[SOLVED] Voicemeeter going full ASIO = problem
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2020 9:47 pm
Hi Vincent,
First of all, thank you for your wonderful work on Voicemeeter series.
Your work is inspiring new hope in the world of windows audio.
Now, I have a specific use case where Voicemeeter (any) is failing me from day one.
In other words, I could never ever make this setup work without audio crackling.
What I want to do is to have my DAW (Reaper or Cubase) use Voicemeeter Virtual ASIO to talk to Voicemeeter AND at the same time, have Voicemeeter use my ASIO card for it's inputs and outputs. The goal here is to have the smallest possible latency, for music studio recording purposes where low latency is paramount.
When I try to send DAW via ASIO to Voicemeeter and then set Voicemeeter to use MME mode of that card, then it is working correctly. No crackling, the sound is clean, all fine, except, the buffer is then at 1024 samples and that makes it lag too much to be usable in a music recording context.
On the other hand, when I set Voicemeeter to use ASIO exclusively, then, Voicemeeter alone is working just fine, no problems whatsoever, and ASIO buffer can go very low which provides good latency for music recording. But, as soon as I try to send my DAW's audio into Voicemeeter via Voicemeeter Virtual ASIO, that audio connection starts crackling and I can't fix it no matter what. I tried all different combinations of buffers and the only difference it makes is how often the crackling is heard. The bigger the buffer, the more apart in time crackling noise is. It sounds like it can't sync to ASIO buffer no matter which buffer size, which leads me to believe it is some kind of a bug, rather than underwhelmed real-time CPU cycles.
I am testing this on a machine with the latest generation i7 CPU and usually I have more than enough CPU power for anything music-related. In Reaper alone I can drive hundreds of channels with hundreds of VST effects on low ASIO buffers and it is running extremely smoothly. I was even able to use ASIO Synchronous Audio Router to record both audio and fullHD screen capture to Open Broadcaster Software with no hiccups whatsoever. The only ever crackling audio problem I have is when I try the above described Voicemeeter plus ASIO ins(mic)+outs(headphones)+virtual(DAW).
Now I am wondering: did you ever have any such experience? Is that combination working for you? Or is this something that is well known and not supported by Voicemeeter?
Thank you.
Keep up the good work!
Cheers!
First of all, thank you for your wonderful work on Voicemeeter series.
Your work is inspiring new hope in the world of windows audio.
Now, I have a specific use case where Voicemeeter (any) is failing me from day one.
In other words, I could never ever make this setup work without audio crackling.
What I want to do is to have my DAW (Reaper or Cubase) use Voicemeeter Virtual ASIO to talk to Voicemeeter AND at the same time, have Voicemeeter use my ASIO card for it's inputs and outputs. The goal here is to have the smallest possible latency, for music studio recording purposes where low latency is paramount.
When I try to send DAW via ASIO to Voicemeeter and then set Voicemeeter to use MME mode of that card, then it is working correctly. No crackling, the sound is clean, all fine, except, the buffer is then at 1024 samples and that makes it lag too much to be usable in a music recording context.
On the other hand, when I set Voicemeeter to use ASIO exclusively, then, Voicemeeter alone is working just fine, no problems whatsoever, and ASIO buffer can go very low which provides good latency for music recording. But, as soon as I try to send my DAW's audio into Voicemeeter via Voicemeeter Virtual ASIO, that audio connection starts crackling and I can't fix it no matter what. I tried all different combinations of buffers and the only difference it makes is how often the crackling is heard. The bigger the buffer, the more apart in time crackling noise is. It sounds like it can't sync to ASIO buffer no matter which buffer size, which leads me to believe it is some kind of a bug, rather than underwhelmed real-time CPU cycles.
I am testing this on a machine with the latest generation i7 CPU and usually I have more than enough CPU power for anything music-related. In Reaper alone I can drive hundreds of channels with hundreds of VST effects on low ASIO buffers and it is running extremely smoothly. I was even able to use ASIO Synchronous Audio Router to record both audio and fullHD screen capture to Open Broadcaster Software with no hiccups whatsoever. The only ever crackling audio problem I have is when I try the above described Voicemeeter plus ASIO ins(mic)+outs(headphones)+virtual(DAW).
Now I am wondering: did you ever have any such experience? Is that combination working for you? Or is this something that is well known and not supported by Voicemeeter?
Thank you.
Keep up the good work!
Cheers!