Soundflowerbed
Soundflowerbed is a companion utility for Soundflower, a free virtual audio routing and mixing plugin for macOS. Soundflower allows users to route audio between applications and record internal system audio without capturing microphone input, making it useful for podcast recording, streaming, music production and audio interviews where both sides of a conversation need to be captured. Soundflowerbed provides the graphical interface for configuring Soundflower's audio routing, channel selection (2-channel or 64-channel variants), and volume controls.
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1 suggestionSoundflower, including Soundflowerbed, is no longer actively maintained and does not support Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3 and later). The project has not received meaningful updates in many years. As of today (May 2026), the app continues to run under Rosetta 2 on M-series Macs, but Apple is removing Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (September 2028), at which point Soundflower and Soundflowerbed will stop working entirely. If you rely on internal audio routing and recording, you should begin migrating to a maintained alternative now. Modern options include BlackHole (a free, actively maintained virtual audio driver with native Apple Silicon support), Loopback (by Rogue Amoeba, commercial, full-featured audio routing), or screen recording tools like EaseUS RecExperts or ScreenFlow that capture system audio natively without requiring a separate virtual audio driver. For streaming or podcasting workflows, many users have found that combining a native screen recorder with direct audio-input tools in your DAW is more reliable than routing through an aging plugin.
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