Hi,
I know what I want to do is possible with Jack and Sofa Control, but I
will wait until I get my new Mac in three hours to try it.
I actually want ITunes and DVD Player to have seperate channels.
Also, does anyone know about an open source program like Sofa Control.
Thanks,
Alex,
Thanks,
Alex,
On 9-Jan-09, at 8:48 AM, Esther wrote:
Hi Alex,
I don't know whether Soundflower supports this kind of mapping of
iTunes to channel 1 and QuickTime to a USB sound card, which was
what I said in my response to Slau and in my original reply post. I
only pasted in this post because it includes links to Soundflower
and other software so that Slau's suggestions could be tried -- not
because I thought it provided the answer to Marshall's request.
Rogue Amoeba is shipping a new version of Soundflower with their
latest update to Audio Hijack Pro, but I don't know where this can
be separately downloaded.
I'd still advise that Marshall take a look at the trial downloads
for WireTap Anywhere by following the links in the review posts that
I listed in my first response.
Cheers,
Esther
On Jan 8, 2009, at 5:45 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
But how do you map it to a spacific application, like ITunes to ch1
and QT to an usb sound card. Thanks,
Alex,
On 8-Jan-09, at 3:26 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Slau,
I just posted to Marshall, but I wasn't sure that Soundflower can
easily handle this. OK, I'll paste in one of my posts to the mac-
access list early in this thread in case Marshall doesn't still
have the earlier email to give the links. The continued
discussion was somewhat lengthy, and wasn't directly about
Marshall's question.
<begin excerpt>
On 15/06/2008, at 3:20 AM, Esther wrote:
Hi,
Thanks as always for your help. However, I am referring to
configuring iTunes to use a different sound output device such as
another attached sound card or USB headphones or USB Sound card
etc.
What I want to do is
get iTunes to play out through an alternative sound card without
changing the default output audio device.
Yes, it is possible to configure iTunes to play to a different
sound
output device (such as an alternative sound card). What you
need is
a software tool like Soundflower or JackPilot, that allows you
to reroute
your audio connections for the purposes of either monitoring or
or redirecting output from one audio application to to another.
This kind of capability has been widely used by podcasters who
need
to separate different audio inputs and outputs.
Here's an excerpt from an old descriptor release of Soundflower:
Cycling '74 originally developed Soundflower as a way to allow
applications developed with its Max/MSP audio environment to
process audio originating from other programs. However, it can
be used for more general audio routing tasks patching either 2-
or 16-channel data at 32-bit sample depth between any
applications that support standard Core Audio driver selection.
Soundflower can be selected as a "default device" in the Audio/
MIDI Setup utility for programs (such as iTunes) that do not
allow the selection of a specific output device. As a result,
Soundflower has found widespread use in the advanced podcasting
community.
Rogue Amoeba (maker of Audio Hijack Pro and Airfoil) distributes
Soundflower with its products, but you can separately get the
latest
version (1.3.1) of Soundflower from the current author at:
http://thirdcog.eu/apps/soundflower
or you can download Soundflower from MacUpdate:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14067
You may also want to get SoundSource from Rogue Amoeba's
Freebies page:
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/
This is a simple menu that allows you quickly switch audio inputs
and outputs, with sliders to adjust their volume settings.
Another useful tool from the Freebies page is LineIn, which allows
simple playthru of audio from input devices.
"You can use LineIn to play sound coming in through a microphone
or any other device plugged in to your Sound In port, just as
was once available with OS 9's "Play input through output
device" option."
JackPilot, an alternate solution to Soundflower, is available
from:
http://www.jackosx.com/
as part of the Jack OS X download. This is a Mac port of an audio
server written for GNU/Linux. The Jack project was designed
from the
ground up to be suitable for professional audio work, and is under
continuing, active development. If you've been using either
Soundflower
or Instant Hijack (as part of Audio Hijack Pro or Nicecast from
Rogue
Amoeba), you have to uninstall them if you want to install Jack.
Jack is probably of more interest as a solution to someone who
needs to
do professional audio work and wants an interface tool that can
support
more configuration (set number of input/output channels, achieve
really
low device latency and support high sampling rates by adjusting
the
size of the cache buffer, exploit connection interface speed and
type --
e.g., firewire 400 or 800, etc.) As an example, there's a
description
of how someone configured and set up a Traktor audio system (for
DJ
work) with an iMac using Jack at this page:
http://www.djtechtools.com/2008/05/16/smart-mixing-traktor-into-ableton-4-mac/
This should get you started.
HTH
<end excerpt>
Cheers,
Esther
On Jan 8, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Slau wrote:
Hey Marshall,
Rogue Amoeba has something that'll help do this. I believe it's
called SoundFlower. It's also a built-in feature of Audio Hijack
Pro. Thing is, you'll probably have to have some type of USB
audio device to route one of your signals to. The other signal
can be routed to the built-in audio out of your computer. Then,
you'll have to use a stereo Y cable and connect one side of the Y
cable to one output and the other side to the other output device
and you'll have them separated. Who knows, it might even be
possible to do this all within Audio Hijack Pro but then you'll
need to have that running in the background.
HTH
----- Original Message ----- From: "MARSHALL F. SCOTT" <[email protected]
>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac
OS X by theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 11:07 AM
Subject: Redirecting Sound from programs
Hi,
Does anyone know of a program that would allow me to redirect
the sound from a program to one side of a stereo headset? What
I'm looking for specifically is a way to put Voiceover's output
in one ear and Quiktime in the other. I'd google the topic but
I haven't the faintest idea of what to use for search terms.
THanks,
Marshall
