Soundflowerbed is great for monitoring Soundflower… in theory.
In practice it often gives problems in complex setups with Audio Hijack Pro and Skype for example.
I’m figuring out some workarounds and alternatives.
What usually helps is to have the ‘Audio Midi Setup’ utility open and switch the ‘Format’ of Soundflower back to 44100.0Hz. (Because it often goes to 48000 by itself, which causes problems.)
A good workaround in a complex setup with Audio Hijack Pro is to use the ‘Auxiliary Device Output’ effect for monitoring your mix or to add another Hijack session whereby you Hijack the mix device (Soundflower) and send the output to your headphones.
The disadvantages of these workarounds is increased latency.
I’ll work this tip into the Studio setup description later.
Comments
Author: S
Date: 2005-03-23 03:46:00
Good luck with that. I still haven’t been able to get Soundflowerbed resurrected. I can get it to monitor the 16ch SF through Built-In Audio, but not to my iMic USB headphones; and I can’t get the 2ch to monitor through either. I can’t remember if I mentioned it last time but I’m pretty happy now with using AudioHijack to record (& monitor) everything from SF 16ch on one hijack, while recording (but Muting) the microphone on another, then using Audacity afterward to manually synchronize the two tracks. (I would have to do some Audacity post-processing anyway to edit out unnecessary belches, jokes that flopped, and certain names to protect the innocent guilty. Plus I can throw on Reverb and Change Pitch filters to the voice track after the fact, if I wasn’t fast enough in AudioHijack.)
I recently downloaded Skype and am puzzling over how best to loop that into the mix. Earlier I had managed to conduct a test “interview” with someone using iChatAV, but I had to hear myself in the headphones and that still drives me crazy. If I can figure out a way to bring Skype in without monitoring myself…
Dang, I think a setup just occurred to me, but it won’t work for me without the ability to monitor SoundFlower with ‘Bed. Curse you, cycling74!!!
Perhaps I’ll start investigating Jack for more creative audio routing options. I’ll be sure to share any findings.