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Asyou can probably guess, I use Discord as my voice chat of choice for my RPG virtual tabletop sessions. I am happy with the results, and more importantly, my group is happy with the results as well.

To get the various sources that I use routed to the correct inputs on the audio mixer requires the use of virtual audio cables. I have been using the Voicemeeter VB-Cables for some time, but I have recently added in the Muzychenko Virtual Audio Cables. The Muxychenko Virtual Audio Cables are pretty much the grandfather of all virtual audio cables, so the technology is very solid. These virtual audio cables allow you to use up to 256 cables which makes it very easy to configure different applications to use a different virtual audio cable.

The final part of this setup is Discord itself. I use Discord because it is an easy product to understand, has a great support community, and gives me easy access to other Dungeons and Dragons and RPG Virtual Tabletop communities on their servers. I hear lots of great things about other voice chat options such as Team Speak, Mumble, and Overtone, but I am going to stick with Discord. It is a bonus that they have now nicely integrated video chat as well.

My main RPG virtual tabletop is Fantasy Grounds, and I REALLY love it. Unfortunately, Fantasy Grounds does not have a building audio player like Roll20 or Astral. Luckily, there are some great options to work around this, and I believe that the end product is even better. I have had great success in using my above-mentioned setup so far. I am a huge fan of how using music and sound effects can help to pull your players into the moment and the story. But it must be done right. The technology must add to the experience instead of getting in the way. I have never felt that this current setup has ever done that.

EDIT: I now have a video available that explains step-by-step how to get the above setup working on your PC. I have changed my configuration a little since this article. I will update the article as soon as I can. In the meantime, check out How to Add Your Voice, Sound FX and Music to Discord and Zoom.

I was interested in adding some ambiance to my weekly sessions. I appreciate the post, which at least gets me pointed in the right direction to give it a go! I am hoping to try it out tonight with Monster of the Week.

The tool that I use to easily trigger MP3 sound FX is called Jingle Pallette. Very simple to set up and use. I use this on a computer with a touch screen that makes it even more convenient. You can download it at

To get it into Discord along with your voice is a little trickier. I created a video that explains the way that I do it. You can access it at -to-add-your-voice-sound-fx-and-music-to-discord-and-zoom/

Thanks for the info. I have successfully set up voice meeter in hopes that the sound quality issues would improve on discord. Sadly, it has not. When I play music on my ipad into discord, the sound is robotic, distorted, and cuts in and out. Any thoughts on how to improve this?

Frank, thanks for sharing your thoughts on the topic. Using a bot on Discord is definitely an option if you are only looking to add music or ambiance from the sources you mentioned. The setup that I have detailed is more about having the ability to create customized ambiance and sound effects on demand during your gameplay.

I actually have all of my devices on one PC and use VBAN audio network to talk to the computer running ManyCam. It is a little complex to set up but once it is set up correctly it works great. I found that the virtual audio cables although good, have limitations (dynamic routing).

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Is there any (possibly free or open-source) virtual WDM audio driver for Windows, with additional processing plugins, which would add one more layer between windows applications and actual sound card's audio driver, allowing to:

Add software DSPs to general audio output. I would like to be able to use custom effects, like compressor, or stereophonic-to-binaural converter for listening online streaming media on headphones, etc.

JACK is system for handling real-time, low latency audio (and MIDI). It runs on GNU/Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OS X and Windows (and can be ported to other POSIX-conformant platforms). It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (ie. as normal applications), or can they can run within the JACK server (ie. as a "plugin"). JACK also has support for distributing audio processing across a network, both fast & reliable LANs as well as slower, less reliable WANs.

If you can deal with support for Windows Vista and later only, you can program in custom effects to the audio stack (the audio device graph, hosted by audiodg.exe)directly for applications using the following APIs:

Note that all of this is laughably easy with Gstreamer and Pulseaudio on Linux; if you can get a similar stack to become the backend for all Windows audio, you won't have to do all the ugly machinations of a sAPO implementation.

One way to accomplish the same thing; although it is not technically what you are asking for, is to use a virtual audio loopback device such as Synchronous Audio Router. Such software creates new virtual send and receive devices that can be used to take e.g. the default Windows sound device output, set to a virtual device, and send it to an audio processing application. Thus, the plug-in is not in the driver, but you can still get yer fx by sending sound to the default sound device. The problem with VB Audio Cable and Virtual Audio Cable, is they only allow one loopback device with the free version. This method requires two loopback devices.

It works with ASIO drivers for low latency. If your sound-card is not an audiophile device, then it probably doesn't come with an ASIO driver; although I suggest you check anyway. If it does not, use ASIO4ALL, which provides an ASIO driver for almost all audio devices. You will then need a platform that speaks ASIO, and as such, probably uses VST effects. Protools can also probably be used, but is overkill for this application. Reaper is one inexpensive possibility; and it has a non-expiring demo. There are free ones, as well. What is crucial here, is that it can do real-time audio effects, since e.g. not all wave file editors can. You then start the application, create a track, select your loopback device for the input and yer sound-card's ASIO driver for the output, plug in your VST effect (Reaper comes with a nice assortment of simple fx), and enable monitoring on the track (right-click the record enable, or check the help for info on doing this). It sounds involved, but can actually be started pretty quickly. Reaper even reloads the last used project by default; though you will have to enable monitoring each time. Now you set yer system sounds to one loopback device, tell Reaper to use it for input, send its output to another loopback device, and connect the output of the other loopback device to the soundcard.

Have you seen my videos on recording in Cantabile? Cantabile records to a single multi-track file that you break apart in some DAWs or by using Audacity to generate threads. I have a video on that process here.

I do not have Reaper, but have found in the past trying to record on a separate DAW to be too much for my CPU usage. I strongly recommend sticking with having only one audio application (Cantabile in this case), or at most including Voicemeeter Banana using its built-in recorder.

I second @terrybritton advice.

The simpler your setup, the better.

I have been able to record Cantabile into Cakewalk using Voicemeeter, but I often have to restart the Audio engines of the different programs (Cantabile, Voicemeeter, Cakewalk) before I get a good sync between them (otherwise, you record digital noise together with your signal).

Due to the sync issues I thought I would try and record using a DAW. I thought that rather than sending the audio out (D/A conversion) from C3 into another DAW system (A/D conversion) using physical cables, it seemed that it should be possible to use a virtual audio cable to capture the recording directly into the DAW on the same machine as C3. Yes, I understand that CPU performance may be an issue, but a number of people reported about the low overhead of Reaper, so I thought it would be worth a try on my system.

No. Audacity can already send audio to and receive audio from virtual audio devices like VAC or VB-Audio Virtual Cables .

What Audacity cannot do is run an effect on live audio (input or output). That is what your feature request amounts to.

I havn't bought Audition yet but I am using the trial (will buy it once i figure out my problem). I want to do what the person in the youtube video ([TUTORIAL] How to Make any Microphone Sound better & More Professional with Adobe Audition) did. Due to the fact that I use a mac I am unable to find a Virtual Audio Cable that works like the one in the video. Please Help Me. (buying Audition once i figure my solution)

I think what the OP wants to do is use Audition, in effect, as an outboard processor while streaming audio live to the net rather than simply recording it. Please tell me if I have this wrong, Thomase?

From what I can see, he's trying to route the input (with effects) to the web rather than just to a headphone output--at least that's what I think they're doing with Virtual Audio Cable in the video he links to.

Well, there are a couple of programmes for Mac claiming to be equivalent to VAC: Virtual Audio Cable Alternatives for Mac OS X - AlternativeTo.net Not being a Mac user, I can't vouch for how well they work.

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