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Virtual Audio Cable VS SoundDesk

Compare Virtual Audio Cable VS SoundDesk and see what are their differences

Virtual Audio Cable logo Virtual Audio Cable

Ever wanted to record your speaker output? (loopback) This is for you.

SoundDesk logo SoundDesk

SoundDesk is the easiest way to turn your macOS into a professional mixing desk.
  • Virtual Audio Cable Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-01-07
  • SoundDesk Landing page
    Landing page //
    2020-07-14

SoundDesk can be used by audio professionals to mix on the fly, by broadcasters to stream mixed sources, by musicians to record a performance or anything else that involves mixing or routing digital audio.

ROUTING

All channels can receive any input and send to any output, master section or auxiliary. Making the routing possibilities of SoundDesk only limited by your devices.

Channels can be either mono, stereo or auxiliary receivers, and you can switch between options at any time.

MIXING

Up to 99x2 input paths, 102x2 output paths and 12 Aux sends per channel (pre or post fader), per desk file.

Each channel is equipped with a DC blocker, a noise or wave generator and a delay unit.

The user can assign names and colours to individual channels.

Built-in PPM meters on all channels and master section.

AU HOST

SoundDesk has up to 8 Audio Unit slots on every channel and up to 12 on the master section, so you can use your favourite plugins.

Furthermore, SoundDesk includes 11 built-in processing and metering inserts, that take advantage of the cDSP Engine.

AUDIO RECORDING

SoundDesk 4 can record in multitrack mode (pre or post processing) and in master section mode (pre or post processing).

Recordings can be exported as: AIFF, WAVE, FLAC, CAF, Sound Designer II, NeXT/Sun and Sound Forge W64 Audio Files (Linear PCM).

SoundDesk

$ Details
paid Free Trial $29.99 / One-off
Platforms
Mac OSX
Release Date
2018 January

Virtual Audio Cable videos

Virtual Audio Cable Installation and Use Guide 2019

More videos:

  • Tutorial - Virtual Audio Cable (Discontinued) Review & Tutorial
  • Tutorial - Free Virtual Audio Cable Alternative - Tutorial

SoundDesk videos

SoundDesk Tutorial

Category Popularity

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Audio
88 88%
12% 12
Audio & Music
88 88%
12% 12
Audio Mastering
89 89%
11% 11
Email Marketing
100 100%
0% 0

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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 …

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Virtual Audio Cable seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 29 times since March 2021. 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.

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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SoundDesk mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of SoundDesk yet. Tracking of SoundDesk recommendations started around Mar 2021.

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When comparing Virtual Audio Cable and SoundDesk, you can also consider the following products

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