How are you recording audio from Max? (Soundflower woes.)

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Thanks in advance for your patience… Long time modular person but fairly new to doing things ITB. Anyway, I’m hitting the old “crackle when using soundflower” bugaboo and before I keep sifting through old threads with ancient advices I’m curious if this is even the current state of the art?

Net-net: I’ve got Live and a full Max license and have been having tons of fun with (besides my own patches), the amazing straw app until I try and redirect audio to Live and I’m haunted by crackles. I’m on Max 7, OS X 10.11.3 and a newer macbook pro. ANY thoughts appreciated.

Cheers!

-phil

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i use the built-in recorder.

extras > quickrecord

in the menu system.

soundflower and rewire are notorious. you can often get a great working setup, and other times it’s all busted.

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Wow. Thank you! Fits the bill exactly.

I owe you one!

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I also trick Live and Max into taking using crossed patches on my interface. Plug from out 3 to in 3 and out 4 to in 4. Set live to send out on 3 and Max to listen to in 3. Then max goes out to 4 and set Live to listen. I’m on windows so no soundflower, and as Tehn mentioned rewire can be touchy, so I had to get creative. Works great!

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If you’ve got Max 7 or BEAP installed there’s also the “recordr” module that you can just throw at the end of a patch. Combine with mixer modules as needed :slight_smile:

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when i want to record to a daw, i use jack audio. very stable, reliable and flexible set-up.
(mbp mid 2009/os 10.10.5)

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Great tips all. Thank you!

@analogue01: do you mean sfrecord~ in Max?

Jack looks good too but man I love the lack of indirection.

I also trick Live and Max into taking using crossed patches on my interface.

I was scratching my head over this for a bit. @spacelordmother: you mean by using your audio interface?

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Yes, sorry – using actual patch connections on the interface and then routing those channels in Live and Max.

I tried Jack but it was a lot more complicated than my solution so I didn’t bother to make it work.

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Thanks for clarifying. No interface handy when I want to record this setup so I’ll stick to quickrecord in the short term which IMO is just brilliant. Frictionless — you don’t even need to pick a file name!

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No, the BEAP module:

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Amazing. So that’s what the little b does?!? Seriously, I had no idea Beap was baked into Max 7. I’ve been rolling my own oscillators. Thanks for pointing this out!

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