Is it possible to route discrete 5.1 ADM channels to three stereo ADM outputs in Voicemeeter?

[polyh3dron]

Hi all, I have a pro audio interface at the heart of my audio setup that uses Dante for the majority of its audio routing, and I have audio outputs from multiple PCs going to it via Dante Virtual Soundcard. In WDM mode, this driver acts as multiple stereo sets of inputs and outputs. I want to see if I am able to play a PC game with 5.1 or 7.1 audio and route those discrete individual channels to three or four stereo Dante Virtual Soundcard outputs. People have told me there is a way to do this with Voicemeeter in conjunction with some other VB-Audio software but I cannot figure out how to do it. Is this actually possible? Switching my Dante Virtual Soundcard driver over to ASIO mode is not an option for me.

[Andres]

Hi. Not really sure to understand your scenario since I don't use DVS (Dante Virtual Soundcard). You could explore this setup using Voicemeeter Banana:

• In Windows Sound Control Panel - Playback tab - VoiceMeeter Input - Configure button - Set Speaker Setup to 5.1 Surround. This is where the game audio enters Voicemeeter
• Select DVS Transmit 1-2 at Hardware Out A1 (Left and Right Surround Channels)
• Select DVS Transmit 3-4 at Hardware Out A2 (Center and LFE channels
• Select DVS Transmit 5-6 at Hardware Out A3 (Rear Left and Rear Right)
• Turn on A1, A2 and A3 at Virtual Input VoiceMeeter VAIO
• In the MASTER SECTION select Normal for A1, Composite for A2 and Rear Only for A3
• Open Menu - System Settings / Options... and set PATCH COMPOSITE this way (only 2 first channels are relevant):

  

  PATCH COMPOSITE Center - LFE.png (1.27 KiB) Viewed 4533 times

• Your setup should look similar to this:(I have not selected A2 or A3):

  

  VoiceMeeter 5.1 VAIO to 3 stereo pairs.png (126.79 KiB) Viewed 4532 times

Hope this helps. Let us know if you need any clarification since this setup is pretty particular.

[polyh3dron]

Andres, you are a genius, this works! I was looking at the routing capabilities of this program in a completely incorrect way it seems.

Thank you very much.

The only seemingly unfortunate byproduct of this method is differing amounts of latency between the sets of channels; it is noticeable in material that plays in the front and rear channels simultaneously.