Can you capture an OBS audio source outside of OBS?

[Sperbus]

I use a program called Veadotube mini as a PNGtuber. It's nice, but it doesn't have any built-in audio suppression options, so it just captures raw input. I like OBS's built in noise suppression and noise gate featuring for my mic output, so I'm trying to figure out a way to route that audio output back to Veadotube (I know there's already an image reaction plug-in, but that lacks the fun movement options that Veadotube offers). I know you can use VB-Virtual Cable to reroute audio, but I don't see any way to capture a specific OBS source to it.

Thanks for any suggestions!

 

[AaronD]

VB Cable (or any loopback) works both ways, or any way, or however you think of that. To send something *out* of OBS and into something else, just connect OBS's Monitor to the virtual speaker, and the something else to the virtual mic. Then only send that one source to the Monitor.

If you're already using the Monitor for something else, there's this plugin:

Audio Monitor

Plugin for OBS Studio to add Audio Monitor dock and filter. It allows you to put the audio of a OBS source to an audio device by adding the Audio Monitor filter on the Source in OBS Studio. This can be useful in different use cases...

obsproject.com

The discussion thread seems to suggest that it's getting abandoned though, so it may or may not work for you.

There's also the possibility to do ALL of your audio work in a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation: essentially a completely sound studio in one app), and pipe it from there to everything that needs it: OBS, Veadotube, etc. Then each destination only has one source, and that's its own output from the DAW. Separate loopback for each.

 

[Sperbus]

Thank you Aaron! I found that there's a audio monitor filter option so I could route out just the mic audio through the virtual cable and that works perfectly!