- Hello everyone, I used soundflower to control volume and equalize the speakers of my external hd monitor. I used to chose 'Soundflower (2Ch)' as the audio output on my Mac settings and then chose the HDMI output on the SoundflowerBed app that remained on my taskbar.
- Download Soundflower 1.5 - real advice. Soundflower is a Mac OS X system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications.
- Record System Audio on macOS with the Soundflower software. This method applies for older versions of ActivePresenter. Although it also work for later versions but Soundflower is known as not stable on some systems. The steps are also quite complicated. Download Soundflower. Soundflower is totally free and you can download it from here.
Soundflower is an effective, free audio routing solution that has some cool features such as the ability to allow different apps to access the soundcard simultaneously. It also supports 2 and 16 channel audio. The downside is that some may find Soundflower tricky to configure at first.OS X 10.5.8+ is required to run Soundflower. Download Soundflower for Mac to pass audio to other applications. Mac OS X 10.9, Mac OS X 10.10, Mac OS X 10.8, Mac OS X 10.7, Macintosh, macOSX (deprecated) Additional Requirements None.
You might remember Soundflower - it was a handy add-on for MacOS X that ran in the background and let you invisibly route audio between applications without needing any external wiring. It's what Inter-App Audio does on iOS, but Apple never actually implemented a similar system on the Mac, hence the need for Soundflower.
Sadly, as MacOS developed and its core systems and code changed significantly, support for Soundflower - which came out in 2004 - became patchy and eventually it stopped working on more recent versions of the OS. Happily though, there's now an alternative. Blackhole from Existential Audio is free and works in much the same way.
After installation it appears as a virtual source and destination, letting you send audio between any applications on your Mac. So you can record pretty much anything internally without ever needing to route sound out and back into your hardware. It might sound like a small thing but it can be a huge time saver. There are some reported issues around OS X Catalina but these are likely to be ironed out in time. You can grab Blackhole now using the link below.
Paid software which is a little more polished and does the same thing includes Rogue Amoeba's Loopback and Audio Hijack for the Mac, or JACK Audio Connection Kit which is free and cross-platform.
Soundflower Mac Os
Get the latest stable releases here: https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole/releases
Learn more about OS X and audio recording: https://ask.audio/academy?nleloc=new-releases