Question / Help Audio capture from external audio interface

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Lophophora

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Hi everyone,

I just installed OBS Studio for Windows 10 and I am trying to get the settings right. I am using an audio interface (Focusrite Clarett USB) but even though that is the device I have selected in the audio settings, the meters are not moving in the audio mixer when I play something in my DAW (Cockos Reaper). Capturing desktop audio seems ok though (meters moving), but what I need is to capture what is happening in my DAW. Am I doing something wrong or is it a compatibility issue?

I've attached my latest log file.
 

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Dihelson

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Lophophora said:
Hi everyone,

I just installed OBS Studio for Windows 10 and I am trying to get the settings right. I am using an audio interface (Focusrite Clarett USB) but even though that is the device I have selected in the audio settings, the meters are not moving in the audio mixer when I play something in my DAW (Cockos Reaper). Capturing desktop audio seems ok though (meters moving), but what I need is to capture what is happening in my DAW. Am I doing something wrong or is it a compatibility issue?

I've attached my latest log file.
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I use a DAW also. Sonar X3. And a Focusrite sapphire Pro40. Looks like OBS doesn't like these interfaces. I never got to broadcast really clean at first, unless I use a second sound card just for OBS. In my case, I use a Layla 24/96 interface on the same computer. I sync the two interfaces with rca Spdif, focusrite as master. And I make a mix of what I want to broadcast and send to a pair of outs just to Layla inputs 1 and 2 ( stereo ). So, OBS runs independently from my DAW. Any small interface could do that, even a Behringer UCA202 which may be the cheapest, but good interface on the planet. Having a dedicated interface for OBS makes a ton of difference. I'm setting my studio for broadcasting live performances with several cameras. As my project is way bigger than yours, I use 4 cameras, 2 webcams and I want to record sources separate, I splitted the work among two machines later, and now, the first one with focusrite is running only the DAW, and the second one is where I record videos, edit them and broadcast live, using on this machine, several capture cards. Good luck.
 
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Lophophora

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Dihelson said:
I use a DAW also. Sonar X3. (...) Good luck.
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Wow that's good to know, thanks for the input. I'm not ready to buy another interface just for this as I'll only be doing a few short videos every now and then, so I wish there was a workaround...
 
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Dihelson

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Lophophora said:
Wow that's good to know, thanks for the input. I'm not ready to buy another interface just for this as I'll only be doing a few short videos every now and then, so I wish there was a workaround...
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After trying for almost one year, I decided to dedicate another sound card ( interface ) just for OBS. But you can try other solutions. OBS depends on inputs, you can dedicate a stereo input to it by sending the output mixed signal back to that input to capture on OBS. There's always the option of a virtual audio cable, but that was not very fine to me. A cheap 50 dollars interface ( or less ) would do a great job.

Another tip: If you can't see all inputs of your interface on OBS, you need to install the plug-in ASIO for OBS, when doing that, you can choose the inputs you want.
 
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