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ApeMatrix: how does the Mixer Send Receive AU work?
I can’t work out how to use ApeMatrix’s Mixer Send Receive AU in GarageBand. I can load it in the effects slot of tracks, but it doesn’t send anything. Sometimes one of the buses has a pulsing number next to it.
How does one choose which instance sends, and which receives? The manual makes it look like there are two mixer plugins, but I only ever see one available.
Share Audio Between Plugin Instances, it works as a normal AUv3 plugin in apeMatrix and/or all common audio hosts.
The plugin Input is used to RECEIVE and mixes an audio signal into a selected buss, the plugin Output is used to SEND an audio signal that has been mixed onto a selected buss.
There are 16 buses available, default bus is ‘A’, the badge number, shows the actual instances of plugin which are sending/receiving audio relative to bus. You cannot send/receive audio outside of the host app boundary (sandbox), there is no imposed limit to the number of plugin instances”.
I’m trying to send audio from one GarageBand track to another.
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Load it in as an FX on the track you want to send from. Then create an audio recording track, and add it again as an FX on that track. The audio coming out from the one first channel will now be available in the second. If you want to hear it in the second track, turn on monitoring for that track. You’ll hear it from both, and it’ll sound phased due to delay. So you might want to mute the first track.
Results weren’t good in my tests though. Sometimes it worked, but often I got garbled audio.
OK great, I’ll try that. I managed to get it working once, and that may be because I enabled monitoring.
I wonder if it’s good enough to get recordings in sync?
Problem one: The audio recording track has no monitor option:
Also, it’s recording all the noise from the external mic.