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Sound Control 3

Volume at your fingertips.

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Per-app Audio Effects

Have it your way.

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Audio Unit Hosting

Plug 'em in.

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Per-app Balance

Left or right, you choose.

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Audio Routing

Go your own way.

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Hot Keys & MIDI

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Sound Control 3 by Static Z Software

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Full control of your Mac’s audio.

Volume
Audio Unit Effects
Routing
Balance
Hot Keys
MIDI

Sound Control 3 is a paid upgrade for owners of Sound Control 2, with a special upgrade offer.

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Per-App Volume Control

Quickly adjust the volume of your apps or mute them.

Per-App Volume Control

Quickly adjust the volume of your apps or mute them.

New Effects and EQ with Audio Units

Every app and output device has separate effects settings. Use the AUNBandEQ to calibrate your headphones. Use the 10 or 31 band graphic EQ to tailor sound to your liking.

With Audio Unit support* you can alter the sound any way that you want.

* AudioUnit must support in-process loading.

Per-app Audio Routing

Reroute app audio to any audio output device.

Send Music to an external USB device while the rest of your apps use your MacBook’s internal speakers.

Per-app Audio Routing

Reroute app audio to any audio output device.

Send Music to an external USB device while the rest of your apps use your MacBook’s internal speakers.

Balance

Adjust left-to-right balance for each app and output device independently. There is also the option to down mix to mono allowing you to move all audio into your left or right channel.

New AutoEQ Headphone

Sound Control now includes thousands of searchable headphone calibrations from AutoEQ. Select a calibration for your headphones and it is loaded into the AUNBandEQ where you can tweak it to your liking.

New AutoEQ Headphone

Sound Control now includes thousands of searchable headphone calibrations from AutoEQ.

Select a calibration for your headphones and it is loaded into the AUNBandEQ where you can tweak it to your liking.

New Hot Keys

Set up hotkeys to control volume, mute and EQ for the foreground app. There is even a hotkey to mute all background apps.

New MIDI

All hot keys can also be controlled via MIDI. Use MIDI knobs and sliders to control device and application volume. Absolute and relative MIDI encoders (knobs) are supported.

Priority Devices

Priority devices allow you to have Sound Control automatically set the default input and output devices based on your priority list. It will automatically switch to the appropriate device when it is plugged in.

Priority Devices

Priority devices allow you to have Sound Control automatically set the default input and output devices based on your priority list. It will automatically switch to the appropriate device when it is plugged in.

New Virtual Volume

Use virtual volume to add keyboard volume controls, to DisplayPort monitors, HDMI TV & Receivers, and other devices missing them.

New in version 3, use Virtual Volume with Aggregate and Multi-Output devices.

New Prevent Sleep

Some audio devices take too long to wake up and you miss a bit of audio. Turn on Prevent Sleep to keep the system default audio device awake.

Do Not Disturb

Need to focus when you’re in a particular app? Turn on Do Not Disturb and when that app is in front all other background apps are muted.

Do Not Disturb is great for videoconferencing when you don’t want your background apps interrupting the conversation.

No Added Latency**

Sound Control gives you incredible control of audio processing on your Mac and it does it all without any added latency**.

** When using the System Extension. When using the User Audio PlugIn some latency is added, but is properly reported to macOS so audio and video still remain synced.

Compatible

Supported on macOS 11.0 – 14, including macOS Sonoma.

Sep 25 2023

Sound Control 3.1.0 Release Notes

By Front Page Release Notes, Release Notes, Sound Control 3 Release Notes

Version 3.1.0

Requirements: macOS 11.0.0 or later

  • macOS 14 (Sonoma) support.
  • Ignored apps now causes Sound Control to completely disable all audio processing for apps in the list.
  • Never hide settings window disclosure button.
  • Don’t show output if a hidden device is the default output. This works around a crash that happened if Audirvana was playing with “exclusive access” on.
  • Fixed a bug that could lead to always downmixing to mono.
  • Can now import a folder of effects presets.
  • More responsive UI.
  • Fixed a bug that could lead to artifacts in audio when adjusting volume when Prevent sleep is enabled for the default output device.
  • User Audio Plug-In now uses the same 3rd party AudioUnits location as the System Extension.
  • Quitting Sound Control when using the User Audio Plug-In now properly switches macOS’ default output device.
  • Can now set the selected effects preset by name via AppleScript.
  • Added hot keys for toggling the routing output of an app. 
  • MIDI lights are no synced properly at launch.
  • Fixed secondary click on status item.
  • Fixed meters sometimes not working for a newly launched app.
  • Diagnostics now include user defaults.
  • Priority devices are now reloaded when switching tabs and when the window becomes active. This keeps aggregate devices that are edited up to date.
  • Fixed preferred audio device change when they are connected or disconnected.
  • Added option to “Force response to keyboard volume keys” in settings for situations where Sound Control doesn’t handle keyboard volume controls automatically.
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