Recording Internal Audio on a Mac

[@keenobserver6592]

thanks bro!!! gratefully appreciated... YES my parents get annoyed......hearing my music outlaid....good point..

[@shemusmcquillaide]

No this does not work with Mojave. They have fucking stopped the whole computer up as far as being able to record your own auio, I am so pissed off nothing fucking works!

[@newyorks-cheesecake]

same bruh

[@shemusmcquillaide]

@@newyorks-cheesecake I have solved the problem since. If you don't want to read about the ridiculous things Apple put me through after I posted my comment skip around to the end where i give the solution.Apple computer people on their helpline, they had to do a screen share to understand what i was talking about. Unbelieveable. The guy at first told me, "It isn't Mojave. You never could do such a thing with Mac computers to protect copyright." I quickly set him straight. But then he tried to tell me that people use their microphones to record their speakers playing internal audio and that that was how even commercial recordings using computers were done. Outrageous or just incomprehensible levels of ignorance. They are completely a shambles over there. You are given numbers to call for more expert people and the numbers are no longer in service. You are told, we'll email you within two days with a solution. No email in two days or even a week. 9 days later I get an email about an application I will have to purchase so that I can record internal audio in Ableton. However 1 week earlier I had already gone to Ableton's website and they have a full article about the problem and as they explain, it arises from yet another aspect of Apple computer's completely shoddy corporate practices. When you install Mojave, it asks you, "Would like to give this appilcation and that application control over your microphone?" It is phrased just like that as I recall. Who in their right mind would say, "Yeah sure, just use the microphone on my computer anyway you see fit. Sure, guy! Right! be me guest! My computer is your computer!" The question is phrased that way because they don't want you using your computer. Of course you say no. They want to use your computer or have you use it exactly as they would have you use it. Not do something unheard of and outrageous like use a Mac computer to make tunes, oh no, your goin there now, keep out! That seems clear to me. Anyway, what Ableton explained was that, what saying yes to allow control of your microphone means is that you will be able to use the computer's internal audio with the apps. Of course these apps could always use your microphone to listen in on your converstaions, though likely not. I crank the input volume on my microphone completely down to zero anyway and so should everyone. Anyone who wants can listen in on you. They likely can anyway but at least the hacker kids next door can't, so just turn it the input volume off duh! Its just scare tactic language, "Do you want them to have CONTROL over your microphone!?!" So all you have to do is go into the privacy settings and then look under the permissions tab and give the apps that you use for internal audio such as a music production program a tick in their tick boxes. Its mind blowingly bad that Apple either has staff so incompetent and uinformed that they don't know this fundamental difference between Mojave and earlier OSXs or that Apple simply refuses to help you with the problem so that you'll buy an app fixes what simply ticking some boxes in your security permissions allows. Sorry for the rant, but really I'm fit to be tied, I spent thousand on my computer music set up to be told to use the computer speakers and record that with the microphone!

[@gloriabaumstimler2729]

@@newyorks-cheesecake same here...Mac becoming piggish

[@axelaurelius3854]

MacOS sucks

[@robertopatron2132]

It doesnt work with Ventura :/

[@nuclearreverie5146]

Soundflower is not an option when I go to change device to it

[@itzdemoticYT]

i dont have soundflower i only see my headphones

[@georgecharpentier6043]

Good video - thanks! When I am running Soundflower, I'm not seeing anything in my menubar... Can you help?

[@phenixreturns]

sound flower does not work anymore

[@arthurleite]

You can use Black Hole Audio Driver with Mac M1/M2 and with newest MacOS like Ventura. Here is how to use: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4iZZH-GnMaZj7c

[@dhakaboy1]

Do I need to buy this soundflower software ? I htought one could just use Audacity to record internal audio ??

[@cryptosovereign9513]

bummer, I cant install it even with the allow unknown developers... still fails (10.13)... looks awesome.

[@barrabas1962]

Just. What. I. Needed. Thanks. Couldn't see the top of your audacity screen in the video. What menu item in Audacity to listen to the audio on speakers while its recording on Soundflower?

[@ZigZagProductionStudio]

Glad to help! And I actually use BlackHole now instead of Soundflower

[@WilliamKiley-xy4ui]

I love tutorials by people I don't follow. This funky jam is this dudes life, and he vibes

[@AZTEC_ARTS2023]

When i select soundflower in system preferences ... i lose all sound on the iMAC speakers (like muted) ... ? i get a "flat line" on the recording timeline of Audacity

[@TheInternetFan]

Thank you so much for this! It worked just fine!

[@ZigZagProductionStudio]

Glad to help!

[@incognitocas]

Great vid. Any update on this? Sound flower won't work with Big Sur.

[@ZigZagProductionStudio]

You could use iShowU Audio Capture and using the routing feature within Mac

[@moveitbyevelynescalera]

i find Blackhole, and its the same as Sound flower and it works well on Mac

[@Billy193]

Works for me as of 11/2/22 on Mac Montery. Just had to do a little extra work cuz the mac initially kept rejecting the download cuz it was foreign

[@dianaprada2]

how do I solve this problem that doesn't let me download bc its not safe?

[@nofood1]

@@dianaprada2 use firefox

[@luisfarias134]

How are you doing T-racks classic clipper is free for a limited time. Vocal King is a awesome compressor and always free. Take care.

[@Mamboking4u]

Question and comment: Where is the "Soundbar" feature that you mention at 1:40 in your video ? You called soundbar a "really cool feature where you can hear the internal audio that is happening on your mac, but it's not going to interfere with the recording process". I am looking for this - where can I find soundbar ?

[@ZigZagProductionStudio]

They unfortunately changed this a bit - you now have to go into Audio/MIDI settings on the Mac to hear the audio in real time. I can do a follow up video

[@newglappy2389]

Is the download link in the description a trusted source?

[@luisfarias134]

How's it going. This is really helpful for people beginning you tube videos and other platforms. Can you make a video about Vrev Spring Reverb? It is currently free from Fuse Audio Lab and it sounds great! Take care player.

[@DexterMurphyMusic]

I use Media Human

[@allersfera]

It works fine, but I can't seem to get the drop down menu to actually listen to the song while recording. I',m only able to get the mute version which records it quite good, but can't listen to the track as i'm recording. Sorry for being redundant, just want a fix

[@allersfera]

It didn't install as an app itself, just a pkg

[@PatTurn]

Worked for me on 10.15.7. Thanks!

[@ZigZagProductionStudio]

No problem!

[@AZTEC_ARTS2023]

i only see a built microphone option .... no "soundflower" option ... ? Catalina 10.15.7

[@djthunda2550]

Same problem me have ​@@AZTEC_ARTS2023

[@matpare1967]

Nice. Is this like Windows version of Stereo Mix.

[@yuliawittmann4444]

Finally, brief and easy!! Thank you so much!!! ✅ ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@ZigZagProductionStudio]

Glad to help!

[@galeelraglen]

Thank you :)

[@ZigZagProductionStudio]

No problem!

[@enriquecomemierda4745]

Great video. Question: if I set midi on the Mac to the 24 bit 192khz that Apple music is streaming, will this record it at not perfect? Or do I need some special driver.