Audacity cannot record with RME Babyface Pro fs and Catalina

Audacity 3 Help Forum macOS
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Audacity can record with RME babyface Pro fs - Windows 10, However Audacity can not record with RME babyface Pro fs - Mac/Catalina.

Babyface Pro fs can work with Mac-Catalina fine, and can output sound through Babyface Pro fs.
But Audacity can not record, Please teach any Check points or USB drivers.

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I’m guessing that you mean that Audacity “can not” record on Catalina, in which case, see this post: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/audacity-2-3-3-under-macos-10-15-catalina/54279/1

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Audacity can not record、even I tried these,
And I can not find audacity in Privacy - Mic box.
Also “Audio Hijack” can not record RME Babyface Pro under Catalina, I think these from same reason of Audacity problem. ( even AudioHijack.app is listed in Mic - Privacy.)

  1. Go to Applications > Utilities 2) Launch Terminal.app 3) in the Terminal dialog type the following command following command:open /Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity
    This will open Audacity and then Terminal will actually ask for the correct permissions.
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Sorry not included these,
Audacity 2.3.3
Mac 10.15.3（19D76）

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Which version of Audio Hijack?

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App version 3.6.3
Build 2019-12-19 17:09:58

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Does that allow you a free update to 3.6.4?

Do you mean when trying to record directly with Audio Hijack (not involving Audacity at all)?

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Both software can not record with RME babyface Pro -Catalina MAC.

Audacity can not record. ( even Windows Audacity can record with RME babyface Pro)
and
Audio Hijack can not record ( Windows has no Audio Hijack )

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What version drivers do you have for the Babyface Pro? (The current version, supporting Catalina, is 3.18 09/13/2019: https://www.rme-audio.de/downloads.html)

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I installed Babyface Pro 3.18_3 -Mac
So I can use Babyface as Output device, however Audacity can not record Babyface Pro input.
Appreciate your suggestions.

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In case of Windows10 Audacity,
I select as follow
Record device as SPDF/ADAT(1+2) in Sound -Windows10
REcord device as SPDF/ADAT(1+2) (RME Babyface) - Audacity Windows10
and can record well

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adding to above
Optical data inputting case, RME Babyface signal get in to AS1/2

MAC Catalina Sound setting to Babyface Pro Audio Device can set ,
Output Analog 1,2,3,4 and ADAT 1,2
However
Input Mic/Line1,2 Instrument 3/4 only and can not set ADAT/SPDIF 1, 2 ADAT 3-8

Maybe, if MAC - Catalina can output to ADAT/SPDIF1,2, Audacity can record…?
Appreciate suggestions to this…

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Suggestions from Audio Hijack support gave a good results in Audio Hijack-Recording with Babyface.
The solution is to set input device, using the advanced settings in the Input Device block.(Audio Hijack) I set targeting chanel as left-5 and right -6, and start recording.
I think, selecting input device functions might be valuable for Audacity - Mac-Catalina.