[Twitch Tutorial] Separating music and game audio with Audio-Router and Voicemeeter Banana

[00:00] hey what's up YouTube this is Koko and

[00:03] I'm making a tutorial today I usually

[00:07] don't do these but I'm making a little

[00:08] tutorial for streamers and basically the

[00:12] tutorial is going to be on how to

[00:15] separate the music that you play in your

[00:17] stream from the rest of your stream

[00:20] audio so you know why would you want to

[00:24] do this well let's say you're streaming

[00:26] and you got like some copyright music

[00:28] going obviously you're not supposed to

[00:31] be doing that but I mean you know it is

[00:33] if you've got copyright music and you

[00:35] want to make let's say stream highlight

[00:37] video you're not gonna want that

[00:39] copyright music in your stream highlight

[00:42] video cuz then you risk you know

[00:43] something like a copyright strike so

[00:45] you're gonna want you're gonna want to

[00:47] remove the music for that or let's say

[00:50] you're streaming and you know your

[00:53] audience doesn't want to hear music they

[00:55] don't maybe they don't like your taste

[00:56] in music but you really want to listen

[00:59] to what you want to listen to you can do

[01:01] that with what I'm about to show you or

[01:03] the opposite if your if your audience

[01:06] wants music and you don't want music

[01:08] same thing you can do that as well so

[01:10] how do you how do you accomplish this

[01:13] well basically with these with these you

[01:16] can see these two pieces of software

[01:18] that I have right here this is audio

[01:21] router and this is Boyce meter banana

[01:25] now let me just full disclosure I am NOT

[01:28] a pro at using either of these this

[01:31] one's pretty simple audio router voice

[01:33] muted banana is you can do quite a bit

[01:35] with this program and most of the these

[01:38] features the functionality I'm

[01:40] completely ignorant of I'll be honest

[01:42] but I do know enough to to do what I'm

[01:45] about to show you okay

[01:46] so how do you get these programs

[01:48] basically oh here we go

[01:52] so here's Audio router pretty simple

[01:55] just just Google Audio router I'll put

[01:57] the links in the description there

[02:00] should be a github link you just go here

[02:03] there's a 64 bit exe download link and a

[02:05] 32 bit exe download link yeah anyway get

[02:10] the one that you need it's their voice

[02:13] meter

[02:13] banana here we go so yeah you can see

[02:17] all these pictures this program does

[02:20] like a million-in-one things okay I

[02:23] don't use it for any of that there's

[02:25] tons of stuff on YouTube if you really

[02:27] want to learn the ins and outs of this

[02:28] thing you can figure it out you know I

[02:31] don't know it looks a little complicated

[02:33] but there's an info out there if you

[02:35] look so anyway just wait where was the

[02:38] air it is so you have to install it

[02:40] there's a little bit they have it they

[02:42] have a compressed version of it and then

[02:45] they have just the straight exe just

[02:47] download exe install it once you've

[02:50] installed that it's probably going to

[02:51] tell you you need to restart your

[02:52] computer so do that and then when you

[02:54] come back you know you'll have both of

[02:57] these things here and the first thing

[03:01] that you're going to want to do is

[03:02] you're gonna want to change your default

[03:04] audio playback device so how do you do

[03:07] that I was showing it to you right here

[03:10] just right click this little this little

[03:13] sound icon up here in the corner

[03:15] go to playback devices obviously I have

[03:20] my taskbar up at the top yours windows

[03:22] by default has at the bottom but you

[03:24] know how to find it come on alright so

[03:26] anyway you just go there go to your

[03:28] playback devices and what you're gonna

[03:31] see is you're gonna see two new devices

[03:33] that voice meter installed one is called

[03:36] input right just straight up input and

[03:39] then one called aux input just explained

[03:42] to you right now what we're trying to

[03:44] set up so what you're trying to do is

[03:46] you're trying to have all of your stream

[03:47] audio - the music be directed to this

[03:51] voice meter input device and then what

[03:55] you want to do is you want to have your

[03:56] music going to this aux input that's

[03:59] basically what we're gonna be setting up

[04:01] okay so first thing you need to do is

[04:03] you need to set this as your default

[04:05] playback device just click on it again

[04:07] input not the aux input click on it hit

[04:11] set default hit apply then hit OK

[04:13] obviously I've already done that so I

[04:15] don't need to do that now now just be

[04:20] forewarned once you do this you will not

[04:22] be able to hear any audio on your

[04:24] computer right because you've changed

[04:26] the playback device

[04:27] so you too in order to hear this voice

[04:31] meter input in whatever you're using to

[04:34] listen to your computer's audio right

[04:36] I'm using earbuds right now that are

[04:38] plugged into my audio interface here on

[04:40] the desk in order to listen to it on

[04:43] that or in speakers or whatever you got

[04:45] you have to route that to or you have to

[04:48] send that to your your listening device

[04:51] in voice meter banana so as you can see

[04:55] in this in the program here when you

[04:57] open up voice meter banana you're gonna

[04:59] see here two virtual inputs right

[05:02] there's virtual inputs right here

[05:03] there's one right here it's this whole

[05:06] thing and then there's another one right

[05:09] here right next to it so as you can

[05:11] probably tell this one that says voice

[05:13] meter VA IO corresponds to this device

[05:17] here the one that you made the default

[05:19] playback device this one right here

[05:22] voice meter ox corresponds to the aux

[05:24] input which is where we're going to be

[05:25] sending the music you know that we're

[05:28] trying to isolate from the rest of our

[05:30] stream so in order to you know hear both

[05:36] of these things right your desktop audio

[05:38] and your music you're gonna need to

[05:40] route both of these to your headphones

[05:42] or speakers whatever so the way you do

[05:45] that is up in the up in this side the

[05:48] right side of voice meter banana you'll

[05:50] see there's hardware outputs you'll see

[05:52] this they give you a choice of 3 a 1 a 2

[05:55] a 3 all I do is I go to a 1 click that

[05:59] and I select my audio interface now

[06:03] you'll see there's there's multiple

[06:05] selections for your figure there

[06:07] probably will be multiple selections for

[06:09] your device so I have one here alright

[06:12] says WDM there's another one here KS

[06:15] there's one right here Mme and then I

[06:18] believe this one is also going to my

[06:21] audio interface I don't really know what

[06:24] the difference I'll be honest I don't

[06:25] know what the difference is between

[06:26] these different things I believe they're

[06:28] like different drivers like there's WDM

[06:31] there's KS there's Mme there's ASIO I

[06:34] don't know what the difference is I do

[06:36] think they differ in terms of latency

[06:37] and I've heard that WDM

[06:39] pretty good in terms of being low

[06:41] latency and a lot of the tutorials I've

[06:43] seen people are using WDM so I just use

[06:46] it it works so yeah try that if you have

[06:50] issues with that you can try a different

[06:51] driver like enemy or something but

[06:54] anyway so that's all I do I select the

[06:57] device that I'm listening through right

[06:59] which was probably your original default

[07:02] playback device right I put that in a 1

[07:05] then in order to send both of these

[07:09] virtual inputs to a 1 you just click a 1

[07:13] right so I think by default it's like a1

[07:16] and b1 for for everything you don't

[07:19] really need the b1 so I just make sure

[07:21] that a1 is clicked for both like that so

[07:24] both of these virtual inputs will now be

[07:27] sent to whatever device you're listening

[07:30] to so now you'll be able to hear you

[07:33] know whatever audio is playing on your

[07:35] computer ok so we've got now at this

[07:38] point you've got most of this you know

[07:41] you've got most of it working the way it

[07:43] should

[07:43] except for you still have not sent your

[07:46] music to the aux input so how do you do

[07:50] that use audio router right this is the

[07:53] the final key the final piece to the

[07:56] puzzle rather so when you open it you'll

[07:59] see this which is this is a pretty this

[08:02] is pretty nice view there's a couple

[08:03] different views but you can you can see

[08:06] this shows all of the devices the audio

[08:09] devices on your computer and it has like

[08:12] volume meters so you can do like a

[08:13] little bit of mixing here but I prefer

[08:16] this view if you go to file switch view

[08:19] you can go back and forth if you switch

[08:21] view you can see a list of applications

[08:26] that are playing audio right so as you

[08:31] can see on the on the right in this

[08:32] window it says routed to so it shows you

[08:35] where each of these programs is

[08:37] directing its audio to so right now

[08:39] they're all blank alright as you can see

[08:41] there's nothing here that just means

[08:42] that all these programs are sending to

[08:44] the default playback device so if you

[08:47] want to change one of them right for me

[08:49] when I play music I'm usually playing it

[08:51] it made like a YouTube playlist

[08:53] on Chrome so for this tutorial I'm gonna

[08:56] be directing the audio from Chrome to

[08:59] divert the voice meter aux input if

[09:02] you're using Spotify or you're playing

[09:05] VLC like a playlist in VLC you'd want to

[09:07] direct the audio from that program to

[09:10] the aux input okay so to read to reroute

[09:13] the audio you just double-click on the

[09:16] application that you are gonna use to

[09:19] play music okay

[09:21] double-click change it from default

[09:22] audio device to voice meter aux input it

[09:26] ok now you'll see it will show that it's

[09:29] now routing the audio from that program

[09:31] to the aux input ok and yeah at this

[09:35] point we're good now one thing to

[09:37] mention is when you make changes to the

[09:40] audio routing in an audio router voice

[09:43] meter banana doesn't automatically see

[09:45] that change that you made right it's not

[09:48] detecting like you know any changes to

[09:50] the audio routing so in order for voice

[09:53] meter to see it you have to hit menu and

[09:56] restart audio engine right at this point

[09:59] now voice meter we'll see what you did

[10:01] and now all the audio from Chrome will

[10:05] show up here in the voice meter ox input

[10:09] everything else game sounds system

[10:11] sounds everything is gonna go through

[10:13] voice meter Vai oh okay sorry there was

[10:17] one thing I almost forgot to mention so

[10:20] as long as voice meter input is selected

[10:23] as your default audio playback device

[10:26] every time you restart your computer

[10:28] you're gonna need to have voice meter

[10:30] banana open in order to hear this in you

[10:35] know your headphones so one thing I

[10:37] would recommend is when you hit menu

[10:40] click this option right here system tray

[10:42] run at startup this makes it so that

[10:44] voice meter banana always starts up when

[10:46] you start up windows right which is what

[10:48] you want so that you can keep this as

[10:52] your default playback device at all

[10:53] times right unless you really want to

[10:55] like go back and forth

[10:56] switching default devices you know when

[10:59] you're streaming when you're not

[11:00] streaming you can do that too but it's

[11:01] easier just to keep this as a default

[11:04] make sure that voice muted banana is

[11:06] that always running in the background

[11:07] right it's a little bit easier so anyway

[11:10] that's just a little recommendation I

[11:12] think we're at this point were pretty

[11:13] much done so how do you set this up in

[11:15] OBS this is the final piece of the

[11:18] puzzle here all right a little bit of

[11:21] what is this stream-ception smbabybaby

[11:40] to virtual input second one is the aux

[11:43] input okay pretty pretty simple to set

[11:45] this up just go to settings audio you

[11:48] see right here desktop audio device

[11:50] desktop audio device to just set those

[11:52] to the appropriate inputs yeah and so

[11:57] yeah at this point so yet we're good

[12:00] here so I'm gonna go ahead and minimize

[12:02] these things and it with and now I'm

[12:08] going to we'll do a little test okay

[12:11] just to show you that it works so here I

[12:14] have the the YouTube audio library

[12:16] showing up in Chrome in Chrome so this

[12:21] is like this is your music basically

[12:23] this would be like music out play on

[12:24] stream I mean not really this but you

[12:27] know what I mean it's just think of it

[12:29] as it's like an example okay and then

[12:32] for system sounds okay you obviously be

[12:35] like game sounds or something like that

[12:37] but just for the sake of simplicity I'm

[12:39] gonna open up a song in VLC so both of

[12:42] these are you know YouTube's audio

[12:43] library songs so no copyright strike

[12:46] YouTube okay I'm playing I'm playing

[12:48] fairly here alright so when I play each

[12:52] of these what you is actually I'm gonna

[12:55] show you voice to meet her first okay so

[12:58] if I play this VLC

[13:02] okay so now what you can see I don't

[13:05] know if that's loud

[13:08] yeah it's loud enough you can hear that

[13:11] so you'll see it's showing up here right

[13:14] in the voice meter input okay

[13:18] I'm gonna pause that and I'm gonna go

[13:21] here in chrome right that the

[13:23] application that whose audio is rerouted

[13:26] to the Ox input I start playing

[13:28] something in here it's a little bit hope

[13:32] that's not too loud anyway you get the

[13:34] point it's showing up here in the aux

[13:36] input okay so their routing correctly as

[13:39] you can see and if you if you look in

[13:41] OBS right a little bit more video

[13:43] ception

[13:44] if I start playing in VLC yeah you can

[13:50] see it's showing up here in the desktop

[13:52] audio right and then you can probably

[13:54] guess if I play in Chrome it's gonna

[13:56] show up in here alright desktop audio -

[14:01] exactly

[14:02] see so everything is being routed

[14:04] properly okay calm down all right all

[14:07] right

[14:08] so yeah everything's being routed

[14:10] properly so with this set up let's say

[14:13] you want to do a stream highlight

[14:14] without any of your music included right

[14:17] in OBS you just need to record your

[14:20] desktop audio and your desktop audio -

[14:23] on different audio tracks right and then

[14:26] when you're within your editing software

[14:28] you can just get rid of the track that

[14:29] has the music keep the track that has

[14:32] your stream audio which would be this

[14:34] one right desktop audio desktop audio -

[14:36] has the music and again if you wanted to

[14:40] mute let's say the the audio for the

[14:44] stream the music for the stream right so

[14:47] only you can hear it all you have to do

[14:49] is just mute like this so I'll play I'll

[14:53] play Chrome right now I'll play some

[14:55] music in Chrome okay now if I hit this

[14:59] okay it should now be muted in the video

[15:03] I can still hear it I hear music blaring

[15:06] in my earbuds right now but it should be

[15:09] silent for you right if I unmute it now

[15:12] you can hear it again now let's say I

[15:15] want to do the opposite I want to mute

[15:16] it for me I'm sick of hearing something

[15:18] I want to try out a you know pub G or

[15:20] something I want to hear what's going on

[15:22] me but the stream wants to listen to the

[15:24] music you can go into voice meter banana

[15:28] and all I have to do is mute this aux

[15:32] input at the very bottom there's this

[15:35] mute button right now I cannot hear any

[15:38] music now if you look in OBS I did not

[15:42] mute it in OBS so the video you guys who

[15:45] are watching this right now should be

[15:46] able to hear this music I can't hear

[15:48] anything it's totally silent so yeah

[15:53] it's pretty cool and also another thing

[15:55] if you wanted if you felt like the music

[15:57] was too loud for you but your stream is

[15:59] not complaining they think the volume is

[16:01] fine you can change what you hear with

[16:04] this knob right here this does not

[16:06] affect the levels that your streamer

[16:08] hear right if you look in OBS if I lower

[16:12] this all the way alright basically this

[16:15] is pretty much muting it for me I can't

[16:16] hear anything

[16:17] but you can still see the levels in OBS

[16:20] are unchanged so you should be able to

[16:22] hear it fine no problem you should not

[16:24] hear any change right and vice-versa if

[16:26] it's too quiet for you and you just want

[16:29] to turn it up on your end you could just

[16:31] increase it like that yeah

[16:34] alright so that's pretty much it I mean

[16:38] let me pause this okay so yeah anyway

[16:41] that is it hopefully this tutorial made

[16:44] sense I'm sorry this is totally

[16:46] unprepared I'm just making this video

[16:48] very quickly so so anyway yeah if you

[16:52] have any questions or again I'm a noob

[16:55] if you have Corrections if I did

[16:56] something wrong here you know feel free

[16:58] to let me know in the comments below if

[17:01] I miss something anything like that I'll

[17:03] be monitoring the comments section if

[17:05] you liked the video go ahead feel free

[17:08] to give it a like hopefully this helped

[17:10] you out I just learned how to do this a

[17:12] couple days ago and yeah I think it's

[17:15] it's pretty cool it's really easy to

[17:17] hopefully the video isn't too long let's

[17:20] see oh my god this is a long long video

[17:23] okay I'm sorry I'm sorry I tried to

[17:25] explain as quickly as I could but anyway

[17:28] that's the video hopefully this helped

[17:30] you see ya