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The best alternative to JACK Audio Connection Kit is VB-Audio VoiceMeeter, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to JACK Audio Connection Kit and five of them are so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting alternatives to JACK Audio Connection Kit are PipeWire, VB-Audio Virtual Cable, VB-Audio Matrix and Virtual Audio Stream.

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  1. Voicemeeter is Audio Mixer Application endowed with Virtual Audio Device used as Virtual I/O to mix and manage any audio sources from or to any audio devices or applications.

    30 VB-Audio VoiceMeeter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. PipeWire icon
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    PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. It provides a low-latency, graph based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both PulseAudio and JACK.

    7 PipeWire alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
     
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    Comments about PipeWire as an Alternative to JACK Audio Connection Kit
    headlines
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    PipeWire is a seamless drop-in replacement for JACK (and JACK2) that also handles PulseAudio applications at the same time.

    PipeWire icon
    PipeWire icon
    • PipeWire is Free and Open SourceJACK Audio Connection Kit is also Free and Open Source
  3. VB-Audio CABLE is a Windows Audio Driver working as a Virtual Audio Cable. After installing the VB-CABLE driver, a new playback device appears in the audio device list and can be set as default device. VB-CABLE can be set as the default device, just like any regular audio device.

    26 VB-Audio Virtual Cable alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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    Comments about VB-Audio Virtual Cable as an Alternative to JACK Audio Connection Kit
    Ian Dorfman
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    VB-Audio Virtual Cable, despite only working on DirectX-built applications, still serves the same core functionality of connecting audio streams from one application to another on the same device.

    Guest
    Negative
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    Only works DirectX applications (DirectX is a dead system for pro audio, replaced since years by ASIO, WDM-KS and WASAPI)

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    VB-Audio Virtual Cable icon
    VB-Audio Virtual Cable icon
    • VB-Audio Virtual Cable is Freemium and ProprietaryJACK Audio Connection Kit is Free and Open Source
  4. The VB-Audio Matrix is an audio framework to connect everything together, channel by channel: Several ASIO devices, several Windows devices, several audio Applications and DAW, several Computers.

    14 VB-Audio Matrix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Usually, all programs send their audio output to your soundcard independently. With Virtual Audio Stream you can route the output signal of any application to be the input signal of any other application.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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