Friday, 23 November 2007

As described in ample detail (but in Ger­man) over at the pod​ster​.de for­ums, here is a little dia­gram illus­trat­ing how to record a skype (gizmo, ichat, sight­speed, etc.) call and your own voice with Gar­age­band, only using free soft­ware tools. This is not as straight­for­ward as I thought, and to the best of my know­ledge this is the only solu­tion at the moment that won’t cost you any money.

The idea is to use Sound­flower, which cre­ates a vir­tual 16 chan­nel audio device. In there you stick (1) the audio from your VOIP applic­a­tion (say into chan­nel 1 & 2) by using Sound­flower (16ch) as audio out­put device as well as (2) your own micro­phone (say into chan­nel 3 & 4) via the tool “LineIn“. You have to do it this way since Gar­age­band only allows the selec­tion of a single input device…

In order to hear your part­ner on the other end of the line you use “Sound­flower­bed” (which comes with Sound­flower) to tap into the vir­tual audio device. That’s it, simple as that :-)

A big thank you to the cre­at­ors of “Sound­flower” and “LineIn” for mak­ing these use­ful tools, and for mak­ing those tools dona­tion­ware.

Ladies first. Pretty ladies sooner.

Posted at 21:20

3 Comments »

  1. you are such a charm­ing geek ;-)

    Steffi — 24 November 2007 @ 0:20

  2. And Gar­age­Band will record in two tracks?

    Henning — 26 November 2007 @ 23:46

  3. Yes, of course! (You just have to mark both tracks for record­ing by klick­ing the little record but­ton on each track).

    Florian — 27 November 2007 @ 10:05


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