Harrison Mixbus with Soundflower

I enjoy the complex routing possibilities available with JackOSX, however I and many others do also enjoy using Soundflower. Soundflower is both very stable and easy to use, and a lot of people seem interested in using Harrison Console's new Mixbus with it. So, here I'm sharing one of the ways in which I've setup these to work with each other. Hope this helps some of you. Disregard any spelling errors, if any, you crazy kids.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Harrison
• Mixbus
• Soundflower
• Consoles
• tutorial
• setup
• JackOSX
• Mac
• OSX
• Leopard
• DAW
• Logic
• Mixing
• Summing
• routing
• sound
• flower

[junglestar]

How can I do this with studio one ? When I use jackosx studio one and my virus goes out of sync

[TheExplodingBit]

@junglestar I see no reason why it shouldn't work. However, I've never used Studio One, so hopefully someone else will be able to help with the particulars. Best wishes.

[tykerdog33]

Cool that you can do this but what's the point? Jack is a pretty great audio host/virtual patch bay and you can configure mixbus to start Jack when it launches.

[TheExplodingBit]

@tykerdog33 This was done after requests from Soundflower users. Thanks for your feedback, tykerdog33.

[DJSupermanRussia]

cool !

how its work with Pro Tools ? (Pro Tools + Mixbus)

[TheExplodingBit]

@DJSupermanRussia The process is almost exactly the same as above when done with Pro Tools 9, since it can now use CoreAudio or ASIO drivers. Maybe someone else can help with previous versions of PT. I've never tried it with PT versions prior to 9. Best wishes.

[19Nick80webb]

I wonder if you can also rought busses from au instruments into logics mixer/busses then rought the busses from logic from the au instrument into the Harrison console and print multiple stems live?

[tykerdog33]

@TheExplodingBit I had been using jack for a few years on Linux so when I started recording with OSX so it made sense to me. I installed but never really understood soundflower but I can see if you are already using it how valuable this tutorial would be.

[TheExplodingBit]

@beatnikcafe When/if I use Mixbus I'm using it essentially like I would one of my hardware summing boxes, doing most of the mixing in the main DAW and only using it for it's sound. I haven't tried syncing it to another DAW. As for the 16ch limit, this is a limitation of Soundflower not aggregate devices so I'd doubt you can overcome it unless using something other than Soundflower. I'd say that Mixbus is efficient with CPU usage. It's up to you to decide if it's sonically what you want though.

[TheExplodingBit]

@janvierbam Check your routing in Live, if you haven't. Make sure that you aren't routed to a physical out also and that you don't have audio from Soundflower coming back into a Live track that's set to "In" or "Auto".