#Soundflower ableton free

so this is in fact a totally free solution: Here's what I did, using the SoundSiphon app which while a paid app, it allows you to work with the master system output for free, indefinitely. I have found an acceptable workaround that gets me the end result I needed. I would still love to know why the aggregate device behaves the way that it does, but if nobody can provide an answer to that effect within a few days, I'll create an answer of my own with the all-Ableton audio workaround. This does however present an acceptable workaround, which is to create a separate audio track in Ableton, set my mic as the input there, and simply have Skype listen to Ableton alone, passing my voice to it that way. However the aggregate device does not work as expected, and combine the signals so that I can have Ableton and my Mic sending over Skype together. To reiterate, either my mic, OR Ableton's audio, will route through to Skype just fine using SoundSiphon. This feels like a bug, but I can't be certain. If I tick the box for my mic, and then SoundSiphon, then I get Ableton. If I tick the box for SoundSiphon, and then my mic, then I get my mic. Which one I get, depends on which was the last item selected in the Aggregate device. My mic, or Ableton, but never both at the same time. Make a Skype call and notice the significant remaining issue, to be discussed now. In Ableton Live, select SoundSiphon In as the audio device Turn on SoundSiphon, set its output to my Audio Interface In Skype's Microphone selector in Preferences, select the Aggregate Device No audio is passed at all from Ableton.Ĭreate an Aggregate device consisting of my USB microphone, and the SoundSiphon In device. I'm testing by calling myself on a second Skype account on another computer.

But I get absolutely nothing through Skype. I believe this should send audio out of Ableton and into Skype. SoundFlowerBed (no longer supported but I'm running Mavericks so it works fine) is set to output to the built-in output (to keep things simple, though my final application will output to my audio interface) Skype's 'microphone' preference is set to SoundFlower (2 ch.)

Live's audio device is set to SoundFlower (2 ch.) I even previously asked this question elsewhere and answered it myself, but that answer no longer works for me at all with Ableton (it was Reason-centric at that time).Įven excluding my mic for now, just to pipe the Ableton audio into Skype, what I believe Use a commercial application like Audio Hijack or similarīut I believe I have tried every conceivable combination of things that do not require paying for a commercial utility (which I'm not convinced would magically be the solution on its own anyway), and I am still absolutely nowhere.

Soundflower ableton