Voicemeeter Keyboard VOLUME CONTROLS | Macro Buttons

[@hresonance]

10 seconds to video and it answers the question. love it.

[@lexbraxman9270]

didn't work for me though

[@Jetbat]

Legendary

[@labeardod]

Thank you for this! *Some extra tips:* 1. Set "Button Type" to "2 Positions" so you can also press and hold your vol up/down keys 2. Boost your pc's volume to 100 then set the max levels you want on your bus volumes and now those will be the max when you hit 100 on your pc's volume meter. Only caveat is if you have different levels for your individual busses you'll keep increasing the one's with lower volumes as you hold / tap after you've hit 100. 2.1. Turn on "Limit Remote Gain to 0 dBfs" in the Menu so your busses never go above 0; there's no noticeable difference above 0 if your inputs are already maxxed out(just under red 😉) anyway.

[@JustChillF]

How do you boost pc's volume to 100 and then set the max level?

[@themarchingzombie1461]

absolute legend for getting the simple answer out of the way first.

[@DemosthenesLok]

This is a fantastic tutorial. I use VM simply for enhanced mic quality and I have never installed the virtual cable in order to retain the ability to use my keyboard volume controls. This video makes everything possible and opens the door to the nearly unlimited power of VM. Thanks.

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Glad it helped!

[@shoyusuki8687]

I wish every tutorial was like this, simple and straightforward

[@kang-yungyang]

A youtube video that shows answer immediately. Respect.

[@jellydevtv]

Really helpful video the only odd thing was that by default my mute button on my keyboard already muted BUS[0] so setting it up as in the video meant it muted and then immediately unmuted it. Solution was to simply not mute BUS[0] and mute the other outputs. Thanks again as i would never have known about the macros without this!

[@Mrobinson587]

This is so good man. I work from home on my personal computer and answer phones on it and I needed a fast way to mute my desktop speakers so I don't have to wear my headphones all day. I just set the headphones to mute on "f13" with my macro keys and "f14" for computer speakers mute. Now instead of clicking into 5 windows to change output (which I can't do on the fly with an incoming phone call) it's just a matter of a quick press and picking up my headphones.

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Happy to help ✌️

[@ikcookup]

very informative and straight to the point

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Glad you liked it!

[@mr.random7778]

Best straightforward tutorial ever. Keep up the good work

[@Kumodot]

I hookedit twice one for each device and it worked A1 and A2 moves at the same time. And it worked ! :)

[@matheuscorreia2533]

Fastest tutorial ever, thank u so much for the objectivity.

[@GreenBoxMedia]

You're welcome!

[@Legendaru992]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.... I first tried with AutoHotkey Macro figuring maybe it was because of Windows as it was by 2 increments adjustment as well but now I can do in whatever increments I want, with even more control over the Imput and output. Thank you!

[@cheaptube4918]

Just what I needed. Thanks!

[@Eoin-B]

You can tick 2 outputs at once (A1and A2). Go to menu, click one and repeat for the other.

[@TaylorShockey]

Exactly what I needed. Thank you.

[@GreenBoxMedia]

You are most welcome

[@FF......]

Nobody other explained it, wow. Thank you, it help me really well.

[@GreenBoxMedia]

You are welcome

[@3ClVieira]

Dude, u saved me, i'm already fan of your channel 🤣

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Glad to hear that!

[@yanblaine5112]

Merci! super vidéo !

[@arcticthundrlmao3000]

Man, Great job! You should be a teacher.

[@TacticalTopher]

Your channel is awesome dude. Please don't stop making videos.

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Thanks a lot ✌️

[@Xman360x]

Love this, was trying to figure this out

[@henrydiaz9379]

thank you, it helped me a lot

[@konanhuet623]

FYI you can hook bus 0 and bus 1! it's been updated in the meanwhile

[@TheKennoarkkan]

you're the GOAT thank you!

[@drakonmotredos9607]

Another tip: If you want to control one of the inputs instead of the outputs you can use the term "Strip(0).gain" for input 1 instead of "Bus[0].gain" for output 1

[@Aceguy1972]

Thank you soo much for this. Legend.

[@GreenBoxMedia]

No problem!

[@bananaZn]

Genius tutorial, thank you!

[@J4N3K__]

amazing video, this helped so much. one thing that i found out after the video by testing around. when ur setting up the makro u can also check a box that the button is exclusive so that windows doesnt use that key anymore. for me that was very important cuz beside changing the bus in voicemeeter it also changed the volume of windows and that was a pain in the a** LMAO anyways thanks alot for the idea never tought about it and also never used my volume wheel :D

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Thanks for letting us know. Can you explain your setup a bit more? Because I found that the windows volume does not affect any aspects of my setup once I use voicemeeter. (where did you notice a change when changing the windows volume?)

[@J4N3K__]

@@GreenBoxMedia sure, so i also use voicemeeter banana. Since i was streaming just for fun last year when the dmca strike thing on twitch started, i had to figure a way out so my music isnt recorded on the vod. for that i have the music sources (Chrome, KZbin Music, Spotify, etc) setup to output on the VB-Audio Voicemeeter Aux Vaio instead of the VB-Audio Voicemeeter Vaio. The source in obs then is disabled in the VOD Track. So i have a music-source and a desktop-audio-source in obs, when i dont put the exclusive key for using the volume wheel, it keeps changing my windows desktop-audio volume aswell as the output to my headphones in voicemeeter. so it basicly changed the desktop-audio on two different settings and it will end up more quite than the music-audio since that is only changed by the output volume of voicemeeter LMAO thats why it bothered me

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Very interesting as I have pretty much the identical setup yet the Windows system volume level does not impact any channels. Are you on Windows 11 yet?

[@Clarification85]

Last update you can hook volume buttons for outputs A1 and A2

[@Bobber_dlrh_2x]

Awesome tutorial , thank you! Is it possible to show the volume between 0 and 100 on the screen?

[@remyleck_]

Hi man ! Thanks a lot for your tutorial, it helps me a lot ! I was wondering if it was possible in the macro buttons to change the volume of the three knobs on the middle, instead of the outputs ? Have a good day !

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Yes. Check the voicemeeter documentation tolerance more about what syntax to use in the macro.

[@moritzknabe3646]

@@GreenBoxMedia Thanks. That was great! Didn't know about that user manual...

[@pliniomonteiro]

THIS IS GREAT!!! Thank you very much!!!

[@martin_skys]

How do i make sure that the volume buttons are not used by windows whenever I use the macro buttons? I set it up the way you did with the bus, but now the volume buttons still up and down the windows volume since I don't use the hook anymore.

[@helltioeverygames]

Is there a command to unckeck each one of them? like selecting bus output,for example if i press a button select A1 to B3 to make them on/off,like switching between them,because sometimes when it´s night i use headsets to listen to everything not to bother my uncle or anyone nearby,is that possible?,normally i go to A1 mute it and select A4 to listen into my headsets.

[@wisewolf]

Thanks for the educational video. Can you tell me how to make the microphone volume buttons, otherwise it doesn’t work =(

[@w0rning]

10/10 video. is there a way to do this macro shortcut on the virtual inputs? I have my audio split so ones my desktop audio, party chat, and music. it would be amazing if this could be done on my desktop audio only, because that's where my games audio goes and it would be amazing if I could increase and decrease the audio on the fly like that without having my friends destroy my eardrums.

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Yeah absolutely. Instead of addressing the BUS you would address the STRIP in your macro script.

[@w0rning]

@@GreenBoxMedia thank you, one more question lets say i increase or decrease my audio a couple db's on the fly can i set a macro for keys ALT+VOL.MUTE to reset my audio back to 0db? like "STRIP[5].__________" what would the blank be?

[@w0rning]

NVM I figured it out. I did "STRIP[5].gain =0;" based on what you said about creating the mute macro how just doing = instead of += makes it so you can preform the action once. again amazing video and thanks for the STRIP help

[@ElpandaPlus]

Buttom Name: Vol_Up (Optional) ---> Type: Push Button ---> Define keyboard Shortcut ---> Initial State: Empty ---> Button ON: Strip(6).gain +=1; (modify "+=1" if you need) ---> Buttom OFF: Empty ---> OK ---> Test it

[@revolution18rr]

Thank you, was very helpful!

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Glad it helped!

[@lukematthewumusig8650]

is there a way for me to limit the gain volume cause sometimes it maxes to 12.. i just want to leave the gain at 0db when my windows volume is 100

[@whateverw5302]

One thing- voicemeeter banana fixed this a little bit by adding hook to a1 and a2 simultaneously, but the a3 option is not there. Way to go, i guess?

[@photeirdesign8105]

thank you so much,

[@Fishguy678]

Is there a way to do a button to mute my mic, like what number would I put in on the command thing.

[@Dremmy]

Is there anyone to where I can hold down a button and it keeps turning up/down the volume until I release it?

[@RinGreen]

Hey! Do you know if I can to set just the right alt , not the both alt buttons?

[@J_emmons_07]

ik this is a year later but i figured out that if u want anything thats not one of the busses like everything to the left u could do strip instead of writing bus

[@DJMIKHAIL]

you are AMAZING

[@Joe-uj7go]

gj man

[@danielassuncao526]

How can i call Voicemeeter input and Voicemeeter AUX in this function?

[@LIL_13EN]

It's help me a lot! Thank u.

[@Merc399]

how do i use the macro to change the output device of the bus?

[@Vaselkun]

can you make a tutorial in vban_ buttons on android and voice meeter banana? i cant find any tutorial i want it so badly to be remoted through my phone

[@nurahayu]

Thankyou..

[@MonkaSenpai]

Very Helpful, but how do you set what windows volume equals the 0 DB gain and how to adjust it? Also, I can only go up or down by 12/-12 dB in VMB as opposed to the 0-100 slider in windows?

[@GreenBoxMedia]

According to the Voicemeeter Documentation page 44 (available on the Voicemeeter download page) you would set the gain to = 0. The voicemeeter slider indeed is in dB rather than on a 0-100 scale for windows. However, it is a -60 db to +12db and using a right click you can dile in any custom value. If you are using voicemeeter as your default audio device, the windows gain will be ignored.

[@EmmanStudio]

Thank you So Much

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Welcome!

[@ElpandaPlus]

Set Virtual Inputs (Steps) = -------------- Buttom Name: Vol_Up (Optional) ---> Type: Push Button ---> Define keyboard Shortcut ---> Initial State: Empty ---> Button ON: Strip(6).gain +=1; (modify "+=1" if you want more precision) ---> Buttom OFF: Empty ---> "OK" ---> Test it

[@timmanock]

Great video ! I'm thinking of adding a foot pedal to mute my microphone that's on Voicemeeter as a hardware input and was wondering if using macros inside of Voicemeeter was the way to go. How would I go about doing that?

[@GreenBoxMedia]

You would have to figure out what the key is your pedal sends to your computer and select that one as the macro trigger.

[@timmanock]

@@GreenBoxMedia I actually found out with a different video that the trigger in should be strip(0).mute=1 and the trigger out is strip(0).mute=0. I've assigned that to a key I don't have on my keyboard and can then use that for the foot pedal.

[@dododo3353]

You saved Voicemeter from deinstallation :D Good Job unfortunately it doesnt work perfect. Keyboard has another range of volume. So if my keyboard controlled volume goes to 0 it mutes the sound, but Voicemeter can still have -30 and still playing sounds. Kinda like that. But better than nothing.

[@GreenBoxMedia]

glad it helped at least a bit (:

[@Mentalcheez]

Thank you! Quick question: in my case, the volume slider DOES still affect my windows volume still. How would I disable it so that the slider only affects voicemeeter?

[@GreenBoxMedia]

When voicemeeter is set to your default playback device, that should not affect your audio. In my case it also changed the windows volume but as said this does not impact the voicemeeter volume (as long as it is not set to 0 = mute).

[@martinwetzel7432]

great! Thx for sharing this!

[@MainhaLisa]

Hi there! Excellent video. But I'm trying to create a macro in order to use the "A1" in the Virtual Input I use to separate spotify from my Desktop Audio (I'm a streamer). Is that possible? I wanna make a macro and integrate it to my streamdeck, but I don't know how to do it :(

[@GreenBoxMedia]

You are probably better of looking into the Voicemeeter Streamdeck apps 😉

[@MainhaLisa]

@@GreenBoxMedia Well, I managed to find a way to use Voicemeeter through streamdeck. But the point is that I'm trying to mute ONLY spotify using a macro (only for the viewers, not for me). When I use the macro it mutes the whole sound of my computer. That's the point. Thanks for the answer anyways

[@GreenBoxMedia]

@@MainhaLisa hmmm so you are probably muting the output (BUS) but you might want to mute the input (STRIP) instead.

[@MainhaLisa]

@@GreenBoxMedia hmmmm … So if I change the “BUS” comm. to “STRIP” it might work?

[@GreenBoxMedia]

@@MainhaLisa Checkout page 54 on the user manual. It gives a visualization of where to find what and a list of all API calls. vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/VoicemeeterPotato_UserManual.pdf

[@ZachTheInsaneOne]

Is there any way I can do this for the virtual inputs rather than the outputs? I want to change VAIO 3 rather than B3, so that I can control how loud my game's volume is to me rather than how loud it is to others.

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Yes. You find the keywords to use in the voicemeeter documentation pdf.

[@calebearaujotecladista]

In my case, when I click on the "push" buttons nothing happens :/ Would you help me?

[@GreenBoxMedia]

This means probably the script itself is incomplete or has a syntax error.

[@Xavier_BE]

Hi thanks for the vidéo. Do you know if some documentation is available ? You use bus[0] bus[1]... for outputs, but how would you manage input volume ?

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Yes there is documentation on the website.

[@JosaxJaz]

Thanks!

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Welcome!

[@eliotmilligramm95]

❤ this ist best Video

[@guneskorkmaz8295]

perfect guide

[@pow5244]

I cant get the Hook Volume Keys (For level output A1) to work. I can adjust the volume nicely with the default macros (ctrl+f10 etc) but not the Hook Volume Keys. Do you have a possible solution for this?

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Is it adjusting the volume when you click the macro button in the application? If not its a problem with ths script. My best bet would be that your keyboard has implemented the volume keys differently, so the system is registering a different button when press than the vol ones. You can test this theory here: keyboardchecker.com/

[@scotthunter1678]

Amazing!

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Thanks!

[@gark1]

what command would it be if i wanted to mute hardware input 1

[@GreenBoxMedia]

There should be a list of the "commands" in the Voicemeeter Documentation on their download page.

[@JamesToke]

This also disables my headphones sound. any idea how to fix?

[@JamesToke]

nvm i fixed it

[@vishalchouhan07]

Worked on Vol up buttons for all 3 bus.. but didnt work for vol down. i dont understand what error did i make. its running absolutely fine on vol up but not on vol dn

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Try coping the code from the vol up to the vol down and see if it registers the button. If it does just change the + to - in the code.

[@kmrad_k]

No sir, I do not most likely run banana I had a potato just like you and it tasted delicious.

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Wonderful

[@WiktorWorks]

can you give the page with all commands?

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Voicemeeter documentation

[@mauricescka]

thanks a lot

[@GreenBoxMedia]

You are most welcome

[@Meoiswa]

Is there a way to limit gain to +0dBfs using this setup? The "Limit remote gain to 0dBfs" option in Potato doesn't seem to work for this (It does for MIDI)

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Unfortunately I have not used any limiters in combination with the Macro Buttons yet. I'd take a quick look at the Voicemeeter user manual to see if there is anything you could use to achieve this using Macro Buttons

[@Meoiswa]

@@GreenBoxMedia Asked in the official Discord. This is currently a bug (3.0.2.2) that will be fixed in the next version (3.0.2.4), currently in beta testing. With the beta version, the Limiter works correctly with Macro Buttons

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Thanks a lot for the update and heads-up! 🙏

[@Dogs12370]

Nice video

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Thanks a lot!

[@Dogs12370]

@@GreenBoxMedia no problem 😊

[@Wicked2305]

How to give 10 likes to you sir. 👍

[@uglydirtbad]

i dnt know who are, i never see you, BUT i Love you brow!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@GreenBoxMedia]

Praise the KZbin algorithm

[@SuperProxyma]

My hero thanks a lot for this !

[@GreenBoxMedia]

You are welcome ✌️