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VoiceMeeter documentation
VoiceMeeter is a free virtual audio mixer for Windows. It installs virtual audio devices, takes every sound your PC makes plus your microphones, and lets you send each of them to any output independently. These pages cover installation, routing and the failures people actually hit.
Getting started
Install, reboot, assign A1, match sample rates, verify the signal path. The first twenty minutes, done in the right order.
Editions compared
Standard, Banana and Potato side by side: strips, buses, patchbay, VBAN, recorder. Which one your setup needs.
Audio routing
The bus model, patchbay inserts, per-app routing, ASIO for DAWs, buffer sizing and VBAN over the LAN.
Troubleshooting
Silent output, crackling, missing devices, audio engine restarts, latency, echo. Symptom to cause to fix.
OBS Studio
Separate game, voice and music into their own OBS sources, with no double audio and no feedback loop.
Discord and calls
Clean microphone into Discord, Zoom or Teams while music and game stay out of your voice.
Uninstall
Remove the application and the virtual drivers in the right order, leaving no ghost endpoints behind.
Download
The current installer, VoicemeeterSetup_v2310.zip, served directly by voicemeeter.xyz.
What VoiceMeeter actually does
Windows gives every application one output and one input. VoiceMeeter inserts a mixer between them. Applications keep playing to a normal-looking playback device called VoiceMeeter Input; VoiceMeeter receives that audio as a strip, mixes it with your physical microphones and any other virtual inputs, and sends the result to the devices you choose — speakers, headset, a second sound card, a stream, or back into an application as a microphone.
The practical result: a game, a browser, a voice chat and your microphone can each be heard on your headphones at different volumes, while the stream or call receives only the parts you select.
The three virtual devices you will see in Windows
| Windows device | Direction | What it is |
|---|---|---|
VoiceMeeter Input | Playback | The way into the mixer. Anything played to this device becomes a virtual strip inside VoiceMeeter. |
VoiceMeeter Output | Recording | The way out, bus B1. Applications that need a "microphone" point here. |
VoiceMeeter AUX Input / AUX Output | Both | Banana and Potato only. A second, fully independent virtual pair. |
VoiceMeeter VAIO3 Input | Playback | Potato only. A third independent virtual input, typically a DAW return or a second PC. |
Short version for a first install: download from voicemeeter.xyz/download, unzip, run the installer as administrator, reboot, then set A1 in VoiceMeeter to your real speakers. Without A1 you get silence no matter what Windows reports.
Where to go next
- Nothing installed yet — Getting started.
- Deciding between the three builds — Editions compared.
- It works but the routing is wrong — Audio routing.
- It does not work at all — Troubleshooting.