How do I record what I hear?

[stratblue]

I'm sure this is incredibly stupid but due to genetic deficiencies or being dropped on my head at some point I just can't seem to figure it out, I have loads of mixes on the tabs of Cuemix and the 828 Mk3, run Cubase and Live, send audio off to samplers and the like but all I want to do is just record what I hear either through the phones or out of the speakers without having any DAW running, I just want a sort of endless sampler recording everything, all day. I assumed I would just fire up Wiretap or Audio hijack and press the record button but no such luck despite switching the default input around and all the settings. I could set up another mix tab and send audio to another computer running Wiretap easily but what do I have to do to do it on this computer? Sorry...

[HCMarkus]

Can you do a hardware loopback from/to the 828?

[stratblue]

Can you do a hardware loopback from/to the 828?

I had considered that but all my inputs are spoken for plus I'd have to constantly mirror what I'm listening to onto the duplicate mix tab which is a level of organisation I can only dream of, I'd simply forget after a while.

[mikehalloran]

BlackHole lets you route up to 16 channels from one app to another, even over Big Sur and Apple Silicon. Mac only.
https://existential.audio/blackhole/

It is the successor to SoundFlower for which development has ceased (but still works in Catalina sorta kinda').

There's a U of Texas board that many find helpful.

https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/comm/H ... o+on+a+Mac

[stratblue]

BlackHole lets you route up to 16 channels from one app to another, even over Big Sur and Apple Silicon. Mac only.
https://existential.audio/blackhole/

It is the successor to SoundFlower for which development has ceased (but still works in Catalina sorta kinda').

There's a U of Texas board that many find helpful.

https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/comm/H ... o+on+a+Mac

Thanks for that, something to keep in mind, I'm on 10.8.3 at the moment but I do feel an upgrade coming on.

[mikehalloran]

BlackHole lets you route up to 16 channels from one app to another, even over Big Sur and Apple Silicon. Mac only.
https://existential.audio/blackhole/

It is the successor to SoundFlower for which development has ceased (but still works in Catalina sorta kinda').

There's a U of Texas board that many find helpful.

https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/comm/H ... o+on+a+Mac

Thanks for that, something to keep in mind, I'm on 10.8.3 at the moment but I do feel an upgrade coming on.

If you're going to stay on Snow Lion, then SoundFlower will work and nothing else will. v.1.66 includes SoundflowerBed.app, required for what you are trying to do. Soundflower 1.66 can cause lots of problems in later MacOS but 2.02b probably doesn't have the functionality that you need since SoundflowerBed.app.

Minimum requirement for BlackHole is OS 10.9 Mavericks.

[stratblue]

If anyone else wants to do this the secret is to use the 'return assign' function, set it to main outs then you can record the returned mix in Audio Hijack or whatever, inputs 13 & 14 IIRC.