WIRE 0.1.0

WIRE 0.1.0

The first public release of WIRE, a Windows audio router and mixer. It is a young product. It works, and it is not finished.

What you can do

• Route and mix audio between microphones, games, music, browsers, chat apps and playback devices. Many inputs can play to many outputs at once.
• Draw your routing on a visual node graph. Lines light up only when the audio engine confirms audio is flowing.
• Build your own mixer. The mixer page starts empty. Add faders, buttons, meters and labels, use multiple pages, and undo and redo. Everything is saved in one setup file.
• Shape the signal with nodes: merge, switcher, selector, stereo split and join, mono, gain and pan, 6-band parametric EQ, compressor, limiter, noise gate, ducker and delay.
• Control it with scripts, a local HTTP API on 127.0.0.1 with a token, a command-line tool and a Python client.
• Extend it with Python plugins. All plugins are disabled by default. One example plugin, auto-duck, is included.
• Switch whole setups with profiles such as Gaming, Movie and Late night. Share setups by copying the *.wiresetup file.
• Set up named, typed virtual cables (Input, Output and BiWIRE) with a guided wizard. These need Virtual Audio Cable, see below.
• Read real engine levels on the meters, and get plain-language hints when something fails, for example when another app holds a device exclusively.
• Run on a native C++ audio engine (WASAPI) with clock-drift correction between devices and click-free changes.

Download

File	Size	SHA-256
WIRE.exe	40.5 MB (42,451,672 bytes)	7b5d252a9e4dbfe18bc0a4be51c28d4f9391828af9fd690630cb87c7cf0d41ac
wire-cli.exe (optional command-line tool)	8.5 MB (8,863,695 bytes)	262e53046f512feca0fda7d3c3318f2ef7df911f747d697b9f5a6d81454008a4

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. There is no installer. Download WIRE.exe and run it.

Windows SmartScreen

WIRE.exe is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn you the first time you run it. This does not mean the file is damaged. It means Windows cannot confirm who published it. After you check the hash, choose More info, then Run anyway.

Verify your download

Open Command Prompt or PowerShell in the folder with the file.

certutil -hashfile WIRE.exe SHA256

Get-FileHash .\WIRE.exe -Algorithm SHA256

The result must match the hash in the table above. Letter case does not matter. If it does not match, delete the file and download it again.

Requirements

• Windows 10 or Windows 11, 64-bit.
• At least one audio input or output device.
• Optional: Virtual Audio Cable, for virtual cables only. It is a separate product by Eugene Muzychenko with its own licence. WIRE does not include it. Routing between devices works without it.

WIRE runs without administrator rights. Settings are stored in your Windows AppData folder. To uninstall, delete WIRE.exe and its settings folder.

Privacy

WIRE makes no network requests except to its own local API on 127.0.0.1. It sends no telemetry and has no accounts.

Known issues

• If another app, such as Voicemeeter, holds an audio device in exclusive mode, WIRE cannot open that device. Turn off exclusive access for that device in the other app's device settings.

Not built yet

These are plans, not promises, and there are no dates.

• Capturing audio per application, without virtual cables
• A signed installer and a code-signed exe
• Its own virtual audio driver

Help

• Documentation: https://tabordigital.net/docs/
• Troubleshooting: https://tabordigital.net/docs/troubleshooting/
• Report a bug: https://github.com/Tabor-Digital/wire/issues/new/choose. Include your WIRE version, your Windows version and a copy of the Diagnostics page.
• Full changelog: https://tabordigital.net/changelog/

The WIRE software is governed by the End User Licence Agreement. Third-party components are listed on the credits page.