Sound Routing Software

Juriaan

Hi there all,

A really powerfull application for both Mac and Windows is Dante Via (https://www.audinate.com/produ...) a wonderfull application that makes it possible to create so called 'Listeners' and 'Sources' by simply making some noise ! All your applications will show-up and it quite easily that way to say Okay, I want to receive all these outputs to this microphone.. (+ The more advanced digital sound mixers have Dante support most of the time. So if you play your piece in a theatre you can actually send the signal using Dante to there mixers and they will receive it. Really cool stuff !)

What you see in the picture below is the following:

3 Sources (Skype, Isadora, Spotify and my interal microphone)
1 listener with a Mix that listens to Isadora and Skype.
In zoom we set our Input to the Dante Via Source and Zoom will pick-up the mix from Dante.

RIL

@bonemap thank you very much for such detail information !!

Best,

Maxi

RIL

@juriaan wow !!! So we have a new player on the field....

So this is a new possible alternative, right ? [I see it has a free trial for 30 days, then is $50 dolars]

I will look into it. Thanks a lot

Best,

Maxi

bonemap

@juriaan said:

A really powerfull application for both Mac and Windows is Dante Via

Dante Via has a rich ecosystem and has the potential to be a great choice- except that it is not compatible with current versions of Mac OS. That is why I have Loopback. If you see an update to Dante Via compatibility on Mac OSX, I would be very interested.

Best wishes

Russell

Juriaan

@bonemap

Hi there Bonemap,

Could you let me know in DM what is the issue with Dante Via on the latest Mac OS ? Glad to give them a call / open a support ticket with them to request it.

Thanks !

jfg

you can also add to FREE SOFTWARE:

Background Music, https://github.com/kyleneideck...

best

Jean-François

Woland

@jfg said:

Background Music, https://github.com/kyleneideck...

This looks like it can record and affect volume control, but it doesn't look like it allows for virtual audio routing (or did I miss that?)

jfg

It is not possible like in Dante, Sound Siphon and Loopback to choose several destination but if you choose Background Music as entry in a software you get the mix chosen in the Pulldown menu of Background Music and on the hardware output you want.

Woland

Additional helpful audio info from this Remote Performance Guru Session forum thread:

Question by @Zaira_001 :

I'm trying to run a live performance from Zoom through Isadora and stream it to youtube (all on my tiny little macbook air, she's taking the processing like a champ) and I have been able to get the video working successfully via the screen capture plug in for Isadora, but am having trouble getting the audio working. I've managed to get the Isadora feed and the Zoom audio playing into OBS, but I'm worried that since the audio isn't playing through Isadora as well the video is going to appear laggy. I'm really stuck, what would you recommend I do? Do you think running it through Isadora isn't going to cause enough latency to be noticeable and I should just leave it as is, or work on getting the audio into and out of Isadora before connecting it to OBS?

Answer by @mc_monte :

You don't have to pipe the audio through Isadora, but the Advanced Audio Settings in OBS allow you to manually create a delay in the audio and video to help sync them. Anywhere from 30ms to 300ms adjustment my be needed, finding the right numbers is a matter of trial and error. The Audio Output Capture from OBS will pick up any system-level audio (make sure you're using headphones to prevent a feedback loop if you're also using a microphone.)

Audio is one of the trickiest elements to get right with live streaming. Test, test, test your setup and adjust the settings. A good metric to use is to "Record" from OBS instead of streaming, and then re-watch your recordings to determine how it turned out

sommerdi

the free software jack audio is working on Win and linux perfect .... and it should work on Catalina

Does someone have experiences?

Woland

Performing some thread necromancy to say that I've just purchased Loopback for a live-streaming show I'm doing on Halloween. It makes audio routing on Mac a complete breeze. Thanks @bonemap

Best wishes,

Woland