Live Stream your DAW through OBS! How-to guide

[@talis61]

For those not getting "reaplug-standalone" to appear in the VST 2.0 menu in OBS please make sure that the dll is installed in any of the following folders: C:/Program Files/Steinberg/VstPlugins/ C:/Program Files/Common Files/Steinberg/Shared Components/ C:/Program Files/Common Files/VST2 C:/Program Files/Common Files/VSTPlugins/ C:/Program Files/VSTPlugins/ Reaplugs was being installed to my Cakewalk VST Plug ins which is NOT searched by OBS. Other DAWS may install to a different folder but all you need to do is copy the reaplug-standalone dll to one of the folders I listed above. Hope this helps some!

[@adamsteelproducer]

Brilliant, pinning this!

[@singingplanet]

I can get ReaStream in OBS and in Audacity separately but can't get them to talk to each other *at all*. A whole week this has been doin my head in.

[@talis61]

@@singingplanet I had a similar problem with my DAW (Cakewalk) and OBS - aside from what I've already stated I also had my sends/receives set wrong - both my DAW and OBS were set to send so nothing worked - once I sent from DAW and received from OBS I was ok - not sure if this helps as I'm not exactly sure the full nature of your problem

[@talis61]

@Corey KippsCan feel your pain - had to really fiddle to get stuff to work. My only suggestions are to try all paths I mentioned making sure the reaplug dll is only in one of the folders (it shouldn't matter tbh but......) - making sure Program Files is on C directory and not on a different one (sorry not wanting to patronise) - rescanning VST folders in Cakewalk/Bandlab - not sure what version of Cakewalk you are using but I'm using the Bandlab version (although I do have Sonar installed but not linked with reaplugs) - hoping it's not some other extraneous conflict which sucks to track down - hoping you can sort it :-)

[@usedtobearoman]

I've spent too much time on this, instead of just going straight to the comment section of the video. Thank you so much!

[@12_Feet_Up]

Thank you! 4 years later, this video is still helping people.

[@VAULTOFSTUFF]

I'm actually excited enough to write a comment for the first time in years. This solution is so elegant compared to the others I've found out there through the years. The plugin seems to be good quality, it's very adaptable, flexible and very light. Thanks a million. Goodbye to hating my life fiddling with voicemeeter and direct sound. Can't commend this method enough.

[@JESUSHAUDIO]

Thank you, after watching like 7 different tutorials, this has been the only one that actually makes any sense.

[@julieorwell]

You video saved me. I spent days trying to figure out how to stream voice + piano, nothing worked, was ready to give up. And it amazes me how simple this plugin is, no difficult setting at all

[@davidscott9408]

dude! thank you! I've been trying to figure out how to get this working for days now. All I could get OBS to record was the raw input from my guitar now I can actually record with my FX loop. I cannot thank you enough.

[@ghason369]

Dude!!!! I've been battling this damn VST for hours now following different guides THANKS TO U I GOT IT TO WORK! (I changed the Inside cubase VST name.... what an idiot.)

[@theplanetsideproject8609]

All I saw was the like ratio and the title and that's all I needed to see. You're a lifesaver my guy!

[@JKZNMUSIC]

I've litterally been at this for 4 hours. it currently 1am pac, this is the only video that helped! THANK YOU!!! i tried everything, voice meeter, odeus, everything

[@abdullahibrahim2631]

Thank you so much...I had voice meter banana in the past briefly but had some weird latency and other hiccup and glitches...I cannot stress enough how much time and headaches you have saved me...i also had another solution patching cables from my focusrite back in the onboard audio card....I believe it doesn't need to be mentioned that it was less than ideal...

[@iamXanderJones]

Youre a god amongst men. I recently made the switch from Mac to PC and I've tried everything else, but this is incredible

[@JackieStacyBakerMusic]

This is genius!!! You have no idea how much this will simplify this process!!! Thank you for sharing!

[@Memrin]

I've spent days , week's , month's , countless hours trying to figure this shit out and it's this fuckin simple , jesus i cannot thank you enough for this it's been driving me crazy !

[@lukecarson1939]

My good man, you may have just changed my life.

[@kronux3831]

You sir, have earned a cookie. You saved me from a massive headache, thank you so much!

[@fractalsauce]

OMG thank you! Been trying to figure this out for like an hour and watched like 3 other videos on this topic and this is the only one that's actually worked! Thanks a ton!

[@Christopher.white_]

This is immensely helpful. Thank you. The 96khz thing has been ruining my livestreams. Will try this way now!

[@Thecrafter994]

HI IM FROM ITALY AND YOU ARE A GENIUS. YOU LITERALLY SAVE MY LIFE AND MONEY (i was thinking to buy a eudient evo just to stream the ableton's audio). thank you very much

[@fernandonunez72]

Hi, could you do it on Ableton Live?, my Ableton can´t find the plugins, please confirm. Thanks

[@OldRasputin]

Thank you so much for this video. Ever since the OBS 27 update, I have been having constant issues with the OBS ASIO plugin. My routing isn't that complicated, but I route ASIO audio of Rocksmith 2014 into my DAW, and its incredibly touchy with that plugin. So I have been stuck using OBS 26 until now. Lifesaver!

[@piratestudiosproductions]

Just now gettin into OBS, and I love you sir. You took away all my stress.

[@kldelacruz]

This channel is so underrated. I'm currently learning a lot from you. Thanks so much!

[@callmejolee]

...you just changed my entire life

[@RiverBlazze]

you are my hero i lost almost 3 months searching this answer, thankyou so so much Suscribed !!

[@MrMitter]

a huuuge cloud of confusion between the input and output capture has been cleared thanks to you! youre amazing! :)

[@Ari_Bytes]

Thank you! My last setup was using a mini tele (aux) from a splitter in my soundcard back into my computer. adding latency, noise and a bit lag. This is amazing. Thank you.

[@justjaseg]

I have spent tooooooooooooooooooo loooooooooooooooooooooong trying to find the fix and THIS VIDEO WAS IT!!!! Thank you so much Adam!!!!

[@ThePopTenorHost]

You're a heaven-sent life saver, man! I've been figuring out how to connect may DAW (Adobe Audition CC 2018) output with vocal effects to my OBS for live streaming. Through your tutorial, I'm now able to successfully do it with Restream! Great stuff, man! You rock! Thank you and God bless!

[@matthewdtyler]

Totally needed this for a school assignment and it did exactly what I hoped. Thanks for walking through it!

[@adamsteelproducer]

Awesome!

[@WarpBeacon]

Thanks for the tutorial, works for me!

[@ZahrDalsk]

Brilliant tutorial video, thanks for making it. Never would have figured that out myself!

[@dargitz]

You’re a life saver!! Been looking everywhere for a way to do this and this is easily the most efficient. Much appreciated!

[@rayderrich]

This was longer than I needed but I am of course very grateful for your help.

[@flamtapus]

This helped me SSOOOOOO much! Thank you for this.

[@ZacharyDial]

Dude. If I were Jeff Bezos I'd give you ALL of my wealth. You've fixed an issue I've had for over a year that has hindered me and I'm so thankful. 🙏

[@adamsteelproducer]

If you were Jeff bezos I’d sign up for sure! Haha

[@fretman1087]

I appreciate the tutorial you put together here. I had previously attempted this and failed time and time again. Being a TCP/IP networking nerd, it drove me mad not being able to get Reaper w/ Reastream into OBS/Reastream to receive any audio. I tried localhost, 127.0.0.1 & local network IP, nothing. I checked and rechecked firewall rules, killed the firewall completely and yet still nothing. And then it finally dawned on me, I had my damn VPN client running in the background. I killed the VPN and BAMMM, it worked..... It's the simple, often overlooked little things that are almost always the culprit...

[@omarsorianolopez5290]

Hi . How did you kill the vpn? Im also having problems to make obs receive any audio. Thanks beforehand.

[@LewisGale]

You absolute legend, I've spent days trying to get Voicemeeter/reaper to work with my Focusrite Scarlet to no avail. This is wicked (Y)

[@TLKJS]

This was a really helpful tutorial, thanks a lot man.

[@TillyP]

Thank you for this! I just switched over to StreamLabs OBS and it wouldn't take the old ReaRoute hardware output workaround, so this is a great way for me to stream my music stuff! Much appreciated

[@agustincardenas3575]

I loved the way you explain everything, so easy and simple, "keep it simple" you said, and so you did it with your explanation!! Thank you very very much, it was just the kind of info I was looking for!!! sorry about my english, it's been quite a lot since the last time I practiced!! Best wishes!

[@grazulukgm3969]

Dude, you are the greatest! hoping to get this setup to do some live loop live streams through reaper and my 8 channel interface. Tonight's the test!

[@MarkFromHawaii]

Brilliant! Exactly what I was looking for: I'm doing a training video on getting started recording in Reaper. Thank you!

[@JimmyBlimps]

I had no idea there was a Reaper plugin that could do this! I've been using Voxengo Recorder which works great (and is free too) but it's nice to know there's more than one way to skin this cat.

[@igorvuk4454]

i use it too. For some strange reason reastream sometimes doesn't work. it's really really frustrating. on the other hand, voxengo works every time all the time and it's so simple to use. just assign it to any device you are not using and add that device in reaper. voila!

[@PrincipalAudio]

Thanks so much! I'll have to stop using Bandicam for screen recording and try OBS instead. Had so much trouble getting good quality audio from Cubase into Bandicam because my audio interface doesn't like looping back to the on-board soundcard without a TON of ground loop hum/buzz. Spot on explanation. 👍👌

[@PrincipalAudio]

After making this comment, I tried it and found out that my audio interface is too old to support this trick. MOTU 24io simply doesn't like Windows 10 when it comes to driver compatibility. Guess I'm stuck for the time being using the old analog method. Thanks anyway. I'll know what to do in future when I get a new interface that supports Windows 10 audio. :)

[@doctorspacebass]

Awesome man! been dying to get my gear working and voicemeeter was crackling hard core. Sounds great! Very cool. I am pumped to make some live Jams. Thank you.

[@silotwenty]

Thanks, this solved a big headache

[@krishnamohan7615]

really cool and simple method after your video...thanks bro

[@arminsm2]

thanks man this is the best tutorial for this issue

[@bluecracy]

Awesome, ty man. I've tried different solution with bad results, this is simple and not CPU killing. TY.

[@ssrdesigns]

Thank you so much! I have been pulling my hair out for over a year trying to figure this out. Super simple thank you!

[@klibstar8197]

yoooooooooooooo ive been trying to figure out how to do this for about a year now thank you so much!!!!!! this was soooo helpful along with interesting and cool to watch! :D

[@rickbendel]

Exactly what I was looking for! I'm going to be using this as a Stream Deck by controlling different sounds in individual tracks in a Studio One song through my X-Touch for quick one touch firing. By selecting "solo" I can choose the sound/track and hit play. Then just hit rewind..and it's set for the next one. Thus, turning my x-touch into a stream deck. Thank you. I'm also thinking there may be a way to rout midi the same way, but I'll figure that out later. Again, thank you for this video.

[@marianokhatcherian]

Hey man, your video really helped me configure this. Thx a lot, THIS WAS THE BEST VIDEO EVER.

[@aarongrubbs8311]

I thought I had found the key! But I still cannot get this to work. I see the audio in ReaStream in my DAW, but for the life of me I cannot see levels within OBS, it doesn't even have a pan slider for the DAW channel. It plays desktop audio just fine. I am using Reason 11, any ideas? Love your videos!

[@DmnkBrn]

Same with me in Cubase 😞

[@axisproductions6320]

It's a great video and can you explain for this same setup, how can I send these video and audio from OBS to ZOOM in a proper way?

[@FreddyGaming]

OMG man you saved me. 1 million thank, you are GOD!

[@Balesz36]

Important to add that you'll need to install reaplugs even if you use Reaper otherwise OBS won't recognize the ReaStream plugin.

[@jimsacra4917]

Excellent tutorial! Thanks

[@sandrapavasovic3198]

This really helped with the lag issue I had, thank you!

[@stevenburgess9722]

Thank you so much for this ! Great tutorial. You are THE Reaper GURU!

[@Videokeys]

finally, found this bro @hop! very intuitive and informative

[@bencrystalofficial]

I've been trying to figure this out for over 2 years-- thank you SO much

[@najtrows]

This is AMAZING. I really want to try this out. Thank you for such a helpful video :)

[@cgsmithinnola]

I really appreciate your tutorials! This one here I needed to see! Thank you!

[@doncooperlive]

Thank you very much for sharing this great information! I've been trying to get my live stream audio sounding great. I can't wait to try this method!

[@BACLJC]

Hi Glenn. Thanks for this great tutorial. I am wondering if you can tell me how to stream a live show using my DAW and not just live stream a pre-recorded session using DAW? I tried playing live music into my DAW and stream that at the same time but no audio signal was captured.

[@brandonolivier5435]

This dude just saved my life. Thanks so much for this video

[@Emotionnewsoul]

Thank you. This has been very helpful! Big thumbs up!

[@Wanderlinse]

Thanks, youre the best 😊 Got it immediately working.

[@gellnumbernine]

For streaming purposes I've been trying for a while now to get Pro Tools First to work with Voice Meeter and other various tools, none of which worked for me. Very frustrating. Came across this video, followed each step, works perfectly. Also been thinking about changing from PT First for a while now so I now get to try out Reaper too. Thank you!

[@maplefoxx6285]

you do not need voice meeter, you do not need reastream... I think i should make a video on how simple this is actually to do, Not sure why people are using all those things.

[@gellnumbernine]

@@maplefoxx6285 I would really appreciate that, I gave up in the end!!

[@maplefoxx6285]

it all depends what you are trying to use your DAW for live... if you are using ASIO for guitar it does not work directly picked up into obs and requires the use of 2 computers, one runs the DAW, and is output via sound card. then you run RCA cables out of your DAW computer into a USB mixer hooked up to a STreaming computer.... ... if you are not using ASIO and just want vocals... I have my reaper set to WAV out as the device and my usb mic goes input and sound card output... obs can pick up the sound card as an audio input.

[@slowdawnphmusic]

Great Adam. Can I ask a question?Do you need to reinstall first reaper before using Reastrem? I saw another video doing it and did some tweaking during installation. Thanks in advance

[@AaronRhoades]

Thanks for sharing! Super helpful

[@PaulKangMusic]

Got it workin first try, excellent tutorial. Thanks man! That direct IP broadcast sounds super interesting

[@DavidSJ_DAP]

Thanks Adam...I just tried this, and it works so much better than using desktop capture with Direst Sound...

[@adamsteelproducer]

Fantastic!

[@jazzedout]

Brilliant and easily understood. Thanks a million!

[@Sergsinger]

Hello. thanks for the video! I have a sound card sp 2+ I did everything as you showed, but there is a delay at the output of OBS. How to get rid of it ?

[@Balesz36]

If crackling occurs with this method, try the ReaRoute method, that fixed it to me, super easy as well but reaper only.

[@tonybruce]

Thank you so much for this mate. I can't believe how well this works!

[@Sleazee]

For anyone experiencing issues with restream not receiving audio in OBS, I had to change my input device to something other than default and magically it solved the issue for me. Hope this helps someone else. I just got a new desktop and this was driving me crazy!

[@davidmccannmusic6775]

Really helpful video - thanks!

[@apexpickups]

Can't seem to get it to work! I can see the audio sending out of Cubase but OBS isn't receiving any. Any help?

[@FCValle]

same problem here, sending from reaper

[@apexpickups]

FCValle Ended up getting it working a few different ways. Have a video on my channel I just put up the other day showing how to get DAW audio into Zoom etc. Same concept works

[@lawrencemerken9498]

Wow thank you so much.. I've been trying to set up streaming for years and this is clearly the easiest way. big Ups!

[@rio197]

"music guys". Thanks! I appreciate this video.

[@baadrqaaba9529]

Thats what i needed ! Thank you!

[@juanarias5913]

Thank you so much! Super clear. Greetings from Colombia

[@5000tubbs]

Thanks, I can stream performances now!!

[@leearmitage]

thanks man this will make my amp sim demos a lot easier

[@ejejej9200]

Incredible Tutorial! So helpful. Thank you!

[@ChaosPootato]

DUDE! What a clever use of that plugin! You fucking rock!

[@drewmilwahkee1747]

hey guys so this method works with fairlight in davinci resolve. just make a new project, create a timeline (settings dont matter), go into fairlight, patch your mic and then apply the restream plugin. it is so easy and davinci has awesome voice processing including ai noise reduction. Try it and you wont regret it. I am going to make a video about this soon look out for a channel called A+ Tech. The whole reason I am so excited about this is because Davinci Resolve is powerful and completely free (the free version has missing features from studio but not in fairlight for this)

[@olegkozlov3766]

Man, this is really great. Thank you so much for sharing your findings !

[@ManusNoble1988]

Amazing, thank you so much. You explain things so carefully and well. Great stuff

[@pnpark]

Did you put the VST plugin on the master track then?

[@rickbendel]

Quick quesion..well, first off thanks for this video. I have the restream routed correctly, the only problem is the audio within OBS comes out very garbled. Any thoughts? Thanks.

[@ArjenUitbeijerse]

Thanks for this tutorial. We've the Scarlett 18i20 but OBS and more than 2 inputs...:-( So I understand that input 1-6 can go to reaper first and then to OBS through your tutorial?

[@Shawn_WTF_]

Thanks Adam, I have spent the last few hours trying to do this. You see my Daw and plugins are all installed on a different hard drive other than windows, therefore OBS could not find it and there is no way to point it to it. I use reaper so I had the plugs but it still did not locate it (due to them being on a different drive). Watching your video I discovered that I needed to reinstall the plugs in default location and.. problem solved

[@acousticsmile11]

I've followed step by step your tutorial to capture the sound of my Studio One 5 to OBS but unfortunately it doesn't work I'm not able to understand why . Do you have any advice ? Thank you (it'd be so important to me !!)

[@ThomasJ_Music]

If OBS doesn’t offer ReaStream as a filter, what could be the problem?

[@philipshergold4771]

This is awesome. So do you also need to install Voicemeter too? I got a little confused when you mentioned "donor device" within the device properties section.

[@jamesmcgill6505]

Windows 11 users will need to enable microphone access permission. It's a reasonable assumption when using external audio devices that any "mic" Windows sees should be disabled and this issue comes up often in OBS discussions. OBS users are typically receiving audio either as part of the camera stream or a USB mic or some other interface with its own driver, and OBS sees those devices just fine with mic access permission turned off. But in the case where we're using a dummy audio input capture in OBS as a holder for the VST interface for ReaStream, the Windows mic permission disables that input. I'm not convinced this isn't an OBS bug, a lot of Reaper users run into it, anyway this is the workaround.

[@Kaffetorsk]

Man ive been trying to figure out how to livestream my music production for months, even tried routing an AUX from my soundcard into my PC input, but that sounded really bad, was just about to buy a second Soundcard until i found your vid.

[@maplefoxx6285]

set device to WAV out.. problem solved.. not sure why no one has figured this out... i live stream reaper every day for 4 months straight now. I never Use ASIO anymore unless i am recording live guitars into my DAW... and for my livestreaming guitar setup i run my SSL2 interface direct into obs. I use my guitar amp and real pedals for live effects. I can also tell you how to set up an electric drum kit for live streaming thru a DAW with samples being triggered. you need 2 laptops or 2 pc running... one has the DAW running only with the drum kit mapped to your samples. Then you have the sound output set as the sound card... use RCA cables out of the soundcard going into a USB mixer set up on the streaming pc..