You can leverage audio functionality available in Max, Bidule or even such esoteric programs such as SuperCollider and feed audio from them (or to them) to (or from) Gig Performer.

However, last year, much to my delight, Rogue Amoeba, makers of the brilliant Audio Hijack application (which is worth checking out if you need to capture system audio for other purposes, nothing to do with Gig Performer), released an application called Loopback (Mac only) which makes it really easy to create virtual audio “cables” to let you connect the output of one audio application to the input of another.Įven better, you can create a virtual audio interface and by using the aggregate mechanism built into macOS you can create a “new” audio interface that consists of your existing physical audio interface and some extra virtual channels that just appear as extra audio ports.įor Gig Performer users, there are at least two very interesting and powerful uses for Loopback. As for Jack, while it is supposedly very flexible, I have struggled with it every time I’ve tried to use it in the past. NB: SoundFlower has been around for many years, developed originally by Cycling74 , but it’s not really maintained any more so you’re basically on your own. There are two free tools available, SoundFlower (macOS only), Jack which is available for both Mac and Windows and VB-Cable (Windows only). Turns out there are several solutions out there.

So what do you do if you have a great audio application that you’d like to use with Gig Performer but that application doesn’t exist in a plugin format that can be loaded directly into Gig Performer? However, there is no out-of-the-box mechanism to allow audio to be shared like this.

(There’s nothing built into Windows but there are third-party applications like virtualMIDI that do the same kind of thing.)

MacOS has a nice built-in feature called IAC (Inter-app Communication) that allows you to connect MIDI applications together and communicate with each other.

Virtual audio cable for mac