Once your done, hit the Record button again, and the sample will be saved to your specified folder. Hijack will automatically start the recording when it detects an incoming ‘signal’. Once the app has restarted, start the playback of the sound you wish to sample. For some versions and apps, Hijack will need to close the app once and then restart it before it can capture sounds.

For Youtube you will want to select a web browser, such as Safari or Chrome. Next, select the Quick Record tab and choose the application you want to record from. You’ll notice that it runs as a stand alone app. Start by installing the app and starting it.

If you haven’t already, download and install the app, then open your System Preferences – Sound dialog and select Soundflower 16ch as the output device. Soundflower basically appears as a sound device in your audio preferences which means that just as you can configure your mac to route all sound to the internal speakers or an audio interface (I use the Scarlett 18i6 from Focusrite), once installed you can set up your Mac to route all sounds to Soundflower instead. There are other non-free alternatives such as Audio Hijack and Wiretap that have a richer feature set and more options, and I will cover Hijack as well later in this article. You can think of this app as holding a mic up to your speakers and just recording what ever comes out of them. This app is limited in that it will actually route any sounds, system wide, that your Mac produces, including system messages and what not. A popular, free alternative that requires some manual work is Soundflower.

You can either set up your preferences yourself, or use an app that handles it for you. You will need to ‘listen in’ on the sounds output by your system and theirs two ways of doing this. Well, here’s two short walkthroughs in case you’re on a Mac. ‘How do I sample sounds from Youtube (and other arbitrary sources online) to use in Maschine?’. Here’s a question I’ve heard a few times, and that I’ve asked myself before.

Sampling audio from youtube