cant record windows audio

currentsound · February 11, 2020, 3:08am

mxchf:

currentsound:

Try VoiceMeeter. It’s free. You can combine sources together.

Any app will add latency when recording though. Personally I’ve found physically splitting the audio output and routing it back into the audio interface input or into a completely separate interface is the only real low latency way but that also colors the sound. If you use digital cables like ADAT or Spdif though it won’t.

That’s also a good method. Although I should add that my Loopback suggestion above, along with any RME soundcard and their TotalMix software is also absolutely zero latency. Simply doesn’t add any latency at all – and you don’t have any coloring issue. Only downside is that it comes with a price tag, which isn’t too big of a deal if you’re really down with audio.

Probably what is happening in that case is the interface itself is changing it’s routing rather than the app doing it. Making it more like Real-time direct monitoring. That is obvious the best case if your interface can do it. ADAT and Spidiff won’t color the sound for recording since it’s all digital but maybe the clocking might come into play. Analogue however between two interfaces, passes through the DA of the first interface back to the AD of the second interface.

So the ideally, in terms of low latency, it would be

audio interface internal routing. (best option)
ADAT or digital routing. (2nd option)
Audio cables. (last resort)

If you don’t mind adding some latency you can use VoiceMeeter.