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JACK Audio Connection Kit VS Virtual Audio Cable

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Ever wanted to record your speaker output? (loopback) This is for you.
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JACK Audio Connection Kit videos

UV#07 What is JACK Audio Connection Kit?

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  • Review - Using Multiple Audio Interfaces With Jack Audio Connection Kit Linux

Virtual Audio Cable videos

Virtual Audio Cable Installation and Use Guide 2019

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to JACK Audio Connection Kit and Virtual Audio Cable)
Audio
44 44%
56% 56
Audio & Music
43 43%
57% 57
Audio Mastering
40 40%
60% 60
Email Marketing
41 41%
59% 59

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Virtual Audio Cable Reviews

Blackhole by ExistentialAudio
VB-Audio CABLE is a Windows audio driver that works as a virtual audio cable. After installing the VB-CABLE driver, a new playback device will appear in the list of audio devices …

Social recommendations and mentions

JACK Audio Connection Kit might be a bit more popular than Virtual Audio Cable. We know about 40 links to it since March 2021 and only 29 links to Virtual Audio Cable. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

JACK Audio Connection Kit mentions (40)

  • Drumscript: A simple MIDI drum machine scripting language
    It's linux only, and MIDI only, and it needs GTK2, but yeah, it should work on modern linux. You can use jack[1] to connect the midi output to a softsynth, or another drum software (e.g. Hydrogen[2]) or to actual MIDI hardware. There's a video demo[3] of my program I made 3 years ago. The pasting of drum tab is demoed at 6:20 in the video. [1] https://jackaudio.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
  • Delay on EZDrummer 3 with Millenium mps 850.
    Im pretty sure that asio4all drivers dont run on linux, I think its a windows exclusive driver. But I think that JACK is something similar, Im not sure though, since all I have ever used is windows so I havent had a reason to look into it. Source: 11 months ago
  • Looking an alternative to AudioMulch
    If you're looking for a realtime VST Host, I use Carla with the JACK Audio Connection Kit for low-latency EQ and other FX which are realtime on my Microphone, which then get redirected to a virtual microphone (all on Linux, should still be possible on Windows). So far that worked greatly. Source: 12 months ago
  • Share device audio along with audio call
    Jack is supported on main platforms . Make sure to read the wiki . Also, some Realtek drivers has the Stereo-mix option that allows you achieve what you want. If yo have the default audio driver that Windows install it may be missing. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Anyone know if its possible for a moniter with no speakers to **Appear** as a sound source?
    Wonder if a virtual audio cable would help. https://jackaudio.org. Source: about 1 year ago
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Virtual Audio Cable mentions (29)

  • Shokz beep issue workaround
    1) Install virtual audio software . I used VAC Lite from https://vac.muzychenko.net/en/ as I could not install VB-Audio on my Windows. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Help putting Sound board through microphone
    Download a VAC app. (I personally use this one here). Source: over 1 year ago
  • Output audio of additional computers through NDI, integration in Synergy - Please vote!
    The best solution here at the moment is unfortunately hardware, I have seen some software-based solutions for audio sharing, such as https://vac.muzychenko.net/en/ and https://sonobus.net/. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Love my wave xlr. Plan on getting a second one for my laptop. Official request to Elgato. Please make a wave xlr with 2 mic inputs! That would be wonderful!
    Make a virtual device using Virtual Audio Cable (https://vac.muzychenko.net/en/) for each audio output and one for your final mic input (line works just fine) Set all application audio outputs to their respective device (at this stage you won't be able to hear anything) Add each audio output device in your scene in OBS Monitor each audio stream in OBS using your headphones as the monitoring device (you will now... Source: over 1 year ago
  • DDMF Black Friday Sale - 40% off site wide until 5 December
    The virtual "cables" run via Windows Audio and don't serve as a bridge between Windows and ASIO. So basically, they're the same (in terms of latency etc.) as any other virtual "cable", like VAC or Voicemeeter. Except they cannot be configured and are limited to exactly four cables at 44.1kHz. Moreover, the effects rack doesn't resample. That means I haven't even tried DDMF's cables, since I run my interface at... Source: over 1 year ago
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Blackhole by ExistentialAudio - BlackHole is a modern macOS virtual audio driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency. - ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

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