I'm the second one on this feature request.

I was looking into this program the other day, it's used for routing audio, and I'd be using it for the OBS reason in this video. It might be possible to ensure vegas can' ever access your microphone. Software can autostart at boot. I haven't installed yet, if anyone is more familiar with it, they can chime in.

I think who's in control of how audio devices get shared or appropriated for exclusive use depends on how Vegas is configured. If Vegas is configured to use the Microsoft Sound Mapper (Preferences, Audio Device), then Windows can control it if the driver permits it to. The Windows control is in Settings, System, Sound...

But you can always bypass Windows control in Vegas by specifying explicitly which mic device you want Vegas to use to record in Preferences, Audio Device. I find doing that more convenient with external usb audio. Again, the audio device driver usually has settings on whether it will allow exclusive or shared use. Generally since I often pop in and out of Vegas to do audio edits to Vegas audio tracks with external apps like Sonar, Sound Forge, or Audacity, shared access to playback devices is required. But I usually keep mic access exclusive.

@Howard-Vigorita your image link is broken.

Unfortunately I don't have the controls I expect from VP The only options I have for audio recording devices are:

Microsoft Sound Mapper
Microsoft Sound Mapper - Left
Microsoft Sound Mapper - Right

None of the legitimate system input devices are listed.

I've recently gone through all my devices and set them to shareable at the system level. I'll have to keep an eye out for any new problems that causes.

[time passes]

I see now that if I select "Windows Classic Wave Driver" that I'm able to choose a specific input and output device. I'll have to try that and see how it affects stability as well as the takeover issue I'd been having

@Howard-Vigorita your image link is broken.

Odd, looked fine after I posted it. Just re-upped the image.

I am running into issues with this. I am waiting for a new wired headset to arrive, but currently have to use my wife's Bluetooth headset to edit with and it has a built in microphone. At first I noticed the audio quality drop significantly at random times using Vegas Pro (20 and 21). After research I realized that the sound quality drops when the microphone is enabled to share bandwidth.

So now I have blocked microphone use through windows system settings. Great, that problem solved.

However, now Vegas constantly is preventing my play back with a popup error and I have to re-start VP to be able to play on my timeline again. My project s are large and take a few minutes to load every time. Is there anywhere WITHIN VP to block microphone access? Why does it want it at all? I never ever record anything directly to VP, so this is a function I do not need.

My wired microphone-less headset has arrived. VP still keeps giving me this error. I cannot use the program for more than 5 minutes in a row before having to restart. There are NO microphones connected to this PC...

I am running into issues with this. I am waiting for a new wired headset to arrive, but currently have to use my wife's Bluetooth headset to edit with and it has a built in microphone. At first I noticed the audio quality drop significantly at random times using Vegas Pro (20 and 21). After research I realized that the sound quality drops when the microphone is enabled to share bandwidth.

So now I have blocked microphone use through windows system settings. Great, that problem solved.

However, now Vegas constantly is preventing my play back with a popup error and I have to re-start VP to be able to play on my timeline again. My project s are large and take a few minutes to load every time. Is there anywhere WITHIN VP to block microphone access? Why does it want it at all? I never ever record anything directly to VP, so this is a function I do not need.

Have you tried the available audio device options Options/Preferences/Audio Device (tab)?

Usually, Microsoft Sound Mapper is the least likely to cause problems assuming that Manage Audio Devices is set up approrpriately in Windows Control Panel.

Also, is there any setting in 'Default audio recording device' that might need to be turned off?

Have you tried the available audio device options Options/Preferences/Audio Device (tab)?

Usually, Microsoft Sound Mapper is the least likely to cause problems assuming that Manage Audio Devices is set up approrpriately in Windows Control Panel.

Also, is there any setting in 'Default audio recording device' that might need to be turned off?

This is exactly what my preferences screen looks like. No default audio recording device available to select. But yet.... still errors.

Going to try the nuclear option. Restore my system to the way it was when I installed VP21 a few days ago. Before the wireless headphones/microphone were ever introduced to the system.

Or maybe first try resetting Vegas Pro back to its default settings as per https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-can-i-reset-vegas-pro-to-default-settings--104646/

... but any custom Vegas Pro settings will be lost.

Or maybe first try resetting Vegas Pro back to its default settings as per https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-can-i-reset-vegas-pro-to-default-settings--104646/

... but any custom Vegas Pro settings will be lost.

I just went to my system restore via Acronis. That is much easier for me as I keep most files off of my system drive and takes less than 5 minutes. I have a lot of custom VP settings and key bindings so that would have been a bigger pain to re-set up. And I get a fresh feeling PC every time I do it! Although this particular backup is less than a week old as I just purchased VP21. I have been using it for a few hours now, and no popups blocking my playback so far (fingers crossed). First thing I did was disable all microphone access from the start in Windows, so hopefully it should never be an issue.