
It shows up as a hardware input and output, fooling your Mac into letting you route audio to it.


Virtual audio drivers compatible with Windows include JACK and LoopBeAudio. BlackHole is essentially a virtual audio device. It’s worth noting that this isn’t an application that Windows users can benefit from. The virtual audio driver offers no additional latency, and is free to download and use. It also supports sample rates from 44.1kHz up to 192kHz It seems simple enough to use, and most importantly, of course, is compatible with newer Mac OS X versions up to Catalina. Now, BlackHole might be our saviour.īlackHole offers 16 channels of audio inputs and outputs, which can be configured to accommodate 256 channels – although it might be unlikely the average user will require such a beastly amount. The only problem is that Soundflower’s code was based on Mac tools that are not as accessible as they were 15 years ago when Soundflower was conceived.

Soundflower is a great utility tool for routing audio around a computer’s OS and recording audio between apps and is often favoured by OBS users, or those looking to route audio from one DAW to another.
