Microsoft is now brazenly testing a greater Windows 11 quantity mixer

A brand new enhanced audio mixer is coming to Windows 11 that permits customers to make particular person quantity and audio output changes straight from the taskbar. The up to date quantity mixer was formally revealed as a part of the brand new Preview Build 25309 which is being rolled out to testers within the Windows 11 Insider Dev channel.

When launched, the up to date mixer will likely be situated contained in the Quick Settings panel on the Windows taskbar, which will be accessed by clicking on the quantity icon. Microsoft has additionally added a brand new Windows keyboard shortcut (Win + Ctrl + V) to open the mixer straight. The mixer permits customers to rapidly swap between audio outputs (i.e. headphones, audio system, and so forth), in addition to modify the quantity of particular person apps and toggle spatial audio applied sciences like Windows Sonic and Dolby Atmos.

This isn’t the primary time we’ve heard concerning the new quantity mixer. Prior to Microsoft’s official announcement, the characteristic leaked final month after it was found inside an experimental flag of a Windows 11 check construct. It might also look acquainted to anybody who’s used EarTrumpet — a third-party quantity management app for Windows created virtually 5 years in the past to “fill quite a lot of gaps within the audio administration expertise on Windows 10.”

There’s at present no phrase on a public launch date for the Windows quantity mixer. Microsoft says it isn’t even accessible to all Insiders within the Dev Channel “simply but,” permitting the corporate to observe suggestions earlier than making the characteristic extra broadly accessible. Still: higher late than by no means for Microsoft to catch as much as third-party choices.