No audio input from ANY soundcard on Mac

In fairness, it should not be necessary to hunt through forums or knowledgebases just to get sound out of an audio app. Steinberg and/or Apple should be displaying a warning message to let you know what is happening and how to fix it. Something that basic shouldn’t be on the user to figure out. Imagine if you had to do a forum search just to learn how to get the cursor to follow your mouse.