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Your Mac is capable of producing sound as well as playing sound channeled from outside sources—devices plugged into the Mac’s USB- and sound input ports as well as audio streamed from the Internet. Wouldn’t it be great if you could captures some of those sounds for later listening? You can. And you can for free with Soundflower. Here’s how it works.
Step 1: Download Soundflower
The first step involves finding a way to grab audio playing in one application—a Web browser, for example—and route it to an application that can capture that audio. Cycling ’74’s free Soundflower is that way. Soundflower is a system extension that lets you channel audio from one application to another. For example, you can take the audio playing from a movie in your Web browser and channel it into QuickTime Player’s audio input where you then record it.
Step 2: Configure Soundflower
After you’ve installed Soundflower launch the Sound system preference and you’ll see evidence of Soundflower in the Output and Input tabs. Select the Output tab and choose Soundflower (2ch). Do this and any sound that would normally come out of your Mac’s speakers is now routed through Soundflower. Any is the key word here. If your Mac makes any sound—not just the sound you’re trying to capture but also e-mail and Twitter alerts, for example—it will route that too.
Step 3: Configure your capture application
You have a couple of applications on your Mac that can capture Soundflower’s audio—QuickTime Player and GarageBand. To configure QuickTime Player choose File -> New Audio Recording. In the Audio Recording window that appears click on the downward-pointing triangle to the right of the Record button. From the menu that appears choose Soundflower (2ch). When you’re ready to begin your capture, just click Record.
You set up GarageBand by launching the application and in the New Project window that appears choosing Acoustic Instrument. This creates a GarageBand project that contains a single digital audio track. Use the default tempo and time- and key-signature settings that appear in the New Project Template window and click the Create button. Open GarageBand's preferences, select the Audio/MIDI tab and from the Audio Output and Audio Input pop-up menus choose Soundflower (2ch). Close the Preferences window. If the Info pane for the track doesn’t appear, choose Track -> Show Track Info. In the Browse tab of the Info pane choose Stereo 1/2 Soundflower (2ch) from the Input source pop-up menu. When your Mac makes sound you should see it register in the track’s meters. Click Record to capture the audio.
Step 4: Monitor the Mac’s sound
When you choose Soundflower as your Mac’s audio output you can no longer hear it through attached speakers or headphones. In order for you to monitor what’s happening, launch the Soundflowerbed application (found in /Applications/Soundflower). Click the Soundflowerbed menu bar item that appears and choose your speakers or headphones from the menu. Now, not only will your audio application capture what your Mac plays, but you’ll be able to listen to the source audio as well. (You may want to do this before setting up QuickTime or GarageBand to capture your audio, but that's up to you.)
Again, any sound your Mac makes will be channeled through Soundflower so you’ll want to disable alert sounds or quit those applications that make them. Additionally, if you change your Mac’s volume, that change will be captured by the application that’s recording Soundflower’s sound. So, lay off the volume and mute controls.
You can avoid both of these issues by using an application such as Ambrosia Software’s $69 WireTap Studio or Rogue Amoeba’s $32 Audio Hijack Pro. Each of these applications allows you to capture sound from specific applications. You can adjust volume or fire off system alerts all you like and they won't affect the audio the applications capture. (If you go the Audio Hijack Pro route consider purchasing the $50 Audio Hijack Pro/Fission bundle, which includes the Fission sound editor. WireTap Studio includes an editor.)
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Industry | Computer software |
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Founded | 1997; 22 years ago |
Founder | David Zicarelli |
Headquarters | San Francisco, California , |
Area served | Worldwide |
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Parent | Ableton |
Subsidiaries | c74 Music |
Website | www.cycling74.com |
Cycling '74 (also known as 'C74' and stylized as '74) is an Americansoftware development company founded in 1997 by David Zicarelli, headquartered in San Francisco, California and owned by Ableton. The company is best known for their work with the digital signal processingsoftware environment, Max.
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History[edit]
Cycling '74 (C74) was founded in 1997 by David Zicarelli to serve as the distributor for his various collections of software.[1] The company's official website states that 'the name Cycling '74 comes from a 1974 bicycle catalog from which some of the images that decorated our original site were inspired'. The Wayback Machine provides an archive of the website (from December 1998) here.
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C74 began producing the MSP extension to Opcode Systems's 1990 program 'Max' in the mid 1990s, and in 1998 started distributing both products together.[2] There is no longer a version of Max without audio processing, so the two environments are now technically inseparable.[3]
In June 2017, Ableton announced they had acquired Cycling '74.[4][5]
Products[edit]
Max[edit]
C74 is perhaps best known as the distributor and current developer of the Max/MSP digital signal processing environment. The company has published the program since 1999,[6] and in 2008 released a major overhaul of the package (released as Max 5). A major Sound on Sound article (August 2008) focused mainly on the new GUI of the software.[3] The new interface was designed using the Juce package. Aside from re-designed graphics, the development of the new system concentrated on the original code base, and has provided integrated documentation and debugging. From the release of Max 5, MSP and Jitter were included in the one package.
MSP[edit]
MSP is a DSPplug-in for Max, allowing realtime audio synthesis.
Jitter[edit]
Jitter is a plug-in for Max that allows realtime manipulation of 3D graphics and video first released in 2003.
Pluggo[edit]
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Pluggo was an extension to Max that provided capabilities for VST design. Pluggo was required to export Max 'patches' for use in digital audio workstation (DAW) host environments, but has been discontinued[7] since Max 5.
Max for Live[edit]
Max integration into Ableton Live, developed by Ableton and Cycling ’74, to build unique synths and effects, create algorithmic composition tools, or fuse Live and controller hardware into new music machines. Unlike Pluggo, you can edit the device created with Max for Live directly from Live by pressing the edit[8] button.
Record Label[edit]
Founded in 2000, c74 Music was created to release music produced using Cycling '74 technology. The same year, the label released its first record - a live compilation album by the Freight Elevator Quartet.[9] The current artist roster is:
- DR.OX
- Amoebazoid
- Gregory Taylor
- Crater
- Leslie Stuck
- William Kleinsasser
- Tetsu Inoue and Carl Stone
- The Freight Elevator Quartet
References[edit]
- ^Battino, David; Richards, Kelli (2005). The Art of Digital Music. Backbeat Books. p. 110. ISBN0-87930-830-3.
- ^http://www.cycling74.com/twiki/bin/view/FAQs/MaxMSPHistory#Where_did_Max_MSP_come_from Max/MSP FAQ Archived May 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ abSound on Sound Magazine, August 2008: 'Cycling 74 Max 5 - Graphical Programming Environment For Audio & MIDI'
- ^Wilson, Scott (2017-06-06). 'Ableton acquires Max for Live developer Cycling '74'. Fact. London, UK: The Vinyl Factory. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
- ^'Cycling '74 + Ableton'. cycling74.com. Retrieved 2017-06-06.
- ^Cycling '74 || About Us
- ^http://cycling74.com/2009/05/14/pluggo-technology-moves-to-max-for-live/
- ^http://cycling74.com/2009/01/15/my-perspective-on-integrating-max-and-live/
- ^http://www.cycling74.com/c74music C74 Music
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