How to access sound preferences with a keyboard shortcut

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The use that users can give their Mac is infinite and therefore there are many possibilities and tricks that each of them can know when handling their Mac. The same thing happened to me and I am doing some video work with the Mac in which I wanted to record the screen of it with the QuickTime program that comes with macOS Sierra as standard. 

Apple allows the recording of the Mac screen so that we can have a video of excellent quality, however, with the sound we cannot say the same and that is that the application does not allow recording the sound that the computer emits but the one captured by the microphones, either the intern or one you connect to the team. 

There are programs like Screenflow that allow screen and audio recording without any problem, but I wanted to use the standard program that Apple has provided in the Mac system to do so. As this program does not record the audio that the computer emits through its speakers, but rather what it is capable of recording with its microphones, I had to make use of a small "bridge" tool. 

I have installed the application in the system Soundflowr that what it does is create a kind of virtual audio channels, one 2ch and the other 16ch that what it does is direct the audio from the computer to them in a What QuickTime does is record to Soundflower 2ch or Soundflower 16ch as we select in the QuickTime application.

So far everything is correct, but we have to say that when we tell the system to direct the sound to Soundflower, we will not hear anything through the system's speakers and therefore we will have to alternate between directing to Soundflower when we go to record and direct to the speakers when we want to hear the result. 

That is why I wanted to write this article and if we want to access the sound preferences we would have to click on System Preferences> Sound and then on the output we want. It becomes a tedious job when we have to do this action many times so I have looked for how to do this with a keyboard shortcut and BINGO!

Apple has anticipated this situation so that if we want to access different sections of System Preferences, all we have to do is a keyboard shortcut that will consist of pressing the «alt» key and then a key that has to do with the System Preferences item that we want to open, for example, raising the volume together with the "alt" will open the Sound Preferences so that with a keystroke we will be in the same place where we previously arrived with two or three mouse clicks.


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