Get Studio-Quality Audio For Your Livestreams with Apollo Interfaces & OBS

[@justjerome]

This was awesome! Can we see the different tweaks for a Windows PC and Studio One?

[@OWRA13]

Amazing demonstration! Saved me so much time and now my audio is clean and has ZERO latency. Incredible please make more videos!

[@ostrovmusic]

when you realize that the problem will be solved even before you watch it to the end. great video, thanks for the help!

[@Mrjononotbono]

This is great. I just moved from OSX to WIndows and built a powerful PC with a Motherboard with Thunderbolt 4 so I could use my APollo Twin X. I am having serious problems with OBS though and I've just tried making a video that was over 3hrs long and the audio stopped recording after 20 minutes and I didn't have a clue it had stopped (no error messages or anything). So I'm sort of at a loose end with setting up OBS on Windows and an Apollo. I found some Asio input drivers someone has coded that allows me to route any of my Apollo outputs into OBS but I have no idea if they are causing some kind of recording time out. A video on setting up an Apollo Twin X, with Windows 11 Pro, and OBS would be very welcome. I use Cubase but no need to do it in Cubase as changing the master ouput to any ouput is very simple. Many thanks and thanks for this great video! Very concise. Making me seriously miss being on OSX now 😂

[@justinguitar]

That was very helpful - hopefully no more complaints about sync issues! And it's great having DAW and the system routed through the console! Big thank you :)

[@wolfhard2420]

Great stuff. Never got this going and always knew that there must be a way to do it given the phantastic routing options of the apollos. Thanks a ton

[@HYPERMUSIC-r4c]

THANK YOU SO MUCH, I'm using a apollo x8 and have been putting my mic channel on the third input. No wonder why OBS doesn't show anything

[@christopherjbutler]

PLEASE yes Windiws 10 with zoom or other WDM apps without crackling, distorted audio. If there is a simple native way to do it like other interfaces can do, that would be such a relief! Thanks!

[@Mendelian]

Get ASIO plugin for OBS and route OBS to Zoom?

[@christopherjbutler]

@@Mendelian Thanks for the suggestion :) However, I don't need or use OBS. There IS a single free utility middleware (ASIO Link Pro) that can apparently be used as a solution for the time being (the developer passed away though) but I am looking for something to come from UAD officially that defines the official way to do it. Really, the WDM driver should work directly with windows apps without distortion, assuming the bit depth and sampling rates are set the same in windows as in console, etc.

[@ryanbo4045]

Great Demonstration Video. It looks like you must also use the Midi-Audio-Setup software to set up the virtual output configuration. But that software is only available for MAC, not for PC, I am using PC, no luck.

[@delsurmusic]

Thanks for the great video!. Is there any drawbacks or problems when not using OBS if I leave Inputs 1 and 2 permanently assiged to A Mon L & A Mon R ??? Can this be my default console or only be set like this when using OBS?

[@davidsheart4747]

Hello, I am using Twin USB and as you show press on setings, by me there is no place of IO Matrix? is there some other place to see it? Thanks for help.

[@IamRami]

I hope I didn't sound like a negative nancy - I think your tutorial is great and I love it! I was just caught off guard that there were so many weird intricacies to get it to function properly on Windows. Otherwise the build qualities and plugins are the main reason why I purchased it. I also have the RME fireface so I came from that to this and it really left a bad taste in my mouth when it didn;t function properly out the box with windows

[@godofgore6667]

Before I purchased my first high end MacBook for music, I was very fed up with windows because nothing works easily. This has been a non issue with my MacBook, I rarely have issues that I need to download extra drivers for or look into some back end folder.

[@IamRami]

@@godofgore6667 how many issues with other sound cards or drivers for the most part universal audio was the first one I've ever ran into with this much of an issue on the windows side. I, however don't use any Apple products at all, nor do I plan on it for the foreseeable future.

[@Dreams-N-Nightmares]

I used apollo for both win and mac, and i can affirm apollo doesn't work well with windows. i always used it with a mac and it was great until i decided to switch to windows.

[@GiovanniSuarezMusic]

Thank you, UAD! This set up is perfect for my online lessons.

[@MarcoCalia]

Ottimo video ma per Apollo Twin Duo USB 3 non è presente nel Setting I/O Matrix come si fa? 😢

[@andrewgoodwincomposer]

You are doing the Lord’s work! I’ve always had issues figuring this out thank you!

[@QuiethouseRecording]

Hey y'all especially @Universal Audio - While this setup is baller for streaming, if you shoot your room, you might get double output on the frequency sweep and it will null out in a lot of places and give you a heart attack. Just be sure if you shoot your room that you change the setup config to no input on 1 and 2. I found this out the hard way yesterday but its all good now!

[@QuiethouseRecording]

Heres something I wrote about the situation - Yesterday I was doing frequency sweeps because I just acquired a new pair of headphones and I was curious about how they sounded. I tested three pairs of headphones just to hear the difference and for the most part, I was pleased with my semi unscientific test. I was thinking it’s been a while since I’ve shot my room. usually do it every 3 to 6 months, just real quick usually with Sonarworks/SoundID. Oh, but this time because I wanted a slower sweep I opened up Ableton Live and used the tone generation function And use the tone generation function. to do a slow upward sweep from 20hz. From about 30hz to 100hz everything sounded fine but as soon as I hit 130 hz - COMPLETE SILENCE. A confused look across my face at what I was hearing as I wildly moved my head around to see why the null I was hearing was so…PERFECT. I continued the upward sweep past 200, 400, 600, 1k, 3k, 6k, etc. Every few jumps in frequency I would hear a drop out though not as significant as in the low end. Now if you are familiar with acoustic issues in mix rooms, you’ll know that low end is one of the hardest things to get right. In fact many rooms I’ve personally been in that are considered the yardstick for professionals have issues that are solved with acoustic treatment or DSP. A perfect room requires many trade offs but here I am thinking what the hell is going on with my low end? I’ve never had any issues with low end except for a slight dip at 100hz that has been diagnosed, treated, and cured for the last 8 years. My room was professionally designed and built - it should not have these issues. I mean I was thinking all this catastrophic stuff about the work I’ve done over the last few months, I never heard ANYTHING wrong even in the reference material I use to keep my ears fresh. So after about 2 minutes of troubleshooting, I found the issue: It was my new audio routing I had just configured a few days ago to facilitate a different way of making videos to post on social media. This required me to route the input channels 1 and 2 to my MONITOR L and R and create two virtual stereo channels for DAW Audio and System Audio. Since my output was coming out of both in Live and there was a slight latency between the two channels - it created a lot of problems in the sweep. Muting Daw Audio solved the issue but I’ve made a setup now that is strictly for shooting the room so I know no matter what I am using to do sweeps that I am getting one pure tone. I hope this saves someone a lot of hassle.

[@AZODi]

Thanks MAtt for the upload and guide, got it set up! My main issue is the crazy amount of crackling I am getting from my mic and audio signal, is there a way around this?

[@SamFischer117]

try recording at a different sample rate, that might alleiveate all your problems.

[@ReedRobins]

Wonderful video, thank you SO much! I'd love to see a video where you go further into th output matrix, which I've always found to be a little challenging. THANKS!

[@UniversalAudio]

Be sure to check out this livestream we did a while back. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2eme6BjZdilrpo

[@ReedRobins]

@@UniversalAudio Really appreciate this!! Thanks SO much!

[@UniversalAudio]

🥂

[@Manuguitar77brufio]

The problem is that in obs it doubles the mac audio so you have a delayed sound. Thats why I can only use virtuell daw audio but when playing a youtube video there is the doubling again. Is this because i did not cascade?

[@the_eyebrows_rock]

I have the same problem - I'm desperate to figure out where the strange, ongoing loop is coming from.

[@Manuguitar77brufio]

@@the_eyebrows_rock all we can do is loose two inputs and save templates so we can use input 1+2 while recording offline I guess. I wrote with ua support for about 2 months 😅

[@emergegames]

Any idea how to do this if i have an Apollo Twin with fixed tables and no I/O in settings? OBS isnt picking up the output and im sure its coming through a channel that is not 1st or 2nd.

[@itsfrankierossi]

will this affect recording in protools at all off of stream? like if I do this to fix audio for a livestream, and then another day want to record a song in protools, will I have to readjust everything or will it still work after changing these settings?

[@ТестКаналов]

Hello. Where is the lesson on usb and windows? How to configure those who have usb?

[@rufkasu]

Do you leave these settings as your default when producing or writing music or just when streaming or recording a video?

[@Professor_Pat]

Thank you for covering this subject.

[@MrManumendes]

This Video makes my life so much easier 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Thank you

[@luddiamant]

Thanks! I´d have one question: can I stream the reverb that is sent to my track too? And if - how?

[@shoebsstudio]

Thank you, I did not know this console is this useful! I have had it for years and used it as just an interface :) and always used a mixer to do live with Logic - nut not any more - thanks

[@pwrcorp]

Please make a windows tutorial. Also a quick guide to getting zoom audio to sound clear. Currently my X6 sounds like a distorted mess on zoom on windows. Sounds fine recording into DAW on Win.

[@Obriezy]

hi there great video, i just wanted to ask something, so you didnt need to use blackhole virtual audio driver for your desktop loopback you just used console and your UAD interface only?

[@soundchain5674]

Thx so much!!! How do I get zoom audio to route through a virtual channel? The same way as in this demonstration?

[@stevedavis5098]

Please show how to do this on a PC using an Apollo Twin

[@HuwFoster]

Thanks for this tutorial, it's really helpful. I'm trying to figure out how to stream Ableton sessions where I create tracks from scratch and live loop. I'm guessing there's no way to use this routing to share DAW audio whilst using it to record audio in the DAW itself? For example, when I route Console this way and try to record anything in Ableton, the record enabled channels are showing the system output, so I can't record anything normally. I suppose a workaround would be to use Loopback - however, I have the old version of Loopback (v1.2.1), and have experienced varying amounts of latency in OBS, meaning audio goes in and out of sync. Is this issue easier to deal with in the newer version?

[@UniversalAudio]

The channels from Console will still be sent to the DAW inside the driver.

[@Ryan.Chapman]

Nice! I would like to see a setup for livestream gaming on Windows.

[@ShoneyTalksLifestyle]

I want to hook my apolo solo to my mixer to stream on streamyard. any idea on setup

[@19Stride]

Thank you very much🎉 After recording with obs are you receiving one stereo recording or two separate one (das audio and system audio)?

[@Mendelian]

Depends on the container, I believe MOV supports up to 8 stereo tracks.

[@MasterPieceContent]

Thank you for this information! This has worked for me in the past for OBS/Logic Pro X. But I want to use the same setup in OBS and Discord for a podcast to use my UAD plugins. Would it be the same type of setup? Since Discord is an app it should route through system audio. However, I see a lot of incompatibilities with Discord/Apollo interfaces around google. I would love to figure out how to make this work. 😊

[@xeezyolatoundji]

HI ! Nice video. is it the same process if I have an Apollo twin ?

[@PhillLaneMusic]

Amazing, just what you I was looking for thanks!

[@upstairsneighbor4182]

i'm really enjoying this video- thank you for the break down brotha!

[@UniversalAudio]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@LegendSummingMusic]

Is there a video that demonstrates how to do this with Luna 🌜

[@NinoAmerica]

Can you do ecamm next? I could never figure it out

[@KennySalamanca]

hey this worked perfect for me on windows although the audio on my obs recordings are really distorted for some reason? any thoughts on why? I am not clipping and the audio from Abelton is fine but just when I watch my recordings back, the audio sounds terrible. Thanks

[@johnchitambo]

Everything worked but my problem now is that my playback is being recorded in my logic whenever I try to record. How do I fix this issue? I hope you can respond as I see universal audio rarely responds.

[@bryanwoolbertmusic]

Oh my goodness thank you. Was struggling with this and now I know how to fix it.

[@fernandagunsanchannel]

can i use uad native on OBS? I couldnt find it. on OBS

[@UniversalAudio]

OBS only supports VST2. All our native plugins are VST3.

[@bregn]

Thank you so much Matt. This is extremely helpful! Can't wait to get started🙂

[@HusHHarding]

need the windows tutorial!

[@josephmoser8564]

This is great and worked wonderfully but the only thing that is messing me up is that my metronome is now getting recorded in logic? not the end of the world if I can't screen record and use the metronome, but any workaround here?

[@broj]

Did you every make this for Windows? or are you avoiding it because of the WDM driver issues?

[@fmeproductionsllc313]

can you record vocals live as well?

[@trentmbell]

This was so helpful! Console is so nice! Thank you!

[@nerbuhc]

solution for apollo solo? Have had nothing but headaches trying to stream audio with this interface. Considering going with a different brand

[@jacksp8de]

This really helped a lot but the only missing piece I need is how to do this with pro tools. I know pro tools has these different outputs now but not sure how that works with console.

[@UniversalAudio]

Check out PT's new Aux I/Os. They show up as sources in Audio MIDI Setup.

[@michaelacostantini]

Thanks for the tutorial. How did you isolate your microphone?

[@UniversalAudio]

The mic is mixed with all other sources in Console before being sent to OBS.

[@michaelacostantini]

@@UniversalAudio Thank you. I figured as much. I seems the only way to have your mic on a separate channel in OBS is to use a usb mic that is not plugged into the Apollo which makes sense because OBS only recognizes those two inputs. Thanks again for the tutorial and the response.

[@UniversalAudio]

Or use Loopback to isolate the mic and create a separate virtual device.

[@GBrotherSighisoara]

It also works on cubase?I have an apollo x4. Thank you!

[@LowKeyProductionz]

I'm trying to setup audio from my UAD Apollo twin to my elgato Wave link and I can't seem to get things right. I can't get my mic to where I don't hear it in my headphones

[@jbrogger57]

Best tutorial. Thanks!

[@iamtoddpreston]

How did you get your virtual channels up front on console?

[@UniversalAudio]

Console channel order is determined by device order.

[@rnobgyn]

I followed the tutorial as best I could, got console working, but audio still isn't passing into OBS even though the input is set to Apollo Twin. Any thoughts?

[@djshaycoolay]

I done had the Apollo solo for like 2 years now and it's still no video for just the Apollo Solo ! can we get a video example for the Apollo Solo 😪

[@MychaelAllenMusic]

Definite help! Thank You!

[@xandergoodheart]

Does this work with a two computer set up?

[@xibition1120]

Any chance you could upload the preset for the apollo ?

[@hhuntermusic]

Could you do this on an apollo twin with 2 microphones?

[@RobAzam]

If you fail to get computer audio to your virtual channels, when you configure speakers in audio-midi setup change from stereo to 2.0 surround.

[@wildmilne]

Not sure what i missed, see the signal in the virtual channels but nothing on the meters in OBS

[@LenonHonorFilms]

I can't access the IO matrix panel on my Apollo twin USB. It does not exist in the settings window. Do you have any suggestions?

[@UniversalAudio]

Only TB Apollos have the I/O Matrix. Look for a driver table in the manual.

@@UniversalAudio???

[@AngeloProMusician]

Phenomenal explanation. Thank you very much.

[@ТестКаналов]

Hello) Please tell me Does apollo solo work with the program Nvidia ShadowPlay?

[@deelilly]

Thanks for this video! quick question I followed this whole process but for some reason observers isn't receiving sound from my mic! any way you can run through that process as well?

[@dave9640]

Their drivers are terrible and they refuse to improve on the non-ASIO things. They're going to lose market share even further if they don't wake up and realize that the use cases for these devices are different than they used to be.

[@dr_tee_remix]

how to use it with Apollo Twin USB please ?

[@Uforicmusic]

You saved my life on this one

[@UniversalAudio]

🙏🏻

[@brokki]

Does it work like this for windows too?

[@membersclubberlin]

hey matt:) nice content .... i have an question... how do I rearrange the channels in the console? I would like to have the virtual channels like you also in front love greetings from Berlin

[@UniversalAudio]

You cannot. The order is based on device order.

[@Igotabadbrain]

HOLY SHIT THIS VIDEO IS SO AMAZING IM GLAD I CAN CALL MYSELF A UAD USER :D

[@therealrussellsmyth]

Virtual channels not showing in Ableton. Any ideas 💡

[@AndreMixedIt]

What doing this with a twin? Can you use a twin have L and R Output and a Streaming mic

[@ashvecchio]

Great vid, but dragging with cascade didn't work for me.

[@SaniBanks]

Thaaaank you UA !

[@ayokikando]

Thank you for this!!!

[@alanshen]

Can I use the UA Apollo TWIN X to basically apply the DSP effects (for voice) to my ZOOM meetings, ideally without using OBS? The aim is to make my voice sound more like "broadcast" or vintage as the case may be. Thanks

[@UniversalAudio]

Yes, Zoom now allows you to choose which input you want to use.

[@Peteypuckettband]

How can you do this without creating a feedback loop? For example lets say you want to open up a guitar track in your daw and record audio

[@hitsahead]

what if i have an apollo twin ? i have issues since over an yeat trying to route it to correctly to streamlabs

[@TatvamProductions]

Please make this for windows 10 and zoom meetings

[@bsmallz102489]

I would like to see it with Pro Tools and Windows

[@thevirtunaut1856]

Yes. Please for windows, too. Thank you.

[@Craftmaster3]

Can we PLEASE get sidechain in console so we don't have to stream with headphones?? Please 🙏🏼

[@jamarwright]

I would love to see how y’all do this with eCamm Live. I have the same setup but, I found that I have to mute the system audio virtual channel to eliminate guest audio echo.

[@djshaycoolay]

Also example for OBS and Logic Pro X Please

[@grahampetersen4826]

Hi there I have an Apollo 16 but the console app doesn’t look the same as yours

[@threatnique]

hey I followed this, but not working :( I have a x4 with Apollo 8 silver face. tried so many different routing options. not working. Even if I put the virtual channels as in 1/2 and played my daw audio through the console but I get nothing in obs...

[@Truck_Perry]

How would you route the system sounds to the virtual channel in Windows 11?

[@squashedout]

okay but how do you get your routing and everything back to default again? this really screwed me over for Zoom calls. great for live streaming, terrible for other things. Hope i can figure out a way to restore to defaults. can't find anything online...

[@xlcoldj]

Under I/O Matrix there is "Mode" and "I/O Presets" where you can use 'Custom' and save a preset to use for each situation. You can also save the session from the main menu.

[@brentharmonmusicproduction]

Can this be done on the Volt ?

[@jcsdmusic]

Thank you so much! Now if UA would only make this interface compatible with the Discord App for Mac...

[@IAMHahlow]

Any way you could do a tutorial with the Apollo twin? There isn’t any io matrix on that console software. Outside of music im a gaming steamer. I’m even having a hard time routing anything with voicemeeter, it worked pretty well up until 2 years ago, I’m trying hard not to have to buy a GoXlr inorder to use my apollo. My mic doesn’t work in game but the output to my headphones does, and it won’t recognize input in OBS

[@DiorLouis]

Definitely need the windows version of how to do this ASAP

[@letsstartapeaceriot]

Yeah please help with setting this up for windows. Thank you.

[@Mr_A_Mia]

Thank you man!

[@LowKeyProductionz]

I'm trying to get my UAD apollo twin to go into my elgato wave link