The Goal - Stream and Record Final Fantasy XIV using OBS while chatting with friends on Discord and using ACT’s noisy plugins like Cactbot and Triggers Not that we have all the software downloaded and installed, we’re ready to going! You can get it for as low as 5 Euros and for my guide will be required. Virtual Audio Cable A&B - Provides two more additional audio input and output devices.Virtual Audio Cable - Provides us with an additional audio input and output device.

There are a couple of additions to VoiceMeeter that we need:

VoiceMeeter Banana - “…an Advanced 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.” Basically, this is going to allow us to do our magic, creating several virtual audio devices that we can control.

As mentioned previously, this guide could apply to other software like StreamLabs OBS or Xsplit. OBS (Open Broadcast Software) - The software I use for game streaming and recording, including instant replay.Special note - Make sure you download the “January 2012 Package 圆4” in the link I provided. SlimDX XAudio2 - This is a plugin that we need to download and add to ACT as it’ll be critical to ensuring all ACT sounds are being routed to a virtual audio cable we’ll be installing as well.Triggernometry, which is an advanced custom triggers solution for ACT. It supports many plugins, including two rather noisy ones that I use, namely: Cactbot, which provides fight timelines, fight mechanics alerts, among other things. ACT (Advanced Combat Tracker) - A 3rd party program I use to track DPS (damage-per-second) for FFXIV.As mentioned, this guide could apply to any voice chat program. I’m using streaming content while in a group voice chat and I don’t always want the chat content to be streamed as it can be inappropriate at times. Discord - The voice chat program I use day-to-day.Final Fantasy XIV - The game I’m focusing on for this guide.There are many guides on the internet on how to setup ACT and it’s various plugins, as well as OBS and VoiceMeeter. Please note that I am not focused on explaining how to setup each one. Here is a list of the software I have installed to make this all work.

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