Need help with Windows -> Rekordbox -> VoiceMeeter -> OBS Studio -> Live Streaming

1) If you're using an ASIO plugin for OBS, why are you bothering at all with Voicemeeter? A proper ASIO plugin should be able to capture the REC-OUT from the DJM directly.

2) Guides haven't been created for each and every possible combination of equipment because many are the same, and we don't always have access to every single piece and in every potential configuration. As such, some guides require users to "bridge the gap." It's my personal opinion that if you are interested in partaking in a technical task such as online streaming, you should have at least some capacity to find the information available and adapt it to your specific needs if it's not 100% answering the question... and if it doesn't, ask.

3) Speaking of guides, did you find this one in your 4 hours of effort?

4) Thank you for you feedback.

5) I have found a solution today. Yes, with VoiceMeeter included and a "proper" ASIO plug-in. Without VM, OBS does not receive any input sound signal at all. Do you have a link to a "proper" ASIO plug-in? I have tested 3 different ones. Now i see that all three worked well, but always using VM in the middle of the equation.

6) Mapping REC-OUT to channel 1 as someone has recommended before does not work at all. What is does, is blowing up the sound system through the speakers (distortion included) and no control whatsoever of the sound on the mixer.

7) Yes, i saw that guide you mention on the link. I think i even tried that with plenty of different settings but it never worked with DJM-450. At least, with mine it didn't.

8) The solution i found is very simple, indeed. Now, it makes sense. That's how you learn. That "bridge the gap" thing is called life. I found it by myself, with no help whatsoever. The empiric way, recursively, you know. Being stupid the first time and trying to be even more stupid the following ones, if you know what i mean.

9) Thank you again for your 5 minutes of effort in your answer.

After 5 minutes of searching, I found this solution. I tested it out using a DJM-900SRT and it works great without needing Voicemeeter.

REC-OUT does work for that plugin, just match the channels you assigned in the DJM utility to the channels you select on the plugin within OBS. And no, you don't have control over the level within OBS from the master on the mixer - that's because the REC-OUT is taken prior to the master level. Adjust the USB output level in the DJM utility; -10 should be fine if you're taking the channel levels to peak around 0dB on the meters.

Well, that is exactly the same plug in i am using.

The thing is:

If i select Mixer: Internal Mode in Rekordbox and scroll down to map the REC OUT (5/6) to Master Output, i am able to get that sound signal in OBS for both channels using VoiceMeeter. But i can't control anything physically on the mixer, because its mode has been set to Internal.

If i select Mixer: External Mode in Rekordbox, then, when i scroll down, that Master Out option to map the REC OUT (5/6) is no longer available. In this case, i can only get a sound signal for a channel at a time in OBS, because i cannot map 5/6 REC OUT on that ASIO plugin there. I can only map channel 1 OR channel 2, but not both at the same time. If i map channel 3(5/6) i have no sound signal in OBS. But i can control everything physically on the mixer, because it has been set to External, as expected. That channel 3 is weird because my mixer only has 2 physical channels (1 and 2). But i suppose it has to be interpreted as a logical channel that, in this case, contains the REC OUT, not a physical one.

So, all i described do far is by using VoiceMeeter and with VoiceMeeter ASIO Driver Aux selected in Rekordbox.

What you are saying, i think, is using the default ASIO driver that comes out with Rekordbox (DJM-450 ASIO), right? It has to be, if you are considering not using VoiceMeeter anywhere here. And thus, in Rekordbox, we have the usual settings like Mixer Mode: External; Channel 1 -> Line In CDJ 1 (1/2); Channel 2 -> Line In CDJ 2 (3/4); Channel 3 -> REC OUT (5/6). Everything set by default, including the two connected CDJ's. No changes have been made in Rekordbox whatsoever, so, everything has been mapped as normal, automatically by the software. 

If this is the case, then i have a problem in OBS because when i create a new ASIO source using that ASIO plugin (image 15) and then select the Device as (DJM-450 ASIO), OBS crashes right away because the ASIO driver is "locked?!" by Rekordbox.

I suppose the original ASIO driver used by Rekordbox has been written in a way to allow only one software at a time to be using it, but not more than one. I actually tested this behavior in the reverse. I have closed Rekordbox, selected that DJM-450 ASIO driver in OBS and then, when i started Rekordbox again and tried to choose that same driver, it does not allow me to, so that "locked" point is somehow been "proven".

So, this is the reason why i had to include VoiceMeeter in this equation.

In resume, it seems that, in OBS, i can only catch the audio signal from both channels of the mixer when i select Internal as mixer mode (which i don't intend to, because i want to mix physically, not logically through Rekordbox). 

If i select External as mixer mode, then i am only able to get a sound signal of one channel at a time in OBS (the one that i mapped 1/2 OR 3/4). I have never been able to map 5/6 in OBS and getting a sound signal.

This is how i interpreted your answer, but i might be wrong.

Tricky stuff here.

You should be using external mixing mode if you're using DJM-450. Full stop. Don't borhter with internal mode unless you're using a controller that has no audio mixing functionality.

I'll rewind my earlier comment and say that the OBS + plugin solution works if you're using hardware only, but as you're using rekordbox, it may not be the full solution and I haven't tested that functionality directly.

I'll get back to you after testing the plugin.

Thank you and yes, i should and must be using External mode. 

The other "must" is to use Rekordbox with the hardware because almost my whole music collection is there, properly sorted as i have spent hours doing it for a long time now.

That is why i have asked for help here in the first place.

So, using another software is not even a valid option for me. Additionally, i do like Rekordbox a lot, because i think the whole software is very well designed and never let me down, until now, that i need to stream live. It has some things that could be improved, but hey, which software doesn't?

Last night i almost got this thing to work with that VoiceMeeter piece of software. Of course i had to change Rekordbox default driver to this one but, after that and with proper settings on VoiceMeeter, i did get a sound signal in OBS. I am a knoob using VM but after so many attempts on trying to solve this, now i think i can do the basics. The software is a little intimidating but it also seemed powerful enough to solve this whole problem.

If i could only get a solution for OBS to allow that REC OUT mapping on 5/6 channel... As i said earlier, at this moment i can only get one channel at a time there (1 or 2, not both).

If i try to map channel 3 there, that has the REC OUT (5/6) mapped, i never get sound whatsoever, even doing the "upside down" on VoiceMeeter and trying almost every possible setting out). But i might be wrong there, i wish i was, really.

The last thing is that if this is not possible, then i would be very sad, but hey, life goes on. Probably i need to buy an external audio interface with an RCA input to get the Master 2 Output from the mixer and an USB connection to connect it to my laptop and try to map things from there to OBS, i don't know.

Thank you again for your help, mate. 

Hi, I've tried many solutions to stream with djm / xdj (cdj), rekordbox and OBS.
voicebannana
obs-asio plugin
virtualcable
Nothing worked, the only way I can do my stream is ...

1. Set the PC sound card in the PC sound settings https://ibb.co/8XRmtkz 

2. In DJM all set to REC OUT https://ibb.co/xDScz3v , https://ibb.co/17qLcMq 

3. In rekordbox audio setings - Pioneer cdj/xdj audio https://ibb.co/vYffZLP 

4. and in OBS input in (pioneer DJM) https://ibb.co/Z8W0SL9 

Hi Jakub,

Thank you for your feedback mate!

Nevertheless, i've already found a simple solution for my problem.

I have an A-20 amplifier connected to my DJM-450. This amp has a Record Out RCA output. I have grabbed an RCA to 1/4'' cable and then plugged this cable in that RCA output and on the other end, plugged the 1/4'' Jack to my laptop's Mic In input.

Then, i have mapped the microphone signal as my input line to OBS and "bang!", i have the signal there when i create a new Mic device.

This simple solution was always in front of my eyes, but i was late to see it. Thank you again.

Cheers  

Eww - don't use the MIC input unless it can intelligently switch to a LINE input; it would distort the audio coming through a mic pre-amp.

Yes, i forgot to mention in the previous post that i have mapped that Mic input into a Cable Input (VB-Audio Virtual Cable) before grabbing that as an Output in OBS. 

I already have tested streaming live and the sound is just as good as if it were being captured directly from the mixer. So, case closed.