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Virtual Audio Cable Driver 1.11
===============================

Author: Eugene Muzychenko, Novosibirsk, Russia
2:5000/14@FidoNet, music@spider.nrcde.ru

Distributed by: NTONYX Ltd.

Introduction
------------

The Virtual Audio Cable embodies an idea of physical interconnection
cable applied to Windows digital sound devices (Wave In and Wave Out).
Driver creates a pairs of Wave In/Out multi-client device ports; "In"
and "Out" ports in each pair are internally connected so all digital
audio data sent (played) to "Out" part of the cable by one program is
directly transferred to the "In" part and can be retrieved (recorded)
by another program. This mechanism allows to interconnect several
programs that are using Wave devices - software synthesizers, sound
processors, sound editors, sequencers etc. Additionally, it allows to
record pure digital audio data produced by programs that don't create
WAV files, sending audio only to Wave device in real time.

Each port of driver is multi-client, allowing multiple applications to
open the port at same time. All sounds sends to Out port are mixed,
all clients connected to In port get the individual copy of sound.

Small utility, Audio Repeater, is included into the package to monitor
sounds transferred by the cable.

System requirements
-------------------

VAC is designed to work under Windows 3.1 Enhanced Mode (386 or higher
CPUs), Windows 95 or 98, but tested only under Windows 95. Any amount
of RAM enough for Windows will be enough for VAC too.

Features
--------

Up to 64 cables in full version, one cable in demo.

1..1000 interrupts per second in full version, 20 in demo.

Almost any sound format (sample rate, size and channels).

Unlimited number of clients connected to each port.

Sound mixing between clients at output port.

Audio Repeater application that transfers from any Wave In to any Wave
Out device.

Compatibility
-------------

Driver is compatible with any application that uses Windows multimedia
waveform devices (Wave In/Wave Out) such as Windows Media Player,
Sound Recorder, Cool Edit (Syntrillium), Sound Forge (Sonic Foundry),
Cubase/WaveLab (Steinberg), Cakewalk (Cakewalk Software), Generator
(Native Instruments), WinAMP (NullSoft) and others.

Some modern Win32 applications use DirectSound interface to
communicate with audio equipment. Current version of VAC doesn't
support DirectSound but Windows 95 DirectX subsystem has an emulator
that makes any standard waveform device DirectSound-compatible.
However, some application (GigaSampler, for example) require "true"
DirectSound devices - they will not work with current VAC version.

Installation
------------

If driver files are packed, first unpack the archive to any empty
directory on your hard disk.

In Windows 95, go to the Control Panel, double click "Add New
Hardware" icon, answer "No" to auto search prompt, then select "Sound,
video and game controllers". In device list dialog select "Have disk"
and enter a path to the driver directory. Select "Virtual Audio Cable
Device Driver" and follow instructions displayed.

In Windows 3.1, go to the Control Panel, double click "Drivers" icon,
select "Add", then "Unlisted or updated driver", enter a path to the
driver directory and select "Virtual Audio Cable Device Driver".

Windows restart is required to activate installed driver.

Audio Repeater (audiorpt.exe) can be placed in any directory with
creating shortcut to it.

After system restart, there appears a new Wave Device "Virtual Audio
Cable", having two Digital Audio ports: "Audio Cable 1 In" for input
port and "Audio Cable 1 Out" for output port.

Full version creates (and further recognizes) a parameter section
named "[Virtual Audio Cable]" of Windows SYSTEM.INI file. There are
two keys in this section:

NumberOfCables - actual number of cables supported by driver;

IntsPerSec - number of interrupts per second during transfer.

You can edit this file using SysEdit or any other text editor like
NotePad, and manually change these value in ranges described in
Features section of this manual.

Increasing number of interrupts per second, you can reach less
interval between sending sound to Out port and retrieving them from In
port. But the larger value is specified in IntsPerSec, the more
overhead will be created in system. Typical audio cards uses 15..20
interrupts per second.

Don't forget that Windows restart is required to take effect of the
changes.

Working with cables
-------------------

Both cable sides are standard Windows MME wave devices, you can use
"In" and "Out" ports of each cable in any program that works with
audio devices. All cables are completely independent. Both sides of
one cable must be open with same format: if other side isn't open,
each device accepts any wave format; when other side is open with
given format, device accepts only same format.

Each port is multi-client, allowing unlimited number of programs that
may use the port at same time.

Virtual cable behaves as a real cable:

- when only output side is open, all played data is ignored;

- when only input side is open, silence is recorded;

- when both sides are open, all data sent to output side appears
unchanged at input side;

- if multiple programs are connected to Out port, all sound streams
are mixed together;

- if multiple programs are connected to In port, they get individual
copies of main sound stream.

Mixing of output streams is relatively dumb: all sample values are
simply added together, and there are no overflow check. If there are
many clients and/or they produce high volume levels, the resulting
sound stream may contain "wrapped" samples produced by overflow. These
samples sounds like clicks and distortions.

Mixing works only with samples up to 32 bit. Higher sample size allows
only one client per output port.

The driver ports accept any sound format with one restriction: number
of bytes per interrupt (sample rate * bytes per sample * channels /
interrupts per second) cannot exceed 65536.

All internal data transfers from output to input side are completely
digital, and no quality degradation occurs. If you play WAV file to
output side and simultaneously record data from input side, all
recorded data will be same as played, except of possible leading
and/or trailing silence.

Monitoring cable transfers
--------------------------

Audio Repeater is created primarily to monitor cable transfers. If VAC
transfers sound from its Out to its In internally, Audio Repeater
transfers from any Wave In device to any other Wave Out device. Thus,
selecting Audio Cable N In and any sound card Out in Audio Repeater
causes all sound appeared at In port of virtual cable to be sent to
sound card DAC making it audible. Maybe, you can find other useful
applications for the Audio Repeater :)

Removing the driver from your system
------------------------------------

To remove driver from system you can select "Remove" in Control Panel
or simply delete "wave*=vac.drv" line from [drivers] section of
SYSTEM.INI. Additionally, you can delete the "[Virtual Audio Driver]
section. After Windows restart you will be able to delete driver file
VAC.DRV from Windows SYSTEM directory. Audio Repeater EXE file can be
deleted at any time.

Obtaining new versions of the driver
------------------------------------

Distribution rights are granted to NTONYX Ltd. Versions of VAC and
other information can be obtained at http://www.ntonyx.com. Current
demo version can be found at ftp://spider.nrcde.ru/pub/sound/other/ in
file named VACDMxxx.ZIP.

Distribution policy
-------------------

Full version of the driver is commercial. Demo version is free of
charge, full version is granted to registered users after payment.
Demo can be distributed freely if its package and file contents
remains unchanged, and there are no commercial purposes. You cannot
sell it, independently or in one set with other products. Full version
is restricted to use on only one computer at a time, and cannot be
copied, modified or reselled.

Future plans
------------

DirectSound compatibility
Correct mixer (with proper clipping)
MMX-aware mixer

Release history:
================

Version 1.11 (23.12.98)
-----------------------

Timer accuracy increased to 1 ms.

Version 1.10 (20.12.98)
-----------------------

Added multi-client capability for each port.
Included Audio Repeater.
Interrupt rate value moved to INI file.
Fixed several bugs.
Distribution policy changed to Demo/Commercial.

Version 1.01 (17.10.98)
-----------------------

Interrupt rate changed from 20 to 50 Hz for faster response in real
time.

Version 1.00 (14.10.98) - first public release
-----------------------

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