How or where can I find a driver for my MacBook to allow it to play music through my PreSonus StudioLive 32S Mixer using the TAPE channel ?
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MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.3
Your PreSonus StudioLive 32S Mixer is a USB device and should not need any drivers on Mac systems.
What you may need to do after connecting via USB is to set it as your output audio device in Audio MDI Setup, which is in your /Applications/Utilities folder.
You would not use the mixer's TAPE channel because that is an analog line-level input, not USB. Of course, if you wanted to, you could connect the headphone out of your Mac to a line input on your mixer. But I do not recommend that method.
For an expensive mixer, the 32S documentation leaves a lot to be desired especially regarding USB input.
Your PreSonus StudioLive 32S Mixer is a USB device and should not need any drivers on Mac systems.
What you may need to do after connecting via USB is to set it as your output audio device in Audio MDI Setup, which is in your /Applications/Utilities folder.
You would not use the mixer's TAPE channel because that is an analog line-level input, not USB. Of course, if you wanted to, you could connect the headphone out of your Mac to a line input on your mixer. But I do not recommend that method.
For an expensive mixer, the 32S documentation leaves a lot to be desired especially regarding USB input.
TAPE inputs should be an ordinary LINE-level input with the word 'Tape' on the outside of the box.
You can get a USB output device that outputs a LINE level output, and plug them together.
Not sure I understand your post. The OP was asking about connecting his/her mixer to a Mac, not a Mac to a speaker. One should never connect a headphone out or line out directly to a speaker because the sound level would be tiny and it could damage the output circuit.
But you can "get away" with connecting a headphone out to a line input although you need to keep the gain (sound level) low in order to avoid distortion. It's not an ideal connection for a variety of reasons but in a pinch it can suffice.
The OP's 32S mixer has USB in/out, so that would be the proper way to connect it to his/her Mac.
<< you could connect the headphone out of your Mac to a line input on your mixer. >>
That advice only works in this situation, because you are going directly into an Amplifier input.
Headphone outputs can never run speakers directly, but you can 'get away with it' in this case. The output level on a headphone output will generally be VERY low. Even the junky speakers people use to produce computer squeaks have a modest amplifier built in.
My post was intended to supply additional, and somewhat tangential information for readers who found this discussion by searching.
I wanted to immediately 'put a lid on' the too-common idea that you just wire the Headphones output to speakers directly. I answer far too many queries about why headphone-out to speakers-in does not seem to be working. It never works.
OK, got it! Thanks for clarifying.
How to play music from MacBook through PreSonus StudioLive 32S Mixer's TAPE channel?
