![]() I know the Rogue Amoeba folks had to rewrite quite a bit of their Audio Capture Engine (ACE) for Ventura, and so perhaps there's a similar issue that needs to be addressed before BlackHole is reliable with Apple's newly-released macOS?īeta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback. Whether or not you actually record those 14 unused channels depends on the app that is recording. Like I said, I'm still in the "testing" phase of this theory, but thus far it seems to be playing out and I figured I'd share. 16 channels of uncompressed audio but always be larger than two channels. This morning, on a hunch, I disabled BlackHole from that aggregate device and replaced it with a couple of Loopback (paid, from Rogue Amoeba) devices, and cannot (yet?) get the problem to recur. Go to the Input tab and select Soundflower (2ch) Click on Apple Menu. It’s free, it’s open-source, and it works.I'm still in the "final" stages of isolating my problem, but I routinely use an aggregate device of my Thunderbolt Interface (Quantum 2626) and Blackhole-16ch, and as soon as I upgraded to Ventura last week, I started getting 1-second-long cutouts in my audio every couple of minutes, each followed by a 2-second-long coreaudiod CPU spike (like the buffer was getting too full, coreaudiod was punting, and then playing catchup as it came back online). 1/ 10 32-bit) How to install BlackHole Audio Driver for Mac. Rogue Amoeba’s LoopBack does routing and far more, but might be overkill for many users. SoundSource, from Rogue Amoeba, does something similar, but it doesn’t add a virtual output. Hold down the app icon until all the icons begin to jiggle, then click the delete button that appears in the upper left corner of the icon, and click Delete. Once it is installed follow the steps below to set up the correct Input and Output for your computer. You will also need to allow the app to be installed in the Security and Privacy setting in System Preferences. This version of BlackHole is compatible with macOS Catalina. But they don’t offer as many options - or they cost a lot of money. You will need to enter your email address to be sent the download link. So you can use it to do much more than record YouTube audio. And as you also can see, BlackHole offers 16 channels of audio, so you can route audio to and from up to 16 different places. ![]() Photo: Cult of MacĪs you can see, this is powerful stuff, especially when combined with other apps and tools. You would set Ableton Live’s input to BlackHole, and then set Ableton Live’s output to your Mac’s speakers. When youre ready to begin capturing your chosen audio, just click Record. For instance, you could send that YouTube video to BlackHole, as above, and then open up an app like Ableton Live or GarageBand. Choose Soundflower (2ch) from the list that appears. If you want to monitor the audio, you’re going to need a fancier setup. Note: At this point, you won’t be able to hear anything, because no audio is being sent to your speakers. Open a new audio recording window, and in the pop-open menu, choose BlackHole 16ch as the “microphone.” Hit record, and you’re recording YouTube! Set BlackHole as the input source for your recording app. Now, open up a recording app, like QuickTime Player, which comes built-in with your Mac. Select BlackHole 2ch as your Microphone device to record internal audio from. Now, any audio you play on your Mac will go to BlackHole instead of out the speakers. You should see the directory ‘BlackHoleXch.driver’ when. Go to the directory where the driver is located. (Most likely, the only other option you will see will be for the computer’s built-in speakers.) BlackHole as main output. Close all your audio devices, including ‘Audio MIDI setup’ and ’Sound’ in your ‘System Settings’. As soon as I switch the Mac's output to it, I start noticing. ![]() I reinstalled the latest Blackhole just to be sure I was running the latest release, and tried making a new multi-output device. With BlackHole installed, simply open up the System Preferences on your Mac, then click on the Sound pane. I just updated to macOS Ventura and now my multi-output devices are crackling, stuttering, and possibly also causing video drag and other issues. ![]() For instance, we’ll go back to that hypothetical YouTube video playing in Safari. Once you send audio to BlackHole, you can then route it anywhere else. It shows up as a hardware input and output, fooling your Mac into letting you route audio to it. ![]() BlackHole is essentially a virtual audio device. But if you install Existential Audio‘s app BlackHole, you will gain a lot more flexibility. You can choose input and output devices either in System Preferences, or by option-clicking the volume icon in the Mac’s menu bar. The Mac packs some powerful built-in audio options, but they only let you route audio out through hardware devices - the built-in speakers, connected headphones, AirPlay speakers, and so on. ![]()
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