Full mixer snapshot: every strip and bus with label, gain, mute, routing.

Set a strip's fader gain in dB (0 = unity; range -60..+12).

Mute or unmute an input strip.

Send or stop sending a strip to an output. route: A1|A2|A3|B1|B2 (kind-dependent).

Set a bus (output) gain in dB.

Mute or unmute an output bus.

Current audio levels (post-fader) per strip and bus — spot silent or clipping paths.

Press-and-release a Voicemeeter macro button by index.

Load a Voicemeeter settings XML preset from the local filesystem.

Restart the Voicemeeter audio engine (fixes crackle/desync; brief dropout).

Save the full mixer state (gains, mutes, routing, comp/gate, EQ) to a named snapshot file (letters/digits/_/- only). Take one when the stream sounds RIGHT.

Compare the LIVE mixer state against a saved snapshot — answers 'what changed since the known-good config'. Snapshot must live in the snapshot directory (as written by snapshot_state).

Set a strip's compressor knob (0.0 = off … 10.0 = max).

Set a strip's noise-gate knob (0.0 = off … 10.0 = max).

Enable or disable the parametric EQ on a bus.

Bind a hardware strip to a physical input device. driver: wdm|mme|ks|asio. Hardware strips only (virtual strips have no device).

Verify connection to Voicemeeter and report kind/version.