Voicemeeter Stress / VB Audio Cable (how to get a Sonar Sound recorded with Audacity or something else)

[Astraios]

2 hours ago, mettelus said:

Bottom line is to check all routings... what do you need to hear/monitor, and what does your tutorial need to hear/record? When reading what you are trying to do, it seems that a DAW is superfluous to me... what is the "need" for a DAW in what you are doing? A video tutorial is your end goal, correct?

I put this YouTube clip together 2 or 3 days ago using Filmora and Voicemeeter... (without Loopback  🧑‍🚀  and it is in VP9 High quality Codec, which isn't easy to archive - so, a bit of understanding is part of my business

Touch Portal as MIDI Controller on Cakewalks Z3TA+2 in Sonar DAW

Edited 2 hours ago by Astraios

[Will.]

2 hours ago, Astraios said:

using Filmora

Perhaps this is your problem. I'm not too familiar with Filmora, but the rest of the world is using OBS or Streamlabs to record their screens and system audio. I record four camera angles and the system audio in both applications, and I use SONAR with the Focusrite loopback, utilizing my ASIO drivers to capture all four mic inputs for the podcast.

You're complicating things unnecessarily. Major broadcast companies use these free applications because it makes the work 100x easier. Streamlabs is more popular among female YouTubers because it has a paid version that comes with hundreds of overlays including makeup beauty filters and those weird effects Snapchat and TikTok have.

[mettelus]

2 hours ago, Astraios said:

I was able to do everything with Voicemeeter and VB-Audio Cable "without any problems."

This is where you should have stopped; your needs were met. Unfortunately, it is fairly commonplace for folks to rabbit-hole others with "my way is superior" rather than reading the OP and answering the question/intent of the OP. Suggestions are perfectly fine and more than welcome, but invalidating another's efforts and destroying their work is WAY over the top for me. Very rarely is there only one way to do something, so how others do something is totally irrelevant if your method works for you. I am sorry you went through this, especially since you were struggling and found a solution.

If you want to take on suggestions for other methods when you have free time, that is a perfect way to learn and expand your toolbox, but be very wary about undoing a method you know works already.

[Bass Guitar]

Hey @Will. question, seeing as you have the Focusrite, Do you have to set up anything special in the Control app?  As in there’s a mixer channel for the Loopback that can be muted etc? 
At no point has the OP confirmed that they tried the same settings as I used and had no problems. 
The clue that it could be the Focusrite mixer app is they are claiming that they can’t get audio out of Sonar.