Routing other apps to Pro Tools
 

Currently I route the line output of my Mac into a couple of analog channels of my HD I/O so I can listen to audio from Chrome, etc. while Pro Tools is running. Is there a way to do this digitally staying in the box? Maybe with Pro Tools Aggregrate I/O? Aggregrate engine has always confused me tbh.

I'd like to be able to Skype for some online vocal lessons and still have access to my my mic and plugins.

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I thought Sound Flower was the Mac solution for this:o

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I installed Soundflower and made it the system output. Also did this below from Soundflowers instructions. Where is this supposed to be coming up as an input in Pro Tools so I can monitor it?

Open Audio MIDI Setup: (found in /Applications/Utilities)

hit the '+' button in the bottom left corner and select "Create Multi Output Device"
in the the panel that appears on the right, select "Built-in Output" AND "Soundflower (2ch)"
then hit the button with the gear icon bottom left and select "use this device for sound output" (you should still be hearing your iTunes output -- it is now going to both Soundflower and the built-in speakers)

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Hmmm, maybe you need to configure aggregate IO to make it work? Working from memory here as I run PC:o

Routing other apps to Pro Tools
 

You’re running HD.

You can’t use Soundflower etc. as it needs to work with Core Audio interfaces.

FYI - this question has come up a lot. Search the forum to see suggestions and what others are doing.

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Source Nexus is great for this

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Does that work with HD I/O ?

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Source Nexus doesn't care what kind of interface you've got - it's a way to route to/from CoreAudio through an AAX plug. Works well.

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Loopback by Rogue Amoeba is the solution you're looking for.

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It won't work. Pro Tools takes exclusive control over HD hardware so that it isn't accessible to any other application running on the system.

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Loopback is great for re-routing CoreAudio, but it won't get you into an HD rig - Source Nexus will.

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As others have said...Aggregate with HD isn't an option unfortunately. Source Nexus is great, but if you don't require the full feature set it provides, You can always get a USB audio device that supports SPIDIF, and route the digital I/O to your HD/IO. I use a Behringer USB coreaudio interface that works great with my Avid Omni, older macs have built in optical audio support as well so thats another route you can go.