![]() GroundControl Cube lets you control ins/outs, mono, mute, dim, and the overall output level. Like most monitor controllers, it has a large central knob for the output level remember, this doesn’t affect the input level, only output. It’s pretty cool that it has a nice meter for visual feedback, too. GroundControl is an alternative to the popular Soundflower app. Soundflower was incredibly useful and easy to use, but it didn’t keep up with changes to macOS and became virtually defunct. So, here we are now with GroundControl, and if you’ve never used an audio router like this, you can think of it like virtual audio cables.īlackhole became an obvious successor, but I’m not sure how well that works (if at all) anymore post-macOS Catalina. ![]() How it works, in simple terms, is that you select GroundControl as the audio output for the source application and as the audio input for the receiver application. If you check out the website, you can see a list of applications that could benefit from GroundControl, including OBS, YouTube, Spotify, and Zoom. If you are a podcaster, streamer, or you do any form of online education, GroundControl by Ginger Audio is for you. One of the most common uses for Soundflower in its day was to record your system sound into your DAW. ![]() In other words, it was the go-to app if you wanted to record audio from a web browser, like a YouTube video into your DAW. This tutorial is about installation and usage of SoundFlower app to capture sound on your Mac. With GroundControl, that’s super-easy just set your system audio output to GroundControl 2 channel, and set the audio input/device for your DAW to GroundControl 2 channel. As with many free applications it sometimes hard to understa. On the GroundControl Cube, the input should be GroundControl 2 channel, and the output is whatever you want to hear playback through your audio interface, core audio, etc. GroundControl is a simple app that you probably won’t realize you needed so much until you have it. Right now, it’s macOS only, but a Windows version will be available at some point. Up to 192kHz with zero latency, and the latest M1 chip and macOS Big Sur are supported. I never did that much on-line recording to bother with yet another program.It’s nice to be a macOS user and not be scared an update will prevent something from working for a change!ĭownloading GroundControl is easy. ![]() SoundFlower had a subsidiary program called FlowerPot or something like that which would switch back and forth between the modes semi-automatically. Got all that? It’s remarkably similar to the dance we did with SoundFlower. That one setting is the only one you have to keep switching back and forth between normal computer operation and recording YouTube. You have to switch Mac Output Preference back to Output/Speakers/Headphones From iShowU to do that.Īpple > System Preferences > Sound > Output. The only part of this that doesn’t work right is listening to Youtube when Audacity is not running. That’s the second part of the above graphic.Īnd tell Audacity to playthrough its input to its output (second clicky).Īs long as Audacity is running-but not even recording, you can click in the recording meters > Start Monitoring and hear what the computer is doing. If you stop right there, you can play something on Youtube and record it on Audacity, but the computer might be silent. It does use multiple-recursive pathways, so it’s a little magic.Īpple (upper left) > System Preferences > Sound > Input > IShowU.Īpple (upper left) > System Preferences > Sound > Output > IShowU. I use iShowU Audio Capture on my MacBook Air ![]()
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