
Rogue Amoeba also has Soundsource for $39 that supposedly does what I want… perhaps, maybe… I might download the demo and see if I can make it work if I don't get a workable solution on AH. Since I have a license, I've reached out to Support. I've tried a Manual setup without the Record module(s) but have not made it work. Supposedly, Audio Hijack can do this but I can't make it work-unless I want to record the results and that's not what I want to do. Obviously you can do that with any DAW, but I wanted something simple that autostarts and keeps it’s settings, with no requirement to start a DAW to host the plugin. The additional thing I wanted was to be able to insert a plugin on the signal passing in or out of the virtual driver. So this can be used to apply a little EQ or dynamics, e,g, using the Apple AU effect plugins, to system audio without any user intervention other than starting up the Mac.įor EQ, there is a simpler app called EQMac, but in the free version, it’s EQ setting are not that flexible.Īfter investigating these options, I had to wonder why macOS, which provides a system settings panel for audio, and a set of quite good audio plugins, hasn’t connected the two, and provided plugin inserts in Sound settings panel (or preference pane, depending on your OS version.). It has a lot of features useful to Podcasting, but can load any AU or VST plugin at the input or output stage, can autostart, and keep it settings across sessions without user intervention. It’s from Ginger Audio and is called Caster.

Ground control mac update#
I found there is a free version of the update to GroundControl Square, that works with the GroundControl or other virtual drivers. There are a lot of simple AU and VST hosts but most require a VI as an audio signal source and don’t autostart or keep settings.
Ground control mac driver#
No doubt fine if you use everything it does, but not worth the price for my limited requirements for a basic audio driver not connected with a specific piece of hardware. Or you can just use the 2 channel version to record audio from a screen capture in Quicktime.

It has a 64 channel version, so you could use it to slave Logic to DP and use it as a huge outboard effects and instruments rack. It gives the basic ability to connect various audio sources and destinations, and is stable (for me). Looks like the Blackhole update has solved my immediate problem.
