Originally Posted by finishingmove ➡️

For those that are having issues with system-wide integration. Be sure to check if your hardware interface's mixer software has a stand-alone, digital loopback routing feature built-in. I'm using a Metric Halo ULN8 and have configured a loopback routing in the MIO mixer through a stand-alone instance of bluecat's patchwork. This gives me an always-on, system-wide instance of VSX routed straight to my headphone amp, so I never have to bypass or fiddle with anything going between the headphones and the monitors. I just tell bluecat to load at system launch and it calls up a default preset. I personally like this solution better than the "fake audio driver" tools that hijack the system audio because I can run the ULN8 in exclusive mode with stuff like Tidal or Audirvana or DAWs whose audio engines are fussy about controlling the hardware (Pro Tools), I always worried about clocking/drift artifacts with stuff like audio hijack and sound source and I'm hesitant to run my entire monitoring chain through those. That said, sound source is working great on my MacBook Pro rig into a Dragonfly Red DAC (which powers the VSX well, plenty of juice).
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