Mac audio

William Mathis · Post by **William Mathis** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:57 pm

I'm new to Mac, and we aren't best friends yet. When I try to record something into Live from another program (iTunes, Finale, or whatever) internally, it seems to record using the built-in mic right from the built-in speakers, so I'm getting all the ambient noise. Is there a way to get a line-type solution -- sound card --> Live?

I'm on a Macbook Pro.

siliconarc · Post by **siliconarc** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:27 pm

you'll be needing soundflower

Atomikat · Post by **Atomikat** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:20 pm

Or Wiretap pro/Studio...

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/wiretap/
It's excellent.
By the way...in a Macbook Pro...you can set the input to Line or built in mic.

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:42 pm

A cool freeware app is SoundSource. It gives you a drop-down selector menu for your audio hardware and quick access to audio and midi prefs from the finder menu bar.

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/

They also make Audio Hijack for recording any source on your Mac. (The free demo records for 10min at a time)

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:28 pm

+1 for soundflower.

sueco · Post by **sueco** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:13 am

> I try to record something into Live from another program (iTunes, Finale, or whatever) internally.

I use Sibelius, but I'm pretty sure that Finale has an "export audio" function, that should be pretty useful.

Whenever I write mixed works (acoustic instruments with electronics), I'm always bouncing tracks from Sibelius to Live, and it works very well (now, if Sibelius had Rewire, that would be fantastic!).