Audio Mixer app for OSX
Posted in entertainment, information technology, theatre, work on October 11th, 2008 by TroyI have been searching for some time for an application that will run on OSX (on a Mac) that can act as a virtual sound desk (audio control surface). I have a heap of audio input and ouput devices including a Tascam US-1641. I also have a MIDI based control surface with faders and pots.
All I really want to do is be able to map inputs to busses and then map those busses to outputs. Thus - ending up with a virtual sound desk.
It didn’t seem like it was too difficult a task, but - as it turns out - it is. I even purchased Logic Pro 8 to use it as the mixer - because it gave the impression it did that sort of thing - but no… nothing. It has a “live performance” mode… but that mode doesn’t work with control surfaces… strange.
I would love to hear from anybody with ideas about how to get around this. Ideally it would be midi controlled so I could use it as part of our existing MIDI Show Control (MSC) system (including the CueServer, MegaSeg and QLab).
I am also a little annoyed by the number of app’s that are called “Audio Mixers” that are just playback applications. Yes, it can play back more then one audio tracks and “mix” them I guess - but that isn’t what I would call a mixer.
