In Summary

Audiomovers’ INJECT adds to their range of collaborative helpers, designed to move audio between the DAW and other apps. With a few tricks up its sleeve not found elsewhere, we talk about what it does and show how it can be used.

Going Deeper

With the 2020s witnessing some huge shifts in how studios collaborate, a number of solutions have cropped up that allow studios, clients, and talent to work remotely between studios.

With many studios harnessing a number of hardware and virtual audio sources, even now wrangling these together and piping them to and from the DAW can still be weirdly clunky. Many engineers will have cooked up workarounds which are often less than ideal. Recording application audio with two interfaces and a handful of cables was a pain. Things like using separate interfaces for inputs and outputs hasn’t always been entirely straight forward, with even the “industry standard” DAW only recently supporting more than one at a time, and only on MacOS at that.

What Is Audiomovers INJECT?

• INJECT is a DAW plugin that sends and receives audio between apps or multiple USB interfaces on your system.

• It is different to Audiomovers’ other products, as its sole purpose is to move audio within a studio rather than between studios such as with LISTENTO products.

• This can be done without having to change playback engines.

• Using CoreAudio or WDM, INJECT can be used in any DAW on Mac or Windows.

• For Pro Tools users, it could provide a more useful alternative to Aux I/O making the same functionality available on either OS.

INJECT also features a built-in recorder, letting you grab audio quickly from hardware or virtual sources. This has built-in sample rate conversion, and supports multi-channel inputs and outputs so you don’t need to worry about mismatches stopping the show.

In the video we show you four ways to use INJECT. We show how it can be used to quickly fire audio away from your main interface to do a real world check through device speakers. We then record mic audio using a second interface without having to switch playback engines or use the DAW’s add-on solution, before dong the same for virtual audio from a web browser. Finally we use it to get some meaningful use out of an ancient webcam mic waiting for its big moment…

INJECT Features In Full:

• Easily route audio in and out of any channel in your DAW.

• Streamline workflow when working with application audio and/or external USB devices.

• Record audio using multiple USB interfaces or USB-equipped instruments, iPads, or browser windows into a channel.

• Drag and drop audio into your DAW from INJECT’s built in recorder.

• Works in any DAW using AAX, VST, or AU audio plugins, on Mac or Windows.

Solving a few longstanding studio headscratchers, INJECT will be welcomed by anyone whose DAW only lets them use one playback device at a time. With the “industry standard” only offering its own solution more recently, even this didn’t go as far as a solution for their users working on Windows.

Instantiating it is easy enough; all is needed is knowing a bit about your DAW’s way of recording INJECT’s output… DAWs that have a single main playback engine will need to pipe an Aux or bus channel into an audio track to print INJECT’s output, but that’s just about it.

With AAX, VST3, and AU versions that happily run on Mac or Windows across virtually every DAW out there, INJECT has a lot to offer anyone who doesn’t mind thinking outside of the box, or in it come to think of it…

A Word About This Article

As the Experts team considered how we could better help the community we thought that some of you are time poor and don’t have the time to read a long article or a watch a long video. We are going to be trying out articles that have the fast takeaway right at the start and then an opportunity to go deeper if you wish. Let us know if you like this idea in the comments.