook - 1Gb RAM/OSX10.4 - Live 6

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Post by rbmonosylabik » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:36 am

JackOS is a Soundflower alternative
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MBP 2.3 GHz i5, Live 9.6.1, Push, MPD32, Rane SL2

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