Hi all - so in getting my black magic ultra studio 4k going I really want the sound to go straight out of the Mac headphones sockets rather than through the black magic. when I set them different I still get this mismatched im turning it off type of dialogue. can this be fixed please?
Use a piece of software called Loopback. This allows you to send audio to multiple devices. I believe this may be a Mac OS limitation. Or, at least something Mac doesnāt do well out of the box.
Itās a flame thing. I have set Bmd for video and core audio for audio and flame gives me that alert. In resolve there is no problem when doing the same thing.
Use Loopback. With Flame currently itās the only way.
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So, what you would do is set your BMD as both video and audio.
In loopback, you should see your BMD device as a Source. Youād add your BMD as an Audio Device specifically, I believe. You can then route it to your MacOS audio (headphones), wherever you want, etcā¦
It looks something like this:
Oh shit! This might help me fix a whole bunch of issues!! How did I not know about this?
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The handy thing is āLoopbackā now becomes a source for all things WebEx, Zoom, Teams, Slack, etcā¦ So itās a good way to send audio where you want itā¦ Like a virtual mixer of sortsā¦ For example, Iāve got a separate mic, spotify, flame, even teradici running as sources, and audio from all can be piped through whatever ācameraā app you might be using. Lots of other uses too.
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I have been looking for a solution for this for a good while. Was on the verge of buying some kind of audio splitter.
Much appreciated!!!
I paid my 100 bucks and got the software, and it still wonāt work. must be doing something wrongā¦
When you have Flame set up with BMD for both Audio and Video in your config, audio turned on, and can confirm life in the audio bars in flameā¦ (bars + tone for example), you should see life in the bars in loopbackā¦
One thing to also troubleshoot, is loopback monitoring your inputs on the ultrastudio vs. the outputs? Iād noodle with spinning down the options arrow and seeing if you have anything to tick in that zone.
My mixer, for example can route my computerās output to a pair of input channels that can be seen by loopback if needed. You might see if the BMD device can ābounceā the flameās stereo output to any pair of input channelsā¦ You can also do this the analog way by literally connecting your output channel pair physically to your input channel pair.
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Another thing to check out, would be to uncheck āmute when capturingā under Flameās dialog box and see if that allows audio to pass through (even though BMD is set as the audio output)
so ive got audio on the flame - audio meters show it. mute when capturing is off. it works for airplay and iTunes and anything - I can hear it and see the audio meters in loop back. but nothing on the flame one and nothing on the black magic one. I thinks its because the black magic is a source for its inputs- like its a 16 track audio box. im not sure its actually the outputs. anyhow it works for everything apart from flame at the moment
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So I think the next step would be to see if the blackmagic config app or audio/midi settings in macOS will let you āconnectā your BMD Outputs 1/2 to BMD Inputs 1/2 virtually.
If no options for that exists, you can literally connect a pair of xlr cables or 1/4ā TRS cables (not familiar with the physical I/O of your BMD) and physically āloop backā the output of your BMD to the input of your BMD. Then you should see life in the BMD meters in the loopback app and route accordingly.
Youāll also likely need to offset the broadcast picture delay in flame to compensate for the slight audio lag of the workaround, but it should work.
Hope that helps!
Thanks for your help. Still donāt see why flame canāt have bmd for video and fire audio for audio.
Agreed. Having it not deny you to have a separate video output and audio output would make this whole square peg round hole exercise moot.
Feature request?
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I just feel bad that youāve spent $100 on the app without it working yet. The physical patch solve should definitely work though.
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Soā¦ itās slightly OT, but over the pandemic we were working remotely using HP Z or Anydesk or whatever and I could always figure out something on the OS level in Linux to get the audio to play through. Now that weāre running 2022.3, it doesnāt seem to work anymore. I think āPulseā was the option with the most success. Has anyone cracked this nut?
This should work. What do you have in the Flame / Preferences / Audio as a device output?
In the setup program itās set to BMD.