KVR Audio

keyman_sam · Post by **keyman_sam** » Mon May 02, 2016 5:44 am

So I bought a used mac pro, and I'm going to use it to run Omnisphere in VE Pro.

BUT since this being a Mac I'd love to get my hands on Mainstage. Except, I can't think of a way to route audio from the Mac to my Windoze running Cubase.

I don't want to spend $$$ getting a soundcard and my RME 9652 (in PC) is already out of ports.
Any suggestions? Any clever apps I'm not aware of, in the Mac world?

Protocol_b · Post by **Protocol_b** » Fri May 06, 2016 9:20 pm

Soundflower - it's free too.

keyman_sam · Post by **keyman_sam** » Fri May 06, 2016 10:10 pm

Protocol_b wrote:Soundflower - it's free too.

Except its not available for PC. :-/

Jim Roseberry · Post by **Jim Roseberry** » Sun May 08, 2016 2:51 pm

What about the virtual Dante' audio interface driver?
That's inexpensive... and allows you to use the LAN port as a Dante' audio interface.
The round-trip latency only goes down to about 10ms... but that shouldn't matter just for transferring audio.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun May 08, 2016 2:56 pm

keyman_sam wrote:So I bought a used mac pro, and I'm going to use it to run Omnisphere in VE Pro.

BUT since this being a Mac I'd love to get my hands on Mainstage. Except, I can't think of a way to route audio from the Mac to my Windoze running Cubase.

I don't want to spend $$$ getting a soundcard and my RME 9652 (in PC) is already out of ports.
Any suggestions? Any clever apps I'm not aware of, in the Mac world?

Why not just get a small mixer or patchbay so you have extra ports and can just route the audio directly with zero latency? Just treat the Mac as one other hardware device.

Dewdman42 · Post by **Dewdman42** » Sun May 08, 2016 10:53 pm

Isn't that the whole point of using VEP? I don't understand the problem

Jim Roseberry · Post by **Jim Roseberry** » Mon May 09, 2016 2:32 pm

Dewdman42 wrote:Isn't that the whole point of using VEP? I don't understand the problem

You can route VE Pro hosted virtual instruments and plugins back to the main machine (over LAN).

Problem is that the OP wants to route the output of Logic/Mainstage over to the PC.
The Dante' virtual audio interface driver would allow this.
Last time I checked it was $29.
It would have to be running on each machine (Mac and PC).

Dewdman42 · Post by **Dewdman42** » Mon May 09, 2016 2:52 pm

I guess he threw me off by including the explanation that he bought the macPRO to run Omnisphere in VEP, which I now see is totally unrelated to the problem, which is how to route the output from MainStage back to anything else... I presume because he wants to use MainStage instruments which aren't available as plugins. Yes?

In that case carry on...

Dewdman42 · Post by **Dewdman42** » Mon May 09, 2016 2:58 pm

that dante software....it can be used without their hardware in some way? Looks like its $29 per computer by the way.

Personally if it were me, after years of chasing down fancy solutions related to this, I'd just hook up the audio cables from one to the other and be done with it, but if there is a simple ethernet routing solution, so much the better. Ethernet midi is definitely easy and free (rtpMidi).

Jim Roseberry · Post by **Jim Roseberry** » Mon May 09, 2016 3:50 pm

Dewdman42 wrote:that dante software....it can be used without their hardware in some way? Looks like its $29 per computer by the way.

Correct, you'd just need the Dante virtual audio interface driver loaded on both machines.
Not free... but at $60 is a pretty reasonable solution.

Any way to route Logic/Mainstage to PC via LAN?