Routing Qlab through a DAW i.e. Logic

[Rob]

Howdy Folks,

I'm currently doing a show using a Mackie Blackbird Audio I/O with 4
mics + Qlab. I'm wondering if there's any way to route Qlab through
Logic Express so that I can use Logic's processing on the mics?

That is, can I route Qlab via Rewire (or something similar) into
Logic?

Thanks,
Rob Denton

[Jeremy Lee]

Try soundflower. You may have to create an aggregate device, and it may not work great.

If its just using QLab for playback (it won't do live processing of audio) and Logic FX for mics, then no routing between the 2 is needed. Just run them both at once...

Jeremy Lee
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[Chris Bakos]

Of course, depending on your hardware setup, you might experience a fair, and maybe unusable, amount of latency. 

[Brendan Aanes]

Jack OSX is another, more flexible inter-application audio routing tool. Though I would be nervous running Soundflower or Jack in a live context; I've had both crash on me in the past.

It looks like your interface has multiple ADAT optical inputs and outputs. If you aren't using them for anything else, you could connect your ADAT output to input, route Qlab to ADAT channels and then take the ADAT inputs in Logic.

I'd also be nervous about running a DAW live, but that's just me. I've heard good things about Mainstage (Apple's live plugin host designed for performance) though I haven't tried it.

That's assuming you need to live process your Qlab output. As Jeremy says, if you just need to live process the mics, both applications will be happy running side-by-side. 

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Chris Bakos <christop...@gmail.com> wrote:

Of course, depending on your hardware setup, you might experience a fair, and maybe unusable, amount of latency. 

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[ra byn (robin)]

In which case you might benefit from running @ 96k which should be less
than 1/2 the latency of 44.1k but also more susceptible to crash due to
resource over runs. Not sure how that would affect Qlab.

If the show is really important, I would seriously test & test again long
before doors open & be ready to fall back to something else. The best
sound in the world for part of act 1 & then a whole lot of silence isn't
nearly as good as average sound for the whole show:)

ra byn

[dan howarth]

this post came to mind -- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qlab/ZVn0KpkzrpQ/_18Q56LM3ZMJ