Simulating Speaker & Pipe it to Simulating Microphone

~Welcome nepostojeci_email and cwwkie

I've looked thoroughly in both of your replies and am impressed that such information was found, however, I must say neither of your solutions work.  I will explain why in a moment here, but let me take a moment to explain what I am doing.  I am using the Voip Softphone Idefisk which is available here:

http://www.asteriskguru.com/tools/idefisk_beta.php

It is 100% free, and I've come to quite like it.  It does its job as far as allowing me to make calls with my provider to land line phones, however, I wish to use a flash soundboard in conjunction with the program.  Like you noticed nepostojeci_email, holding a microphone to the speaker can cause problems and does not have the highest quality, thus, this is why I wish another alternative to a microphone. So, I tried thinking of different ways that I could accomplish this, one of them was to simulate a speaker then a microphone, voila, which was sort of my idea.  However, after seeing nepostojeci_email's recommendation, I tried going to recording options and changing it to the Stereo Mixer.  However, it wasn't working, and then I noticed this idefisk program was automatically switching the recording device to the microphone.  Now, idefisk appears to be open source as they have released their sources and are available to the public at:

http://www.asteriskguru.com/tools/idefisk/iaxclient_r28_source.zip

If there would be any way to edit the program so that it would allow any input, rather than automatically selecting a microphone, it would be a very acceptable solution.  By the way, nepostojeci_email your recommendations are proving invaluable ;)

Now, moving onto cwwkie - I was very impressed with that link you provided - I had never stumbled across or seen anything similar to that program.  I also noticed that the link you gave me a reseller of the program, and if you actually go to the developer's page, it's $30 to buy rather than the $50 they're charging.  You can see the product homepage for Virtual Audio Cable at:

http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.html

That is a great program, however, it does not allow me to accomplish what I want to do.  That program will let me repeat a device such as a stereo or microphone to a virtual stereo, however, that only allows me to relay it to a virtual stereo - not microphone, and I need a virtual microphone that is having relayed audio being sent to it.  Seeing as it is not a current feature, I have emailed the author, however, I haven't had any business dealings with him before so I am not sure of what he is and isn't willing to do.  If possible, I would like to keep the solution in the hands of EE ;)

Well thank you for both of your inputs both nepostojeci_email and cwwkie; they are most appreciated.  I am very impressed and appreciate all the hard work.  I am open to any new suggestions as to go about solving the problem, but if we have any coding experience amongst us, I would like it amazing to actually edit the program itself to allow another input device other than a microphone, ie. stereo mixer.  Thanks again and keep up the great work!

Best regards,
T-Snipez

"By the way, nepostojeci_email your recommendations are proving invaluable ;)"
I didn't understand this, sorry, english isn't my native language, but, you can
start your program, then change the default sound input device (after your program
changed it back to mic), if this doesn't work, I'll look into the code, and also will
suggest the developer to fix that part of code to implement customizable behaviour
like an auto-answering machine, etc.

The only reason I could think of, why the author did the automatic switch to the
mic input (when starting the app) is that many users don't even know how to set
the default input device, so the app is doing it automaticaly. But, sometimes, as you
did see, this is not a wanted behaviour. I'm going to look into code to see if there is
something interesting.

;)

Hello again

nepostojeci_email - I am afraid that changing the microphone from the default recording device after the application has selected microphone doesn't work.  However, I did a search within those source files for any reference to the word 'microphone' and it returned these files - perhaps they may be of value to you:

audio_portaudio.c
portmixer\px_common\portmixer.h
portmixer\px_mac\px_mac.c
portmixer\px_mac_core\px_mac_core.c
portmixer\px_none\px_none.c
portmixer\px_solaris\px_solaris.c
portmixer\px_unix_oss\px_unix_oss.c
portmixer\px_win_wmme\px_win_wmme.c

Earlier, when I said "By the way, nepostojeci_email your recommendations are proving invaluable"  I meant that your advice has been extremely useful ;)  I am very impressed with how fluently you speak english, if I hadn't known, I would've guessed it to be your native language - you fooled me :P

Well thank you for your advice and participation, I couldn't be more satisfied! Please keep up the great work and I appreciate all the hard work that has gone into it so far!

Best regards,
T-Snipez

hmh, here is a topic on 'HOW to select "MICROPHONE" as recording input device'
(programmatically in VB)
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Visual_Basic/Q_21380525.html

but, as far as I see, you will need to change the source code in order to make it
work.. there must be an easier way.. let me think for a while, and I'll come with
some solution..