How to output monitor before adding to mix on FarPlay?


  • David Liao
    Keymaster

    1 month ago

    Hi Morgan,

    Glad to hear FarPlay has been amazing for your group! To monitor Logic Pro’s output before bringing that output into FarPlay, do the following.

    Click Logic Pro > Settings > Audio. For the Output Device, choose the desired audio interface/External Headphones. As a result, the Input Device might get automatically changed. If so, change the Input Device back to the audio interface/microphone you were using. Then, press Apply.

    When you’re happy with Logic Pro’s mix in your headphones, go back to Logic Pro > Settings > Audio. Change the Output Device back to BlackHole. This will also automatically change the Input Device to BlackHole, which you don’t want. So, change the Input Device back to the audio interface/microphone you were using. Then, press Apply. Your Logic Pro mix is again available to be brought into FarPlay.

    If I misunderstood your question, please let me know.

    Also, may I ask what aggregated inputs you’re bringing into Logic Pro? You might simplify your sessions by bringing those inputs directly into FarPlay’s input mixer, which lets you bring audio in from as many audio devices as you like, avoiding the need for an Aggregate Device and Logic Pro.

    Thank you,
    David Liao


    Morgan
    Participant

    1 month ago

    Hi David,

    thank’s for responding so quickly, and yes, you understood my question perfectly 🙂 and yes, I can switch back and forth with logic’s output preferences as this does indeed work, but I was looking for a perhaps more elegant solution! I imagined an intermediary virtual mixer, that sits between Logic and FarPlay, but that just adds another layer of complexity, lag that I have not yet been successful in achieving yet.

    The ideal solution would be to have a master mix-out in FarPlay, allowing me to input monitor, without adding to the mix being recorded, does that make sense?

    Could that possibly be a feature request?

    Kindest regards
    morgan


    Morgan
    Participant

    1 month ago

    Hi David,
    I have just rethunk what I am actually trying to do. With regards to the original question, I can just mute my self in FarPlay and still be able to monitor what is coming out of Logic, which works great if I am only using Logic as a single instrument.

    But what I am actually trying to do, which is perhaps more to do with Logic than FarPlay, is I may have some loops playing, which are feeding into the FarPlay collaborative mix, but I want to preview, or input monitor another input in Logic, like say a software instrument, without it adding to the master output, but still be able to hear it in my headphones.

    To be honest, I’m not even sure if it is at all possible?! Or maybe I am just going about this the wrong way??


    David Liao
    Keymaster

    1 month ago

    Dear Morgan,

    Thank you for your helpful clarifications.

    If you have an audio interface with advanced routing/loopback capabilities, you can do the following (this method doesn’t use BlackHole).

    • Tell Logic to use your audio interface as its output device. In Logic’s mixer, send your loops to outputs 5 and 6 and send your software instrument audio to outputs 7 and 8.
    • In your audio interface’s mixing/routing software, send the audio on outputs 5, 6, 7, and 8 to your headphones mix and, at first, send only the audio on outputs 5 and 6 to the mix for the virtual input that you choose as the microphone in FarPlay.
    • When you’re happy with how your software instrument sounds, use your audio interface’s software to send audio from outputs 7 and 8 to the mix for the virtual input FarPlay is using as its microphone.

    Thank you,
    David Liao

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