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Audio hijack7/25/2023 For us, this will be Dante Virtual Soundcard. To do this, select an output module, and specify the audio device. For example, we’re going to send ProPresenter somewhere, and everything else (in our setup) somewhere else, so we’ll just need two output devices:įinally, we need to configure these output modules to use the device and channel we need. You’ll need to create a seperate output device for each “group” or stream of audio you want to send somewhere. For us, even though we typically only use iTunes and ProPresenter, we set up capture for other applications we may want to send to our sound system: Go ahead and add an Application module for each application you want to capture audio from. The easiest way to add applications you want to capture from is to open them, then drag the “Application” source from the right-hand side of the session window into the workspace, and then select the running application from the “Select an App” dropdown: Okay, now let’s start configuring your outputs by capturing from an application: Let’s start with creating a new blank session: It’s broken into three tabs: “Sessions”, “Recordings”, and “Schedule”. The interface for Audio Hijack is remarkably easy to use. When you first open Audio Hijack it’ll ask to install some helpers which we’ll need for this setup. Secondly, we’ll get Audio Hijack set up to handle your audio. I won’t walk through the whole Dante setup, but go ahead and start the soundcard and make sure you have it connected to the right network and configured with the correct amount of I/O channels for your setup. If you’re using a physical audio interface, you’ll have to connect that and install any related drivers. During our services it runs ProPresenter for slides and videos, and iTunes for background music playback, but whatever software you use should work fine with today’s setup.įirst, you’ll need to install Audio Hijack (you can get a free version that works for 10 minutes) and, if you’re following along with Dante, the Dante Virtual Soundcard. It has a 2.66 Ghz Quad-Core Xeon, 16 GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 120. In our case, we bought an old early 2009 Mac Pro. Let’s start with the source and final destination of our audio: the media computer. Configuring the Media Computer for Dante I/O (using Audio Hijack) I also wanted to send the following from our sound board to our media Mac for recording: Our I/O Setupįor us, I wanted to have the following outputs routed individually from our media Mac to our sound board: It gives a huge amount of flexibility, zero noise and–in my experience–reliability over typical USB or Thunderbolt audio interfaces. If your primary audio console supports Dante, I’d highly recommend you take a look at my other post to see if it might be a good option for you. The downside is that you’ll have to run cables for every input and output you use. You could certainly use a USB or Thunderbolt audio interface to accomplish the same goal. I wrote a seperate post on Audinate Dante and how we use it here, but in this blog post, Dante is simply acting as our audio interface. It’s flexible, reliable, and keeps us from having to purchase, manage, and maintain separate devices for each of those functions. Hopefully, that has led you to find creative ways to stretch every dollar and squeeze every ounce of capability out of each piece of valuable equipment you have.This blog post is about how we use Audinate Dante ($29.99 per computer, plus a device that can function as a master clock) and Audio Hijack ($59) to allow a single early 2009 Mac Pro to perform the functions of video playback (with ProPresenter), background music playback (with iTunes and/or Spotify), and backup audio recording for our services. As Craig Groeschel says, innovation is often borne out of limitations, and as many of you know as volunteer audio/video techs for a small church: limitations abound.
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