Sound Siphon for Mac
Capture your Mac's audio in any app.
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Sound Siphon overview
Sound Siphon makes your Mac’s audio output available as an audio input device. It allows you to send audio from one application to another, where it can be processed, streamed, or recorded. It's as simple as selecting a microphone in your favorite app. Sound Siphon works with Core Audio to provide this capability to all of your audio apps. As such, it easily integrates into any existing audio-production environment.
Features:
- Capture all of your Mac's audio
- Capture specific application audio
- Independently adjust the levels of each application
- Capture application audio mixed together as stereo audio
- Capture discretely with each application's audio in its own channels
- Mute captured applications while capturing
What’s new in version 3.6.9
- Includes latest audio capture plugin.
Sound Siphon for Mac
$49.00
In English
Version 3.6.9
What users say about Sound Siphon
Ease of use: 2.0
Nope, it's not that you don't know how to use it. It's not that you're not doing this one or two other things. It's just not a supportive user interface.
Reliability: 1.0
Never worked the same way twice. Didn't support using the apollo twin as a monitoring device. Pieces of it were always crashing and as a streamer this is frustrating and embarrassing. I was constantly having to redo the routing to get the thing to work. There were also weird counterintuitive aspects, like the entire computer's output had to be set to "sound siphon output" before you could think about using it properly. At that point, why is there an option to only route certain programs through it? Foolishness like that.
Customer support: 2.0
Their updates made things worse for the user experience and there were only a couple of good-samaritans in the catacombs of youtube with decent instructions on how to handle them.
Other user ratings:
Value | 2.0
Features | 4.0
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Nov 5 2022
Version: 3.3.6
I actually have an even more recent version that is listed here: v 3.4.1. This is an awful, mercurial piece of software that works when it want to. Would very much NOT recommend.
I bought it about a year ago to try to stream music and mic pickups as part of webcast. It worked tolerably well, but you had to start things up in a certain order.
For a while under v 3.3.6, things worked pretty good. But then suddenly 3.3.6 completely broke. Literally nothing worked. The program would launch, but none of the menu items worked nor could I add any sources. Put in for a support ticket.
I waited a few weeks. In the meantime, upgraded to Mac OS 13 and then was prompted to update SoundSiphon 3.4.1. That at least let me add sources, and it seemed to work alright for all of a day. Then it decided not to capture from sources. Sometimes I can get it to capture from one source only to have it stop capturing from another source. The thing is a piece of crap, and I does not work as advertised..
Apr 16 2022
Version: 3.3.6
Just put in the extra 50 dollars for loopback. Sound Siphon is officially a failed experiment at this point.
Nov 1 2021
Version: 3.3.4
Hey guys, 3.3.4 seems to work under macOS Monterey, so I was curious if there was anything not working yet because the site only lists through big sur for support. 3.3.4 says it adds early support for Monterey, so I was curious as to what that means, since I haven't had issues with it under 12.0.2.
Apr 30 2021
Version: 3.3.0
version 3.30 is FINALLY out, going to test it on Big sur now.
Apr 28 2021
Version: 3.2.4
It's been a few more months, and the Sound Siphon website seems unchanged, and has no updated info regarding Big Sur support. Since the other poster has not provided any information, I'm assuming they haven't heard anything either. Considering that in years past, the developer was always responsive, and updates were very timely: makes me wonder if the company went under, or the developer passed away. I've had that happen with apps before and didn't find anything out until a year or two later. (AppDelete example here) As I mentioned in a previous comment, I've purchased AudioHijack to replace Sound Siphon until further notice. I had no problems with SS, but since there has been no info about what's going on that's been released. I needed to have a working compatible app to use when needed. So if Anyone who reads this, has any updated info at this point, would appreciate it. Thanks By the way, when I looked at all the software StaticZ produces, NOTHING has been updated in a long time, not just Sound Siphon, at least from what I've observed looking at the website.
