Free Virtual Audio Cable Alternatives for Mac
Virtual Audio Cable is not available for Mac but there are some alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best free Mac alternative is VB-Audio Virtual Cable. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Virtual Audio Cable and five of them are free and available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Mac alternatives to Virtual Audio Cable are JACK Audio Connection Kit, Soundflower, BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver and SoundDesk Virtual Devices.
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Virtual Audio Cable alternatives are mainly Audio Routers but may also be Audio Recorders or Live Streaming Tools and Services. Other popular filters includes Windows + Open Source and Mac + Free. Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Virtual Audio Cable.- Audio Router
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37 likes22 VB-Audio Virtual Cable alternativesVB-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.
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52 likes18 JACK Audio Connection Kit alternativesJACK 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.
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43 likes20 Soundflower alternativesSoundflower 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.
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DiscontinuedThe project seems no longer developed. Last version, 2.0b2, released in December 2014, can be still downloaded from GitHub.
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21 likes17 BlackHole Audio Loopback Driver alternativesBlackHole is a modern macOS virtual audio driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.
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DavidBlackhole is essentially a souped up and modernized macOS version of Virtual Audio Cable, available freely as an open-source app.
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5 likes16 SoundDesk Virtual Devices alternativesThe SoundDesk Virtual Devices are connectors that you can use to route audio across apps.
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Comments about JACK Audio Connection Kit as an Alternative to Virtual Audio Cable
While JACK Audio involves a more complex setup and needs the server to be started to work, it's functionally the same as it allows audio routing between applications. Routing can be done between any app providing an option to select the JACK Audio driver.
It does only support jack compatible applications, not virtual audio applications.