Mac Audio Routing Virtual Cable EZ solution

bobbymac

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I have FINALLY found a solution that works and is easy. After switching companies, I finally got a MacBook Pro for a workstation and one of the first things I tried was to install OBS to record and/or stream. I like to create training videos for junior teammates, stream demos ect and have done this on a WIN10 system using most of the https://www.vb-audio.com/ products. They have a “pay if you like it but use it for free” licenser model. I pay because I like to support decent software from small companies and $10-25 is more than worth it for the value I received.

After firing up OBS on the Mac I found there were 0 decent and affordable options that were easy to install and use. I found deprecated SW as well as $100.00 DAW’s but very few thing to virtually route audio in a simple way. I used VoiceMeeter Potato, VC-cable (virtual cables) on my personal workstation (WIN10) but at the time (6 months ago) VB-Audio was 100% windows only. As of May 19th, that all changed and now we have a virtual audio cables to do simple routing! www.vb-cable.com All I have to do is select the VB-cable as the source and select that as my speaker.

Full disclosure but I am a huge VoiceMeeter and VC-Audio fanboy so responses of “I can do that with the $1 and it is better” or “that’s not open source” will fall on deaf ears. :-)
 

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ov10fac

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If you could provide a little more in depth instructions I would appreciate it. I am brand new to MAC and not familiar with some of your terms. I have VB Channels installed, but can't seem to get any audio out. Thanks.
 

JamLion

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I'm not new to mac, even I don't fully understand that. I'm confused. I was having a problem with not being able to hear in-game audio, but you could hear my microphone.
I'm thinking about using virtual cables to hook up my game to OBS, but I don't know how to do that.
 

coolaj86

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Note 1: The how-to video is gone.

Note 2: I got VB Cables (on an M1 with Monterey), but I can't figure out where the main "app" is. The "VB-Cable Control Panel.app" gives me zero options - just stats on the virtual driver.
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coolaj86

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I found the "Audio Devices" pane! It's in "Audio MIDI Setup.app".

You "Create Multi-Output Device"
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