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Looking for Software or Hardware for Real Time VST Processing with WAV/DirectSound Input and Output.

post #1 of 7
5/21/11 at 12:47pm
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Anyone know a good way to do this on Win7 x64?  I'd like to be able to apply EQ, crossfeed, and what not to all audio from my PC.  That means WAV and/or DirectSound input so it works with everything from games to YouTube.  Not just MIDI or ASIO.

 

I tried using VSTHost in conjunction with VAC but VSTHost just hangs whenever I try to set the input and output devices with either the x86 or x64 builds.  All the other VST hosting software I found so far either only works for MIDI, which is useless to me, or ASIO, which doesn't seem to work with either my soundcard/transport or VAC

 

Is there any other software, free or not, that lets you do this kind of thing?  Hardware is fine too as long as its not astronomically expensive.  I'd imagine that nothing cheap would execute arbitrary VST plugins itself but I can see such a feature being built into a driver and executed by the CPU.

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post #2 of 7
5/21/11 at 11:55pm

By your profile information, you have Audigy Gamer so, have you tried :

 

onboard sound S/PDIF coaxial out --> Audigy S/PDIF coaxial In --> in some VST hosting software, set Audigy S/PDIF as input source and output through Audigy.

 

jiiteepee

 

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post #3 of 7
5/22/11 at 10:04am
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Originally Posted by maverickronin View Post

Anyone know a good way to do this on Win7 x64?  I'd like to be able to apply EQ, crossfeed, and what not to all audio from my PC.  That means WAV and/or DirectSound input so it works with everything from games to YouTube.  Not just MIDI or ASIO.

 

I tried using VSTHost in conjunction with VAC but VSTHost just hangs whenever I try to set the input and output devices with either the x86 or x64 builds.  All the other VST hosting software I found so far either only works for MIDI, which is useless to me, or ASIO, which doesn't seem to work with either my soundcard/transport or VAC

 

Is there any other software, free or not, that lets you do this kind of thing?  Hardware is fine too as long as its not astronomically expensive.  I'd imagine that nothing cheap would execute arbitrary VST plugins itself but I can see such a feature being built into a driver and executed by the CPU.



This is something I'm also interested in. A universal solution that isn't bound by specific hardware, like jiiteepee was suggesting. It should never need any hardware loopback solutions, only software by itself. Unless, like you said, there is some piece of hardware specifically meant for that purpose.

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post #4 of 7
5/22/11 at 11:07am
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Originally Posted by jiiteepee View Post

By your profile information, you have Audigy Gamer so, have you tried :

 

onboard sound S/PDIF coaxial out --> Audigy S/PDIF coaxial In --> in some VST hosting software, set Audigy S/PDIF as input source and output through Audigy.


What software would you recommend to do that with?

 

Beyond that I only have one S/PDIF out on that card and I'm not sure if I can even have the digital and analog outs active at the same time.

 

Maybe I'll see if the S/PDIF from my onboard that I never use works.

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post #5 of 7
5/22/11 at 12:55pm

If the Audigy Gamer does not have native ASIO then IIRC, you can route signals better when using Kx drivers for Audigy. I don't know how the Kx lets you use digital and analog paths simultenously (this was possible with Audigy 2 / ASIO drivers).

 

Regarding software, I don't know which ones works in W7 64-bit (I'm still with XP) ... Maybe Cockos Reaper if you did not get the VSTHost run properly.

 

jiiteepee

 

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post #6 of 7
5/22/11 at 7:38pm
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It looks like Reaper + VAC have got me most of the way there.  I might need to spend some time figuring out my way around Reaper since its stupidly overkill for what I'm trying to do.  Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be anything else less complicated that does what I want to do and doesn't crash and burn.

 

Thanks for the suggestion.

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post #7 of 7
5/22/11 at 8:53pm
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Here's a few screenshots if anyone wants to try and copy me.  I don't know the first thing about DAWs and I'm basically just pawing in the dark here but I got it to work and here's what look like the relevant bits.

 

c419d579_softwarevst.png

 

0fa3be2b_settings.png

 

"S/PDIF/AC3 Output" is the digital output on my soundcard that goes to my external DAC, so put your soundcard/transport/DAC/whatever in its place along with bit depths/sample rates work for you.

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