hi folks, anyone around here having experience with or knowledge of the use of an audio extraction tool feeding vdmx seperate audio signals of the instruments?
What kinda systems are you thinking about?
That‘s actually the question. It should work with live feed and no delay. Okay, let’s say minimal delay. AudioSourceRE maybe?
Are you talking about capturing Audio on your mac and recording it or pulling audio in from an external source?
There are a number of VDMX users who make use out of external (USB) audio capture devices to pull in live sound from Instruments, Drums, Microphones. The latency will be dependant on your capture device and computer processing power + your audio buffer settings.
If you’re trying to capture audio directly on your machine, something like AudioHiJack should work for that.
Sorry for being fuzzy. It’s not about recording but feeding VDMX with different audio signals. The idea is to analyze external live audio input (mainly an EDM master output) to its instruments. There’s no access to the audio tracks before the master mix.
If you plug in USB capture devices you can select various inputs with Audio analysis and then use that in your VDMX project however you like.
Maybe you can ask CutMod since they’ve been using VDMX to trigger shows through audio for years now.
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I have found the use of external USB sound devices I love my K-MIX as extra midi control of the audio gain/frequency spreads hardware wise. And for software I find Loopback to be super helpful to handle sends and multiple audio analysis sources.
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BI think you can also send audio over NDI network as well. Which would eliminate the need for any USB audio devices on your system.
Your performer’s system can just send them over the network via NDI to you
This Says it’s new in NDI5 , not sure VDMX works with it. But that may not be an issue if your able to somehow have it show up as a standard Mac audio interface (virtual)
NDI Audio Direct
I’ve been trying to get NDI Direct audio to work. Sending from intel MacBook pro/Ableton/NDI Direct Audio over wifi network to M1 Macbook pro/VDMX. No joy. NDI Direct Audio installed on both. Has anyone managed to get this to work?
I have not tried it. This sounds like a good question for the NDI or Ableton community (since that’s what they are marketing it to) NDI Audio Direct
In a live situation I would recommend a DI box isolator in the chain as the sound tech will be much happier connecting to this (if they will give you a live feed that is!). Something like a Radial Engineering J-Iso will provide two way passive isolation and -10dB output control for hot signals. Might not be right for this use case but as VDMX Audio Analysis is easily saturated having some hardware gain control can be very useful.
Yep, I would say Loopback is an essential tool for any VJ. It can route audio into and out of VDMX and help manage the MBP mic levels to avoid saturation of the Audio Analysis plugin.