Hello friends,
Although I will soon share more detailed setup information
here on my multichannel project thread, let me inform you very briefly here on this thread on VB-Audio MATRIX.
Yesterday, I could spare my time for tests and evaluations of VB-Audio MATRIX for JRiver MC into DSP EKIO as system-wide XO/EQ/Delay control center for 8-Ch output into OKTO DAC8PRO (as well as simultaneous 2-Ch L&R through out into KORG DS-DAC-10 stereo DAC unit for only VU-Meter monitoring purpose).
VB-Audio MATRIX looks so far so nice for my ASIO I/O routings which fully eliminated the use of ASIO4ALL and VB-Audio Virtual/HiFi Cables. In my multichannel setup, I need establishing total 12-Ch I/O with DSP EKIO,
i.e., 2-Ch stereo L&R input from JRiver MC (and other audio players), 8-Ch DSP-ed output into OKTO DAC8PRO multichannel DAC unit, and 2-Ch L&R whole through output into KORG DS-DAC-10 stereo DAC unit only for L&R VU-Meter monitoring.
I found another wonderful feature of VB-Audio MATRIX is that, even when all the Windows WDM audio output devices have been disabled by Control Panel - Sound setup, VB-MATRIX can select and activate Windows Kernel Streaming Audio Devices (in my case KORG DS-DAC-10) for flexible output routing simultaneously with the main multichannel ASIO routing.
My VB-Audio MATRIX configuration, therefore, can be seen in this diagram;
Here I can/could fully eliminate ASIO4ALL and VB-Audio Virtual/HiFi Cables, and now VB-Audio MATRIX behaves as system-wide I/O routing control center for ASIO and other audio devices; although in this post I share my setup in 96 kHz processing, I could fully test and confirm that VB-MATRIX (in VASIO64A setup) together with DSP EKIO works fine/stable/robust for 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 176.4 kHz and 192 kHz on
my two rather outdated completely silent audio dedicating PCs.
In summary, this diagram illustrates my routing configuration with JRiver MC, VB-Audio MATRIX, DSP-EKIO, OKTO DAC8RPO and KORG DS-DAC-10, all working just fine in my latest total system setup (ref.
here and
here) with all the parameters in XO/EQ/Delay and VU-Meter configurations remain unchanged.
For daily music listening sessions, PC monitor screen layout of
JRiver MC,
DSP EKIO and
VB-Audio MATRIX Routing Grid in this diagram would be really nice for observing/checking all the VU/peak meters are properly dancing as well as for the master volume control and music selection by JRiver MC.
You would please visit
my post here for further detailed information on utilization of VB-Audio MATRIX in my multichannel audio project.