Welcome to our Soundflower installation guide. Installing Soundflower on modern macOS versions can be a little complicated as kernel extensions need now to be given permissions before being loaded for the first time. So the Soundflower installer will error out on macOS High Sierra and Mojave. But this is easy to fix.

1. Soundflower Mac Catalina
2. Soundflower Mac Download
3. Soundflower.kext
4. Soundflower Mac High Sierra
5. Soundflower Mac Uninstall

Soundflower is a tool with which you can make the most of the audio playing on your Mac. It's a classic application to route sound signals between different applications and has always been a must amongst the most experienced users in terms of audio. With Soundflower you can route signals making them come out of one app and go into another. It's very useful when it comes to recording the sound. There are several benefits to using soundflower app. It records sound files in high-quality audio formats. Apart from that, you can save those files in different forms such as MP3, AAC, WMA and so. Soundflower has an easy user-interface and you can understand all its functions well. It is a free app to use for recording multiple sound files. Soundflower for Mac Soundflower for Mac Download. Soundflower for Mac – Download Free (2020 Latest Version). Allows applications to pass. Installing Apps on MAC. Most MacOS applications downloaded from outside the App Store come inside a DMG file. Uninstall Apps on MAC.

macOS 10.13 High Sierra and macOS 10.14 Mojave Soundflower Install

1. Download the installer: soundflower_2.0b2.zip.
2. Run it and perform the install
3. The installer will tell you that it failed. This is completely normal.
4. Open the System Preferences and go to the “Security & Privacy” settings.
5. Click on the “Allow” button next to “MATT INGALS”.(This has to be a physical hardware click. Remote desktop connections or even local software tools like “Better Touch Tool” won’t work!)
6. Run the installer again. This time it will run through without any problems.

Soundflower Mac Catalina

IMPORTANT: If you can’t record from Soundflower under Mojave (the device is there but only silence is being recorded) make sure that you have given microphone access permissions to your recording app! macOS treats Soundflower like a microphone in this regard. Go to system preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Privacy -> Microphone -> [check mark next to your recording app]

See our blog post about this issue: https://www.fluxforge.com/blog/recording-problems-on-mojave/

macOS 10.10 - 10.12 Soundflower Install

Because we’re getting this asked a lot: Here’s how you get Soundflower to work with macOS 10.12 Sierra and OS X 10.10 and 10.11…

As you know, since 10.10, OS X requires kernel extensions to be signed. Sadly the officially available version of Soundflower isn’t signed because it’s an open source project and - as far as we know - no one has volunteered to do the work and pay the $99 fee to obtain a signing certificate.

That’s why we have built a signed version of Soundflower which will work on OS X 10.10, 10.11 and the new macOS 10.12 Sierra.

Here is the direct download link: soundflower_2.0b2.zip.

Download the zip and run the contained installer. Even though not required you probably should restart your Mac to make sure everything got installed properly.

Enjoy!

Please note that we can’t offer direct support for Soundflower. We just built a version you can install on macOS 10.11 and 10.12. If you encounter any problems please contact Soundflower’s developer! You can find their project page here: https://github.com/Soundflower-Original

Shameless self promotion: Have you tried Vector yet? Vector is an audio editor for OS X that is designed to fit into the space between simple audio apps and full blown studio production tools. (Kinda like Cool Edit Pro for the Mac - if you are that old school).

Last Updated on September 23, 2020 by Robert Jackson

Since QuickTime, the built-in program of macOS only supports to record the external sound from the microphone, lots of Mac users keep complaining about the fact that they cannot record the internal sound on their computers.

To record the internal sound on a Macintosh, QuickTime Player or Voice Memo is no longer helpful. You need to find yourself a perfect Mac audio recorder to record the internal sound on your Mac computer.

In this tutorial, you can find out 2 methods to record the system sound on a Mac computer. Hopefully, you can have a perfect audio file with the help of the following methods.

Can I still use QuickTime Player to record the internal sound on Mac?

QuickTime Player is helpful to record the internal sound on your Mac computer with the help of Soundflower – an audio extension that is massively used in Mac computers for audio recording.

How Soundflower works?

QuickTime cannot record the internal sound due to the absence of a recordable audio output device.

With QuickTime installed, users can use it to manually create a virtual audio output device on a Mac computer for internal audio playback. Then, QuickTime can detect this new device and record the sound from it.

In this way, you can use QuickTime to record the internal sound on your Mac.

Use QuickTime Player to record internal sound on Mac with Soundflower?

Step 1 Install Soundflower on your Mac.

• You can click here to download.

Soundflower Mac Download

Step 2 Set up for the Soundflower output device.

• On your Mac, search for ‘Audio MIDI setup‘.
• Then, on the window, click the “+” icon to add an ‘Aggregate Device‘.
• Check the Built-in Microphone and Soundflower (2ch) from the Audio Device tab.
• Next, click the ‘+‘ icon again and create a ‘Multi-Output Device‘.
• Tick ‘Built-in Output‘ and ‘Soundflower(2ch)‘ from the Audio Device Tab.
• Close the window.

Step 3 Record internal sound

• Open QuickTime and click the arrow next to the red Record button.
• Choose ‘Soundflower(2ch)‘ from the drop-down list.
• Click Record to start capturing the internal sound.

Should you use QuickTime along with Soundflower to record internal sound?

From my point of view, to set up Soundflower is not an easy task. You need to locate a lot of items and tick several options. If you miss one or make just one mistake, QuickTime cannot record the internal sound relatively.

Also, QuickTime has quite a few limitations.

Cons of QuickTime audio recording:

• You cannot change the format of the audio file (m4a. only) and trim the audio.
• There’s no shortcut for activating QuickTime audio recording. So when you’re about to record the sound from an online interview or meeting, it could be messed up to ask other participants to wait for a while.
• QuickTime can only record one audio source at a time. So when you’re about to record a meeting or interview, you can only choose to record your own voice or others’ voices.

Now, you might wonder how to record internal audio on Mac without Soundflower and QuickTime. You can try Aiseesoft Mac Screen Recorder.

How to record internal sound on Mac without QuickTime&Soundflower?

As the most advanced video and audio recording software on the market, Aiseesoft Mac Screen Recorder has an incredible performance in recording internal sound on Mac.

• Mac Screen Recorder can record all sounds, internal or external, separately or simultaneously.
• You can use the one-press shortcuts to activate an audio recording.
• A user-friendly interface is offered.
• The format and quality of the output files are adjustable.
• It supports desktop recording, you can use it to record your onscreen movement.

These’re what Mac Screen Recorder can do for you, wanna give it a go? Here’s how you can use it to record internal sound on your Mac.

Step 1 Download Mac Screen Recorder on your Macintosh

Step 2 Choose Audio Recorder

Launch the software, on the interface, choose Audio Recorder to record internal sound. You may go to Preferences to set up the shortcut, format (m4a, mp3, wmv, aac) and quality (low, middle, high, lossless) of output files, etc.

Step 3 Record the internal sound

On Audio Recorder, you need to turn on the System Sound option and turn off the Microphone option. In this way, the software will only capture the sound coming from the system.

Click REC, or press the default hotkey Ctrl + Cmd + S on your clipboard to start recording. A process bar will appear, you can see the time of your audio file, you can pause the recording if there is anything you don’t want to capture.

When you finish your recording, click Stop or press Ctrl + Cmd + S.

Soundflower.kext

Then, you’re available to listen to the audio you just record, you can trim it too.

Soundflower Mac High Sierra

Click Save, the audio file will be stored on the Mac.

You can check that out on the Recording history of Aiseesoft Mac Screen Recorder.

To warp up:

Soundflower Mac Uninstall

Now, you know how to record internal audio on your Mac, right? Go and try it yourself. By the way, if you want to record desktop or onscreen activities on your Mac, you can try Aiseesoft Mac Screen Recorder as well.