Rework Advanced Audio Settings

[mhund]

Hello,

want to make a proposal for an improved advanced audio setting page containing three topics. I would expect that this is only an UI-Change without having any influence on the settings data or logic level.

1. move the channel assignments from the general setting to the advanced audio settings. There you could see the direct correlation between devices and output types
2. change the way how to assign a device to monitor to an select button instead of the pulldown option "Audio Monitoring". The today solution (pulldown and select "monitor off", "monitor only", "monitor and output") is illogical and confusing. It would be more simple, to switch "output" via channel assignment on the right and "monitor" as an extra switch as shown in my sketch.
3. Could you please add at least two more channels? Having only 6 channels restricts the number of use cases - at least for me.

To make my proposal more clear, I added an sketched picture. Sorry for having the screenshot in german UI setting :-) Hope You can get the idea.

regards, Martin

 

[AaronD]

There have been a LOT of suggestions in almost every possible direction. Welcome to the club!

Here's mine, which I think includes all of yours and a lot more, with pictures added back into this post because it does work here:

Audio Overhaul · OBS Studio Ideas and Suggestions

I know there are several threads about this already, but here’s mine anyway, with pictures this time. :-) I think it combines most of the ideas in t

ideas.obsproject.com

And the Open Document Drawing that produced those pictures:

OBS Audio Suggestion.odg

drive.google.com

But, the devs are already working to either solve directly or allow a future plugin to solve everything, as (probably) a complete scrap and rewrite. What's there now is a big, unmaintainable, pile of band-aids on top of an original good idea for a very limited use. Until they do that, I doubt that anything is going to change at all. No sense in fixing something that's going to go away entirely.

Because there are so many problems, I usually recommend that people do all of their audio work *outside* of OBS, and bring in the final soundtrack as OBS's only audio source at all, to pass through completely unchanged. That matches the professional mindset anyway, that audio and video are separate things to be processed separately, and brought together at the last moment to send out.

 

[mhund]

Thanks for xour reply. Does not sound good. Hope there will be a solution anyway.