Break An ASIO Out: OS Level Not App Level

[jasonmvp]

Hey gang -

My GOOG-Fu sucks and am having trouble finding this, and whether it's even possible. I have a Mackie DL32R digital mixer, which has a USB port to run to a PC or Mac. When you connect the mixer to a PC and install Mackie's driver, Windows is presented with 16 independent sound input devices, and 16 independent output devices. Sort of like adding 16 new sound cards to your PC. They're addressable, assignable, etc, all independently of one another. You have to specifically go into the Mackie driver and say, "ASIO all these together!" to combine them into a 32/32 single device.

When you connect the mixer to a Mac, you immediately get a 32 in/32 out single ASIO device. The assumption, of course, is that you're going to run a DAW or some other application that will split those channels up accordingly, internally. What I'm trying to do is replicate the Windows default action: keep the devices separated at the OS level, not the application level.

Mackie doesn't have anything on their site that will do it. And, I think this is more of a generic MacOS and/or third-party driver/app sort of thing. Does anyone know of something I can install or re-configure on MacOS to break those devices out?

Thanks!

 

[jasonmvp]

I found an answer to my challenge and it's Rogue Amoeba's Loopback app. It's $100, but so worth it, IMHO. With a little help from their tech support folks, I was able to split the DL32R's 32 in/32 out single device into 16 stereo input devices, and 16 stereo output devices. Cool. That's exactly what I was after.

And yes, for the pedantic amongst us: I know ASIO is a Windows thing. I should have said "ASIO-like".