I asked Vincent Burel where he came up with names like Banana and Potato for the different versions. The Potato version adds more tracks, effects, and aux sends. The interface is reminiscent of the old “Portastudio” multitrack cassette recorders a lot of us cut our teeth on. The Banana version includes a built-in recorder that can capture a stereo mix or individual channels. This makes it ideal for mixing mics and other sources for a podcast or a portable production rig. Outputs can feed either a hardware sound card or any virtual destination. The Voicemeeter can present up to three hardware inputs, depending on your sound card configuration, and three virtual inputs, which can be configured from any software that uses an audio device, such as Skype, or a DAW program. These are essentially replacements for the Windows audio mixer, but they’re replacements on steroids. Voicemeeter comes in three iterations: just plain Voicemeeter, Voicemeeter Banana and Voicemeeter Potato. One of the most useful apps I found on the company’s website was the Voicemeeter mixer. Today, in addition to the MT128, VB-Audio offers several handy applications, from a software spectrum analyzer to software mixers, on up to DAWs like MT-64 and MT-32 SPLite, scaled-down versions of MT128. Then, teaming up with developer Joram Ludwig, Vincent created the MT128 multitrack recording system, VB-Audio’s flagship product. Plugin development continued to be the core of VB-Audio’s efforts through the mid-2000s. Most notable was his shareware Quickverb plugin, able to run on the original Pentium processor without maxxing it out no mean feat back in those days.

Vincent Burel, the brains behind VB-Audio Software, started out in the late 1990s writing DirectX and VST plugins, along with plugins in other proprietary formats.

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