How to get multiple audio inputs (working with discord or skype)

I don't understand why people make this out to be so hard. Actually, it's pretty simple and you don't need any "virtual cable". I'll try to explain, the process is longer in writing but once you get it you'll see that it's fairly simple.

First you'll need something called Voicemeeter Banana, it's a free virtual mixing table.

The steps are as follow:

1. Install Voicemeeter Banana. 

2. Once installed start it and you'll see a couple of things(the sound on your computer might dissapear at this stage)

    a. There will be a bunch of hardware inputs going from left to right labeled, "Hardware input 1" and so on up to 3.

        This is where your physical microphone will go. Just choose it from the dropdown list and assign it to Hardware Input 1.

    b. There are also hardware ouputs on the top right side, labeled A1 to A3. Here you can put your default output device on your speakers/headphones, so you can actually listen to the person you're talking to and get computer sound output to your speakers/headphones.

   c. You'll also see here that there are two Virtual Inputs. If you set your computer's default output device to let's say "Voicemeeter Aux" and then choose A1 in Voicemeeter Banana you should get your normal computer sound back. See how that connects? So, for every input you select an output marked by either A1, A2, A3 or B1, B2. Now, B1 and B2 are virtual outputs, but we don't have to care about them for this use-case.

3. At this stage you should be at a point where you have computer sound and your microphone is using "Hardware Input 1" in Voicemeeter Banana. I'll just recap it here in simple steps:

    a. Start Voicemeeter Banana

    b. In Hardware Input 1 choose your microphone

    c. In Hardware Output A1 choose your default headphones/speakers

    d. In windows choose either Voicemeeter aux or Voicemeeter Vaio as your default output device

    e. Make sure that A1 is selected for Voicemeeter Aux or Voicemeeter Vaio in Voicemeeter Banana.

    f. Now you should have sound in your speakers/headphones.

4. Now to the fun part:

   a. First, we'll tell discord to use either Voicemeeter Vaio or Voicemeeter Aux as your output device as well.

   b. Second we'll tell Audition that the hardware device we want to use is "Voicemeeter Virtual ASIO". This will then per track give us a bunch of virtual inputs to choose from. For Mono they will be "VM-VAIO1-8" and for Stereo they will be "VM-VAIO1,3,5,7". Basically the same, but grouped together.

5. Ok, so let's tie it all together now, since we have the correct input devices and output devices selected for all our applications.

    a. In Voicemeeter "Master Section", it's on the bottom right side with all the volume sliders, there will be one per each hardware output and virtual output. So that's A1-A3 and B1, B2. Go to the slider for B1 and choose Composite mode. This will be at the top of the volume slider, it should say "Normal mode". Just click on it until you reach composite mode.

   b. Go to the settings in Voicemeeter Banana. At the top "Menu -> System settings/Options". A new window opens up and near the bottom you'll see something called "Patch composite". This is where you "route" the different inputs to different VM-VAIO outputs. So, your microphone is Hardware Input 1, so in Bus Ch 1 and 2 you choose In#1 Left, In#1 Right. For Bus Ch3 and 4 it will depend on if you chose Voicemeeter Vaio or Voicemeeter Aux. Voicemeeter Vaio is In#4 Left, Right and Voicemeeter Aux is In#5 Left, Right.

  c. Once that is done go to audition and choose for track 1 -> Stereo -> VM-VAIO1 and for track 2 -> Stereo -> VM-VAIO3. And you're done! Now you have your microphone on track 1 and your discord/skype/teamspeak/pc-sound/whatever you want on track 2, completely separated and independent of each other, ready to record directly into audition.

Once you get the hang of this, you can separate even more if you want, with more inputs per Audition tracks or whatever you want to mix. Happy recording.

/Max