![]() ![]() The most significant difference you’ll notice right away is that the user interface has been drastically improved. I want to mention right here that if you’re already a SoundSource user, I want to point out some of the improvements in SoundSource 5 over previous versions. Output Area Flipped Open Showing 10-Band Equalizer You can add more Apple audio unit effects via a dropdown, effects like reverb and compressors, and more. Of course there are more profiles, and you can also modify every one of the 10 bands manually. If you tap on it you can change it to Bass Booster for example to make your tinny speakers sound better. ![]() You can change the balance of your speakers, you can change the sample rate from 44.1kHz to 48kHz, and you can add audio unit effects.īy default, SoundSource has a 10-band equalizer turned on, with the profile set to flat. For example, if you tap the chevron to the right of the Output controls, it reveals several options. Just like Sound Preferences, with these three control areas in SoundSource you get can adjust volume and redirect which device is used for the audio, but you can do a lot more than that. Right off the bat you’ve got quicker access to the controls than opening Sound Preferences, by having all of this in your menu bar. System is where you’ll find your Output (speakers/headphones), Input (microphones) and Sound Effects. When it flips down you’ll see two major sections: System and Application. Let’s walk through what you’ll find when you hit the SoundSource menubar icon. SoundSource is a menubar app that will replace Sound in your menubar. Let’s see what SoundSource can do and whether it will solve these problems (spoiler, it does). System for Output, Input and Sound Effects Maybe the speakers are tinny-sounding and you’d love to bring up the bass and make them sound better. Obviously you’re not doing all of these things at the same time, but each use case can require changing your output device and volume.Īnother problem is that your Mac may have really low volume speakers and you wish you could turn it up louder. You may have YouTube playing in a Chrome window, audio from a VOIP call in Zoom or Skype, your iPhone rings on your Mac and you answer it there, and maybe you’ve got audio coming from Messages when you’re screen sharing, or using Discord for audio chat. Another big problem these days is that audio is playing from so many different applications and we don’t always want their audio to go to the same output or be at the same volume. While this works just fine, it is cumbersome to open Sound Preferences, and the menubar app is so limited it’s not that useful. You may not know that holding down the option key while clicking on the sound icon in the menubar reveals the ability to switch your input microphone as well. You probably know you can view the speaker controls in your menu bar to let you switch output device and change the volume. If you’ve been a Mac user for any length of time, you know you can control the input and output devices and alert sounds using the Sound Preference Pane. I’ll explain more about that shortly but you may be asking what problem we’re trying to solve first. SoundSource is a menubar app that allows you to control not only your microphone input and speaker output, but it can actually control your application audio. This week Rogue Amoeba released SoundSource 5 and it’s even better than before. But this week I want to tell you about yet another great app they make called SoundSource. I’m sure you think I’m on the payroll of Rogue Amoeba by now (I’m not).
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