I have a USB Audio Interface (Behringer UMC1820 --> https://www.behringer.com/Categories/Be ... ans(en|en) ). This interface has 8 XLR inputs (MIC) and 20 outputs. This interface has a ASIO Driver ('UMC ASIO Driver'). Is possible to conect the 8 mic inputs to the Voicemeeter throught the asio driver? With the 5 outputs of voicemeeter is enough. I need other software now I'm using the Voicemeeter Potato.
This is my configuration now, but isn't present the input 6, 7 and 8:
At the moment you have configured the 5 stereo (!) Hardware Inputs of Potato as dual mono for 5 mono inputs of your Behringer.
Both channels (left and right) use the same microphone mono input.
Based on your Patch ASIO Inputs 1-1, 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, 5-5 settings.
You can use 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 or something like that.
So that each of 4 Potato stereo Hardware Inputs use 2 individual mono channels.
Then activate the mono button for the HW Input strips to mix both channels.
Then you can use the INTELLIPAN 3D Panel to adjust stereo position.
Best ASIO Patch pattern to use all 5 Potato HW Input strips for 8 mono inputs would be: 1-1, 2-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8
If you definetly need 8 individually adjustable (for volume and maybe panning) mono mixer channels you have to use a DAW.
Using a DAW in combination with Voicemeeter Potato Insert Virtual ASIO driver, it is also possible to route 8 individual mono channels through your DAW (repatching them there) back to Potato then using the 5 Hardware Strips plus the 3 Virtual Input strips for these 8 mono inputs.
Though the routing inside the DAW would be a little bit complicated, but theoretically it will work.
But seriously, this would be a setup for a very advanced user.
So, no more details from me at the moment for this expert scenario.
I have to work in my kitchen the next hours.
If you do not have a DAW (try Reaper!) or if you do not want to use a DAW, there is another configuration option for mixing 8 mono inputs in Potato (or 6 mono inputs in Banana) as long as the summing for the inputs on the bus can also be mono for your individual mixing scenario.
In this special case you use the same standard ASIO Patch stereo settings that I have described earlier:
1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 (for 8 inputs in Potato)
or
1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 (for 10 inputs in Potato)
or
1-2, 3-4, 5-6 (for 6 inputs in Potato or Banana)
But this time you do not activate mono for the individual strips!
Instead you have to activate mono for the output bus (or busses!) that you use for the summing in the Master Section.
Then you use the INTELLIPAN left/right panning to balance (mix!) the two individual mono inputs from your ASIO interface inside each HW Input strip.
It is a little weird approach, but in principle this would give you mixing level control for the individual mono inputs (6 with Banana or 10 with Potato) without an additional DAW usage.
Just for the case, if someone wants to use it that way and keeping it mono is not a problem.
You see Voicemeeter is a place to let your fantasy flow, where (almost) everything is possible.
Maybe other users can find their own "somehow strange" configurations.
But if you need more than 5 stereo Hardware Inputs then the normal approach would be the usage of a DAW.
The special benefit of Voicemeeter is that it can act as a link between a professional (but somehow isolated for other audio sources) ASIO/DAW environment and all kind of standard audio sources of a computer.
Voicemeeter opens the door for almost everyone to enter step by step the world of professional audio processing.
Sometimes I think that some users skip the usage of Voicemeeter (standard) and Banana, to start directly with Potato.
But it is important to learn the basics with Voicemeeter (standard) and then next with Banana, before you use Potato.
And do not forget to take your time to read the manual (PDF) and watch some video tutorials before you ask for detailed settings in the forum (where questions and answers most of the time have delays at least for a day or even more).
Reading the manuals and watching tutorials is a much faster way to retrieve information about concrete Voicemeeter settings.
