Postby w-u-2-o » Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:58 pm
Well, if you read it then you missed the part about how VAC1 only services RX1, and VAC2 only services RX2. So you can't use VAC2 to do anything but receive on digital, and you have to set up RX2 to do even that.
I do exactly what you do, that is run fully virtualized audio for phone and digital, all through the computer, no analog connections to the radio. To do this use Voicemeeter (VMB). Put your sound card microphone input on hardware input 1. Put your sound card speaker output on hardware output A1. Put VAC1 on the first virtual channel. Put all of your digi mode programs on the second virtual channel (they can all attach simultaneously if you want).
Now you have a virtual mixing board and patch panel. Indeed, that's what VMB is intended to be. It's aimed at podcasters and gamers, but it works perfectly well for us, too! You really don't need to do much "mixing", i.e. level controls generally stay at 0dB (100%), but patching (or switching or routing, whatever you want to call it) is unlimited. The tutorial shows how to do this for a simple digital mode setup. Those concepts easily extend to using it to route mic and speaker audio, too. Want to run phone? Hit the buttons that patch the hardware input 1 to B1, and virtual channel 1 to hardware output A1. Want to run digi? And so on. It's harder to describe than to do!
Make sure to pay strict attention the direction in the tutorial about VMB. You want to be sure that everything, virtual and hardware wise, is set to 48KHz sample rate across the board.
73!
Scott
