SoundDesk can be used by audio professionals to mix on the fly, by broadcasters to stream mixed sources, by musicians to record a performance or anything else that involves mixing or routing digital audio.
ROUTING
All channels can receive any input and send to any output, master section or auxiliary. Making the routing possibilities of SoundDesk only limited by your devices.
Channels can be either mono, stereo or auxiliary receivers, and you can switch between options at any time.
MIXING
Up to 99x2 input paths, 102x2 output paths and 12 Aux sends per channel (pre or post fader), per desk file.
Each channel is equipped with a DC blocker, a noise or wave generator and a delay unit.
The user can assign names and colours to individual channels.
Built-in PPM meters on all channels and master section.
AU HOST
SoundDesk has up to 8 Audio Unit slots on every channel and up to 12 on the master section, so you can use your favourite plugins.
Furthermore, SoundDesk includes 11 built-in processing and metering inserts, that take advantage of the cDSP Engine.
AUDIO RECORDING
SoundDesk 4 can record in multitrack mode (pre or post processing) and in master section mode (pre or post processing).
Recordings can be exported as: AIFF, WAVE, FLAC, CAF, Sound Designer II, NeXT/Sun and Sound Forge W64 Audio Files (Linear PCM).
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This is the basic idea, but there are other apps which can make it easier. I prefer using Audio Hijack for the EQ part and sending it to a pass-through device set up in Loopback (which, for this use case, functions the same as BlackHole). Source: 7 months ago
- Audio Hijack (also by Rogue Ameba) so I can record myself, the soundboard, and QuickTime all to individual .aiff files. Source: 10 months ago
Another option that has been around for a long time. https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/. Source: 11 months ago
Definitely doable though might point to Rogue Amoeba re: implementation/execution particularly: SoundSource, Loopback & Audio Hijack. Source: 12 months ago
If you want to record application-specific audio (like from a game but not from Spotify) then it’s more complicated. Audio Hijack is a good app for this: https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/. Source: 12 months ago
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