vidOS Audio Input Selection

vidOS
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Hey Ron / all!

Just got a Mezzz, loving every minute, but I have a clarifying question with regards to using vidOS on my Mac. I have an…elaborate home setup, and my default audio interface has a ton of ins and outs, some of which I’ve consolidated into Aggregate Audio Devices (via the Mac Audio/MIDI Setup).

What I’m curious about is if there’s a clean, simple way to select audio input sources within vidOS in order to select which track/s are being sent to the audioreactive parameters set within vidOS. Along similar lines, I’m curious if there’s a way to incorporate audioreactivity with multitrack functionality (having one shape react to a kick while another reacts to a snare, for example).

In the use case of using vidOS on an iPhone or iPad, I understand that the process is pretty straightforward: connect an interface via USB/lightning or use the built-in device microphone to engage audioreactivity - all fine and good. I’m curious if there’s a way to pipe audio in from my elaborate interface setup (two track stereo is fine, of course, but would love multitrack as an option). If the multitrack suggestion is just grounds for feature creep, so to speak, I totally understand.

Thanks in advance, love your work!

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I agree multichannel in would be cool and the feature could probably use more settings selections; there is no way to select a specific device beyond the default at the moment. Tbh I havent experimented or tested such complex setups with many devices on desktop, is the mac not selecting the default audio input as the source for the following in your Mac?

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Hey Ron!

I haven’t experienced issues with vidOS not selecting the default audio input, but I’d love to do things like internally route audio into the vidOS app, via an aggregate software like Blackhole or Loopback, so I can use vidOS with clean audio in from Ableton or any other audio application.

If there’s a feature I could potentially request, maybe adding a binary toggle on the held-encoder menu (where audio reactivity options are) to select built in mic vs. USB connection, for example, that would be tremendous.