Voicemeeter is a virtual mixing console and sound card running on the Windows operating system. It allows the processing of any audio signal – whether its source is physical (microphone) or virtual (application) – and its transmission to physical audio devices and/or applications.
Voicemeeter offers many useful features for audio activities: VoIP users, video gamers, users of audio software such as VLC media player, Audacity, etc.
Three versions of the software are available: Voicemeeter (or "Voicemeeter Standard") which offers two physical and one virtual inputs/outputs, Voicemeeter Pro (called "Banana") with three physical and two virtual inputs/outputs, an integrated recorder and additional audio processing, and Voicemeeter "Potato" offering five physical and three virtual inputs/outputs.
Distributed according to the donationware model, the application can be downloaded for free.
Features
Virtual mixing console
As a virtual mixing console, Voicemeeter makes it possible to interconnect and mix audio streams from many audio devices and applications thanks to the concept of physical inputs/outputs (for audio devices) and virtual inputs/outputs (for applications): USB microphone, DVD players, video games, iTunes, VoIP applications, Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), etc.
Aggregation of audio devices and applications
Voicemeeter makes it possible to mix multiple audio sources from different devices, such as a USB microphone or line input, with the sound of PC applications, such as a video player. Voicemeeter Standard offers two physical inputs and one virtual input. Voicemeeter Banana offers three physical inputs and two virtual ones. Voicemeeter Potato offers five physical inputs and three virtual ones.
Mixing and real-time processing
Just like a physical mixing console, Voicemeeter allows you to mix and process the different signals in real time with, in particular, equalizers, compressors and noise gates ("Audibility" button for Voicemeeter Standard), and gain controls materialized by vertical sliders. For the physical inputs, the Intellipan offers equalizers presented in the form of a two-dimensional panel allowing the rapid and almost instinctive correction of the intelligibility of the voice. In addition, Voicemeeter Banana has an advanced independent equalizer on each of the bus outputs.
Multiple outputs
The generated audio signals can then be sent separately to several physical (speakers, television, Bluetooth ...) or virtual (Skype, Audacity, OBS, Twitch...) playback devices. Voicemeeter Standard has one physical output and one virtual output. Voicemeeter Banana has three physical outputs and two virtual outputs. Voicemeeter Potato has five physical outputs and three virtual outputs.
Voicemeeter thus makes it easy, for example, to change your voice, add music and send all in a conversation via Skype or play 5.1 video games while conversing with your team.
Built-in recording
Voicemeeter Banana integrates an audio recorder, in the form of a cassette tape recorder from the 1980s, which allows recording bus inputs or outputs in WAV, AIFF, BWF and MP3 format. It is also an audio player supporting audio files in WAV, AIFF, MP3, M4A, MP4, MOV, AVI, WMA, WMV format,.
Universal Audio Interface
Voicemeeter can use Windows audio devices with WASAPI (WDM), Kernel streaming or Multimedia Extensions interfaces and it can also manage an ASIO audio device (on output A1). It has one to three virtual inputs/outputs with all interfaces: WASAPI, KS, MME, WaveRT, DirectX as well as ASIO (to connect professional audio software to Voicemeeter). Voicemeeter Banana also offers a virtual ASIO insert driver to connect a VST host application (DAW) and process the various Voicemeeter inputs with software plug-in or any professional audio applications.
Built-in audio device drivers
Voicemeeter also comes with recording and playback audio drivers (giving the virtual inputs / outputs). Once these have been configured as default devices, they allow you to perform all previously mentioned tasks while avoiding conflicts between audio devices.
Audio network
The VBAN protocol makes it possible to send / receive uncompressed audio streams over a local area network and thus to interconnect computers without having to use audio cables.
MIDI control
The control of the main parameters by a MIDI control surface allows managing all the sound of the computer with a dedicated controller (Korg NanoKontrol for example).
