How to lower the audio latency with VoiceMeeter Banana for live monitoring 

I have to use MME but this worked pretty well. lowering the latency to 480 and changing engine to swift worked almost perfectly. THANK YOU!

Thanks for this. It worked amazingly for me, after years of messing with the settings now I have a near zero latency and it's incredible to use this software again

Thank's for that video. You didn't really solve my problem but I found my wanted solution by working with your tutorial. When I spent time with the settings I found out that you can trigger the delay and put in some figures for the latency. Now I have an even sound for my blootooth and USB audio output device. Great.

Great tutorial fixed my audio issues and improved everything!

Thank you , this has fixed my issue now I can finally stream without my viewers complaining! ;)

Thank you, this resolved the issue I had with delay between two bluetooth devices (headphones and bluetooth speaker adapter), much appreciated.

Thank you! I've been trying to stream Ableton Live sessions, but the latency made it impossible to play instruments live. This helped eliminate nearly all of the latency issues.

Thanks for this video. I'm new to Voice Meter and thought the latency was internet-related, but this video helped me to get it right down to almost nothing.

Thanks for this clear Video Tutorial about Voicemeeter latency and how to optimize it. As shown, to find optimal settings for each PC setup, requires to experiment a bit to find the best compromise between latency and audio stream stability. We remind that WDM-Exclusive mode is usually not stable in the time (due to bug in WASAPI it can generate crash or BSOD within a 48h session) and SWIFT Engine mode is experimental. In case of problem, we recommend to go back to default settings.

OMG THIS DEFINITELY SAVED ME!!

bedankt meneer Ramon geen delay meer dankzij jouw video

Thank you. I have been struggling with this and this definitely helped me fix my settings and lower my latency.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, your video wasnt exactly my problem, but it helped me find the issue, i messed with some audio apps and for some reason changing the buffering in voicemeeter did nothing ,but after making all the main outs have "allow apps to exclusive access on the device" setting marked, it worked.

I was pulling my hair out for ages until I realised there was a delay set on my A1 on the right hand side not sure how that got there. Thank you man!

thank you very much .. Now my latency between my microphone improve a lot

Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video it really helped me.

Wow! Thank you very much! I didn't know this was possible with my PC and my Audio Interface!

Solved my issues, thanks a lot! Very helpful.

Very helpful! Now latency is very good. It's really work

This helped me a ton.Thank you.

Great video; very informative and easy to understand

Dude you rock, thank you for this!

Thanks much this solved my latency issues!

Works much better now. Thank you

Latency absolutely improved...Thank you so very much. just the quality is not improving, as its using intellipan and stuff it's giving a bit closed sound, whereas when I record with reaper, it gave me better audio. that's the only issue now

This worked for me on Voicemeeter Potato - thanks for the super simple /r/likeimfive-like explanation!

Thank you for this Video. 16 Bit 48000Hz and a WDM Bufferrate of 256 is workable for my system. Finally I can monitor my microphone without a hard delay. Everything lower then 256 results in crackling of the playback. But that's good enough for me at this point. :)

Great tutorial, thank you!

Thank you, this was exactly my problem.

worked for me. nice video... cheers from brazil!

Thank you! That was a huge help.

Good SIr. You are our savior!

Thanks for this video, it helped me a lot!

a was readying myself to fix audio n struggle but all i had to do is change my audi from 44100hz to 48000hz and make everything else match it thanks alot for the tip il make sure to tell everyone i know whos experiencing this to go to this channel

Thanks! This has really helped me a lot!

thats very helpful! thank you, dude!

Thanks! Works like a charm

yes bro it works. I was recording my podcasts in fl studio, when I realised this is much better I said Woooow and got myself a coffee, too bad youre not around to get you one^^

Thanks a lot i can think less about the delay and it'll really help me in osu!, cuz i stream as well. thanks a lot, the buffer size is 80 soooo thanks a lot again.

Very good video, helped me a lot. Thanks

Thanks dude you really helped me out :D

It worked great, thank you for this video bro

Hey Ramon. Thanks for the nice quick tutorial. Question: do you still recommend the same setup anno 2022?

how to Enable WDM input exclusive mode and set the engine mode to Swift ? because it is disable in my voiceMeeter

thank you this is infinitely better

Thank you for this. Guess it time I try using WDM mode again and experiment with the settings again. Ever since I upgraded to Windows 10 I could not get the WDM to work at all.

Fixed my issue less than a minute into the video

Thank you so much bro, really helpful =)

i am using a Focusrite 2i2 and the mic is connected directly from the interface through (XLR), i can only use the MME option because as soon as i select WDM my pc goes straight to BSOD. Is there any way to redude latency around 80-160 through the MME and not get artefacts or should i just turn the interface monitor on but this way i wont be able to hear the EQ of my voice through VoiceMeeter.

Very helpful thankyou.

Thank you! worked for me and I didn't have to change my buffer size. I guess I got lucky?

wtf this actually works ty! :D

Best tutorial ever

I'd like to ask about why I cannot select my Input in order to change my latency, my option is stuck on my A1 output but not my IN1 Input so I physically cannot change the latency on my Microphone, any tips or do you know how to change it??

Hello! I'm so sad because I'm getting a big delay from my mic compared to the music played by my computer when I mix them in one channel using Voicemeeter Banana. I need to count to the music for teaching and it's completely off... I tried to follow your tutorial and I tried many changes you suggested... However, I think I'm limited by the first thing you asked us to do, and that was also your last remark: I cannot set all all my devices to be at the same rate in Hz. My mic appears at 44.1 kH while the A1 and A2 (headphone, speaker) appear at 48 kHz. I went to Windows settings and there are no options to change this setting, no drop down menu, seems stuck in that single value... And if I set preferred to 48kHz, it does not change the microphone (the same way that when the preferred rate was set to 48 kHz it did not change A1 and A2, like it happens in your video. The Yes-No and RegularSwift controls didn't help, and lowering the sampling to 512 didn't either. Thanks so much in advance for any input. I am just learning about audio no because of the need to move my dance classes to an online platform and my biggest challenge now is this delay in mixing the voice with the music.

thank you so much

helped a decent bit output is at 160 and my mic and browser source is at 528 and the big one was my oculus quest going from 1024 to 480. couldnt use mme exclusivity mode in vr but outisde id have a solid 80 for browser and mic.. hopefully when my new pc gets built latency will be wayyy better

Hi, I just applied exclusive mode and it did make the latency perfect but it also created some severe hissing in my mic which I can't get rid of, any suggestions on how to fix this? thank you!

Thanks, works 100%

This helped so much!!!

will lowering the latency also improve the cpu usage ? right now for me not lowering the latency the cpu usage for banana voicemeeter it stands at around 60% usage for my cpu

Does anyone know if there is an updated tutorial with Windows 11? I can't replicate this with the new sound setting interface. The latency is unusable with VoiceMeeter until I figure this thing out.

Hi, it works for me but there is still a lil bit delay which really annoys me. Btw, how can I change the engine mode to swift and the WDM Input Exclusive Mode to Swift? I cannot coz it says here that I need to disable the WDM Input Exclusive mode. Idk, I'm just new to this. I hope you can help. Thanks

wow this fixed it thank you dude

I have different sample rates on each channel ...as well as different numbers of channels = I have voicemeeter potato Twice and it is the one piece of software to make all that learning subnetting worthwhile....

Thanks a lot! :D

Thank you ! so much !

You helped me alot, thanks!! QUESTION: Logitech usb surround sound card is working on only MME but with a big latency unfortunately. Is there any solution about this?

Cheers, will try this out :) I'm running all my outputs on KS and I get down to 160 samples for buffering. Due to what VM-Audio said I'm staying away from Exclusive and Swift for now, but will finally have synced sample rates over all devices so this is nice. One thing I see that differs from my current setup is the Virtual ASIO Type where I have Float32LSB whilst you run Int32LSB, does that affect latency too?

THANK YOU BRO!!!

This doesn't allow some apps to detect the hardware inputs anymore . For example, in my case, I'm monitoring my headset mic and mixing that with all my system sounds so I can hear myself. I noticed that if I go exclusive mode discord can no longer pick up my microphone. So I either have to go low latency and no discord or vice versa. Is there a fix to this?

VM worked great with everything except rocksmith. I lowered the WDM buffer to 128 but never paid attention to the fact it wasn't taking because A1 still showed 1024. Fouind this video, moved to 160 nad BAM, A1 went from 1024 to 160! Haven't tried Rocksmith yet but logic dictates this should be my answer! lol

exclusive mode is greyed out for me and i cant change it to yes

I wish this or at least some software would allow for automated latency adjustments!!! So annoying when you can visually see(and hear) the latency but need to adjust the Synchro Delay in milliseconds, when I feel like a computerized automation tool could get monitor these levels and self-adjust without the need for all these setting changes done by the user. Second issue is my sync looses focus or gets lost and every few hours needs a readjustment as much as 100+ milliseconds, where again an automated tool could save me so much hassles here! So first a tool that just monitors the sound level bars, or even another tool to calculate a delay using a microphone placed between two devices playing for example a few tones and it could tell you how much of a delay is added in by the microphone recording... Ex: 1000ms tone played, mic hears 1100ms tone, so can inform the user that one of the speakers is adding 100ms so need to make a 100ms adjustment. Simple, right?

Dont know if the problem i have is exactly what your talking about..buuuut..when im talking im getting thrown off guard because im hearing my self eighter late or something in my headphones..so im getting my words mumbled up..i want my voice to come throught my hesdphones in real time.. What is my issue im having..plz help

Thanks for the help thus far! A question, I cannot enable Engine Mode nor WDM Input Exclusive Mode. Both are faded out and when I try to select, this notice pops up, "WDM Expert Options: These options are disabled. Engline Mode must stay NORMAL. WDM Input Exclusive mode must de disabled." Any tips to enable?

Save my life with four monitors in my room!

Thank you so much guy

Ty so much!

For Cubase take the KS

Making the changes to WDM makes my mic audio super crackly, so gotta figure that out otherwise fixes latency!

Good stuff

thanks!

I couldn't go below 384 or else my mic started cutting in and out. Ended up reducing delay from ~200 ms down to ~150 ms. Better than nothing lol

Wdm input exclusive mode is not changeable to yes and the engine mode is not changeable to swift. How to fix it? Thank youuuuu

fantastic!

I dont know what this means but. 128 Samples Work 160 - 704 severe stuttering 768-2048 no stuttering

Wow Arnold Scwarzenegger, I\m back!.

im getting delay with just my raw mic plugged in. how did u do to get raw mic?

Is higher or lower sample rate any better/worse for latency?

thanks

Is there another software alternative that has really low latency? My mum's using a USB mic to mix with PC audio to record karaoke. The mic latency is about 0.5 seconds off the music even after following every guide possible for voicemeeter potato.

THAAAAAAANK YOOOOOOOOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How do I turn off audio playback on voice meter?

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TK´S! A LOT!

TYVM

i still get pretty bad latency, its hard to play games where timing is key (osu!, for example)

Does it affect cpu much?

this completely messed up my audio