Plant Audio with Soundflower
Soundflower is an audio router for OS X. It allows me to send audio from one application to another. According to Cycling 74, “Soundflower is easy to use, it simply presents itself as an audio device, allowing any audio application to send and receive audio with no other support needed.”
Cycling 74 has been creating applications for DJs and Interactive Artists since the good ole’ Mac OS 9 days. The audio/video programming language Max/MSP/Jitter has been the most innovative solution for interactive art making for the Mac.
Soundflowerbed is a companion application that places an audio router right into your menubar.
I can select Soundflower as either my input or output in my sound preferences pane, allowing me full control over where audio is traveling inside of my Apple computer. Soundflower even allows for 16 channels of audio to be passed through it. For instance, I can tell Garageband to output to two channels of Soundflower, while I sample an mp3 in iTunes in another two channels. Now I have an audio mixer! Then, I can output the audio through my speakers right in Soundflowerbed.
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