I recently got a Behringer Xenyx Q502USB and I don’t know how to set it up

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  • FlexASIO

    A flexible universal ASIO driver that uses the PortAudio sound I/O library. Supports WASAPI (shared and exclusive), KS, DirectSound and MME.

  • A Universal ASIO Driver. This is what the mixer will need at a minimum. But even then, it'll only allow for ASIO audio. Which most programs cannot use out of the box. ASIO adoption is minimal at best, and it's practically dead in the water for electron-based apps such as Discord. So OP needs to have a way for the ASIO audio to communicate to window's drivers. (WDM, MME, etc...) A couple options would be: ASIO4ALL, O Deus ASIO Link Pro, FlexASIO I'd recommend ASIO Link Pro or FlexASIO personally, but ASIO4ALL is the one you'd be recommended the most. OP should do their research and find out which one works for them as well as instructions on how to set them up.

  • obs-studio

    OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

  • An ASIO|Window's Driver bridge. This could be any single or combination of programs that can bridge the gap. This step can vary widely when it comes to software required to be downloaded. The 2 setups I've seen the most are: Any flavour of VoiceMeeter (I'd recommend Banana or Potato if you'd go this route) with VB-Audio's Virtual Audio Cables, OBS with the OBS-ASIO and Audio Monitor plugins, and my personal favourite/recommendation being SAR and Reaper. I could go into the specifics of each scenario, but the end result is that I found SAR and Reaper to be the most performant and least resource intensive whilst simultaneously being the most extensible and least restrictive. The OBS method requires you to always have OBS open for example.

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  • obs-asio

    ASIO plugin for OBS-Studio

  • An ASIO|Window's Driver bridge. This could be any single or combination of programs that can bridge the gap. This step can vary widely when it comes to software required to be downloaded. The 2 setups I've seen the most are: Any flavour of VoiceMeeter (I'd recommend Banana or Potato if you'd go this route) with VB-Audio's Virtual Audio Cables, OBS with the OBS-ASIO and Audio Monitor plugins, and my personal favourite/recommendation being SAR and Reaper. I could go into the specifics of each scenario, but the end result is that I found SAR and Reaper to be the most performant and least resource intensive whilst simultaneously being the most extensible and least restrictive. The OBS method requires you to always have OBS open for example.

  • SynchronousAudioRouter

    Low latency application audio routing for Windows

  • An ASIO|Window's Driver bridge. This could be any single or combination of programs that can bridge the gap. This step can vary widely when it comes to software required to be downloaded. The 2 setups I've seen the most are: Any flavour of VoiceMeeter (I'd recommend Banana or Potato if you'd go this route) with VB-Audio's Virtual Audio Cables, OBS with the OBS-ASIO and Audio Monitor plugins, and my personal favourite/recommendation being SAR and Reaper. I could go into the specifics of each scenario, but the end result is that I found SAR and Reaper to be the most performant and least resource intensive whilst simultaneously being the most extensible and least restrictive. The OBS method requires you to always have OBS open for example.

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