I imagine many of you have, like me, been forced for work/life reasons to install Zoom on your computer, for better or for worse.
One thing I've noticed is how (on Mac, at least) it seems to install a new audio driver called ZoomAudioDevice. This appears in the audio settings in PD.
I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on whether that would work to tap into Zoom audio input and output somehow? Maybe to make a patch that would take audio coming into the Zoom chat and mangle it up and send it back out to the listeners?
I've tried using dac~ and adc~ to listen/send sound to and from Zoom but it doesn't seem to do anything. any ideas?
I reckon this would be possible with some other utility but I thought it was a fun thought experiment.

@yannseznec I imagine (a guess) that in the zoom settings you have to "share computer sound" to send from Pd (probably involves screen sharing) and "record" to get an input to Pd.
Maybe try it in a call with a very good friend....... and keep the Pd volumes very low to start...!
David.

i use zoom to give music production lessons. i have a few students running osx, and when they share they screen with me and check 'share computer sound' they can select zoomAudioDevice as the output in ableton live for example, and the sound from live is routed to zoom. haven't tried it with pd but i asume it would works the same way.

ah ok interesting, that makes sense. I might have a play tomorrow.

here's my first play at making a live PD audio stream going to Zoom - I'll leave this open for a little while in case anyone is interested. jump in and listen to microphones pointed outside running through a granular patch https://zoom.us/j/94734048732

ok so I've continued my explorations a bit more this morning, and I've learned what probably everyone in the world already knew - youtube streaming has much higher quality audio (in stereo!), so I've started experimenting with that. here's my granular live sampling patch listening to the birds outside my studio right now:

it occurs to me that I am working on a farm right now, so I might try doing this with the baby lambs that are bouncing around the field outside later on, if enough people are interested. live generative ambient glitchy farm sounds, anyone?