#SOUNDFLOWER INSTALLER HOW TO#
#SOUNDFLOWER INSTALLER INSTALL#
#SOUNDFLOWER INSTALLER FREE#

The Soundflower channels work more like 8 buses than 16 audio cables.

IвЂ™m also sending the VCV Rack audio back to Reason so it can be mixed in the Reason mixer.ДЄ couple of things to note with this setup: In this example I am sending Synchronous CV to control the Filter frequency in VCV RackвЂ™s VCF module. But you will use the CV-O device instead of CV-I. The process is pretty much the same when sending CV the other way around, from Reason to VCV Rack.

Use the trimpot next to the Filter Cutoff CV input socket to set the amount of modulation.

Set the DrOctoRex Filter Cutoff fader to where you want the LFO to center around.

This means the LFO waveform is centered around 0V, and sends out negative values as well. So to hear the effect of the LFO we can tweak the settings something like this:

Since the DrOctoRex Filter Cutoff fader was set to max as default, the вЂњextraвЂќ positive CV from the LFO will have no effect with this setting.

When created, the VCV Rack LFO was set to UNI (unipolar), meaning that it sends out only positive voltage.

For a simple test I created a DrOctoRex and connected the CV to control the Filter Cutoff: Now we just have to connect it to a Reason device. Notice how the Activity LED on the CV-I lights up in sync with the audio cables in VCV Rack! This means the signal is getting through. Create an LFO and connect it to audio output 1 in VCV Rack: So we wanted to modulate a Reason device with an LFO from VCV Rack. This means we can use all 8 inputs and outputs in VCV Rack: Since we want the audio to go via Reason to the speakers (using Balance), here we can select the Soundflower 64-channel device directly. Launch VCV Rack and create an Audio Interface module. Create a CV-I device and connect it to the Hardware Interface device inputs:Дone, letвЂ™s head over to VCV Rack now! Setup VCV Rack We will first try to modulate a Reason device with a VCV Rack LFO. To be able to easily send and receive CV, they convert CV to audio and back. But here is where the CV-I/O devices come into use. You can already send and receive audio directly to these inputs and outputs. I will probably only use a maximum of 8 channels of CV, so to reduce CPU usage (IвЂ™m not sure there actually is any for silent channels) I usually disable the Input and Output channels 11-66:ДЄs you can see in ReasonвЂ™s Hardware Interface device, channels 1-2 are now in use with Balance (green LED by the socket), and Soundflower channels 3-10 are available (yellow LED): Launch Reason and select the Aggregate Device as your audio interface. You can rename the Aggregate Device by clicking the name in the list. In my case itвЂ™s the Balance (for the speakers) and Soundflower 64-channels (for sending CV). A new virtual interface will be added to the list:Д¬heck the interfaces you want to use. In the lower left corner, click the + and select вЂњCreate Aggregate DeviceвЂќ. Open the Audio Devices window, it should look something like this:ДЄs you can see, there is a list of the available audio interfaces: my MacвЂ™s built-in, my Balance USB-interface connected to my speakers, and two versions of Soundflower: a 2-channel and a 64-channel interface. To do this, open the app Audio MIDI Setup which is located in your Applications/Utilities folder. Think of it as merging multiple audio interfaces into one. To be able to use it at the same time as your existing audio interface, you need to create whatвЂ™s called an Aggregate Device. To your Mac, Soundflower is just an audio interface like any other.

#SOUNDFLOWER INSTALLER INSTALL#

A download link for the latest build (today 2.0b2) and install instructions are available on the SoundflowerвЂ™s GitHub page.

#SOUNDFLOWER INSTALLER FREE#

Soundflower is a free app that acts like virtual audio cables between audio programs on your Mac. ItвЂ™s a free, open-source virtual modular synthesizer, and works great to use in combination with Reason. The process is similar for Windows, using other apps.ДЄs the other program we will use VCV Rack.

#SOUNDFLOWER INSTALLER HOW TO#

This tutorial will show how to do this on a Mac using an app called Soundflower. With the new CV-I/O devices, it is possible to send Reason CV signals as audio to and from your external synthesizer, but also to other programs in your computer. Connecting Reason to VCV Rack with Soundflower

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