Hi!
I tried to get this Virtual Audio Cable Driver 1.00,
but link ( ftp://spider.nrcde.ru/pub/sound/other/vac*.zip.)
seems not to work. My message to music@spider.nrcde.ru was returned back.
Can anybody, please, help me?

Thanks,

Sergey Batov   batov@glasnet.ru
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> Îò: Joel Stern 
> Êîìó: zarmzarm@erols.com
> Êîïèÿ: Tobiah ; Csound Mailing List

> Òåìà: Re: Need selectable audio output device
> Äàòà: 13 íîÿáðÿ 1998 ã. 19:37
> 
> Tobiah wrote:
> 
> > > BTW, why can't I pipe csound's output samples into another
> > > process?  It claims 'stdout audio not supported' or something.
> > > There are some nice purposes for this as well.
> 
> If I correctly understand what you're after I think I have accomplished
this
> by using "Virtual Audio Cable", the blurb of which is attached below.
> 
> Joel
>
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> 
>  Virtual Audio Cable Driver 1.00
>                 ===============================
> 
> Author: Eugene Muzychenko, Novosibirsk, Russia
>         2:5000/14@FidoNet, music@spider.nrcde.ru
> 
> 
>         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 device ports; "In" and "Out"
> devices 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.
> 
> 
>         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.
> 
> *** WARNING ***
> 
> Driver designed to run in Windows 3.1 or above but tested only under
> Windows 95. In Windows 3.x some problems may appear.
> 
> 
> 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. Driver supports up to
> eight independent cables; actual number is represented by
> "NumberOfCables" entry of "[Virtual Audio Cable]" section of Windows
> SYSTEM.INI file. This entry with initial value of 1 is appended to
> your SYSTEM.INI during the installation process. You can edit this
> file using SysEdit or any other text editor like NotePad, and manually
> change this value in range 1..8, making desired number of cables.
> Don't forget that Windows restart is required to take effect of the
> changes.
> 
> 
>         Working with cables
>         -------------------
> 
> Both cable sides are standard Windows wave devices, you can use "In"
> and "Out" ports of each cable with 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
>         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.
> 
> 
>         Obtaining new versions of the driver
>         ------------------------------------
> 
> If new versions or bug fixes are released, they will be placed at
> ftp://spider.nrcde.ru/pub/sound/other/vac*.zip.
> 
> 
>         Distribution policy
>         -------------------
> 
> The driver is Freeware. You can distribute it freely if driver package
> and file contents remains unchanged, and there are no commercial
> purposes. You cannot sell it, independently or in one set with other
> products, without my written permission.
> 
> 
> Release history:
> ================
> 
> Version 1.00 (14.10.98) - first public release

Sergey,
	The filename is not vac*.zip but rather (if i remember correctly)
vac101.zip. Try ftp-ing to the directory- just leave out the filename. I
also had trouble getting through to this site, but eventually I got the
download. Have n't tried installing the software yet...

Keep trying!
Mark Vigorito

On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Sergey wrote:

> Hi!
> I tried to get this Virtual Audio Cable Driver 1.00,
> but link ( ftp://spider.nrcde.ru/pub/sound/other/vac*.zip.)
> seems not to work. My message to music@spider.nrcde.ru was returned back.
> Can anybody, please, help me?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sergey Batov   batov@glasnet.ru
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