I'm literally at my wit's end about how to figure out the following.
I have a Behringer X32 rack mixer. It's a wonderful piece of gear, great
for everything from pro-am home recording to live stage work. It
interfaces with Windows and Mac via USB and shows eight ports in both
directions--that's four stereo pairs both in and out. But here's the
rub: In Windows, you can only see the four stereo pairs, and you select
which one(s) you want to use for input and output. They don't have to
match, and that's all OK. But on the Mac side, you can see all
thirty-two ports, but only eight of them--the eight you have assigned to
the USB socket--actually do anything for you. In the Audio-MIDI Setup
program found in the Utilities folder, you can easily and accessibly
select which ports you want to use or to which you want your audio
programs like Logic, GarageBand, Reaper, Zoom, Audacity, Pro Tools,
etc., to have access and basically ignore all the other ports (which you
can't use anyway). However, the input side is where the trouble is. It
is not possible to select any of the thirty-two ports, accessibly or
not, even though you can check the input tab, making you think you can
do this. Without being able to choose which port(s) you want to use for
input, you can't get anything out of the mixer and into your audio
application of choice. The online research about this has revealed that
it has to be set up in the topmost item in the ports list table,
something to do with streaming, but I can't figure this out at all.
If you've ever done anything like this, worked with multi-channel audio
devices interfacing them with MacOS where you have to select which
port(s) you want to use for input and output, I'd love to hear from you.
Other devices of this type are things like the Behringer UMD-404 with
four ports, The Behringer M32 Producer (which is essentially the X32
rack with sliders and buttons like a real mixer would have), or the L20
by some other company that makes a device that works like the Behringer
32-port devices but with fewer bells and whistles. I've asked about this
on numerous email lists and online forums and have gotten all kinds of
answers that do not apply, so I thought I'd try here.
Thanks in advance.
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