How is the latency for you? I know blackhole is advertised as 0ms itself, but I always found that crossing virtual devices incurred the input/output latency of the daw itself.
I haven't experimented with lowering these numbers in maybe two years, but I use BlackHole to route 8 channels from Traktor to Ableton Live (all four decks in stereo as external outputs). I have one big aggregate device with my internal speakers for clock, the BlackHole bridge, and an original RME Babyface for the physical output.
Looks like I have Traktor set to 192 samples @ 44khz. It's showing "4.4 ms processing + 17.6ms output = 22.0 ms" in its UI.
Ableton is set to 128 samples, and showing "Input Latency 4.72 ms, Output Latency 6.05 ms, Overall Latency 10.8 ms".
So maybe 33.8 ms in the whole pipeline? Although I throw audio signal across the room via the Babyface's optical out to a cheap optical -> RCA box, so that's probably adding a little more to my physical environment.
I've had this same Traktor/Live setup going for a long, long time. At one point I even used a physical loopback with the Babyface's optical out/in carrying 8 channels between Traktor and Ableton. That was sadly better than any software available before BlackHole. It was solid, although a bit higher latency, and it's nice to be able to use the optical out for its intended purpose!
I used to get very occasional crackle this BlackHole setup, until I tried a random tip of using the built-in speakers as the clock source on an aggregate device. It's been rock solid since. I could probably lower sample buffers even further these days (M3 Max)...
If you use it and need it, you’ll get a lot more than $100 worth of value from it. It’s not price gouging, it’s just a small company making enough money to stay in business. They arent sustaining themselves off advertising and your data like big tech
That’s fair. It isn’t cheap, but they’re the only ones I know of who can route things around and mix them together without a DAW or some other utility running.
MacOS doesn’t even have per application volume control, which is a crazy thing to say for the OS aimed at audio professionals (at least as far as I know.)
The lack of per-application volume is annoying I agree, as a consumer.
But I don't think that's a feature requested by audio professionals. They're working within applications, not playing audio from multiple apps at the same time. And it would be extremely annoying to discover that your DAW output volume had accidentally somehow been set to 90% and you hadn't realized it. I mean, mixing is done with visual decibel meters, but a lot still depends on little details that are above or below the threshold of hearing, which an application-level volume control would mess with.
I’m pretty sure MacOS could easily have a built-in master audio mixer and a setting on that mixer labeled “bypass”, which gives the current MacOS behavior of “no master audio mixer.”
I can’t believe that only a few people have ever asked for a way to mute an app entirely.
I grow weary of excuses around the lack of a built-in feature for this. “Apple doesn’t want to do it” is the only reason.
Why not? You can create multi-output audio devices in macos, say blackhole and your speakers and use that multi-output device as the input in the recorder.
Not throwing shade on Blackhole. You can accomplish a lot with it. And yes, technically, it can do most if not all of what Loopback does. I just like the experience of using Loopback more than having to use the built-in MIDI setup in macOS, which I always find a bit confusing.
Oh, actually, now I remember why I bought Loopback in the first place. I couldn't figure out how to map a single stereo input channel to both left and right channels with Blackhole, but Loopback makes that very easy. Maybe it's possible to do with Blackhole, but I'll happily pay to not feel like a confused old man when all I want to do is record audio the way I expect.
In the case of Audio Hijack, one might as well save the money and go with Blackhole instead of Loopback.
And in any case, as much as I normally embrace FOSS, Rogue Amoeba makes high quality software that's worth paying for, so I'm not champing at the bit to replace them.
> And in any case, as much as I normally embrace FOSS, Rogue Amoeba makes high quality software that's worth paying for, so I'm not champing at the bit to replace them.
I tried really hard to get my desired audio setup to work with stock Mac OS features, but it was just... not good.
I have two Apple Monitors flanking both sides of a larger display with terrible speakers. I wanted to split left/right between the two Apple monitors. With Audio Midi Setup, I got it to work, but then I couldn't adjust the volume with the soft keys.
I installed Loopback and Soundsource. Everything just worked, and it was very easy to configure. The price was a little high, but I'm not really the target customer. Was worth it to not have to put bulky speakers on my desk.
Funnily enough that's the one stupid idea he isn't into, SBF tried to get into the twitter buyout on the idea of putting on the block chain and Elon shot it down.
Who is doing the growing when there's no one left to make stuff and/or those that remain don't know how the current stuff works? If he's going to rehire new people, who is going to want to work in an organization where you are deemed essentially the enemy of growth and are easily expendable?
You're assuming that (1) Tesla and SpaceX's missions compare to that of Twitter and (2) the people at those companies like Elon and want to work specifically for him.
Many people working at Tesla and SpaceX view Elon as a distraction to the mission, not an accelerant other than putting the pieces in place for the companies to exist.
> For example, employees of the FTX Group submitted payment requests through an on-line ‘chat’ platform where a disparate group of supervisors approved disbursements by responding with personalized emojis.
Honestly having had to deal with the hell that is a purchasing request in large corporations I think I'd rather go with a discord bot than have to spend 6 months justifying why I need to purchase a $50 piece of software to do my job.
Similar. The best reimbursement system I’ve worked with was for a company that just automatically approved everything under a few thousand dollars (never states a hard threshold) based on individual professional judgement to spend funds to advance company goals. And they audited every purchase ever made when you went for partner.
It was both liberating and terrifying to have that much freedom. The audits weren’t widely available so it’s hard to know how effective this was, but it was pretty rare to hear about people not making partner because of it and they were super thorough about every charge, frequently asking for detail.
I liked one of my old bosses for this. He'd notice a meeting with 5 engineers about licensing some software and would swoop in.
"How much is the license for this software?" Upon hearing an answer, "The company bills your time out at $250/hr - this meeting has cost us the licensing fee of this software. Next time, just buy it. If I have a problem with that, I'll change the policy then."
Sometimes corporate greed is why systems are so hard.
My previous company had a very rigid repayment system and i swear it was designed to deny expenses.
Once i submitted an expense for $3.25 for a train and they wanted receipts. I didn't have one and they wanted me to sign an affidavit that i would not find the receipt and resubmit my expense.
This is for $3.25 and the amount of time spent trying to get my money back exceeded the expense amount.
The obvious common sense question should have been : If my plane landed in X, and the office is located at Y, how did i get there?
Somehow. That's not their business. But they don't want you claiming a train ticket, a bus ticket, and mileage all for the same trip.
Every seemingly stupid rule has an equally stupid person behind it.
It would be nice if we could just trust people, but there are a class of people who then abuse that trust. Systems are in place to thwart them at the expense of everyone else.
If you claimed all three of those, you would have to claim all three of them, at which point you would have claimed all three of them, and someone could easily see that.
Someone could easily see that if you have an actual reimbursement system in place.
If it's based on the honor system, I could claim the train ticket, then claim a bus ticket and say that the ticket was for something else, you were mistaken. Then claim mileage and say the bus ticket wasn't that trip, you made a mistake. Again, just like the train ticket.
So, yes, the claim needs to be backed by proof of trip or by a deliberate action on your part saying that you are claiming this right here on this date for this trip.
Of course they will, until something materially horrible happens. They are all members of the CEO club and will defend each other out of a vested interest in avoiding knock-on effects. Why would they want to introduce additional volatility?
TikTok as-is presents a massive attack surface for (d|m)information and worse. And the version available in the US is highly addictive with numerous bubble creating feedback loops. The amount of engagement and time spent on the app is incredible.
The creators know this and provide an alternate version called Douyin used domestically which optimizes for educational content and has additional rules/safeguards
I don't want to harp on which country has which political motive, but it's pretty cut and dry to see that the service owners export something very different than what is presented domestically.
> The creators know this and provide an alternate version called Douyin used domestically which optimizes for educational content and has additional rules/safeguards
... Douyin is edited like that out of the goodness of Bytedance's hearts to reduce addiction or is it regulatory pressure?
Reading the article:
> Douyin, much like TikTok, is particularly popular with young audiences, and so China's top regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, has urged it to "create a good cyberspace environment for the healthy development of young people".
> Last month, under-18s in China were banned from playing video games during the week, and their play was restricted to just one hour on Fridays, weekends and holidays.
It seems awfully like the China's version of the FTC decided that this ain't cool anymore, and Bytedance saw the hammer of legislation coming so they made changes..
The easiest answer here, is get the US government to not ban TikTok, but make it a rule that under-18s cannot access these applications, content must be educational, and limit screen time by banning these apps during school times, maybe only allowed for 2 hrs on the weekend etc.
However, I do remember hearing a lot that China is a facist dictatorship when these rules were made. I wonder if the same will be said for the US if they decide to make such rules.
Compelling news story, but is there a less-tabloid source? In my cursory Googling, I haven't been able to find anything. Murdoch-owned media is pretty low in my trustworthiness/objectivity rankings.
