routing channels

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slim
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routing channels

Post by slim »

Actually my question doesn't quite fit into any one forum as I tried HiFi
cable and Voice meter.

So I want to swap the ASIO channels that the PC audio is output on (1
& 2) to a ASIO device driver. I've tried both the HiFi cable and voice
meter and neither work.

1) HiFi Cable: when I change the input channels the channel meters
show PC audio on 3 and 4 but it's not changed on the physical device
driver. They stay at 1 & 2.
2) VoiceMeter - I cannot manually change the A2 channels. When I open
the settings dialog the second box is 4 and the 1st increments each
time I open the dialog. Clicking on either resets them both to -. I
assume they should increment on click?

The physical driver is for a McMillen K-Mix. It uses channels 1 &
2 for Mic and LoZ inputs so if I want to mix with PC audio I need it to be
on other channels - eg 3 & 4

https://www.keithmcmillen.com/downloads/#kmix

I'm unable to find any other software that comes close to doing this
and while I used to do a lot of Win32 dev I've never attempted audio
drivers and don't really want to go down that rabbit hole. :)

Thanks
Andres
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Re: routing channels

Post by Andres »

Hi. How many Inputs and Outputs does ASIO Bridge show you when you select your K-Mix as ASIO device?
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You can check all the output channels of your ASIO driver using ASIO Driver Tester: viewtopic.php?p=4259&sid=7748915fc7b3d1 ... ea3f#p4259
Go to ASIO Device menu and select your ASIO device. By default it generates a Sinus wave at 440Hz that is sent to all output channels.
slim
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Re: routing channels

Post by slim »

Thanks Adres - I'll find out. I didn't get an email notification so did not know your reply was here.
slim
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Re: routing channels

Post by slim »

@andres I can't see how to paste an image here but i do get the expected 8 channels showing

The tester does produce noise on all 8 channels and showed my I had accidently muted 3 & 4 in the mixer - D'oh. PC sound out on 3 & 4 works perfectly. Whoop!

FYI 10% callback error just keeps incrementing

#0001 DSP LOAD: nothing
#0002 ------------------------------------------------------
#0003 (64Bits) TEST DEVICE: K-MixUSBAudio ASIO Driver
#0004 PREPARE DEVICE: sr:96000 Hz / buffer: 1728 smp / in: 8 / out: 10
#0005 Latency: in:2112 smp / buffer: 1728 smp / out: 2880 smp / total: 70.00 ms
#0006 ASIO Buffer 0 / Input / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 1)
#0007 ASIO Buffer 1 / Input / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 2)
#0008 ASIO Buffer 2 / Input / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 3)
#0009 ASIO Buffer 3 / Input / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 4)
#0010 ASIO Buffer 4 / Input / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 5)
#0011 ASIO Buffer 5 / Input / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 6)
#0012 ASIO Buffer 6 / Input / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 7)
#0013 ASIO Buffer 7 / Input / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 8)
#0014 ASIO Buffer 8 / Output / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 1)
#0015 ASIO Buffer 9 / Output / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 2)
#0016 ASIO Buffer 10 / Output / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 3)
#0017 ASIO Buffer 11 / Output / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 4)
#0018 ASIO Buffer 12 / Output / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 5)
#0019 ASIO Buffer 13 / Output / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 6)
#0020 ASIO Buffer 14 / Output / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 7)
#0021 ASIO Buffer 15 / Output / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 8)
#0022 ASIO Buffer 16 / Output / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 9)
#0023 ASIO Buffer 17 / Output / type:18 / ASIOSTInt32LSB (Analog 10)
#0024 -----------------------------------------------------------
#0025 Performance Counter Frequency: +10.000.000
#0026 Performance Counter for one buffer: +180.000 (18.0 ms)
#0027 Performance Counter for 10%: +18.000
#0028 -----------------------------------------------------------
#0029 GENERATE SINUS: 440 Hz -10 dBfs
#0030 DSP LOAD: nothing
#0031 START DEVICE: Running

So a couple of strange things I noted. I'm routing PC main sound output to HiFi Cable (ie speaker icon in tray) but sound is coming from Plex app running in Firefox

* I get no sound unless ASIO Bridge is running - I did not expect that
* The master volume control does nothing put the Plex app does
* If I switch source back to K-mix driver then Firefox errors
* I need to close ASIO Bridge for sound to revert ot KMix driver, sometimes also need to restart Firefox

Anyway I have a useable solution - thanks for being the ONLY solution :)
Andres
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Re: routing channels

Post by Andres »

Hi. You could try to set this up using Voicemeeter Banana (Potato also supports this):
  • Select the ASIO option for your K-Mix from A1 Hardware Out selection list.
  • Set the Windows Default Output device to Voicemeter Input (VB-Audio VoiceMeeter VAIO). Use for example the Speaker icon in the notification area.
  • Route the Voicemeeter VAIO virtual input to the K-Mix using the ►A1 button
  • Change the routing mode to Composite for the A1 bus under MASTER SECTION
  • Open Voicemeeter System Settings / Options... window.
  • Under PATCH COMPOSITE section, select IN#4 Left and IN#4 Right in the third and fourth box respectively. Select an unused channel for the others.
Voicemeeter Banana A1 Composite ASIO output.png
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Please let us know if this could be an option for you and if you need further assistance.
slim
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Re: routing channels

Post by slim »

I'm all sorted using HiFi Cable, thanks. Sorry of that was not clear form my previous answer.

https://blog.fullmeasure.uk/2020/12/08/ ... 20Windows/

How do you post images? I can't see it anywhere?

Thanks for a very useful product
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