Is there a way to sample a loopback of the Maschine output from another app?

Felipe Paiva
Felipe Paiva Member Posts: 30 Member
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Hi guys

I want to find a simple way to sample the output from youtube (or Spotify, etc) which goes out via the Maschine HW into the Maschine SW. Like of a "loopback", but for audio coming from another app (i.e. not audio coming from Maschine SW itself).

Is this a "new feature" to be requested? It seems so evident to me that I'm thinking that there must be an easy way out of this…

Thanks

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  • D-One
    D-One Moderator Posts: 3,762 mod
    edited November 2024 Answer ✓

    Mac or Windows? What Maschine HW? If it's and M+/Mk3 loopback cant be added to the HW, unless they release a new HW.

    It can be added as an app / driver on your OS tho, to send audio in-between apps or simply recording the output, on Mac theres a bunch of options from free to expensive, on Windows I don't know.

    Theres is even a Chrome extension that enables recording anything on your browser and saving it to a file:

    https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sample/

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  • tetsuneko
    tetsuneko Member Posts: 885 Expert

    There are both audio interfaces and additional system utilities which can enable this kind of loopback. I'm not sure which utility is the best to use at the moment, but before I had an audio interface which had internal loopback features, I used to use Soundflower. I'm sure there are modern alternatives to something like it.

  • D-One
    D-One Moderator Posts: 3,762 mod
    edited November 2024 Answer ✓

    Mac or Windows? What Maschine HW? If it's and M+/Mk3 loopback cant be added to the HW, unless they release a new HW.

    It can be added as an app / driver on your OS tho, to send audio in-between apps or simply recording the output, on Mac theres a bunch of options from free to expensive, on Windows I don't know.

    Theres is even a Chrome extension that enables recording anything on your browser and saving it to a file:

    https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sample/

  • Jeremy_NI
    Jeremy_NI Administrator, Customer Care Posts: 14,901 admin
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/190749#Comment_190749

    Nice! I didn't know about this little Chrome extension, that's pretty handy. Thanks for sharing!

  • Felipe Paiva
    Felipe Paiva Member Posts: 30 Member

    I'm on Windows, Maschine Hw mk3.

    I'll give a try on the Chrome extension, thanks :)

  • DirtyJawa
    DirtyJawa Member Posts: 16 Member

    I haven't had a chance to test all of this yet, but I've used loopback methods on older versions of Windows with now outdated software, and I've seen this working online recently.

    There's a few general system workflows that'll help, whether working in Maschine or a DAW.

    On MAC OS: use the software "Loopback" to create virtual audio cables inside the system.

    Windows OS: multiple options, but the most promising look to be "JACK Audio Connection Kit" (open source, also routes MIDI), "VB-Audio Virtual Cable" (free), and "Virtual Audio Cable" (paid). There's a few others out there.

  • Stevo
    Stevo Member Posts: 3 Member

    If you take a TRS/TRS and plug one end into the headphone out and the other into the mic input on the back of maschine you could create a loopback to capture whatever is playing on another app or window. Just make sure maschine is set as both the output and input in the software and on your computer.


    Load a sampler and then a limiter. Press the sampling button on maschine to pull up the record window and at the bottom (on the software) you can set the input to ext. mono. Input 1L. MAKE SURE MONITORING IS TURNED OFF!!! THIS IS A FEEDBACK LOOP. You won’t need it anyway because you’ll be able to listen to playback through your speakers or monitors as it records.


    Now you can capture audio from anything on your computer.

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