Not quite sure where to post this, but I'm sure someone here has an answer to my question.
I want to start making podcasts and I'm looking for a software that will allow me to route audio input/output throughout my computer among various programs and hardware devices. I'll be talking with my co-hosts and guests on Discord or Skype, and will also need to include sound effects and music in the podcast and have them be audible to myself and the other participants while recording. I also want to be able to record myself, the other members and the sound effects on different channels or tracks in Ableton/Audacity/whatever so that I will be able to trim them or edit the volumes separately in post production. I tried Virtual Audio Cable but it's not really ideal for this application because the complexity of the "audio web" I'm setting up requires me to run a lot of different instances of channel splitters at once, all in different tiny windows which is very complicated to manage. It also takes a long time to set up each time I want to record and does not allow you to save any of it as a preconfiguration. So is there a better alternative? I appreciate any suggestions or alternative ideas to achieve the same goal. Pic related is what I need to happen.
Here's perhaps a more organized diagram which depicts the function that I need the software to perform. Does it exist?
use a MIXER anon
>>62235876
/thread
>>62235864
>Ableton
>Discord
>VLC
>>>/reddit/
>>62235876
>>62235903
Does this really do what I want to do, though? All of the inputs are coming in from different software in my computer and need to be routed to other places on my computer. I'm not recording with multiple microphones and adding background tracks in a studio environment with dedicated hardware.
>>62235959
I am only using any of this software for the specific project I'm trying to do. It's not my fault that Reddit and Reddit-tier guides are what is indexed on Google. If you have better alternatives for anything I'd be happy to hear about them.
Not going to get anything, huh?
Virtual Audio Cable
don't ask me how, I don't know either
>>62235845
write a program that creates virtual audio interfaces and routes everything between them, what's the big deal
>discord
top kek
>>62235845
PulseAudio can do this natively
>>62237454
shitposting aside, I just remembered that on Linux pulseaudio allows you to create virtual sinks and sources and routes between them using module-loopback
AudioHijack
>>62235845
you should specify a platform