macgirl Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Ok you have more than 2 speakers but few movies and songs are 5.1 and you wish to have Speaker fill excitment Before you begin you need to download and install XCode (at least its Audio Applications) Soundflower: linky original maker: http://www.cycling74.com/downloads/soundflower Soundflower is a system extension (or kext) that allows applications to pass audio to other applications. Reboot and begin with Auio Midi Setup and add an Agregate Device (Audio Menu or with Command-Shift-A keys) put all you speakers there and one of the soundflower devices (when it is installed it will show on your Sound Decives as Soundflower(2ch) and Soundflower(16ch) EDIT: But check that all of your outputs has the same frequency, if they don't have it they wont add outputs Now Open AU Lab (it is located in /Developer/Applications/Audio) and add as many outputs as you have (each one can handle 1 to 7 speakers) I chose stereo in this example, see: Then add an input: Now select your agregate device in the Audio Device drop menu: Then time pass to the "Input Channels" tab and select the SoundFlower you attach to the Agregate Device: Then a new window appears with this: Select the little numbers on the left of the Audio 1 slider so they appear on the output sliders. Now, double click on the "Output 1" title and select your agregate device in the drop down menu: Optionally you can add buses (2 for stereo of course), I did this before without the bus thing ant it worked, but there is something different in the sound, I will investigate this later. Finally you end with this: You can save this setup with any name. But in order to make this work you need to select the soundflower device as your output: Remember that Au Lab needs to be running in order to all this work togetther. With this I can have 6 speaker of my ALC888 plus 8 of my Audigy and another 8 with my Sonica Theater 22 speakers = party time: Enjoy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vis Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Lot of detail there, thanks. I'm curious if this would work for me. I have a 5.1 setup but no 5.1 (which isnt fixable at the present apparently.) so my sound comes out of just two of my speakers.I wouldn't mind getting the other 3 speakers to work though for listening to music, etc. Does this guide only work with digital output? My current setup is 3 co-ax analog ones but I can probably get a cheap spdif cable if the guide calls for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredouille Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Thanks ! it's a pity that I haven't seen it before to test it for the new year party at home ! best wishes fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamune Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Absolutely awesome guide, finally got 5.1 on my ALC888 =DD thanks alot macgirl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skull1 Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 i can't get this to work. Should this be paired to a specific kext or codec dump? I'm currently using my own codec dump from my Fedora 9 install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danroj Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 work with sound card stac9228 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 5, 2009 Author Share Posted January 5, 2009 @skull1 No specific kexts, just a soundcard with several outputs @danroj sure, you can have internal speakers plus 2 output jacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cernst Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Thanks macgirl, that works perfectly. What about the other aggregate device? Is this a normal aggregate device, to which you manually switch if you watch dvd for example? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 6, 2009 Author Share Posted January 6, 2009 Yes I created one for stereo on all speakers and another for 5.1 output, since I don't have 5.1 on iTunes music I use stereo but in all my speakers, and use 5.1 with 5.1 movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starobrno1 Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 This sounds great but when I told people I succesfully managed to make an aggreagate device out of all my soundcards my Delta 44, Phonic firefly and my Saffire Pro 10I/0 getting a whole bunch of inputs and outputs avaliable for Logic studio Pro 8 some guy said well that´s great but it´s well known aggreagate device does´nt work so good so you will get phaseout problems. Does it work ok for you? I mean it´s hackmacs we´re talking about here and maby this phaseout problem are only happening in real macs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cernst Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 What is the function of buses in AU Lab? As I can hear, it only makes the output louder and you have the possibility, to add extra effects. Do you already have any idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 6, 2009 Author Share Posted January 6, 2009 I really don't know about the phase out problems. I gues using this for profesional work is not the best option. As I said the first time I did it I didn't add the buses, and it worked, then when finally want to write the guide I found another guide that includes these buses and I gave a try, I hear some differences but don't know what is really happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnie Foxtrott Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Hi macgirl, if I followed your tutorial but only see this: This is my setup: Maybe you know what I'm doing wrong? I have got the Audigy 2ZS. EDIT: I lately recognized that I can't uninstall soundflower (EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)) - wtf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 24, 2009 Author Share Posted January 24, 2009 You need to select the sound card in order to the agregate device has outputs, see: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnie Foxtrott Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Hm thx for the reply, but how can I get xcode without registering at apple? I didn't find it in my System lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VCH888 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Thank you for your guideline, especially pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downlord Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Nice. Will try. thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan0ne Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Works great with Audigy2 ZS! Thank you so much!! Can it be that the sound is better than under Windows? I believe that it is clearer! Here some Pics: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikko088 Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 hello at all, exucese me for my english i try to follow this thread but when i select Soundflower there isn't any sound, all mute. I upload my configuration, there is some one that can help me? I have an alc 882 kikko088 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxtie Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 hmmm, Sound flower output starts distorting after few minutes for me, Is it happening with anyone with 10k2 chip??? I'm talking about listening to music continuously for 1 hour or more (ofcourse you will notice distortion a lot earlier). closing and reopening AU Lab + .trak file solves it (more like reloading). Am i the only one with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetbrett Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 i can't get this to work. when I make my agg. dev. in audio midi setup, I select my SB0350 10k2 (0 in, 8 out) and the soundflower 2chan (2in 2 out). In the box above where the name is, the agg dev still shows 0 in 8 out. So i go to au lab, i add 3 stereo outputs and 1 stereo input. i select my agg dev "6chanout" as the audio device while "output channels" is selected. It looks fine, shows 6 of 8 channels being used. then i select input channels, it shows my 6chanout device still selected as the audio device, and "Audio input not supported". so if i choose the soundflower 2chan here, i see stereo input, but then the output channels only show stereo out. If i hit "done" with my 6chanout agg dev selected, I have no inputs in the next window. If i select the soundflower 2ch, then 2 of the 3 output channels are not used, and I get no sound output too. what am i missing? how do i pick my 6chanout as the output, and soundflower 2ch as the input? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K2` Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 is this only for digital out? is there a way to get analog speakers to work.. i have two 3.5 mm plugs.. one for the rear.. and the other for the fronts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted February 15, 2009 Author Share Posted February 15, 2009 Did you try it? This is for any kind, you can combine digital and analog, thats the beautiful of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K2` Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Did you try it?This is for any kind, you can combine digital and analog, thats the beautiful of this. i must be doing something wrong then.. i'll try it again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onurthemonur Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 there's nothing like "add aggerate audio" in my system... I can add just external audio devices... what should I do? soundflower sees 16 channles but just one of them works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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