Soundflower Won't Work. Help Please?

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Soundflower Won't Work. Help Please?

I want to record the UVI Grand Piano into Garageband. For those of you who don't know, UVI Grand Piano is a $30 application purchaseable from the Mac App store. It let's you plug a MIDI keyboard and play piano at amazing piano quality. I want to record this sound into Garageband. There are directions on how to do this. You have to first purchase Soundflower, a sound converting software. However, it is not working. Can I get some help please??

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Feb 28, 2012 10:00 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 28, 2012 11:53 PM in response to Taylorzuno

You have to route the audio from the piano app to Soundflower, and then pick Soundflower as the input source of a real instrument track in GB. Have you followed all the steps in the UVI manual?

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Taylorzuno Author

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Feb 29, 2012 6:24 AM in response to Christoph Drösser

yeah, I did that, but no sound comes out when I play the UVI Grand.

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Answer 3

Feb 29, 2012 12:49 PM in response to Taylorzuno

Does it record when you hit record? Did you turn the monitor on for that track?

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Taylorzuno Author

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Mar 27, 2012 3:59 PM in response to Christoph Drösser

no, it doesn't record. I believe I turned on the monitor. If it is a little wifi signal, then yes.

Does it have to do with the midi settings on my computer at all?

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Answer 5

Mar 28, 2012 3:24 AM in response to Taylorzuno

No, because Soundflower will route the audio of the software piano to GB, not the midi (that's how I understand it, I don't know the software). Which leads to the question: have you created a real instrument track? Because that's what you should use, not a software instrument.

And I don't understand what you mean by the "little wifi signal".

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Taylorzuno Author

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Mar 28, 2012 5:57 AM in response to Christoph Drösser

yes, I created a real instrument track. still not working

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Answer 7

Taylorzuno Author

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Jul 24, 2012 2:41 PM in response to Christoph Drösser

I'm so stupid. I figured it out.

In order for UVI Grand Piano to work in Garageband, one needs to make sure that Soundflower is indeed "open." In other words, the flower icon needs to be visible on the top toolbar of your mac display.

Only took me a couple months to figure that out haha. I thought it worked just as a simple update or something.

Thanks for all your help anyway.

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