Record any audio, with Audio Hijack. Save audio from applications like iTunes, Skype or Safari, or from hardware devices like microphones and mixers.
Reviewed By ipbrjt-3 [all]
September 24th, 2017
Version reviewed: 3 on Mac
Rogue Amoeba is an awesome company.
I have most of their cool products, and use most of them often. I have had Audio Hijack since its baby days, and have watched it grow into a full featured, mature program. I was used to the older interface, honestly, so the newer interface threw me for a loop for a while- I kept using the older one because it looked more familiar, and I knew where everything was. There newer interface, while taking some getting used to, seems to make sense. It didn't feel like a huge improvement from the previous version, so that's why it only got a 9/10 for me. The previous version was a 10/10. For that price, for what it does, its practically a steal.
I use it quite often for recording from my tape machine, or sometimes simply recording sound-design/manipulation sessions. It is really a very useful program.
I tested recording a bunch of different sources at once, and it worked (essentially a multi-track recorder) but I really wouldn't use it that way. Still, its useful if I am trying to capture an interview and Skype etc. I've used it to strip audio from streams (to manipulate), and for recording interviews. But, the sound-play/manipulation is the funnest- just let it go while you have fun.
The key here is if I have an idea, its fast to set up and record. On many of the DAWs I will spend a ton of time pulling up templates, checking inputs and outputs, etc. By the time I have all that, the idea might be fading away...I could record it on any number of other devices, but this just works for me. Then I can send the sound file to wherever to work more on it.
Check this company out, I've only had good experiences with the support, as well.
Read ReviewI use Hijack Pro to have all my audio output filtered through my IK Multimedia ARC2 system. I guess it's not the main purpose of the program, but that's essentially what I bought it for. It works nicely but it has a small bug: each time I close Hijack Pro, an error window appears saying that the applicatioon quit unexpectedly, and I have to click "Ignore" to close that error window. It doesn't seem to be a serious bug, but it is bothering. (My system: MacBook Pro retina late 2013 with OS X 10.9.2.)
Unfortunately, Rogue Amoeba's assistance doesn't seem to be as good as the program. I contacted them by email 40 days ago and described the bug. They replied and asked my to send them a log file. I did that at once and they replied saying that their engineering team would take a few days to analyze my case. I have never been contacted again and other emails I sent them to have news about my case got simply ignored. Lack of assitance and lack of politeness too. A simple "we are still working on it" would have been enough.
Strange, i have exactly the same issue with Logic Pro, so it might be on the OS .
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