So funny that this pops up now. Thanks for sharing. Since I am celebrating my birtday on sunday I've planned a zoom conference for virtually having a party with my friends whom I cannot meet personally due to the 'rona on saturday night…

I spent 2 hours today setting up Zoom on mac to…

• integrate Webcam with CamTwist for some funny Video FX inside of Zoom
• integrate Webcam Mic Audio
• feed Various Audio Sources into the signal as well (Safari, Maschine, Logic) using Rogue Amoeba Loopback.

I still have to switch from the Webcam mic as source to the Apps Device, because otherwise the mic doesn't work but it's okay. I'll have a look at the PDF tomorrow so see if there's a better way maybe. But so far everything is working fine. I also bought a pro plan so nobody is kicked out after 40 minutes.

 

did you check sound quality (when playing music) on a joined computer?

 

I just checked and it appears that you were right: Skype is supposedly able to deliver FHD video, my bad I guess.

 

Just did it right now. Sounds horrible. Like listing to background music over the phone when calling a support hotline.

 

The companion YouTube video to my new Zoom book is now available. It is more of an overview of the book, but contains an additional section about Zoom's security risk at the end of the video.

Video and free book are available on my website http://MusicTechExplained.com

 

This plugin catched my attention:

Designed to stream audio signal from DAW to web-browser session or to Listento Receiver. Listento allows real-time stream several lossless and compressed formats. Plug-in available in VST, VST3, AU and AAX formats.

I'm now testing it
The idea is interesting, but still buggy: app on android doesnt receive anything, it works only on computers. Also forget to have any sort of realtime feed: latency is high, even with the lowest 0.1 on setting. This makes impossible to interact instantly with the receiver: for example, play live music connected with the band via this plugin is out of question

info: https://audiomovers.com/

 

I was about to mention this other day, as someone had suggested it on another thread. It looked promising, Its benefit would be streaming audio, instead of the VOIP.
My other thought is starting a live video on Facebook or Youtube to the privately invited group of friends.

In any case, for a birthday party over internet, if there's an audio stream that sounds on every participant's computer-speaker, their mic with the feedback would cause some serious issues over any video-conference solution.

 

Although the pdf file is free, some customers preferred to buy it as a printed book on Amazon, making it the #1 for new releases in the Digital Audio Production category.

Thanks

 

I added two more pages to my Zoom book with additional routing options for Pro Tools and Logic Pro X.
The updated book has a release date in the lower-right corner of the cover. If you downloaded the book previously check if it says 2020-0412. If not, just go to my website and download it again
http://MusicTechExplained.com

Here are the screenshots of the two new pages 31 and 32.

 

It seems - due to the tough competition - developers of Skype have finally "discovered" how to improve the sound quality of the calls and also solved a long time headache for users who wished to share the audio of a certain running program during the skype-call.
So, the audio quality has got surprisingly much much better on Skype now.