VB-Audio has updated its Voicemeeter Standard, Banana and Potato virtual audio mixers for Windows, promising improved reliability, compatibility and power.
Release versions 1.1 1 1/2.1 1 1 and 3.1 1 1 respectively offer better reliability with Win10 and higher O/S versions, wider compatibility with audio system and audio applications and additional features. The Voicemeeter series now comes with a new audio driver fully compatible with Win10/11 64-bits (replacing the old Win7 driver model). It now provides up to 8x Virtual Audio I/O. Tested with most of audio applications (Spotify, Netflix, VLC, Reaper, Ableton, Cubase…) and audio capture or communication Tools (Audacity, Reaper, OBS, Zoom, Discord…), including most known video games, the new Voicemeeter VAIOs are expected to work rock solid for any workflow (especially for any output capture or loopback capture).
Voicemeeter Potato 3.1 1 1 also offers a new Voice Modeler on each hardware input strip, integrated within the denoiser knob. This pitch effect allows transforming of human voice in natural or unnatural ways – male or female, funny or smart. With the growing number of audio devices installed or connected to the PC, a simple device list, displaying less explicit device name was insufficient to select the right device with the right interface.
Voicemeeter also offers a new Audio Device Selector to replace the usual growing menu or dropdown list. This new selector shows all information about audio device with its icon and classifies them by audio interface (WASAPI, KS, MME, ASIO) and by drivers name alphabetic order. If no device is selected as output A1, an internal master clock is used as master device. This allows Voicemeeter being used without physical audio device and run anyway as virtual audio interface, VBAN Hub or Virtual ASIO driver.
These updats also fixes latest reported issues and brings better reliability, taking advantage of the new technologies from the VB-Audio Matrix, bringing a better stability in multiple audio stream management.
Voicemeeter now displays contextual help on caption (option by default) to explain what is the under the mouse for most of controls, buttons, knobs or sliders. This text also includes the related API instruction, which can be copied by the usual CTRL+C keyboard shortcut. Then it’s easier to find the right instruction to program the Macro Buttons application or build VBAN-Text request.
With the growing number of applications connected to Voicemeeter, VAIO 1 to 5 are additional virtual audio I/O called VAIOs Extension provided as optional feature, pending on a specific licensce. When activated, VAIOs extensions are connected to hardware inputs and physical output bus. So Voicemeeter hardware input and Physical outputs can also be used as Virtual I/O to get up to eight virtual audio inputs and outputs with Voicemeeter Potato.
Voicemeeter Standard and Voicemeeter Banana are distributed as Donationware. Voicemeeter Potato is distributed as donationware with an activation code. VAIOs extension is distributed as donationware with an activation code (with two separate licenses, one for Voicemeeter Potato and one for Voicemeeter Standard and Banana).
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