Scott,
You've mentioned that you've been considering stepping away from Voicemeeter and going exclusively to Matrix.
Can you give us your thoughts on that? I'm considering doing the same thing.
Thanks in advance,
Mark
Voicemeeter vs VB-Matrix
Re: Voicemeeter vs VB-Matrix
The drivers and driver performance are the same between the two app's. The major difference is that Matrix is conceptually simpler to use. After all, it's just a big crossbar switch for audio. So it comes down to whether or not you want to use the mixing board features of Voicemeeter.
You can use both at the same time if you wish, with Matrix being the "studio patch panel", and thus patch Voicemeeter in an out as required or desired for "mixing board" functionality. With Matrix you can also substitute a more sophisticated DAW for Voicemeeter.
Although I've dabbled with Matrix, right now I'm still using Voicemeeter simply because I have not wanted to make any major changes in my (very stable) setup. However, for those looking to connect Thetis (via cmASIO would be my recommendation), a DAW (Voicemeeter or otherwise), an interface (Behringer, Focusrite, etc.), and other digi-mode software (e.g. WSJT-X), it's hard to go wrong with either approach, and many may find Matrix to be an easier and less complex/confusing way to do it.
You can use both at the same time if you wish, with Matrix being the "studio patch panel", and thus patch Voicemeeter in an out as required or desired for "mixing board" functionality. With Matrix you can also substitute a more sophisticated DAW for Voicemeeter.
Although I've dabbled with Matrix, right now I'm still using Voicemeeter simply because I have not wanted to make any major changes in my (very stable) setup. However, for those looking to connect Thetis (via cmASIO would be my recommendation), a DAW (Voicemeeter or otherwise), an interface (Behringer, Focusrite, etc.), and other digi-mode software (e.g. WSJT-X), it's hard to go wrong with either approach, and many may find Matrix to be an easier and less complex/confusing way to do it.
Re: Voicemeeter vs VB-Matrix
Thanks Scott.
I'm currently using Voicemeeter Potato for all of my mic and speaker audio tweaking (EQ, reverb, denoiser) but there are some really nice VST EQ plugins (TDR Nova GE is one) that would give me more flexibility than what the parametric EQs in VM currently offer.
I know that would require a VST host so I'd be running Cantabile Lite for that. TX and RX latency has always been a pretty big consideration for me so I'd need to do some oscilloscope testing between the two (VM and Matrix) to see which offers the lowest latencies.
Like yourself, I've got Voicemeeter pretty much dialed in for my use case (MOTU M4, cmASIO, fldigi), I'm just kinda getting an itch to step outside of the somewhat restricted set of audio processing tools that VM offers. Besides, I've never done any mixing so I don't need that aspect of VM -- I basically just need a patch panel.
For the record, I've never tried any of the audio processing tools embedded in Thetis, as I haven't ever heard any examples of other Thetis users' audio coming through those tools that don't have some sort of undesirable artifacts present in the output. With that said, I probably owe it to myself to at least investigate those tools before summarily dismissing their usefulness.
Mark
I'm currently using Voicemeeter Potato for all of my mic and speaker audio tweaking (EQ, reverb, denoiser) but there are some really nice VST EQ plugins (TDR Nova GE is one) that would give me more flexibility than what the parametric EQs in VM currently offer.
I know that would require a VST host so I'd be running Cantabile Lite for that. TX and RX latency has always been a pretty big consideration for me so I'd need to do some oscilloscope testing between the two (VM and Matrix) to see which offers the lowest latencies.
Like yourself, I've got Voicemeeter pretty much dialed in for my use case (MOTU M4, cmASIO, fldigi), I'm just kinda getting an itch to step outside of the somewhat restricted set of audio processing tools that VM offers. Besides, I've never done any mixing so I don't need that aspect of VM -- I basically just need a patch panel.
For the record, I've never tried any of the audio processing tools embedded in Thetis, as I haven't ever heard any examples of other Thetis users' audio coming through those tools that don't have some sort of undesirable artifacts present in the output. With that said, I probably owe it to myself to at least investigate those tools before summarily dismissing their usefulness.
Mark