How to send audio from bus to Hardware or Virtual Input

[oldjackbob]

In VM Potato, is there a way to send an audio stream from a bus to any of the Inputs (Hardware or Virtual Inputs)?

I'm trying to find a workaround for VM's apparent inability to send bus audio directly to an external VST host....if there's a way to send a bus stream back around into an input then I could patch that input audio to an external VST host.

Thanks in advance,

Mark

[ragnar.jensen]

Yes, there is a way, for Voicemeeter's virtual in- and outputs. In Potato, there are three additional virtual ASIO drivers;

• Voicemeeter Virtual ASIO
  Voicemeeter AUX Virtual ASIO
  Voicemeeter VAIO3 Virtual ASIO

They take their input from the virtual outputs B1, B2 and B3, respectively and their output goes to the three virtual inputs of Voicemeeter.
If you, for example, use the Voicemeeter AUX Virtual ASIO driver in your VST host, output from B2 will go through the VST host and the host's output will be routed into Voicemeeter again on the Voicemeeter AUX virtual input.

HTH,
Ragnar

[oldjackbob]

Thank you very much for clarifying that flow logic, Ragnar, I'll see what I can string together!

Thank you for your tireless help with my noob questions,

Mark

[ragnar.jensen]

As an alternative, you can use the virtual audio cable that comes with Potato.
You can use that to connect one of Voicemeeter's hardware outputs to one of its hardware inputs.


If I select the VAC's input as my hardware output A2...

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...and the VAC's output as my hardware input 2...

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... I get a loop from output A2 back into Voicemeeter on HW input 2.

Ragnar

[Vincent Burel]

Best workaround is to use VBAN with local loopback address 127.0.0.1

[oldjackbob]

Ragnar,

Thank you for the alternative. I was able to solve my dilemma by configuring VM per your previous suggestion, which allows me to utilize my MOTU M4's ASIO driver (I prefer to avoid Windows drivers for latency reasons).

Vincent,

Thank you for the VBAN advice. My question is this: Why do you say that's the best workaround? I ask mainly because I don't know anything at all about VBAN as I've never needed to use it before.

Mark

[Vincent Burel]

VBAN is better alternative, because it allows you to route the incoming (loopback) stream into any input Strip (hardware or virtual), without using any virtual audio device.

note you now have also the Monitoring option in System Settings to listen to any BUS.

[oldjackbob]

Thank you Vincent.

Mark