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Just discovered (...shame, should have known it!) you can record sound and movies (including what's on the screen) with the bundled-in Quicktime Player -- don't need "Pro".
(Snow Leopard, 10.6.8)
But how do you get it to take the sound directly from EigenD without having to go via the speakers and internal microphone? Have tried fooling around with Audio Line In, in various configurations, including connecting it directly to the earphone socket. Zilch.
AFAICT Audacity & Garageband have the same limitation, which must be a Core-Audio one.

Thanks, Mark, that sounds a good tool to have. Just downloaded it, play with it over the weekend.

Solved my immediate problem by connecting the earphone output of iMac to mic of my old Win2000 Toshiba, which actually has a very nice sound system controlled by an all-powerful mixer (an extended "Volume Control" utility) able to rip quality sound from any source. (The only good thing about it!) Then I ran Audacity on the Toshiba.
++ Big plus: I knew exactly what I was doing from long experience.
-- Big minus: it uses two computers: will be nice to get it all on the iMac 'cos I'm trying to rid my soul of Windows.

Wasn't Geert's tutorial an old one to do with connecting Pico as a MIDI instrument to Garageband? Can do that: and Garageband finds the Pico by itself nowadays without having to tinker with System Preferences. If Geert's made a later tutorial for not (just) MIDI can someone give me a weblink please?

Hi Earthspot,
Get yourself a copy of Soundflower, which is free from www.cycling74.com. That will let you set the output of EigenD to Soundflower and the input of your recording app to record it. Geert did a nice video of how to set this up his EigenZone site if I recall, but shout if you need more info.

Cheers,
Mark

Quick remark, note that Soundflower on MacOSX Lion is very unreliable. Sadly there's no real replacement.

If you have an audio interface that also has optical IO (TOSLINK) you can select digital out in EigenD and route the signal to the interface.

From there use the interface in whatever programs you like for recording / mixing.

Of course, this only gives you 2 channels. There are a few interfaces that support virtual channels (Metric Halo is one, if expensive). Many mixers support virtual channems although they are more bulky and typically more expensive.

*Some* MOTU interfaces support including 'computer sound' in order to allow a return from a virtual FX unit. That might also work.

Hi Mike,
The Focusrite Saffire Pro interfaces all have a loopback function on them - I know because I've just bought one specifically for routing EigenD into Live. I looked at the Metric Halo after seeing Geert demo his on the Clubhouse a few weeks ago, but figured Mrs P would probably get the locks changed the next time I left the house if I bought one so soon after an Alpha. Instead I bought a Saffire Pro 14 for a highly reasonable 150GBP and, although it only arrived yesterday, it seems to work nicely so far. Similar to using an output and physically looping back with a cable, it's only two channels, but does the job for what I need. It's firewire bus powered and fits nicely in the bag with the Basestation Pro as well.

Cheers,
Mark.

What I've been doing recently with EigenD 2.0, is just put an AudioUnit plugin after the console mixer with a mult of the audio coming out of there. This AudioUnit can record the audio very easily. There are various options for this, I settled on either Native Instruments Guitar Rig or Plogue Bidule.