voicemeeter preconfiguration
One very important thing is to have the Windows audio ports labelled in a way it make sense, so you can choose the right ports when using your applications - and to grok them easily when configuring VoiceMeeter.
- Right click your speaker in the system tray, select Playback Devices
- Look for
USB Audio CODECport. That is your radio interface, that VoiceMeeter will use to upload the audio to the radio. Double-click it.
- Give it a friendly name. Mine is
FT-991A TX to Radio. While you are still here, click in Change Icon and choose some icon that resembles a radio.
- Now, move to the Advanced tab. In Default Format, set the value
16 bit, 44100 Hz (CD Quality)
- This is how it should look!
Rinse and repeat for all other sound devices over there (especially unifying the sample rate to 44100 Hz). Some devices might not support 44.1 kHz sampling rate, it is okay to leave it at its setting.
While you are still here:
- Rename your
VB-Audio VoiceMeeter AUX VAIOtoVM TX Audio - Rename
VB-Audio VoiceMeeter VAIOtoVM Audio Apps
Set VM Audio Apps as the default device, by clicking Set Default.
This is how it should look:
Now in Recording Tab:
- Rename your
VB-Audio VoiceMeeter AUX VAIOtoVM RX Radio B2 - Rename
VB-Audio VoiceMeeter VAIOtoVM General B1
And it should look like:
Restart your computer.
Actually, the most important step here is harmonize every device to 44100 Hz/16 bit sampling rate. If you have different sampling rates, Windows and VoiceMeeter will have to add an extra step converting the audio stream to the target sampling rate - which adds up to the audio latency and CPU usage. And we don't want it.
With regards to interface renaming, it is important that you give meaningful names, so you won't confound or make mistakes.
Remember, this is important: Your applications will be using the VoiceMeeter interfaces, not the radio interfaces directly! We will explain in an latter chapter.
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