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Topic: Virtual Mixer - vb-audio's Voice Meeter with ASIO4ALL - Opinions? (Read 6153 times) previous topic - next topic
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Virtual Mixer - vb-audio's Voice Meeter with ASIO4ALL - Opinions?

I'm interested in opinions around using vb-audio's Voicemeeter with ASIO4ALL.  Here's the blurb from vb-audio's website:

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VoiceMeeter is able to mix audio sources coming from audio device as well as from audio applications. it mixes 3 Inputs to 3 outputs though 2 buses. Then Microphone, Music, Movie, Skype call, video game sound, net radio... can be mixed and sent to different audio outputs, VOIP or Recording Application as Virtual Audio Device

Voicemeeter is an application endowed with Virtual Audio I/O and can be used as main audio device by your system, like it was hardware mixing console. Voicemeeter supports all audio interface: MME, Direct-X, KS, WaveRT, WASAPI, and ASIO to connect audio pro DAW or musical instrument.

I use ASIO4ALL on Win 7 x86 with my DAW, but when ASIO4ALL is active I cannot  hear any non ASIO audio from Foobar and Chrome say playing a youtube etc.  This behavior is normal.

Is Voicemeeter good?  I'm worried about any latency (and screwing my PC).

Thanks for reading,

Darryl (Manchester, England)

Virtual Mixer - vb-audio's Voice Meeter with ASIO4ALL - Opinions?

Reply #1 –
When I'm concerned about possibly screwing up the system by installing something new, I first take a system restore point, giving it an easily recognized name.

After that I install and test the new application.

If I don't like it, which probably happens more often than not, I uninstall, then do a system restore with the above restore point. So far that has never left a new problem in place.

If you have automatic updates running, or you injudiciously install something else after creating the restore point, those updates/installs will also be gone after the system restore. You will have to redo those after the system restore. Automatic updates should repeat what they did before, without any effort on your part.

I don't think that should cause any actual difficulties but since I don't allow automatic updates, I don't know if some application might keep track of its automatic updates other than through the registry, and thus become confused.

Virtual Mixer - vb-audio's Voice Meeter with ASIO4ALL - Opinions?

Reply #2 –
In most of cases, Voicemeeter does not need to be used with ASIO4All
since Voicemeeter is an alternative to it for common use cases.

As Virtual Real Time mixing Console, Voicemeeter supports to be connected to ASIO or Windows devices and applications can be connected to Voicemeeter through its virtual audio interface : by ASIO or all others : WASAPI, KS, WaveRT, Direct-X, MME.
The Voicemeeter virtual ASIO interface supports 4x client applications.
The Voicemeeter virtual input is also providing a regular windows audio virtual device, that can be set as default device for any PC-Sound...

to know everything about Voicemeeter capabilities, we recommend to follow the user  manual step by step:
Click here to get Voicemeeter PDF User Manual

Virtual Mixer - vb-audio's Voice Meeter with ASIO4ALL - Opinions?

Reply #3 –
To 'mix' ASIO from my DAW with youtube in Chrome and Foobar2000, giving each its own fader would use three stereo virtual inputs in VoiceMeeter.  Although VoiceMeeter only has one virtual input, you can use two Virtual Cables (an A and a B) which are available on the website too.