we’re working in conference rooms and are tryinging to connect three microphones with an UR44C and USB-C to a windows computer.
Further testing Software for recording ist Audacity and OBS/Zoom for streaming. In the end we will use special systems like Q-SYS or Vertex audio visual equipment.
The first and second microphone are working fine, stereo and mono. But the third microphone is only shown as level in dspMixFx. Looks like the Seinberg USB Driver only uses the first two channels. I want the three microphones mixed together delivered as one channel supported for Windows.
In OBS and Audacity driver namend “Line (Steinberg UR44C)” and “Loopback (Steinberg UR44C)” are selectable. I don’t see any outgoing driver from dspMixFx.
By installing Audacity I got license warning for the Steinberg driver. In Audacity documentation I found the option to compile with ASIO-Support. We need legal software for the conference romms on a university. Buying lincenses is not a problem, but i don’t know which one.
Did i miss an option in configuration the dspMixFx ? Is there another USB driver für the UR44C?
This is a limitation with the Windows sound system. That’s why Steinberg introduced over 25 years ago, ASIO.
Unfortunately, OBS is not able to use ASIO.
You can try to use a wrapper software or a dedicated mixing app.
DAW software needs to see the microphones as separate signals to record.
You don’t need to buy a license. The use of ASIO is free of charge. The Audacity team can’t bundle the ASIO support by default, that’s the only drawback.
This isn’t that simple.
ASIO doesn’t work on Windows itself. Windows is using Direct Sound, WDM or WASAPI drivers only.
All devices need a standard WDM driver to work on Windows and associated software.
WASAPI will change that in the future, but it isn’t widely used at this time.
RME is providing a multi device WDM driver. Every stereo pair has it’s own WDM device and is accessible from Windows.
Again, this is not the ASIO driver. ASIO is always capable of all in and outs of the device.
No. This software isn’t using the audio driver at all. It is just a remote control application to set the parameters for the integrated mixer and effects processing. It doesn’t do anything with the audio signals.
All happens in the interface itself.
And nearly all drivers have a driver control panel to set sample rate, bit-depth and buffer size independent of the DAW in case the DAW doesn’t support that part of the ASIO system.
Hmm… yes and no. That OBS isn’t using the ASIO driver is another factor.
Vmix for example is using the ASIO driver and has access to all inputs and outputs the interface provides.
Audacity is capable of using the ASIO driver, but you need to compile it with ASIO support by yourself.