you might be one of the unfortunate
souls that's a little bit like me and on
your spare time you read up on things
rather than watching some of the shit
reality TV that's on TV nowadays and you
want to feed your brain and invariably
if you're an audio guy and especially a
bit wig audio guy you will stumble upon
jack and then you'll read up on Jack and
everyone in the world's like oh it's so
good right like ah I just have to use
Jack and yeah I know I want to use Jack
and at first I couldn't because I was on
Yosemite and I didn't work and then I
upgraded to Sierra and and the jack
download was removed when I went here
but I tried to get the Jack to binary
like can you just call it download I
guess not and then source tarball
they someone explain what a source
tarball is I you know a tarball
I don't know anyway so now at work I
downloaded it I installed it and and I
started getting into it and then it's
like well okay how do I use this thing
and so you know you go to the
walkthrough and then you see lines of
code and it's like what's happening here
what's what is happening am I the only
numbskull numpty moron in the world that
doesn't want to do this to connect bit
wink to Ableton or logic right am i is
everyone else in the world pointing
their finger right now going he doesn't
even speak Java or C++ what an idiot
right
well like I don't want to I speak enough
language I speak English and a little
bit of Dutch and that's all I want
that's all I want to speak I don't want
I don't want to speak - Jay Jack name :
right anyway well you don't have to as
it turns out there's a much simpler way
to use Jack and it turns out Jack's
pretty dope and you should use it too
and I'm going to show you how to do that
and and it's not so bad it's not so
intimidating it's pretty easy you do not
have to type in any code because
otherwise
would not be peeking this tutorial and
and I hope you get something out of this
okay let's just start the damn show
okay so you've gone to Jack you
downloaded it for appropriately for your
operating system
you know you probably didn't use a
source tarball but whatever you know
okay go back to that later
so now you've installed it you've
restarted your computer and you were
given these two things Jack pilot and
cue Jack control okay the first thing
you'll do
click Jack pilot and just hit start and
you just wait a couple seconds here all
right
actually sorry turn it off don't don't
start it I was dumb go into your
preferences now here's the Preferences
and you're basically basically you're
going to choose the settings that are
appropriate to you okay like I have an
interface plugged in but I'm talking in
it currently so I'm just going to leave
it as built-in microphone and built-in
output but if you have an interface you
would select it here and all is right
and well in the world I would say
activate MIDI click that sucker turn it
on this is where you're telling how many
inputs are on your interface so if I was
to use my scarlett 2i2 I have two inputs
on that and so I would leave that as two
into and then you can create however
many virtual inputs and outputs as you
want I think I don't think there's a
maximum let's try it 99 let's do 99 you
would I mean if you use 99 that's
amazing oh my god you can make 99
virtual that's just too much too much to
handle let's just leave it at 8 8 is
good I think for me right now you might
do 16 or 32 and so and that's basically
it just set this up clock drift
compensation is if you're not going to
match your sample rates so this is set
at 40 for one which is very easy for the
computer to manage and then if if your
dogs are all set up 40 for one and your
interface set up 40 for one then you
don't need clock clock drift
compensation this is really just if
you're going to if you're going to have
a difference inside that okay so you've
activated MIDI you've set up your
her face and everything looks good if
you don't have an interface you
basically your your screen looks exactly
like this okay so click Save
everything's good there and just hit
start and now Jack server is starting
right okay so now that you've got jack
server up and running it's basically
like you just booted the program but
still nothing is happening inside of
Jack pilot what you have to do is go to
sound preferences okay
and it's you can get here a couple of
ways so first of all you're going to
click Jack router and Jack router so
that means your computer's input and
output are going through Jack router if
you didn't if you need to find it again
you compress this and just type in sound
enter okay and there's there's the same
thing again click Oh
Jack router Jack router make sure that
set is your input and output and you're
good to go essentially so now now that
Jack pilot is running you've got your
preferences set and your computer is now
your inputs and outputs are now running
through Jack pilot as your you know
manager for inputs and outputs we're
going to start the programs that you're
going to use on Jack audio okay so let's
start bit wig because it's really what
this is all about and we'll just open up
bit wig and have a look and see what
happens inside once you know then take
your time no it's fine bit wig okay
there we go
we'll open up this project yeah there we
go come on now
there we are so command comma and go to
your settings or you just click this
little button there and go to audio and
you're going to change this over to Jack
okay and there's it's weird if you leave
this on core audio and then you go to
Jack router watch what happens is the
most bizarre thing ever okay so I'm on
core audio jack router Jack Rutter from
my input and output devices so know how
my tempo is 120 bpm
yeah doesn't quite sound like 120 does
it no it's not
it's just I don't know what's happening
there it it took took me a while to
figure out what was going on because
usually on a Mac anyway you're very used
to using the core audio driver because
it's a strong driver you don't usually
change out of that and then so I started
going around it checked making sure all
these were set the same and they were
and then I just getting frustrated the
world was crumbling beneath my feet I
could hear fighting happening outside
you know the world was getting hotter
and starting to sweat and my the blood
veins on my forehead were starting to
pop out and I was like why but then I
just realized oh yeah you just have to
click jack and then everything was fine
and that was it
okay and so remember how you clicked the
enable MIDI thing inside the Jack
control preferences well that allows us
to use Jack chant the tool it allows us
to use Jack as a control for the
transport of bit wig and transport
meaning plays stop record rewind
fast-forward stuff like that okay and
then right here we're saying that bit
wig is the master of that so if we have
other Jack enabled programs and when we
hit play inside a bit wig it will hit
play inside of whatever other program
we're running it I know Ableton for
whatever reason doesn't like it but it's
because they hate each other and that's
fine with me okay so now now that we've
selected Jack and we I'm just going to
leave that enabled for now because it's
pretty handy and I'll show you what it
can do after we're going to set up our
input buses so notice we have system
slash capture one right and two and we
have system you know so that's just
coming from the jack audio thing and
we'll explain that I named this Ableton
because I'm going to send it to Ableton
and so to make it easy we just leave it
as Ableton it's this this will be this
will make sense in a few minutes okay
just stick with me here okay so now
let's open up Ableton dooby doo doo
all right okay so command-comma and
we're going to set it to Jack rotor jack
router notice how you can't select Jack
yeah
Ableton doesn't like fun things like
Jack so it just stays on core audio and
we just have to deal with that okay
input configuration remember how I
selected eight virtual inputs well
here's all eight of them right here see
that and so we can even enable all of
them if you want if that's you know your
flavor that's cool so that's good enough
all right
so basically what we've done is we've
started up Jack pilot and put this on
its own screen I'm going to make another
screen and over here let's bring up
Ableton so on your own screen Ableton
there we go so here we have fit wig in
between them we have Jack pilot and then
there we have Ableton okay
so we've started Jack pilot we've done
our settings you only have to do that
once you press start you've made sure
that your computer's input it out
putting your sound preferences is set to
Jack router and now you're running we've
opened both programs bit wig and Ableton
we've gone into their settings we've
selected Jack in all the ways that we
can and basically that's it that's all
you need to worry about at this point so
now that that's running you know that's
doing great go ahead and minimize that
you're not going to need it for a little
while
open up Jack control okay cue Jack
control and you can see it's already
running it's being used because we
started it in Jack pilot and if we want
to check out what's connected to what
you can simply hit connect and then
there you can see in this thing that
most layman's terms it's just there's a
line drawn to whatever this is connected
to I'm going to disconnect everything
here okay so these on the left are all
of the programs that make audio it could
be anything could be iTunes it could be
like Spotify whatever you have
it could be bit wig Ableton anything
that can make audio on your sister
including the system because remember I
have a microphone on my laptop and so
it's going to show up there too okay and
on the right is everything that can
record audio or transmit audio so that's
going to be you know any DAW that you
have open if I open logic reason Pro
Tools they're all going to show up here
as well and here okay so now you're
going to you're going to choose what you
want to connect to what and so I'm going
to set up a scenario where I play this
song in bit wick and I record it inside
of Ableton okay and so that's pretty
simple to do all I have to do is click
bit wig
click Ableton and connect them but
that's not enough because nothing is
going to my system because ultimately my
system is going to play back that audio
so now I have to connect bit art sorry
Ableton to my system and click connect
so what's happened here is I've i'm
using bit wig to play audio it's
connecting to Ableton Ableton is
receiving that audio and now it's
connecting to the system does that make
any sense okay so now I'm just going to
go to bit wig and I'm going to set it up
so that it puts audio over to Ableton so
command-comma
or click on the little bit wig sign go
to your audio settings and here we go we
have to we have to give an output bus
alright so I'm going to add a stereo and
let's see here I'm going to choose
Ableton Live I'm going to choose input 3
for the left speaker and input 4 for the
right speaker and I'm going to call it
just to not get confused Ableton okay
there we go now you could add another
stereo and then leave it at system
playback and then it'll basically it'll
play through your computer speakers but
I don't want that I want I want bit wig
to play its master through Ableton and
only Ableton and there you have it okay
did you get did you follow that say I
had a logic or reason here okay I could
have a stereo output I could call it
reason right and then when I click down
on this you would see reason just the
way you see alive for Ableton Live and
then
by there you would have all that you
have eight virtual inputs and you would
just select say six and seven and then
you'd be good to go but we don't have
reason open we have Ableton open and so
that's fine so now on my master we can
click down and click Ableton alright and
because we just set it up we know that
Ableton is going is getting out put it
on channels 3 & 4 of the virtual buses
that we created in the Preferences of
this thing ok so now we open up Ableton
we have an audio track here that we're
going to have a look at and we're going
to say we want the inputs from channels
3 & 4 because now that's where bit wigs
coming from okay so now we can simply
press play on bit wig right and and
while it's playing you know you can see
it in a master but you don't hear it why
don't you hear it because it's just
going to Ableton and Ableton isn't
enabled right so if we press this right
you can hear it now because now Ableton
is to stop in between bit wig and your
ability to listen to it so now if I want
to record whatever is happening inside a
bit wait looks simple I'm already
recording okay let's go over here and
there you have it okay well let's do
something funky here because why do
anything unless it's going to be funky
let's record a bit wig inside of Ableton
I'm going to put this on auto and then
I'm just going to start it okay
Ableton's recording let's go over to fit
wig and do something like this I don't
really know what this is going to sound
like but heck
alright ok let's see now if we play this
back
we're pretty cool right actually I kind
of like how that turned out all right so
that's one scenario where we're playing
back inside a bit wig and recording
inside of Ableton there's one other cool
feature that you should be aware of and
that is remember how in in bit wig when
you're in the settings you can select
actors transports ink master well this
is what it's referring to if I go back
here and I have this really let's put
this on top of Ableton for a second and
then let's go into Ableton I can turn
bit wig on by using this because this is
the new transport that's synched up with
big wig check it out pretty cool right I
can go back right and that works because
I was able to just exit it I was able to
select Jack into the core audio and end
because I have this selected and because
we selected admitting or whatever inside
the Preferences of Jack inside the Jack
pilot remember when we went to
preferences here and enabled MIDI what's
one of the things that we could check
box so because we did that we can use
this as our transport control ok and you
can't do that with Ableton because if
you go into the settings it's on core
audio if I could choose Jack then I
would be able to do it but Ableton
doesn't like things like that so you
can't do it which is terribly
unfortunate hopefully one of the two
companies will figure this shit out and
we'll be able to do that
ok so let's set up another situation ok
so maybe we want to record a bit wig
inside of I don't know logic
let's find logic open it up do DVD you
do let's do something new here yeah yes
close it don't save it don't ask so many
questions how about that ok audio and
there we go look at check it out already
there's the
eight virtual inputs that we created
inside of Jack Audio and I'm going to
choose input seven and eight okay how
about that and we'll choose outputs one
and two okay perfect
let's create that all right so let's go
back over to Jack pilot and make sure
our routing is set up properly so oh no
not this one and it click connect and
then there we are back inside so I'm
just going to disconnect everything yep
all right now I want what is this okay
that's news to me
all right I want to connect bit wig
studio to Logic Pro X so I just
highlight the two of them connect it and
I want to connect Logic Pro X to my
system and I connect it so that's pretty
simple okay now we go back over to fit
wig here we are inside the thing and
we'll exit that add a stereo system play
back Logic Pro X when was it seven and
eight right so choose input seven for
the left and input eight for the right
and we'll call it logic there we go
alright so that's setup and now if I
click on my master click output it's
already set to logic which means that
it's outputting seven and eight that
means the left channels on seven right
channels on eight okay and in logic we
already know that it's receiving from
seven and eight because we just set it
up that way see we could do input seven
and eight perfect okay so if I enable
record here actually I don't even need
to put an input monitoring and and
where's our little buddy cue Jack
control let's put this on top of here so
now what should happen and I hope it
does is that we will heat when I press
play it'll turn bit wig on and we'll
hear it inside of logic
great so if I turn off input monitoring
you can't hear it but you can see by the
levels that it is in fact working
so let's hit record and there it is
exactly the same as in Ableton pretty
awesome we can go back and listen to it
right that's pretty great isn't it
let's open up cue Jack control we'll
just stop stop it wig now okay
so again if I could choose let's go to
the preferences if I could have chosen
instead of core audio wait can I disable
core audio Oh interesting
well anyway if I could choose Jack
instead of core audio then I would be
able to use that the transport thing
here and trigger logic the same way that
I can trigger bit wig and so what that
would mean then is that this transport
counter and this one would always be at
the same spot they'd be at the same
tempo the same time signature in the
same position which is super handy
because then when I'm recording in here
it records it in time
perfectly okay I'm going to work on now
that I just saw that little button I'm
going to work on how to do that and and
we'll see if we can get logic to like
Jack audio a little bit but you know
logic is Apple and Apple is the stickler
for things so we'll see what happens
with that okay all right I hope that
that kind of helped you out using Jack
audio it's a pretty interesting little
program and it's very into not tax or
computer really at all and it gives you
the flexibility of connecting anything
to anything right couldn't hear you can
connect anything to anything on your
computer anything that makes sound in
anything that records sound you can
connect them and you can give yourself a
great deal of flexibility and you can
very easily get deep into this where you
know if you if I did go and create 99
new tracks then that would be
saying but we would be able to do it and
so you can tell right off the bat all
the different routing possibilities that
you can get out of using Jack Audio okay
I should also mention if you want to
read up on this I found a good guide on
everything to do with Jack here so if
you're looking to just curl up with an
invigorating ly good book you know
you're going to sit by the fire and
swirl a glass of brandy you need
something to read then this is something
that you should check out I'll put the
link down in the description below but
it basically just gives you a
step-by-step guide on using Jack it's
pretty detailed gives you some pretty
neat information and I learned a lot
from it I think you will too and you can
you know if you there was something that
you couldn't extract from my video you
might be able to get it here okay so
I'll put this description I'll put this
link down into the description so that
you don't have to memorize libra music
production comm large articles luscious
Mississippi and Jack and all that crap
okay you can just click on the link and
it'll be down there for you to read on a
nice evening where there might be a
thunderstorm and everything is quiet in
the house okay alright check that out
I'll probably make a follow-up video
once I discover more about Jack audio
and the stuff that you can do in some
good situations that you might find
yourself in and so stay tuned for that
in the meantime if you have any
questions definitely dump them down
below in the comment section I hope you
subscribe but you probably already did
and so thank you for that and if you
have suggestions for future videos I'd
love to hear them and again I'll remind
you that I'm taking your projects now
you can send me your projects and they
could be made in Ableton or pro tools or
reason or logic or whatever else you got
Cubase doesn't really matter and I will
take them put them into bit wig and will
and I'll mess around with them in my own
way it could be just a bass line a drum
sample a full track doesn't really
matter to me okay alright guys be good
to each other have a good weekend
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