Automations
Let profiles switch on their own: when a device connects, when an app starts, or between two times of day.
Free audio patchbay for Windows
Give every appits ownsound.
SoundManager is a patchbay for everything your PC plays. Send the game to your headphones and the music to your speakers, shape each app with its own equalizer, and change the whole setup with a single key.
Download coming soonSee how it works
One window for everything on your PC that makes a sound.
Routing
Plug any app into any output.
Apps on the left, outputs on the right, cables in between. Drag from an app to a device and the sound moves while it keeps playing. Nothing restarts.
- Several outputs at once. Run one app on your speakers and your headphones together. Set a level and a delay in milliseconds per output so they stay in step.
- A global output for the rest. Apps without a cable of their own follow it. That is the dotted line.
- Cables show what is playing. Green is quiet, yellow is loud, red is too loud. Colour means nothing else here.
AppsOutputs
Every app follows the global output.
Try it: click an app.Sound per app
Bass for the music. Clarity for the call.
Windows gives every app the same sound. SoundManager lets each one have its own, and remembers it in the active profile.
Ten bands for each app, from 31 Hz to 16 kHz, with a preamp of ±12 dB. Drag a point and you hear it at once. Five presets get you started, and one click copies a sound to another app.
Holds loud peaks under a ceiling and leaves the quiet parts alone. The explosion stops waking the flat, the dialogue stays where it was.
Brings quiet passages up and loud ones down, so you stop riding the volume wheel between a whisper and an advert.
Fold stereo into one channel when you only wear one earbud, or lean an app to the left or right.
Drag the points. Green is quiet, yellow is loud, red is too loud.
Mixer
Every volume in one place.
Apps
- GGameHeadphones
8585 - VVoice chatHeadphones
7070 - MMusicTwo outputs
4040 - BBrowserGlobal output
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A working copy of the app's mixer. Move something.
Quieter while someone talks
Mark one app as your voice app. When it speaks, the apps you chose step back to a level you set, and return when it is quiet again.
Profiles
One key. The whole setup.
Active profile: Gaming
- Active
Gaming
- Game and voice chat on the headphones
- Music at 40 %, steps back for voices
- Footsteps preset on the game
- Ctrl + Alt + 2
Work
- Calls on the headset
- Music on the speakers
- Voice preset on the meeting app
- Ctrl + Alt + 3
Music
- Player on speakers and headphones
- Bass boost
- Everything else turned down
- Ctrl + Alt + 4
Night
- Everything on the headphones
- Night mode on for films
- Speakers muted
A profile remembers every cable, volume and equalizer. Switch with a hotkey, from the tray, from a Stream Deck key, or let an automation do it. Export a profile to a file and import it on another PC.
And the rest
Small things that add up.
Overlay
One hotkey opens a quick mixer on top of whatever you are doing.
Its own volume display
The volume keys show a calm little bar in the app's style instead of the Windows one. Optional.
Fallback chain
Unplug the headphones and the sound moves to the next device on your list instead of going silent.
A pill, not a popup
A profile switch shows a small pill in the corner for two seconds, with a short sound if you like. Then it is gone.
Out of the way
Starts with Windows and sits in the tray. The close button only hides the window.
Leaves things as it found them
When you quit, every app goes back to its real device and your own output is the Windows default again. A short tour explains the rest on first start.
Profile Gaming is active. Press a key.
Stream Deck
Put it on a key.PPuutt iitt oonn aa kkeeyy..
If you own a Stream Deck, the plugin comes with the installer. Six actions, each one a drag onto a key. If you do not own one, nothing is missing: profiles switch by hotkey and the overlay covers the rest.
- 01Switch profileOne key per profile. The active one lights up.
- 02Mute an appToggle a single app without touching the rest.
- 03App louder or quieterIn steps of 5 or 10 percent.
- 04Cycle the outputJump to the next audio device.
- 05Show the overlayThe quick mixer, on a key.
- 06Mute everythingAnd bring it all back with the same key.
How it works
No driver. No reboot.
Most audio routers install a virtual sound card. SoundManager does not touch your drivers. It uses what Windows already offers.
Your apps
Silent output
SoundManager
Real devices
- 01
Windows plays into a silent output
While SoundManager runs, the Windows default is an output with nothing plugged in. You pick it once in the settings.
- 02
Each app is picked up on its own
SoundManager listens to every app separately, applies its volume, equalizer and effects, and decides where it goes.
- 03
It plays on your real devices
Headphones, speakers, monitor, or several at once. Because the sound already runs through the app, every change lands straight away.
00 equalizer bands per app00 Stream Deck actions00 profiles to start with99 drivers installed9 €9 € now and later
Not here yet. SoundManager has not been released to the public so far. As soon as it is, the button on this page turns into the download.
Yes. No price, no trial, no account, no ads, no paid tier waiting behind a button. It is a personal project that I use every day and decided to share.
Windows 10 (2004 or newer) or Windows 11, 64-bit. The installer is one file of about 71 MB and brings everything it needs. An output that nothing is plugged into, such as an unused digital output, is needed for the equalizer and for playing one app on several devices.
No. SoundManager uses an output your PC already has as a silent pass-through and re-plays each app on your real devices. Nothing is added to your system's drivers, and there is nothing to reboot for.
Every app goes back to its real device and your own output becomes the Windows default again. The close button only sends the window to the tray; quitting is a separate button in the settings and in the tray menu.
No. The Stream Deck plugin is an extra for people who own one. Profiles switch by hotkey, from the tray and through automations, and the overlay puts every volume one shortcut away.
Almost. A few programs hold on to one device themselves, for example recorders that listen on it or apps with a fixed output of their own. SoundManager notices, leaves them alone and tells you so in the routing view.
No. The app has no telemetry and no account. Its profiles and settings are stored in a file on your PC, and its control interface only listens on your own machine.
The app's interface is currently in German. Most of it is visual (cables, sliders, curves), so it stays usable without the words.
The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may show a notice the first time. Choose “More info” and then “Run anyway” if you downloaded it from this site.
Your sound,
sorted.
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