Hi,

Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but anyway:

I have to give in and use Reaper for external multiband compression.

But! When I connect reaper with Soundflower the signal is weak, its present but weak. 100 dB from Pd turns magically to -50 dB in Reaper.

@cfry said:

100 dB from Pd turns magically to -50 dB in Reaper.

One thing is that Pd's objects related to dB add 100 -- 0 dBFS in other software is represented as 100 dB in Pd.

So you don't actually have 100 dB in Pd. Nor would you want that. Full-scale in floating point is -1 to +1. 100 dB represents an amplitude of 10 ^ (100/20) = +/-100000 (edited b/c at 6 am on a tablet, I miscounted zeros). Reaper would not be expecting that, and not handle it well.

That doesn't explain the extra 50 dB difference -- I've no idea about that.

hjh

@cfry Soundflower has attenuators....check that they are all the way up in Audio MIDI Setup.

@jameslo said:

@cfry Soundflower has attenuators....check that they are all the way up in Audio MIDI Setup.

I was gonna say this with no knowledge of reaper nor soundflower whatsoever: There is a very high likelyhood that there are adjustable gain stages between pd -> soundflower -> reaper. Don't try to make up for it in PD

@cfry Please report back with the solution when you find it, I'm curious. I tested Pd->Reaper via WASAPI on Windows and there was no attenuation, but I use Soundflower with Audacity on my Mac.

@jameslo said:

@cfry Soundflower has attenuators....check that they are all the way up in Audio MIDI Setup.

Hi, this was the solution but not in Audio/Midi Setup which I already double check, but in Sound Settings. There you can attenuate sound drivers in/output. I forgot this since I so seldom have to do it. Annoying that there are two different applications for this. It could at least be included in Audio/Midi settings.

Thanks for helping me out!