Mac Will Not Use USB Audio Input

By Scott Duck, 3 December, 2020

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I have a 2015 MacBook Pro, 13 inch, running Catalina. I have a mixing board which connects to my Mac via USB. I haven't used it in a while. Today, I connected it and tried to record something but the Mac will not use it as a audio input. I went into my sound settings, went to the input tab, interacted with the table, went to the USB audio codac, and performed a VO space on it to select it. When I uninteracted with the table and VO right from there, it appeared as though it was in fact selected as the current sound source. However, when I went to Amadeus Pro and tried to record, it used the internal microphone. I disconnected my Audio Technica ATR 2100 from the sound board and connected it directly to the Mac via USB and selected it as my input source. I got the same result. I tried the other USB port and still got the same result. It just does not want to use USB audio input for some reason. I have never had this issue before. Does anyone have any thoughts as to what could be going on?

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By Scott Duck on Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - 13:38

Update. I figured it out. I had selected USB audio as the input in system preferences but I had to go into the Amadeus settings and select it there as well. I recently upgraded from Amadeus Light to Amadeus Pro. I probably selected the input in Amadeus Light years ago and had forgotten I had to do that. Of course, I would need to do that in Amadeus Pro also, as the are separate applications. Anyway, it's working fine now.