Free Loopback AlternativesTop Audio Routers & Audio Recorders like Loopback

The best free alternative to Loopback is VB-Audio VoiceMeeter. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Loopback and 16 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Loopback are JACK Audio Connection Kit, BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver, VB-Audio Virtual Cable and Soundflower.

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  1. JACK is a professional sound server daemon that provides real-time low latency connections for both audio and MIDI data between applications that implement its API. The API can be used through either JACK1 or JACK2.

    21 JACK Audio Connection Kit alternatives

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  2. BlackHole is a modern macOS virtual audio driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.

    22 BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver alternatives

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  3. VB-Audio CABLE is a Windows Audio Driver working as a Virtual Audio Cable. After installing the VB-CABLE driver, a new playback device appears in the audio device list and can be set as default device. VB-CABLE can be set as the default device, just like any regular audio device.

    26 VB-Audio Virtual Cable alternatives

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  4. Soundflower icon
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    Soundflower is a Mac OS X system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications. Soundflower is easy to use, it simply presents itself as an audio device, allowing any audio application to send and receive audio with no other support needed.

    24 Soundflower alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

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  5. Multi-function creative suite for Mac and Windows including direct-routing with AAX, VST, and AU plugins, high-quality browser based sessions for music and video collaboration, a virtual remote-production studio, desktop routing with virtual drivers, and much more.

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    • Freemium
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    • Mac
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  6. MIXLINE icon
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    MIXLINE is an audio mixing software that performs audio routing, mixing, and streaming. All bundled into a beautiful User Interface!.

    26 MIXLINE alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  7. The VB-Audio Matrix is an audio framework to connect everything together, channel by channel: Several ASIO devices, several Windows devices, several audio Applications and DAW, several Computers.

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    • Freemium
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    • Windows
     
  8. Synchronous Audio Router is a software-based audio routing driver for Windows. You can create any number of Windows audio endpoints, either playback or recording, and route them using any digital audio workstation software which supports ASIO, all with low latency.

    17 Synchronous Audio Router alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
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