Question / Help Can't get audio from external soundcard/mixing desk (iMac / El Capitan)

[MattyB12001]

I've searched through the various posts that seem ALMOST to be about the same issue as I'm having, but I can't seem to make sense of the answers, I'm afraid.
I'm running an iMac with El Capitan, and I've managed to set up the iOS Camera no problem.
BUT: how do I use my MOTU Traveler external soundcard as the Audio Capture Device?
I have "+" Audio Capture Device, and MOTU Traveler comes up as a device from which to choose, and the new fader appears in the Audio Mixer, but nothing appears on the meters.
I hear sound coming through the speakers if I tap the microphone, but nothing appears on the meters.
I use Logic ProX as my DAW, connected through the Firewire 800 port, and that's all working perfectly.
Any assistance you could give would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Narcogen]

OBS is a stereo program and doesn't directly address external multichannel devices.

Look at Rogue Amoeba's LoopBack for 3rd party virtual devices/manual channel routing.

Firewire audio is famously buggy with OBS.

 

[lysdexic_audio]

I made a free version of LoopBack that works with Blackhole or Soundflower to get around this.
https://github.com/lysdexic-audio/OBSAudioRouter

btw mods did you delete my post?

 

[MattyB12001]

I made a free version of LoopBack that works with Blackhole or Soundflower to get around this.
https://github.com/lysdexic-audio/OBSAudioRouter

btw mods did you delete my post?

Thanks man.
I've downloaded the file, haven't yet installed.
I feel like a bit of a dummy when it comes to all this stuff, even though I've been working with sound and DAWs for years.
Would it be too much to ask if you actually have a set-by-step on how I could possibly make this work? Treat me like a
I'm an idiot. lol

 

[lysdexic_audio]

There are instructions on the github page - give this a go and lmk if it works for you too :)

1. Install Blackhole first (link to Blackhole on the github, free)
2. Run my app (keep the app in the same folder as the "data" folder")
3. Select "MOTU Traveler" in the first dropdown
4. Select the channel your mic is plugged into out the the 1-8 buttons
5. Then select "Blackhole" in the second dropdown
6. You should see the meters inside my app moving
7. Now select Blackhole as your Mic/Auxilary input inside OBS Settings
8. Make a new Audio Input Capture and select Blackhole

OBS Meter should now be lighting up :)

 

[MattyB12001]

DUDE! Thank you.
I'll try that a little later today, and let you know.
:-)

 

[MattyB12001]

Hmm...
1. Unfortunately the link you sent, I downloaded successfully, but it crashed on Install.
2. I went to the Loopback site to see what I could learn, or to get another installer package, but I fear this may all be a little beyond me - when I start seeing things like:

"Prerequisites
Install Node.js (version 10 or higher) if it is not already installed on your machine."

and then lines of Terminal data, I know I'm in over my head.
Shame. Thanks for your help anyway, Man.

 

[lysdexic_audio]

Strange that Loopback want you to install Node.js. I've never used it, thought it was payware

Here I've updated the binary to avoid that crash on the releases page if you want to try it now: https://github.com/lysdexic-audio/OBSAudioRouter

 

[MattyB12001]

Same issue, I'm afraid:

Process: OBSAudioRouter [22514]
Path: /private/var/folders/*/OBSAudioRouter.app/Contents/MacOS/OBSAudioRouter
Identifier: cc.openFrameworks.ofapp
Version: 1.0
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: OBSAudioRouter [22514]
User ID: 502

Date/Time: 2020-04-09 15:46:54.296 +1000
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.13.6 (17G66)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: F8119B9E-EBF6-E2E2-D7AC-8367607C5525

Sleep/Wake UUID: ADDC424B-5710-4B05-8C20-DA7C2D4AF649

Time Awake Since Boot: 180000 seconds
Time Since Wake: 72000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Notes: Translocated Process

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000018
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process: exc handler [0]

 

[lysdexic_audio]

Agh - sorry maybe a High Sierra issue. I don't have a High Sierra machine to test on

 

[Dirtydigits]

I've searched through the various posts that seem ALMOST to be about the same issue as I'm having, but I can't seem to make sense of the answers, I'm afraid.
I'm running an iMac with El Capitan, and I've managed to set up the iOS Camera no problem.
BUT: how do I use my MOTU Traveler external soundcard as the Audio Capture Device?
I have "+" Audio Capture Device, and MOTU Traveler comes up as a device from which to choose, and the new fader appears in the Audio Mixer, but nothing appears on the meters.
I hear sound coming through the speakers if I tap the microphone, but nothing appears on the meters.
I use Logic ProX as my DAW, connected through the Firewire 800 port, and that's all working perfectly.
Any assistance you could give would be greatly appreciated.

Similar thing happened today. I was able to stream the past couple of days with things setup as they are but today audio just stopped working in obs.