1 Topic by countjodius (edited by countjodius 2020-03-27 22:46:05)

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Topic: *SOLVED!* Babyface Pro for giving Skype music lessons

Hi all,

I am trying to give Skype guitar lessons using my RME Babyface Pro.  I would like to have the student hear my guitar input, XLR mic input and system payback.  I have read a few threads/videos on using TotalMix and routing this to a submix with Loopback.  Unfortunately in Mac OS I can only see the option of choosing the entire Babyface Pro as an output rather than e.g. ADAT 3&4 under system settings and Skype audio settings.  From reading it seems that Skype will only take the input from channel 1.  Is there a way for me to achieve this without third party software?

Many thanks in advance any help!

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Re: *SOLVED!* Babyface Pro for giving Skype music lessons

Loopback is all you need, no 3rd party apps are required.

You can change the default channels used for Mac OS audio & communications in the Applications > Utilities > Audio/MIDI Setup app.

The rest gets a bit complicated and unique, so the forum is not really good for this. I would suggest calling your local RME distributor if you need further assistance.

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Re: *SOLVED!* Babyface Pro for giving Skype music lessons

Hi Jeff

Thanks for the reply.  I'll investigate the Audio MIDI settings and see what I can find!

4 Reply by countjodius (edited by countjodius 2020-06-09 21:55:52)

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Re: *SOLVED!* Babyface Pro for giving Skype music lessons

SOLUTION!

For any others trying to accomplish this, I didn't realise (or never understood) that activating Loopback on a particular output routes that to the corresponding hardware input.  E.g.  Activating Loopback on my Main Out routes it back to input channel 1.  I believed that Loopback was not functioning like this on my Main Out, until I realised that the Main Out level needed to be significantly higher to register as an input on Channel 1.  Too loud in fact to have my studio monitors on so I simply switch them off and listen through the Phones mix.  Now I have a submix of a microphone on input 2, guitar on input 3, and software playback all mixed to route back to channel 1 for Skype.  Bingo!

Hope this helps somebody else.  The next challenge is figuring out how to disable continual auto input level adjustment in Google Hangouts and Microsoft teams!