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.
GarageBand 10.1.2, GarageBand 6.0.5, iTunes are all working well (now) with Soundflower-2.0b2.dmg. But when I first tested after the upgrade to Sierra, all audio applications were muted. It was running Audio Hijack once that that made system audio play again. Step 1: SoundFlower Installation: Follow the below link and install the SoundFlower Package, remember Only this package would be running on latest Mac OS High Sierra.
macOS 10.13 High Sierra and macOS 10.14 Mojave Soundflower Install
- Download the installer: soundflower_2.0b2.zip.
- Run it and perform the install
- The installer will tell you that it failed. This is completely normal.
- Open the System Preferences and go to the “Security & Privacy” settings.
- 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!)
- Run the installer again. This time it will run through without any problems.
AUDIO VIDEO DISCUSSION / EQUIPMENT Home Theater / Audio and Video - Misc Topics AV Equipment Advice and Pricing Awesome Deals and Budget AV Equipment AV Receivers / Processors / Amps UHD / Blu-ray / CD Players / Streaming Devices Two Channel Hi-Fi Equipment DIY Audio Projects Computer Systems - HTPC / Gaming HD and UHD Flat Screen Displays Projectors and Projection Screens AV Accessories Buy. Soundflower did't work no matter how many different things I tried based on your notes. I am on a new M1 MacBookPro, maybe that is the difference between soundflower working and failing. I did NOT try the extra steps for authorizing kernel extensions that Luis pointed to above. With BlackHole Virtual Audio Driver it was easy to get it set up. After you’ve installed Soundflower launch the Sound system preference and you’ll see evidence of Soundflower in the Output and Input tabs. Select the Output tab and choose Soundflower (2ch).
Click 'Open Security Preferences'
Click on the Allow button and run the installer again.
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!
Soundflower Ios
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).
This issue has cropped up on some High Sierra installations that have never had Replay Video Capture installed before. Here's the workaround:
- Run the Replay Video Capture installer again and perform an install
- When the installer tells you that the installation failed, go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General. Then click on “Allow” next to “Replay Video Capture”
- Re-run the Replay Video Capture installer again and finish the installation
Soundflower Installation Failed
If you do not see Replay Video Capture in the System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General immediately after a failed install then please install Soundflower directly from this page: