Now we have to go and create a multi-output device. It's pretty straightforward, and then we're not done yet. Once that's downloaded, open it up and go through all the steps to install it onto your system. So the way we do that is go to a search engine like Google, type in 'blackhole audio Mac,' and then the top link, which is this existential dot audio website, you can click that, enter some information, and then you'll be able to get access to the download. So I will need to install a third-party plug-in in order to get desktop audio to work. So I'm on version 12.5, which is obviously not 13 or higher. So double check which version of the operating system you have by going up to the Apple, about this Mac, and you'll see right here. It should just work natively, as it says here on the website. Alright, let's jump in.įirst off, I do want to point out that if you are on Mac OS version 13, known as Ventura or higher, then you will not need to go through the steps in this video in terms of installing a third-party plug-in to get desktop audio recording to work. So in this video, I'll show you how to record desktop audio on the M1 Mac.

And I don't know about you, but I'm a bit obsessive with making sure that things work the way that I want them to work, and the keyboard control not working was bugging me to no end. Because when you go through the process of getting the desktop audio to work, you lose the keyboard controls. I don't know if they will, so you have to use a third-party software in order to get your system to be able to do it.Īnd, as a bonus, I'll show you how I got the desktop volume controls to work on my keyboard. You might be familiar with it, but when they made the Apple silicon chips, the M1 and M2 chips, the developer who made Soundflower didn't update it.

Traditionally, on older Macs, you were able to do this with a plug-in called Soundflower. In this video, we're going to talk about how to record desktop audio, like the audio coming from a YouTube video, on the M1 Mac.

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