![]() Where, of course, you feed it to Airfoil and transmit it around your office, er… ship to every device you have. ![]() That’s easy enough, but what do you do with the audio signal you get out of the hydrophone? If you’re thinking like one marine biologist/Rogue Amoeba user, you send the audio into a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 audio interface and then into an iMac. For this, you use a hydrophone-a special microphone designed for picking up sounds in water, where sound travels about 4.4 times faster than in air. You’re researching whales (bear with me on this), and you need to monitor their songs (occasionally useful for saving the planet). (And a good thing, too!) Unsurprisingly, the robot baby cries frequently but authentically, a trick that the producers achieve by watching a live feed of a real baby crying and tapping buttons in the soundboard app Farrago to play different recordings (perhaps made with Audio Hijack?) of equivalent crying through the robot baby.īroadcast Whale Songs to a Shipwide Sound System However, due to Oregon child protection laws, the production must replace the real baby actors with a robot baby at night. In Episode 2, “ Scion,” Fielder helps a woman considering motherhood by hiring child actors in order to simulate adopting and caring for a baby. It’s only a robot! In the HBO TV show The Rehearsal, Nathan Fielder helps people rehearse difficult conversations or life events by simulating them with sets and actors. What’s next, playing an 8-track tape through an I’m playing vinyl through an Ecobee thermostat right now and am starting to wonder if my whole existence is just a hypothetical Vergecast tangent. The unexpected part is that the Ecobee SmartThermostat can function as an AirPlay speaker, so Boston’s next step was to use Airfoil to route the incoming audio from his turntable over to his thermostat. That’s funky but mostly a matter of cabling. The video demonstrates how he connected the turntable to a Zoom Handy Recorder, which then fed the audio into an iMac Pro. On Twitter, user “Boston” shared a short video showing a turntable playing audio through a thermostat. Play Vinyl Records through an Ecobee Thermostat If I were doing this, I’d probably lower the volume on the two “inside” speakers (the right speaker on the left display and the left speaker on the right display) to account for the different distances. The solution? Loopback, which lets you create a virtual device, split the incoming audio into left and right channels, and direct each to a different Studio Display, playing each channel through both speakers in the displays. But you want to go further-you want the left stereo channel to come out of the left-hand Studio Display and the right stereo channel to emanate from the right-hand Studio Display. You want to play your audio through the displays simultaneously, which is enough of a trick in itself. Imagine you, like one very fortunate Rogue Amoeba user, have not one but two Studio Displays. We admit that this is very much a first-world problem. Play Audio through Two Apple Studio Displays What might you want to do with Rogue Amoeba’s apps? Apart from the obvious use cases core to each app, we wanted to share some of the weird and wonderful ways users have leveraged Airfoil, Loopback, and Farrago. Act soon, though, because this sale ends with September. Just visit Rogue Amoeba’s website to save 20% off any purchase. You don’t need any coupon codes or special URLs to get this deal. However, the company is making an exception for its 20th anniversary with a 20%-off sale-now’s your chance to add some additional apps to your Mac audio toolbox. Thanks to reasonable pricing and a desire to keep things straightforward, Rogue Amoeba almost never has sales. During that time, the company has extended its pseudopods deep into the world of Mac audio with a collection of apps for recording audio ( Audio Hijack and Piezo), controlling and enhancing audio from devices and apps ( SoundSource), streaming audio around your home or office ( Airfoil), editing audio ( Fission), routing audio between apps and devices ( Loopback), and even adding canned audio to performances ( Farrago). This month, Rogue Amoeba is celebrating its 20th anniversary, which is an awful lot of generations when you’re a single-celled organism. We’re pleased to welcome Rogue Amoeba back as a TidBITS sponsor for the next few issues. #1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in VenturaĪudio Hacks from TidBITS Sponsor Rogue Amoeba.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD. ![]()
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