Not picked up as a stream by Roon Radio

[privacyguy123]

Yet the regular SWYH is - going to the IP link prompts for a .wav download rather than stream too ... am I missing something here? :S

[DrCWO]

Now as be both know how it can be done this issue can be closed. At the end I like to tell you what I will do with your software in combination with Roon.

Roon lacks the ability to include VST Plugins. There are a lot of users requesting this.

So I built a queue of different applications to make it real.

• Installed VoiceMeeter Banana. This is a donationware mixing console. It also offers ASIO drivers for in- and Outputs. Also installs virtual Windows audio device drivers.
• Installed LightHost a public domain VST host that offers ASIO In- and Outputs
• Installed swyh-rs.

And this is the signal path:

• From Roon I stream Music to VoiceMeter Virtual ASIO input
• Output B2 of VoiceMeeter is grabbed by TinyHost
• Output of TinyHost sends data back to Aux-ASIO Input of VoiceMeeter
• Output B1 of VoiceMeeter goes to a windows device
• This is grabbed by swyh-rs
• In Roon I added a Radio Station for swyh-rs

Now I can play in Roon this Radio Station to the speakers and hear the audio processed by the VST plugins added to TinyHost.

I'm so happy 👍 Thank you so for this missing link :-) Sure it is a bit a challenging setup but for those who need it a perfect solution.

B.T.W VoiceMeeter is a very versatile tool and offers its own public domain UDP streaming protocol called VBAN. Maybe it will be fun for you to create a VBAN input module for your swyh-rs as a second source that can also be used via ethernet and is not limited to the Windows machine. This also will be completely lossless what I don't know if windows audio drivers are.

Best DrCWO

[dheijl]

Knowing nothing about VST plugins or Tinyhost but always curious: what do your VST plugins do with the audio in Tinyhost?

Did you have a look at the swyh-rs-cli? It uses even less resources than swyh-rs.

EDIT: I'll have a look at this VBAN stuff!

[DrCWO]

Well, a lot of people prefer the somehow softer (and more distorted) sound of tubes for example.

There are REAL simulations for tubes available for example here for free. There is also an interesting manual for this plugin offered at the bottom of his page where the simulated schematic is explained and printed.

All these VST-Plugins need a VST-Host to run. It offers a certain API defined by Steinberg to plug in these VST-Plugins. The Hosts needs ASIO In- and Output that is offered by VoiceMeeter. Until now they could not be used with Roon but now they can 👍

[dheijl]

Thanks for the info! I'll close this now, as I have added the Roon support to the Readme.