Prior to upgrading to El Capitan I had my iMac set up so that I could send audio to the built in speakers at the same time as sending audio through a USB sound card dongle to my sub-woofer.

Recording web audio - Soundflower problem on El Capitan ← Audio. Recently we have been receiving reports that Soundflower does not work properly when updating Mac OSX to 10.00 (El Capitan). Here is a link to a solution.

After upgrading it still had some of the SoundFlower application installed, but my multi-speaker configuration was no longer working. With some searching I found that Rogue Amoeba has given up development of Soundflower and is now directing users to this GitHub project as maintained by Matt Ingalls (thanks Matt!)

So the key to this is, you must uninstall the old (unsigned) version prior to installing the new one. And you must reboot after running the uninstaller or else it won’t work. Yeah, we’re always told we should reboot, and we never do, and things usually work fine. Well, not in this case. REBOOT! :-)

After updating to OS X El Capitan I found that soundflower simply wasn’t ‘there’ and didn’t/wouldn’t run. A quick google brought me to THIS PAGE – with the instructions working perfectly. Only thing I did differently was delete the old soundflower from the system – and yes, the uninstall soundflower option did still work. Hola, bueno, ya que nadie ha comentado nada acerca de la pregunta que hice sobre estos programas en el hilo de OSX El Capitan, me he tirado a la piscina y he actualizado de cero a El Capitan y como vi en las betas pues Jack y Soundflower no funcionan en este sistema operativo. Remove that file, and then re-start the Mac system. Open System Preferences - Sound - Output. Anyone know how to get Soundflower to work on OS X El Capitan? Soundflower Download For Mac. Apple Inc’s twelfth major release for their Macintosh computers’ desktop and server operating system is the OS X El Capitan version 10.11.6. It is the upgraded version of the previous operating system OS X Yosemite. The system required advancement in performance, stability, and security so was the need of this.

So I installed the most recent version of Soundflower from the Releases page. In my case it was Soundflower-2.0b2.dmg but you should see if there are any updates:

Here is the quick version of getting the multi-device output to work, or at least how mine is set up:

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• Download the new version of Soundflower
• Run the uninstaller that was in the package
• Reboot the computer (really)
• Run the installer on the newest version available (2.0b2 or above?)
• Go to System Preferences –> Sound –> Output and select Soundflower (2ch) as the output device.
• Launch /Applications/Utilities/Audio Midi Setup
• Select Soundflower (2ch) in the left column and right click, then enable it to Use this device for sound output and Play alerts and sound effects through this device
• Click the + in the lower left corner and create a new Multi-Output Device
• Enable Built-in Output and your second audio device, in my case USB PnP Sound Device. Here is a screenshot:

But this was the point I realized I could not adjust the volume with my keyboards volume keys and if I remember right, I wasn’t even hearing anything. Of course from my old experiences this is where I would jump to Soundflowerbed and check my settings, verify my inputs and outputs, etc. But where is Soundflowerbed?! It’s gone! Usually it was in /Applications/Soundflower/Soundflowerbed but it was nowhere to be found.

It turns out you can run the old copy of Soundflowerbed from the old installer! Just be careful to only install Soundflowerbed and NOT the old copy of Soundflower which we know won’t work. Here were my steps:

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• Download a copy of an old version of Soundflower, the most recent binary I could easily find was Soundflower-1.6.6b.dmg from this Soundflower Google Projects Hosting site.
• Open the Disk Image you downloaded
• Run the installer labelled Soundflower.pkg
• Accept the various pop-ups about unsigned apps, Readme’s, License, etc. But stop and look at Installation type!
• Once you get to Installation Type instead of pushing Install push Customize
• In the Customize section uncheck Soundflower leaving only Soundflowerbed checked. Complete the installation.
• Now you have Soundflowerbed installed just like old times!

My final setup summary:

Sound Flower Mac El Capitan

• System Preferences –> Sound –> Output: Select Soundflower (2ch) as the output device.
• In Audio Midi Setup: Select Soundflower (2ch) and enable it to Use this device for sound output and Play alerts and sound effects through this device
• In Audio Midi Setup: Select Multi-Output Device and select the check boxes next to Built-In Output and USB PnP Sound Device
• In Audio Midi Setup: Under Built-in Output in the Output tab, raise the volumes to Maximum values. Under the USB PnP Sound Device in the Output tab, adjust the subwoofer volume level to your desired level.
• In Soundflowerbed under Soundflower (2ch) select Multi-Output Device
• With that setup I can control the audio via my keyboard volume controls, and I can fine tune balance between my two output devices via the Audio Midi Setup Multi-Output Device panel.

Mac El Capitan Requirements

Not an earth shattering problem. I use soundflower extensively to facilitate screen recordings over Facetime on my iMac. Without it, it is really difficult to record system sounds as well as my external mic.

After updating to OS X El Capitan I found that soundflower simply wasn’t ‘there’ and didn’t/wouldn’t run. A quick google brought me to THIS PAGE – with the instructions working perfectly. Only thing I did differently was delete the old soundflower from the system – and yes, the uninstall soundflower option did still work.

Soundflower Mac Review

So far so good – no major problems and the software I’ve been using that relies on soundflower is back to normal.

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For those interested, there is some background information HERE explaining the problem.