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Hands On: Rogue Amoeba's Farrago is a superb soundboard for Mac podcasters and show produc...
This looks like a great piece of software and something I will be recommending to people. My issue is when the article says -
”Then for its events, Apple uses a soundboard system which is a combination of hardware and software from MOTU. MOTU's software alone costs $499 -- and can get more expensive, quickly.”
The Motu system linked to doesn’t do what this software does... at all. While they are both called “soundboard” this comes down to a vernacular difference between two close, but not quite the same, sections of audio users/professions. In the podcast realm “soundboard” can be what this software is. In the live sound/theatre world, the Motu system linked to in the article is a soundboard/mixing console, but the system by Motu, or other brands, is for controlling levels/eq/dynamics from a live sound performance, not tracks being played back from files. Motu does also have editing software (Digital Performer), that would be closer to Logic Pro (Apple), or Pro Tools (Avid), it still isn’t what Farrago does (think really high end Garage band).
In the theater world, the audio output of the hardware running Farrago would be plugged into the “soundboard”, or “mixing console”, to be mixed with the other audio elements (microphones, other sound effects, etc.)
