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Lots of programs do that, but LoopBbck lets you add multiple devices to the same input. Remember you can take audio from any program (like Skype, iTunes, or a USB microphone) and pass it through to any other program. If you need to delete a Virtual Device, select it on the left and hit the minus button.
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If you need more than one, just hit the Plus button on the bottom left of the left side of the window. It’s not a bad idea to take a look at the four sections of the guide to give you an idea of how the program works. A handy Quick Start Guide will appear in a separate window. When you start the program for the first time, Loopback will automatically create a new Virtual Device called (wait for it), Loopback Audio. So how do you use it? I’m so glad you asked. It all ties in with Apple’s CoreAudio and the Audio Midi Setup utility and wraps it in a clean, simple, easy to use interface. What Loopback does in essence is take the promise of Soundflower (multiple virtual inputs and outputs) and make it useful. So you use Loopback as a way to give those programs (or hardware-related ins and outs) a way to be moved somewhere else. So what’s the difference? The difference is if those programs don’t have ins and outs outside of what’s ready to use through either System Preferences or the Audio Midi Setup utility, then Audio Hijack can’t really do much with them. Audio Hijack takes available outs and lets you record them, change or edit the way they sound, and move them to available ins. Wait a minute (I hear you say), doesn’t Audio Hijack do this as well? Kinda yes and kinda no.
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You take all the ins and outs of hardware and software available on your Mac and point it in the direction you want it to go. Think of Loopback (and in some ways Soundflower) as you might a mixer. So I’ll fix that now and talk about Rogue Amobea’s Loopback application. So that’s kinda what Soundflower is and I’ve spent the better part of nearly 400 words and said practically nothing about the program that this review is actually for. This isn’t all Soundflower’s fault as Apple’s Core Audio and Audio Midi Setup utility had their own issues, but latency for live audio is a killer especially when it comes to podcasting. It was a royal pain in the posterior to use and depending on your processes could add significant delay from when audio was generated to when it was received. Just one eensy-weensy little problem with it. Soundflower was brilliant and allowed for some truly creative ways to route audio around on your computer.
OK, got that? In simple terms, Soundflower lets you take the audio from any source on your Mac whether it’s from an application or a designated hardwired audio input/output and move it to any source on your Mac whether it’s to an application or a designated hardwired audio intput/output.
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Directly from Rogue Amoeba’s site who now host it, “Soundflower is an open source kernel extension for Mac OS X, designed to create a virtual audio output device that can also act as an input.” I guess just mentioning Soundflower really doesn’t tell you much and since I’m comparing to Loopback, a brief explanation is probably in order. Well Rogue Amoeba did and it’s called Loopback. It also is persnickety and boy I wish someone would make something easier to use. This program allows you to create virtual feeds to move audio around in your computer.
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Well a little while ago, they also took control of a free program that a lot of podcasters have a love/hate relationship and that’s Soundflower. No matter, if you have to deal with audio from various sources, you probably are already aware of Rogue Amoeba and some of their applications like Audio Hijack and NiceCast to name just a few. Or perhaps I’m projecting my own idiosyncrasies on everyone. They want everything to work in just a certain way and sometimes try to cram functionality with hardware and software to do things neither was meant to do. People who deal with audio on a regular basis are a persnickety bunch. US $75 introductory price $99 regular price
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