# Assignment of audio channels on a Mac in a pain

**URL:** <https://qa.fmod.com/t/assignment-of-audio-channels-on-a-mac-in-a-pain/11396>\
**Category:** FMOD Studio\
**Created:** [April 9, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/assignment-of-audio-channels-on-a-mac-in-a-pain/11396 "2014-04-09T04:41:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tekopia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tekopia](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Tekopia)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/assignment-of-audio-channels-on-a-mac-in-a-pain/11396/1 "2014-04-09T04:41:40Z")

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On a Mac one has to configure speaker settings externally using Apple’s Audio/Midi app so that FMOD channels will correctly assign. But that changes all other assignments in other software apps. For example with settings made within Mac’s Audio/Midi program it is no longer possible to audition mono files in the finder.

This a major time consuming pain for Mac users who use a range of audio software for lots of different purposes.

FMOD programmers may not think this is a priority but it is if you’re the end user with lots of other apps to deal with it is a major inconvenience to constantly unpick the routing mess caused by this. I don’t know of any other professional audio program that leaves speaker channel configuration to Audio/Midi.

Otherwise I think FMOD is great.