{"id":52192,"date":"2026-03-15T16:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=52192"},"modified":"2026-03-15T16:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:21:11","slug":"obs-32-1s-new-shiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/15\/obs-32-1s-new-shiny\/","title":{"rendered":"OBS 32.1&#8217;s new SHINY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OBS 32.1 is out and comes with some shiny stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from partial Canvas support into OBS Websocket, which is handy now that dual format streaming (and\/or sending horizontal one place and vertical to another) is a thing. So WebSocket consumers can have some idea whats going on, but I need to sit down and play with that a little more before I comment further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what I have already been playing with is the new Audio Mixer, (I had some tester access to a build with the Audio Mixer in thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/warchamp7.ca\">Warchamp<\/a> whose leading the work on tweaking\/updating the OBS UI)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what does the new Audio Mixer do? Well in a nutshell:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Clearly shows which sources in the audio Mixer are Global (or pinned), Active in this scene or hidden (either due to manually hidden or not on the active scene)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Easy access to &#8220;monitor this source&#8221; without having to open the Advanced Audio Settings UI (and see the monitoring state)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pin an audio source (to move it from the local to global list)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>AND THE BIGGEST USEFUL THING<\/strong>: Ability to Rename Audio Sources! (and to some degree sort sources in the dock as it&#8217;s Alphabetic)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In Pictures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So your Audio Mixer can go from<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"633\" height=\"289\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.png?resize=633%2C289&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.png?w=633&amp;ssl=1 633w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.png?resize=300%2C137&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-2.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"605\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-2.png?resize=605%2C341&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-2.png?w=605&amp;ssl=1 605w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-2.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So here on the new UI, you can see I already renamed my global sources, no more Mic\/Aux 2\/3\/etc it&#8217;s closer to the Windows Device name for the source as set in main settings -> Audio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what else does it do? Bottom right you can see a new monitoring status button\/icon, you no longer have to go into Advanced Audio Settings to toggle monitor on\/off and you can much easily see which sources are montored!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So left to right, the global\/pinned group then the scene active group. And then sources are alphabetic sorted instead those groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So get renaming after updating today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the full change log for <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/obsproject\/obs-studio\/releases\/tag\/32.1.0\">OBS 32.1.0 over on Github<\/a> or check your OBS today for the update!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you can offer <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OBSProject\/status\/2015893309495861371\">feedback via the OBS Discord<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OBS 32.1 is out and comes with some shiny stuff. Aside from partial Canvas support into OBS Websocket, which is handy now that dual format streaming (and\/or sending horizontal one place and vertical to another) is a thing. So WebSocket consumers can have some idea whats going on, but I need to sit down and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/15\/obs-32-1s-new-shiny\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OBS 32.1&#8217;s new SHINY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[244,88,45,395,394],"tags":[315,398,314,313],"class_list":["post-52192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications","category-code-geekery","category-geekery","category-obs-streaming","category-streaming","tag-obs","tag-obs-studio","tag-streaming","tag-twitch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52196,"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52192\/revisions\/52196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}