PlayIt Software Support

With much gratitude to Alex James for the vital advice on his post, I have now got Stereo Tool working with Playit Live, using the Virtual Cable (from https://vb-audio.com/Cable/index.htm), and it sounds great, but there are just a couple of issues remaining, and I'd be most grateful for your thoughts on these.

Firstly there's roughly a second's latency between firing the audio in Playit Live and the sound coming out of Stereo Tool, and despite tweaking as many buffer settings as I can find in both products and my sound card, I don't seem to be able to fix it. (I've found it safest not to go below 200ms buffer setting in Playit Live).

There is also a restriction with the Virtual Cable System which doesn't suit the way I work, and I would like to know if there is a system which uses multiple virtual cables, as the one mentioned above comes as a single pipeline, so all the decks from Playit Live have to be routed through this one channel, I/O Stereo Tool; as a full mix, wheras i'm used to having carts and each separate playout deck on separate mixer faders for manual control/fading/mixing etc.

Many Thanks  

Chris,

I have a more "old school" arrangement of a physical (analogue) mixer and a similar arrangement of processing post mixer.

If you have a "physical" mixer (you mention "multiple sound cards for input to different faders" so I think you do) then it's the output of that mixer that needs to go to a soundcard input for stereo tool and you want to listen to the "physical" mixer rather than the processed feed.

Depending on what is downstream of "stereo tool" you may want different arrangements but a USB sound acrd dedicated to "stereo tool" might be a good start, 

Thanks Jason.

Completely agree, taking the master output of my mixer is exactly what I want to do, i.e. have the output from Playit Live and all other products processed the same.

I just haven't been able to work out the right combination of I/O settings in Stereo Tool to make this happen without either no sound at all or feedback loops, which is why I resorted to the Virtual Cable idea, but as you rightly say, this wasn't the right solution for my setup.

As I use multiple sound cards for input to different faders, would I be right in thinking that the master output from my mixer would be the one I have set to master input in Windows Sound Settings ?

If so, there's no sound through Stereo Tool when I do this.

Thanks

Chris