Send the sound of another application into Jamulus, simply

[billbob-space]

Many musicians process their sound with software before playing: an amp simulator for guitar, reverb for vocals, or a DAW.

Today, getting that sound into Jamulus means installing a virtual audio cable and setting up several applications to work together. For musicians who are beginners with computers, this is the hardest and most fragile part of the whole setup: a driver to install, sample rates to match, inputs and outputs to pick, and crackles that are hard to understand.

It would be really valuable if Jamulus showed up as an audio output in other applications, so you could send your amp simulator or reverb straight to it, without installing anything else.

We are happy to test.

[ann0see]

I don't think that we can implement this easily as it would mean a major switch in functionality. What I find is actually usable is JACK. Blackhole, or windows ASIO audio cables were always very confusing for me too. Thus, try JACK.

See: https://jamulus.app/kb/2022/01/26/Routing-JACK-Windows.html The native JACK version should be easier.

[pljones]

What you're asking for is Jamulus to supply a virtual audio cable that meets or exceeds the abilities of those available already on macOS, Windows and Linux. And possibly iOS, I don't know. (Probably no chance of anything for Android.)

That's unreasonable as well as unrealistic.

If you need a virtual audio cable, then use one. Why should you even want it to be built into another application? It's more flexible to find the virtual audio cable that meets your needs.

[ann0see]

It's a usability issue. Jamulus currently makes it hard getting audio from another app in. Zoom and co are easier as they do it via e.g screen sharing. But it also is flaky there.

[ann0see]

The clean solution in my opinion is an application that behaves like an analog mixer board where you connect out/inputs via cable. The best I know of is JACK.

[pljones]

Jamulus doesn't make it any harder than any other ASIO application. I don't know any application apart from Reaper that comes with a built in virtual ASIO connector. Oh, and JACK.

Hence -- use Reaper or JACK and you're sorted.

If you need non-ASIO audio, the limitations with other ASIO applications are again the same. You need a bridge, like VB-Audio ASIO Bridge. That works reliably for me (despite being a pain to explain how to set it up).