ishmayl
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I'm having some issues getting audio for Twitch streaming to work the way I want it to work. This may end up being a long post, but to make sure to explain all the issues I've had, I want to put as many details as possible.
I am using a Mac to stream live music to Twitch. This is what my signal chain looks like for both piano and vocals:
DIgital Piano -> Midi Out -> Focusrite Scarlett 18i6 -> USB Out -> Mac Mini 2013 -> Reaper
Condenser Mic -> XLR -> Focusrite Scarlett 18i6 -> USB Out -> Mac Mini 2013 -> Reaper
As anyone who has used an audio interface into Reaper knows, there are basically no problems getting this to work. I have a great sound mix, my midi VSTs are working fine, and the audio comes back out of my Scarlett perfectly. However, as we also all know, Macs are kind of stupid about sending computer audio to different places. To send audio from Reaper into OBS, we have to use a virtual audio cable or some similar routing option.
So far, I have tried three different free options, to varying degrees of "success" ("Success" qualified below):
So that's the "success." Basically, I would call said success at-best, very minor levels of success. With none of those three options am I able to just simply stream the way I want to stream.
Here are my hopes: A) Someone on these forums have had these literal exact same issues, using my exact same (or similar) setup, and knows exactly how to fix them, or B) Someone knows enough in general about setting up Macs for streaming OBS from a DAW, that they will be able to give me some new advice I haven't found anywhere else.
This is something I've been working on since the beginning of the year.
TL;DR: To reiterate, I have technically gotten Reaper to stream to OBS on my Mac, but in no means in the way that I would like it to work so that I can use all the options I would like to use. Please help!
I am using a Mac to stream live music to Twitch. This is what my signal chain looks like for both piano and vocals:
DIgital Piano -> Midi Out -> Focusrite Scarlett 18i6 -> USB Out -> Mac Mini 2013 -> Reaper
Condenser Mic -> XLR -> Focusrite Scarlett 18i6 -> USB Out -> Mac Mini 2013 -> Reaper
As anyone who has used an audio interface into Reaper knows, there are basically no problems getting this to work. I have a great sound mix, my midi VSTs are working fine, and the audio comes back out of my Scarlett perfectly. However, as we also all know, Macs are kind of stupid about sending computer audio to different places. To send audio from Reaper into OBS, we have to use a virtual audio cable or some similar routing option.
So far, I have tried three different free options, to varying degrees of "success" ("Success" qualified below):
- SoundFlower - Basically non-working for me. I found the kext-signed version that supposedly works on El Capitan, and it simply just never worked for me. SoundFlower shows up as options in the AudioMidi control panel, but nothing I did would send the audio to OBS
- JackRouter - It technically "works," but it is so glitchy/buggy that it may as well not worked. I've missed several scheduled streams because the Routing interface is so glitchy that I can't send the signal to OBS.
- iShowU - My best success so far, but there's a major hiccup. Setting it up in the way shown in Chupacabra Tutorials' "OBS for Mac: Updated Setup Guide & Soundflower Audio Alternative" youtube tutorial, basically I can get the midi part of my signal chain handled just fine, but I can never get the audio from my mic into Reaper using this tutorial. So while I can get my mic audio into OBS as a secondary audio input, because it's not coming through Reaper, I can't use the audio FX I like to use.
So that's the "success." Basically, I would call said success at-best, very minor levels of success. With none of those three options am I able to just simply stream the way I want to stream.
Here are my hopes: A) Someone on these forums have had these literal exact same issues, using my exact same (or similar) setup, and knows exactly how to fix them, or B) Someone knows enough in general about setting up Macs for streaming OBS from a DAW, that they will be able to give me some new advice I haven't found anywhere else.
This is something I've been working on since the beginning of the year.
TL;DR: To reiterate, I have technically gotten Reaper to stream to OBS on my Mac, but in no means in the way that I would like it to work so that I can use all the options I would like to use. Please help!